13 episodes
Designing in the Wild: The Industrial Design Podcast Robert Irwin
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Insights to innovation. Together we dig in with industrial designers, professors, business leaders, and entrepreneurs to extract the hidden tips, techniques, and mind-states that drive the act of creating sustainably. If you love Design, this is the place to be. If you acknowledge the challenges ahead for humanity and want to make a difference, you are in the right place. If you are infinitely curious about the world around you and love stumbling upon morsels of inspiration, this is the place to be.
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#012 Season 2: Robert Irwin - Senior Industrial Designer, Founder of LearnIndustrialDesign.com, Principal Sustainability Consultant at irwindesigned
Life Cycle Thinking Strategies to design and build a stronger more meaningful and connected future. Robert discusses the pros and cons of LCAs, deep dives into materials, why CO2 isn't the only thing that matters, energy modeling, tiny homes, wind turbines, and circular economies.Support the Show.
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#011 Season 2: Jason Belaire - IDSA Chair(2021-2022) | Belworld Creative, INC. Talks of living abroad, childhood abuse, empathy, social projects around the world, and sustainability
In this episode we speak to Jason Belaire about being different, cultural shock, designing amidst new cultures, sustainability, and the need for more to be educated on the direct impact the industrial design profession has on our environment, communities, and thought process.Support the Show.
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#010: Andre Brown - Principal Engineer on Amazon's Transportation Sustainability Team - Digital vs. Physical Prototyping, Creating Flat Hierarchies within Teams, Innovating Faster, Designing in Virtual Reality, Eggs and Vacuum Cleaners, Procedural Desig
This is a wild one! Andre and I dive into a plethora of design and engineering topics, from designing with a manager across the US using Gravity Sketch in VR, how to deal with ambiguity, how eggs inspired him to invent a vacuum cleaner, how teams that are flat are the highest performing groups, why engaging customer on the front-end matters, cardboard prototyping, de-siloing, why procedural design is the future of creating, open-source hardware, why sketching while brainstorming in teams yiel...
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#009 - Unleashing Creativity Through User-Driven Storytelling - Sam Feller - Human-Centered Engineering, Team Management, Tracking Deliverables, Tactics for Problem Solving
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#008: Blood In The Water: Americas Assault on Innovation - Kip Doyle - Patent Process, Product Innovation, Defending Patents, Napkin Sketch to Manufacturing
We sit down and speak with the amazing, Kip Doyle - Author, Inventor, Patent Defender. We talk about her painful story of inventing a product and then going up against Big Tech to defend her patents. She offers up invaluable insights on how to go about protecting your IP, which lawyers to hire, and her new book release, Blood In The Water: America's Assault on Innovation.BOOK LINK: https://amzn.to/3LxUm3YCONTACTEmail: ANGRYMOB@BLOODINTHEWATER.COMInstagram: @cardsharkwalletskinOTHER REFERENCES...
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#007: It's Time We Start Thinking Beyond the User - Dan Griner - Director of Design, Innovation, and Strategy at University of Colorado Denver
Dan comes to the interview with a level of humility for design that we all should aspire. In this episode we walk the path of Dan's story from accident to excellence. We talk about the responsibility that designers have to go beyond just making the pretty object and expand into realms of meta-design to go beyond just the end user and truly think in terms of a products life cycle, cradle to cradle.Contact Info Dan Grinerdaniel.griner@ucdenver.edu / https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangriner/ww...
Customer Reviews
Diverse and deep
Love the podcast. It gets deep on issues and challenges other design podcasts often miss.I look forward to every episode.
Been needing an ID podcast on the scene!
Looking forward to more insights from this pod.