Indeed, after a lot of discussions and compromises we were able to make some tags and tag people around...

Our first designers victims


It started on Sunday night, the 19th. It was weird at first to approach people to tag them, but as we interviewed them on whether they were designers and what they would design, it really evolved into interesting discussions. It is interesting to hear what non-designers would design and that it usually relates to a need or desire.

Here are some examples of what random people in the streets would like to design:
- cleaning aid
- mental prosthesis
- a clock that would give us time
- a tree
- designer concentration camps
- shoes that would never make you tired of walking
- art installation (coming from a real designer)

However, the rest design week (and the upcoming mid-terms) took me for hostage and I was unable to continue the journey for the rest of the week. This is why we are just starting to update this blog... But this is just a start and I am sure this first project will bloom into some new shape.
Carolina

Everyone is already a designer...

So why are we still looking for the "next" designer when we are all designers? We have always been designing. Of products, systems, our destinies. It seems that looking for the next design trend has become a commodity of it's own. Much like fast food found on every street corner popular magazines, television programs, even politicians have created an industry of fast design which is easy to understand, low in substance and quick to throw away.

We have decided to create the IM+H group in order to address such issues of trendy commodity design and the repercussion it has on our lives.