Core77 speaks with Jonathan Ive on the design of the iPhone 4: Material Matters

June 30, 2010
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Nice interview with Jonny Ive that covers advice for students. A few of my favorites:
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material–the material informs the form,” says Ive. “It is the polar opposite of working virtually in CAD to create an arbitrary form that you then render as a [...]

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Excellent Inspirational Video

January 26, 2010
click to watch

Showing this on first day of class this semester!

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Cool Concept of Recycling Relief Packaging for Toys

January 19, 2010
Dream Ball

This idea has many implications on how Architects can find second uses for packaging. See it here.

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The Third & The Seventh – Must See Short Film with Great Architecture

January 13, 2010
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This short film by Alex Roman showcases unbelievably great CG versions of some of the greatest buildings of the last 60 years or so. Make sure you see it on a big screen using full screen. It’s as if he saw My Architect and thought, “hey, what if this was about showing off the drama [...]

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LAVA’s Winning Design for Masdar’s City Center

September 4, 2009
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Interesting design for a new sustainable city in UAE. Check it out on Inhabit.

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Share Some Candy – Inspiration

July 29, 2009
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I came across this fun site through one of my fave blogs: Swiss-miss. It’s a visual inspiration compendium site covering many design fields including architecture. It’s added now to the sidebar of links.

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Presentation Competition Winners Announced

June 1, 2009
Competition 2nd Year 2nd Place Winner

The winners of the Student Architectural Presentation Competition were announced Friday May 29th in a brief ceremony. Many thanks to all who entered and special thanks to the judges Dean Abernathy, Rose Anne Kings, Robert Lowe, and Chris Kerins. Our gratitiude also goes out to the financial sponsor, Robert Lowe.
The winners of the competition are [...]

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Short Presentation Script for Student Designs

May 11, 2009
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Presenting your design project before a group of critics and fellow students is often intimidating for the inexperienced. It could be from a variety of reasons such as shyness, emotional attachment to your design or just a lack of sleep. I don’t think it’s something that comes natural to anyone. As far as I know, [...]

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Student Architectural Presentation Competition

May 6, 2009

This Presentation Competition is for current OCC Architecture students to submit their best class presentation of the year for review, display and awards. It is intended to motivate and inspire students to carefully consider and put forth their best effort in the presentation and communication of their designs. The best presentation for a 1st year [...]

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Presentation Competition Criteria Explained

May 6, 2009

Awards for the 2009 Student Architecture Presentation Competition criteria will based on 3 main criteria.
Presentation Design
A presentation is a design project in itself. It should be subordinate to the content yet reinforce the design concepts through graphic design choices and techniques. The presentation should provide clarity in communicating the design intent rather than complexity.

Presentation Basics: [...]

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