This will be one of many posts about coffee and/or beer, I suppose. Both beverages are part of our diets and fuel our social lives and individual productivity. When we meet up with others to discuss ideas, or to simply get to know them, it’s usually in a coffee shop or craft beer bar. Actually, Read More
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Funny Signs
But instead, let’s discuss signs and their locations. http://imgur.com/a/lUWTG
Beautiful Scary Weather and the Design that Saves Us
A blog about natural disasters and all the great pieces of industrial design that save people and their homes and their pets.
Wedge Ways to keep your house warm
Let’s come up with 10 innovative ideas to stay warm this winter. None of this plastic on the windows shit-that’s not fun.
2012
Wedge was started in May of 2012, not even a year ago, and as we near 2013 it’s easy to reflect back upon this year and note that starting this organization was one of the most significant things that happened to the Wedgies.
Big Idea Saturdays: The Happy Truth
So what is a designer’s true purpose? Is it to increase happiness, discover beauty, understand universal truths? Is there something philosophical and deep to what they are trying to accomplish or are they merely looking for beauty in form, object, and experience? Scientists have clear goals: to discover and understand our world. Philosophers seek to Read More
Art,Technology and Design
This is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for awhile, and the day after Apple’s 2013 WWDC keynote is probably a good as time as any to discuss the intermingling of Art, Technology, and Design. The chronological relationship between art and technology are something that is not discussed often enough. Coming from an Read More
Untitled Bottega Campus Cleanup
Wedge is working with our good friends over at the Untitled Bottega on a big project that we’ll be premiering soon. Think arts, performance, community. Needless to say we need to clear up the area in anticipation. There’s a lot of cleanup to accomplish, so we’ll need all of you to make it happen. Read More
Where did all of the hardware stores go?
There’s a lot of exciting news in the world of business and retail here in Detroit this summer. We have two new grocery stores in midtown. We’ve got a slice of the new American manufacturing right over on Canfield. And even three exciting popup programs (notably, two of which are outside of the 7.2 sq mile downtown zone). It’s definitely a summer of progress.
Teaching the Design Process
This past Friday, Wedge headed over to the Madison-Carver Academy to teach a session on Design Thinking to the some of the students. Earlier this year, the class had already gone through a design thinking exercise, working through possibilities for a vacant lot near the school, but expressed some interest in doing some work with Read More