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A weblog by Alex Jarvis, full of fun and interesting stuff. I'm a Designer at BERG, and an also a mentor and Associate Lecturer on the FdA Design course at the LCC in London.
You can find my main website here - this is just a regular update of things I find interesting.
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Designed to Annoy: A theoretical look at designing inefficient packaging
As designers, we spend much of our time making things better, but what if to improve someone’s life, we had to make something worse? Recent RISD grad (alma mater shout out), Erik Askin recently published “Designed to Annoy: A theoretical look at designing inefficient packaging”, a thoughtful twist on the ubiquitous cigarette package. The idea of making something harder to use to encourage a user to rethink their consumption is poignant. I love the thought process and the visual exploration Erik shows. Check out the full project here.
