Aichaku | John Maeda – Design Co John Maeda
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Aichaku (ahy-chaw-koo) is the Japanese term for the sense of attachment one can feel for an artifact. When written by its two kanji characters, you can see that the first character means “love” and the second one means “fit.” “Love-fit” describes a deeper kind of emotional attachment that a person can feel for an object. It is a kind of symbiotic love for an object that deserves affection not for just what it does, but for what it is. And that is what Design is often mostly about.
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S1 E4 of Aichaku Podcast / Craig Kanarick × John Maeda
Co-founder of Razorfish, Craig Kanarick, shares his thoughts about how the Web was and how it became. He also introduces us to his philosophy on hybrid designer/developers, his love for creativity as being more than defined in just one way, and he tells us how he started out with his first job out of college as a consultant to Tangent in the construction of the first clickable banner ad on the Internet.
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S1 E3 of Aichaku Podcast / Design in Tech Report 2019 at SXSW
In March 2019 I presented the Design in Tech Report to a spirited group of folks assembled at SXSW. The report put a spotlight on computational design’s need…
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S1 E2 of Aichaku Podcast / 2015 Design In Tech Event in Silicon Valley
In 2015 I hosted a Kleiner Perkins event to present the 2015 #DesignInTech Report at Uber HQ together with moderators Creighton Hicks and Jackie Xu interviewing Andrew Crow,…
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S1 E1 of Aichaku Podcast / Jamie Myrold × John Maeda
In May 2018 I had a convo with Jamie Myrold about design in the technology industry at 99u. I ripped the audio from the video and have added…
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S1 E0 of Aichaku Podcast / Diego Rodriguez × John Maeda
In September 2018 I had a convo with my friend Diego Rodriguez about design in the technology industry.