Comments on: Designs that Displace Desire

By: M. Tendero

M. Tendero — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:59:44 +0000

This is good, Brian. I particularly resonate with you on this: “DDD is actually effective design that promotes thought, careful reflection, and a satisfaction or happiness in discovering new value in currently owned products.” I am persona……lly experiencing that right now as I am taking stock of ALL my stuff …. and rediscovering simple things that have value or can be recylced/reused, and nicer, fancier things that once I thought had value but now am willing to pass on. DDD is also detachment from inordinate things, and how liberating it is to break the strings!

By: Akmal Cheema

Akmal Cheema — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:45:24 +0000

Its like going for designing with organic mind set. I mean the designs that grow (with changing needs). Like changing skins of cell phone hand sets and convertible sofa beds etc.

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Designs that Displace Desire – BrianTenorio.com — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:28:26 +0000

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By: Philiac

Philiac — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:57:31 +0000

from Desire’s Design
by David BarringerApril 22, 2008
AIGA.ORG

“Acting on desire is more like a craft, a science, an art. It takes careful, mindful practice. Be patient and quiet. Listen, observe, take notes. Figure out what you want, privately, and then choose to want it, publicly. Put your desire out in the open. I want to go swimming. I want to bake bread. I want to paint a picture. I want to build a chair. I want to write a book. And it’s better to start failing when you’re young, when all you lose is an ice-cream cone or a baseball game or an afternoon of fun. When you’re older, the stakes are higher. If adults don’t know how to want, then they lose a love, a career, a life.”

Pasted from aiga.org/content.cfm/desires-design

By: Coder26

Coder26 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:11:08 +0000

Hence blended learning is effectively replacing e-learning. ,

By: Coder39

Coder39 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:24:23 +0000

Call it my plan to help out the economy. ,

By: Holly Burns

Holly Burns — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:04:51 +0000

Leon,

Thank you for your post! I, too, love what you call “little marvels of consumerism.” You’ve triggered a childhood memory of mine. We used to buy a jam that was packaged in a jar that could be used as a glass once the jam had been eaten up. I loved the idea that the jar started with one use and then became something new. I wish this was happening more today. However, I have a friend that I just noticed drinks her wine out of old glass jars of all sorts…I love her for this and I look forward to using up my current jams so that when I go to purchase my next jams I can take its packaging into consideration in order to also expand my collection of beverage containers.

By: Leon Araneta

Leon Araneta — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:08:27 +0000

When I was a kid there was a type of mustard that we would often buy. The mustard came inside a simple, tall, glass bottle. That bottle actually would be reborn as a wonderful water glass once the mustard was finished. Who wouldn’t appreciate an extra drinking glass in their cabinet? I would admire those glasses as a young boy, and felt grateful to the mustard company for sending drinking glasses in our mustard.
I have never forgotten that feeling.
I feel that a cousin to the the idea of Designs that Displace Desire is Designs are Designs that Generate Gratitude, like my mustard glass.
If only the mustard people had focused on developing their brand as well, it would have stuck in my mind and I would without a doubt be buying it today to let my own kids piece these little marvels of consumerism together.
So on the same thought, if those jeans that look better as they age had been sold with a steel product label that also functioned as a bottle opener, wouldn’t that make the experience all the more pleasurable? Wouldnt the user be more engaged? Stamp the brand & logo all over the tag-turned-bottle-opener so noone forgets the author of the experience, of course.

By: Dilek Katgi

Dilek Katgi — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:42:12 +0000

Quality vs Quantity of Design.

By: Irwin C

Irwin C — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:50:40 +0000

I think essential to the designthinking of these products is the issue of shelf life. It is weird that things that should last longer like buildings and housing don’t (50 years) whereas plastic packaging lasts an eternity. The lifespan of many products and the calendar for their desired utility remains divorced