No he tenido la oportunidad de leer la novela de Gustavo Bolívar Moreno pero me atrevo a parafrasear su título con el ánimo de recobrar mi costumbre de escribirles algunos párrafos a mis amigos y familiares, ya no mediante mi correo electrónico sino mediante mi blog en el que he habilitado una sección para colgar mis apuntes y compartirlos así con ustedes. Comparto muchas de las visiones de Bolívar Moreno, en particular su pesimismo al rededor de figuras de la talla de Diomedes Díaz y su nefasta influencia en la cultura de nuestro país.
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Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard
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Viernes, alrededor de las 11 de la mañana, estoy sentado en frente de mi computador en un cuarto mediano, es el cuarto mejor iluminado de un apartamento pequeño en un barrio estándar de un lindo pueblito cercano a Rotterdam. Reviso los últimos detalles de algunas ilustraciones y cambio los colores de las imágenes que el día de ayer tuve la posibilidad de revisar en la Universidad. Afuera llueve copiosamente, es extraño pues aunque nos adentramos en la primavera caen chapuzones como en las tierras de olor a café de las que vengo. Por algunos momentos me pierdo en el divagar de lo que quiero y de lo que hago, creo que todos en algún punto lo hacemos.
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Client: Bogota City Hall (Alcaldía de Bogotá & Secretaría de Educación del Distrito Bogotá)
Design & Engineering team: aei Gestión de Diseño, Franky J. (director), Cardenas E., Galan C., Mejía J.R. and Suarez E.
Project date & place: 1999 – 2000 The Netherlands.
Project scope: this set of furniture was and is used in 24 public schools in Bogota for more than 2.5 millions of students, teachers and staff.
Key words: Base of the pyramid, Human centered design, New Product Development.
Methods used: Human centered design approach and New Product Development strategies.
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If, on December 5th, you’re molested by an old Bishop flanked by black-faced bodyguards wearing Rasta wigs and weird clothes who start throwing food at you in the streets, don’t call the cops, it’s all part of the Dutch holiday fun. Read more…
I am proud to announce that I was part of the winning team of the Océ Research Competition. From 25 to 27 November 2009 Océ organized a technology business course, the Océ Research Competition.
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Our value system may recognize the uprising of females, but antiquated social mores still dictate that no matter how strong a female is at work, she should let her date choose the wine in a dimly lit restaurant.
18:30 hours: in the candlelit ‘Little Italy’ restaurant, Karen sits opposite her date, who is flipping through the menu for the third time tonight, still unable to make his choice. This date was made a couple days previously, at a common friend’s birthday party where they first met. When her date proposed dinner, Karen immediately said yes, as her dating page had been blank for quite some time. Besides, this guy was still eligible. After a little struggle with her not too cooperative schedule, Karen finally managed to steal four hours for the date between a meeting with her supervisor and her late fitness class.
Once the waiter had left, Karen’s date started the conversation. “So, I hear you got a job offer at BCG. Great! How did you do that?”, he asked. Obviously, Karen took such a casual question too literally. The date suddenly turned into a job interview. Karen’s academic achievements and experience were hard for her date to digest. And the truth was that what Karen had revealed was just half of her whole profile. Read more…
Client: City Racks Design Competition, sponsored by the New York City Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the support of Google, Inc. and Transportation Alternative.
Design & Engineering team: Patil S., Reyes, O., Heru Prabowo S., and Mejia J.R.
Project date & place: 2008 The Netherlands.
Key words: Bicycle rack, Urban furniture, Mobility, Strategic Design, New Product Development.
Methods used: Brainstorming and brain-writing.
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As an international student from Colombia one of the biggest changes in my lifestyle over the past two years stems for the shifting, seasonal weather conditions here. The first fact is that the Netherlands, lying in the temperate or tepid latitudes of the globe, between the tropics and the polar circles, has generally mild shifts between summer and winter and a moderate maritime climate, rather than extreme hot or cold, according to my Lonely Planet travel guide. When preparing your trip to Delft from a distant warm country, you’re ready to face the weather; in your luggage a big jacket is packed, because winter winds can be cold and the official Dutch website for tourists www.holland.com says you ’should certainly wrap up well in January and February’. And they add: One of the nice things about Holland is that ‘the Dutch are relaxed about clothes’. And I must admit that, yes!, all this about geographical, social and cultural conditions is really true, but nobody tells you about the impact the weather can have on your feelings and emotions. Yet international students report the significant influence that Dutch weather conditions have on their perceptual and emotional estimations of the university, the city and the country, all of which radically changes their lifestyles. So with winter coming, it’s better if you’re ready to face it.
This picture and the the caption were published on the Newspaper TUDELTA number 34.
More details:
http://www.delta.tudelft.nl/en/foreign-eye/foreign-eye/20269
and http://issuu.com/tudelta/docs/41.34
Javier Ricardo Mejia Sarmiento
