{"id":1394,"date":"2007-10-15T20:15:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T00:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2007-10-22T22:53:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T02:53:04","slug":"design-community-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"Design. Community. Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something recently made me aware that there seems<\/em> to be a dearth of Industrial Designers involved in online communities centered around intangible media and discussing the issues they’re currently facing. I suspect there are plenty of designers huddled around car websites, sneaker sites or other tangible<\/em> product-centric communities, but there don’t appear to be very many elsewhere. I didn’t realize this until Bruce Nussbaum posted an entry, “Xbox, Wii, PS3–Gamers of the World, Unite!” (Link)<\/a>, that effectively amounted to him quoting a comment I’d made and then associating me with the “gaming community”.
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\nWhile it’s flattering that Nussbaum (of all people) should find what I have to say worth repeating on his BusinessWeek blog, I got the sense that he was missing something by casually slapping a tag on me. Way I see it, doing so misses a larger observation: Designers should be engaged in all creative communities – especially media-based ones – to learn from them and try to apply what they learn. Because at some point (Industrial) Designers will be confronted with the same issues facing musicians, filmmakers, and game developers.<\/p>\n

In case the designers among you haven’t realized it, this blog covers a lot of territory and for just that purpose. I don’t post about DRM because I care about music labels and film studios. I follow the intellectual property debate because, as I’ve pointed out in a number of posts and comments, at some point those issues will be Design issues. It may be Treehugger and Absolut providing “downloadable” designs now<\/a>, but it’ll be something more before we know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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