http://www.imissmypencil.com/ I Miss My Pencil en-us Robert Blinn over at Core 77 was kind enough to read and "review.":http://www.core77.com/blog/book_reviews/book_review_i_miss_my_pencil_by_martin_bone_and_kara_johnson_13629.asp Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:55:54 -0500 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/7 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/7 Kara was interviewed by Business Week. Check out the "podcast.":http://www.businessweek.com/mediacenter/podcasts/innovation/innovation_06_23_09.htm Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:34:07 -0500 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/6 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/6 “Stunning work. The richest conceptual industrial design work I have seen for some time, propelled by the idea of materials over form.” --"John Barratt, IDSA":http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/0... Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:04:08 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/8 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/8 Here are a few images, snapped by Sarah Soffer, of our launch party in the NY office. A big thank you to everyone who showed up, we enjoyed ourselves. For a write up check out "Michael Surtees":htt... Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:07:22 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/5 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/5 What if doorbells used smell instead of sound? What if watches told time more slowly on weekends? Designers at the ground-breaking firm IDEO—the most innovative design company in the world—push the... Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:40:22 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/4 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/books/4 It’s been over one year since this web-site was launched and our little yellow book was published. We’ve really loved every conversation, comment and question that has be inspired by this book. The... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:57:09 -0500 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/words/3 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/words/3 I think it started when I bought a felt rug in a small store in San Francisco. It has already been established that I love felt, and other pure materials that are somewhat unexpected. I needed a ru... Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:36:54 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/words/2 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/words/2 This is a blog, that thinks it’s a website, that thinks it’s the book I Miss My Pencil. It's so loopy and schizophrenic, it feels a little like dry humping a cheese grater: at times exciting, somet... Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:57:28 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/words/1 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/words/1 “A simple music player interaction. Just keep track of cards. No mouse, no screen. Antidote to point and click. Facilitates cooperative interaction. A three year old can use it,” said Bob Har... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:13 -0500 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/24 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/24 I Miss My Pencil was written with the intention of inspiring ourselves and its readers.We are happy to see how this experiment (No.11) has taken on a life of its own with the skilled hands of peopl... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:58:14 -0500 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/23 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/23 My abilities with circuit boards ended in high school when I couldn’t make a lightbulb shine with a battery and some cable… or was it a potato? Can’t quite remember. Either way my physics class hig... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:01:37 -0500 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/21 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/21 *Experiment 11 lives on* Bob Hartmann and Dan DeRuntz with Gian Pangaro, Oivind Brockmeier, Eva Papadimitriou and Konrad Ropke have combined their talents to prototype C60. Now a fully working brea... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:26:36 -0500 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/20 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/20 _Does the mix tape still exist in a digital world?_ I fell in love with this idea, maybe even to the point where I could no longer see if it was actually any good. In truth I’m not sure if I c... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:25:31 -0500 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/17 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/17 C60—a project aptly named after an hour cassette tape, started as “Experiment 11” in the Love and Fetish section of IDEO’s publication, I Miss My Pencil, where the authors experimented with ways to... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:33:07 -0500 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/25 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/25 Cesar the suitcase is one of the subjects of this film. This is the joy of naming inanimate objects so that we can give them character, connecting back to our ??Thomas the tank engine?? childhoods. Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:20:55 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/22 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/22 For a good few years now we've been collaborating with people to try and understand why we love objects. Why do we collect, fetishize, covet and lust after things that other people might pay no att... Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:54:16 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/19 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/19 _Can you build a believable, entirely fake brand?_ Most consumer products come to market after many rounds of testing with consumers. For a designer, this is a deeply unpleasant experience. You’r... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:39:18 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/18 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/18 _Designing for one, not by proxy of many._ At Ivan’s garage, it’s easy to see how he can love his job and his life and his cars. It seemed impossible to re-create these emotions in a pen. This pen... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:41:10 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/16 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/16 _Can you help artificial cork find another reason to exist?_ Some ideas are like a long torrid love affair that lasts forever, and some are like a quick Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:11:36 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/15 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/15 _What does it mean for a design to tell a tale?_ When you read a book, what you “see” is your interpretation of the words on the page. It isn’t possible to know what the author actually intended y... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:15:28 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/14 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/14 _This is what happens when you get drunk and go skateboarding._ In this experiment we attempted to create a layer of decorative narrative on this simple object. The connections we were trying to m... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:12:17 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/13 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/13 _What happens when craft meets machine?_ This experiment was like the final beatdown at the end of a Rocky movie. Manufacturing, the grizzled veteran; Craft, the young upstart, together in the rin... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:15:50 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/12 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/12 _How can a building's doorway reflect the work of its inhabitants?_ The more I see this design, the more I hate it. A giant missed opportunity. I had such high hopes for this gate. Working with th... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:14:35 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/11 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/11 _What if the smell of your plate added to your meal?_ I’ve always felt like the kitchen is an important part of life; it’s where some of the best conversations happen when I go home for Christmas ... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:16:41 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/10 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/10 _What happens when crappy air fresheners invade our sense memory?_ My loathing of plug-in air fresheners, which in itself is an odd thing to be bothered by, made me look for an alternative to give... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:19:29 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/9 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/9 _Can you interface more humanly with your house?_ While writing this book I bought a small apartment in San Francisco, and my dad came to visit me for a few weeks to help with some fix-it project... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:20:39 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/8 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/8 _What happens when you muffle a printer?_ This design was a long time in the making. The basic idea happened pretty quickly: a quiet printer, with some felt used for sound deadening, form dictated... Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:22:16 -0400 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/7 http://www.imissmypencil.com/#/crafts/7