the worst insulin pump ever designed

 yesterday I was at a lecture on interaction design.

The speaker was the creative director of Ideo (which is a interaction design consulting firm), and he talked allot about the esthetic value of product. He argued that when creating something, you should think of form as well as function. This might not have been a very groundbreaking statement, but it did lead me to making this design.

At some point during the lecture he brought up insulin pumps, and I figured that I would create the worst insulin pump that I could come up with. the only thing it needed was to be kind of pretty.

So here it is, the worst insulin self-injection pump in the world. I am pretty sure that this machine would inject you with a lethal dose of insulin if you actually attempted to use it, so it might be good for those suicidal diabetics out there. for the rest of you though, I would stay away from this design.

Practice makes perfect… I hope

 I have mentioned earlier that I practice daily. Beyond what I do upload here on this blog, I try to add one hour of practice from reference.

I mostly do this because I need to. I would love to be one of those people who just know perspective, colour and light instinctively, but I’m not. So right now, practice is the thing.

be professional

 

I have adopted a mantra as of late, as you might be able to tell from the title of this post, that mantra is “be professional”

This might seem like a bit of an obvious mantra, as it should come organically to someone who has decided to update his blog daily for an entire year, but it really doesn’t seem to be the case.

In fact, I have found myself glued to sites like tumblr and 9gag for the entire month that I have had this blog going on a daily basis.

What I am hoping to do, is remind myself that if I don’t behave like an adult, the work suffers and if the work suffers I might lose followers. It is a vicious circle if I end up slacking, so I better get my act together