Design Spectrum Sponsored:
A day to focus on Footwear/Wearables, CMF and Digital Wearables March 24, 2024
Quartz
https://qz.com/1952715/how-car-companies-are-leaning-into-the-mindfulness-movement
LIFESTYLE: How are companies are leaning into the mindfulness movement
CNET NOWWHAT
How car design and ride hailing could change thanks to COVID-19 Sept 2020
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/how-car-design-will-change-thanks-to-covid-19/
The Face of Change
October 2019
PUBLICATION - Portraits of Automotive Evolution by award-wining author John Nikas provides a compelling examination of the cultural, economic, political, social and technological factors that have affected the course of the automobile’s development over history. From the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1886 to the Tesla Model S of the 21st Century, an all-star cast of contributors, including designer/historian Robert Cumberford, Petersen Museum chief historian Leslie Kendall and Stewart Reed and faculty members from the world-renowned ArtCenter College of Design, weave an informative and entertaining narrative reviewing the automobile’s evolutionary path and predicting where that road might lead in the future.
https://www.coachbuiltpress.com/the-face-of-change.html
AutoMobility LA 2018
CMG | ChromaZone
Forecasting Color for 2020 | Pasadena, CA
June 2018: Design Spectrum attended this years CMG ChromaZone 2018. The workshop was a collaboration of industry experts and product design students forecasting color for 2020. Our team gathered research based on the industrial design- architect- hospitality markets, then our impressions for possible future colors and shared them with the event members.
https://colormarketing.org/2018/07/10/industry-pros-and-millennials-forecast-color-for-2020/
At the end of the day our team was lucky enough to have one of our colors chosen as the workshop's key color.
Key Color: SKYLINE
images sourced from http://snapwiresnaps.tumblr.com
Girl scouts of America
TOTO and Girl Scouts of America - Los Angeles,CA
January 2018: Design Spectrum volunteered in helping 40 girl scouts from the Los Angeles Area in earning their Product Design Badge. The girls were in teams with one design professional to help create. The TOTO design team set up the design brief for the workshop and the girl scouts used this process.
PURPOSE: This badge teaches Juniors how to think like a product designer.
ONE: Observe what makes a product great
TWO: Be an innovation detective
THREE: Figure out what is working and what is not.
FOUR: Innovate to find solutions
FIVE: Mess up so you can try again
LAST: Finalize design and present to group
Product Design Badge
Change/Makers
ArtCenter College of Design
CHANGE/MAKERS: Episode 8, Kimberly Marte
