The introduction to Dr. Strasser and the other speakers in this session on Judging.

This is the Agenda for the symposium held in March of 2009 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It gives good descriptions of the speakers and outline.

Judging, Judgement is "a balanced weighing up of evidence preparatory to making a decision." Thanks Wikipedia!

From video game design (see Spore), to computer applications (see Google Earth), to popular culture (see opening sequences of Fight Club and Burn After Reading, or any recent spy movie) Steven Johnson of the New York Times thinks that the Long Zoom is this eras defining view.

This museum has an enormous collection of industrial design, graphic design and arts and crafts.

The homepage of Die Neue Sammlung with links to all branches, not just the Munich one.

This Ted Talk from designer Niels Diffrient talks about his approach to design and why he became a designer.

Industrial design (in brief: designing mass produced objects for usability and marketability) magazine.

An Encyclopedia Britannica overview of postmodernism and the response to it.

This is a pic and description of a Side table by British designer Edward William Godwin (1833-1886). From the description "The overall composition of the table, with its attenuated lines and asymmetrical organization of stretchers and posts, creates a rhythm of horizontal and vertical elements that echo Asian as well as traditional English influences."

Bauhaus translates to "House of Building" or "Building School" and was a German art and design school that operated in the early to mid 20th Century. Find out more in the Wikipedia entry.

Juli Capella speaks in this same session on marketing, promotion, and the talent that all go into making a successful design.

Cilla Robach of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm discusses her criteria for judging good design at the International Design Symposium.

Studio Jurgenbey based out of Rotterdam.

by Shel Silverstein.

From designboom, this interview with the Italian-born designer cover everything from design to how many pets he has (he has none, but he has a friend who is a cat and comes to visit him sometimes).

From the wiki entry: "According to the Radical Manifesto, 'Superarchitettura is the architecture of superproduction, superconsumption, superinduction to consume, the supermarket, the superman, super gas.'"

Ettore Sottsass became famous in the 1960's working for Olivetti. His flamboyant design style was very influential. You can find more on the wiki page.

This design group was formed in the early 1980's, named after a Bob Dylan song (probably because Walking in Memphis hadn't been recorded yet), the Memphis group acted against the Bauhaus designs of the 1980's by, among other things, infusing humor into their work. Lots more info here...

From the page, "Experiments with materials, forms and colours, combined apparently at random with bulky items of refuse and semi-finished industrial goods, led to a new formal idiom, to the suspension of instrumental rationality, and thus to liberation from the dictates of 'Good Form'."

Here is a quote by Schreiner on this page: ”Seven years ago, when I took my mother to a design shop in Berlin, she looked at all the wire-mesh furniture and said it reminded her of shopping carts,” recalled Frank Schreiner, a designer who heads Stiletto Studios in West Berlin. ”That’s how I came up with the idea.”

Make your own chairs.

Form, let me introduce you to Function.

This author, in a nutshell, defines Design as commercially calculated and defined while Art conveys a message or inspires emotion without concern for commercial appeal. It goes deeper than that, pretty good read.

Wieki is quoted from her artist statement, "Nothing is more decadent than to satisfy the human need for status and extravagance through the harm of animals."

The highest paid living artist talks with TimesOnline about "A Thousand Years."

From the article, "His designs exhibit a sense of nostalgia and contemporary function, combining old materials and techniques with forward-thinking forms and uses, and always injected with the oh-so-Dutch dry sense of humor."

This is the Question and Answer perdiod that followed the four speakers and the chair of this session.