Design by Darwinism

The website is here!

shortyswede — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:27:57 +0000

Finally you can go in to the Design by Darwinism website and evolve yourself a candlestick.

Using an Evolutionary Algorithm, the program generates candlestick offspring and you simply pick your favourite over and over until you have your candlestick. Evolution in 2 min.

There is more exciting functions to come on the website but I assure you it is working fine right now.

try it out, evolve something!

www.design-by-darwinism.com

Telephone Colours

shortyswede — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:20:42 +0000

Here is a telephone that some of you might recognise.

We have been working on this for a while now, but we are slowly reaching the home stretch.

This is probably the second to last selection on this.

You will be selecting on colours and you can pick up to 4 different telephones,

leave your choice as comments under this post or go to

Design by Darwinism group on Facebook

Enjoy!

100 Kettles

shortyswede — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:39:51 +0000

Here we have 1oo Kettles,

I want you to tell me which one you like the best….

Please do click on the image to make it bigger.

Telephone 4 up for selection

shortyswede — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:42:29 +0000

Here is the fourth generation of the telephone, please choose one that you would own and use and let me know.

Any comments are welcome on this.

Design Equation

shortyswede — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:41:21 +0000

Please have a look at this image below.

It is a design equation, a tool for us designers to generate ideas. Take some time to think about what PRODUCT this unlikely union could bring. There is no right or wrong, no need for logic, it can be a feeling or just something that you think looks interesting in your head.

I for example thought of a crown…

So be poetic, mysterious, inspirational and ingenious and tell me what product this should be!

Evo 1 Generation 2

shortyswede — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:43:49 +0000

This is generation 2. The concept that won was The big button telephone.

This has now reproduced and these are its children!

EVO 1

shortyswede — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:26:43 +0000

This is the first Evolutionary test this year, we are designing a land-line telephone.

The first selection/generation is of 4 Concepts

All concepts are based on the idea of a tactile telephone with more interaction between user and product. This is the opposite of the I-phone Touch…

A textiles telephone

A musical telephone

A big button telephone

A tin can telephone

Genious interview

shortyswede — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:28:29 +0000

The other day I had the great pleasure of having a constructive and creative discussion with a group of Biologists from Edinburgh University.

Armed with Swedish cinnamon buns that I had baked the night before I headed out to their Lab.

Finding the lab turned out to be the biggest challenge…

I had the most inspiring discussion with them and now there is lots of work to do, trying to understand everything and make it useful.

I have graphs , equations and new words that I have never heard before, I am in heaven! Time for me to read The blind watchmaker by Richard Dawkins and just roll around in this pool of intellect to see what sticks. I have a few new concepts to look into when it comes to selection. Simultaneous selection of phenotypes (traits), breeder’s equations, pre-definition mode of variation , product symbiosis and my all time favourite; the fittest maximum in multivariate space! This and much more now has to pass through the slow processor of this designer and hopefully come out the other side.

I would like to say a big thank you, for being so open, friendly and clever, to:

Michael Morrissey

Jeff Lane

Craig Walling

Peter Korsten

Michelle Clements

You are all fantastic! Do keep in touch to help me maintain at least a small measure of scientific correctness and inspiring chats over coffee!

How are we doing?

shortyswede — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:31:05 +0000

Right now I’m caught up in a swamp of research.

It’s almost christmas and the weather is horrible, it is HARD to keep focused…

But I push on, read articles and chase contacts that never get back to me. Next week I’m having an interview with two evolutionary biologists, that should be so much fun!

I’m very interested in the work of James Surowiecki, I would recommend anyone to read his book The wisdom of Crowds. I think that the work is progressing ok, soon I will be needing a computer scientist and a software developer. Is that you?

Then get in touch!

I hope to soon have some images to show you all, not of anything finished but hopefully some good sketches.

Til then

Malin

The new project

shortyswede — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:43:14 +0000

Now I have started…

This year I will focus on three things to change my methodology Design by Darwinism

Expand

Develop

Construe

I will make it better, bigger and more defined.

THEN I will create something fantastic!

Right now I’m spending my time thinking and reading a lot of books.

ANY helpful tips are welcome! All you Computer scientists out there who can explain to me the details of an evolutionary Algorithm please step forward.

And you clever researchers who feel the urge to help a poor student to academic excellence; don’t be shy now!

If you are interested in participating in the next design evolution please email me and let me know.

malilnkallman.design@live.se

The more people that participate the better, this is design democracy. All those things in your environment that irritate you because of bad design, now you have a chance to change that.