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TEDx Talk

riaz — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:50:58 +0000

I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at TEDx Woodlands about Design Play and how we use cultural curation as a kaleidoscope for our mind. It was an amazing experience both to prepare for the talk and also to share the stage with such amazing thinkers, educators and artists. Special mention has to go to Peter Han and family who are simply amazing in how they put the event together (and also amazing in many other aspects of their life).

designplay.org

Sketch Jams at frog design

riaz — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:18:18 +0000

A few weeks ago I started doing Sketch Jams at frog as way for us to experiment in creating ‘thinking with out hands’ culture. Here’s my wright up for the Jam’s as well as a collection of pictures from the ongoing endeavor.

Sketch Jam is based on the simple idea that everyone, regardless of skill, experience, or job description can benefit from a place and time to tinker, play, experiment and practice design sketching. Design sketches can be paper sketches, software sketches, form sketches, electronic sketches or video sketches. All these are open topics for us to explore with our jams.

Think of it as a space and time to play and think with your hands. Everyone whether they are an industrious Intern or an eclectic ECD, a tubular technologist of a daring designer is invited. Anyone who wants to improve their storytelling, making, tinkering abilities, or just wants to blow off some steam after working on a super demanding project is welcome.

Each ‘Sketch Jam’ will be a series of small containable exercises. A ‘recipe’ if you will, with ingredients and simple steps. You don’t have to go to the Jams in any order and each one can be repeatable and open to any level of experience. Practice is the key here.

* Sketch Jams also have their own space on frog’s design mind > http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/author/sketch-jam!-/

Pismo Beach Kids – Video Study

riaz — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:40:55 +0000

One of the early flip video studies. I attached a flip camera to the handle bars of the dune buggy as me and my friends went out through the dunes at Pismo Beach. Music is by the Kings of Convenience.

Electronics for Designers

riaz — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:48:10 +0000

My First Circuit

LEDs

Ingredients

Breadboard: a way to make and test your circuit without soldering the parts together. Using and understanding your breadboard is a great way to learn the basics.
Electronic components: one of the interesting things understanding.
Circuit diagrams: learning how to read a circuit diagram

Sparkle Labs Electronics Kit is a great starting point for learning electronics.

*** Here’s where I’m collecting all my learnings for how to get started with electronics for designers ***

Hippo in space

riaz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:45:15 +0000

Here’s video some of my friends at work and I made using our flip cameras!