New design and twitter tools
Posted on | July 29, 2009 |
I had been itching for *a* design for vdlLabs ever since the website went live. I have finally gotten around to begin with a design project. It will be an incremental endeavor, so we’ll see how far I will get.
While being off the web (been too busy to write meaningful posts), I have tried to keep this website updated via twitter, using the wordpress plugin Twitter Tools. While the plugin worked very nicely, the outcome of weekly “twitter digest” hasn’t been any good. So I have deleted them all, and decided to tweet less and write a meaningful post every once in a while.
Politics and Design
I have added “politics” in the tagline of this blog. What does it mean…Well I will try to follow Viktor Papanek’s example and discuss and discover how the politics is embodied in designs, and how design(ers) can be (do) politics (Ah, AdBusters offer a great example). From Wikipedia:
Papanek was a philosopher of design and as such he was an untiring, eloquent promoter of design aims and approaches that would be sensitive to social and ecological considerations. He wrote that “design has become the most powerful tool with which man shapes his tools and environments (and, by extension, society and himself).”
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