Design out Crime

Launch of National Search for Designers and Technologists to Create new ways of securing mobile phones against thieves and fraudsters, as research shows that 80% of phones contain data which can be used by criminals to access bank accounts, steal identity, or sell on personal data.

"21st century society loves its gadgets but the cleverer and cooler we make our products, the more they expose us and our children to serious crime such as mugging, identity theft and bank fraud," added David Kester, Chief Executive of The Design Council.

Previous advances in technology have led to unexpected new forms of crime; email heralded the phenomenon of "phishing", ATMs precipitated the new crime of "card catching" and online banking gave rise to "key logging", used by fraudsters to track the input of secret passwords and account numbers. However, there are also many examples of technology being applied successfully to reduce crime - for example, British Crime Survey figures show theft of vehicles has reduced by 51% since 1997 as a result of improved security being designed into the vehicle, and an evaluation of houses built to the ACPO Secured By Design (SBD) standards showed that these experience 26% less crime than non SBD houses, and residents fear of crime is lower.


http://www.dexigner.com/design_news/the-mobile-phone-security-challenge.html

the bay VS the bag

http://www.savesfbay.org/site/c.irKKIYPEIoE/b.5075123/k.BD60/Home.htm

A new campaign launched by Save the Bay to help get plastic bags out of the San Francisco bay area.

stanford prison experiment

http://www.prisonexp.org/
I have bumped into a very interesting topic while I was doing a research about "what principles the sale industry uses to change the social reality" a documentary done by Philip Zimbardo who is a professor of psychology in Stanford University. This is an experiment done by his team in 1971. Very interesting experiment to reach out so many questions and answers in psycological behaviour .. that the power of situations to determine human behavior.. which is oursourced of the film "Das Experiment" in 2001.

story of stuff

Story of stuff is a 20-minute animation of the consumerist society, narrated by Anne Leonard. From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world critisizing with a spotlight of our todays' production and consumption patterns
"It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever."
http://www.storyofstuff.com/international/
collaborated with Free Range Studios, Graphic Design and creative services for progressive non-profits, politcal campaigns and socially responsible businesses.
http://www.freerangestudios.com/

"surdurebilir" bir pazar

sevgili arkadasim irem ile yaptigim telefon gorusmesi sonucunda ortaya cikanlar...
http://surdurulebiliryasam.wordpress.com/
surdurebilir yasam film festivali turkiyenin farkli koselerinde..

design for service

http://designforservice.wordpress.com/

this blog has useful information for the service design

crisis of credit

http://www.crisisofcredit.com/
A thesis project done by Jonathan Jarvis, former student at Art Center College of Art in CA.
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. very interesting way to visualize and change the complex data into a simpler form.