• This is the on-line home of Carolina Short and Tomás García Ferrari. As such, is a collectively created mental space from where we do Interaction and Information Design for a selected list of friends, clients and enterprises – see our history in brief. It is also a reservoir of ideas, texts, videos and things that capture our attention.

Paola Antonelli on the designers’ role

Johnny Holland interviewed Paola Antonelli, the design curator at the New York Museum of Modern Art (see Design and the Elastic Mind: An Interview with …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 23 January, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , .

About the International Journal of Communication

Reading a post by Carlos Scolari about the publication of his paper on ‘Narrativas transmediáticas’ (Transmedia Storytelling), I came across the International Journal …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 17 September, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , .

roericht.net

I found yesterday the wonderful website of Hans (Nick) Roericht. He was a student/lecturer at the hfg ulm and later on at the hdk Berlin…

This entry was written by Carol, posted on 7 August, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , .

A fine line: a book by Hartmut Esslinger

Without any doubt, frog design is one of the biggest and more interesting design bureaus in the world. With offices in many cities –such as …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 15 July, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , .

World maps that change our vision

I came across Worldmapper a couple of years ago while I was preparing a tutorial at the Design Studies Department. For some reason, the images …

This entry was written by Carol, posted on 30 June, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , .

Sir Ken Robinson at RISD

Sir Ken Robinson –the recognized British author– is one of my favorites thinkers when I consider the areas of education and creativity. Addressing an audience …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 20 June, 2009. Filed under In video and tagged , , , .

Design, Arduino and the next wave

In the last decades designers have been moving away from ‘posters and toasters’ (in terms of Richard Buchanan) to a more complex scenario, computers and …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 29 May, 2009. Filed under In video and tagged , , .

Design and the right-brain

Daniel Pink is an american author who has been writing about Design and the right-brainers. On his book –A whole new mind. Why right-brainers …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 23 May, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , , , .

Design aids knowledge

A short research paper I wrote for the Master in Theory of Communicational Design in which I compare different ways of representing complex concepts and …

This entry was written by Carol, posted on 8 May, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , .

Being authentic

Taken from Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules, this poster explains the difference between authenticity and originality claiming than the later doesn’t exist. And with an …

This entry was written by Tomás, posted on 29 April, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , .