http://www.feiramoderna.net Feira Moderna is the website of Mauro Pinheiro, a brazilian designer and a professor at the Design Department of the Federal University of Espírito Santo. Here you will find some of my projects, academic articles and random thoughts. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:12:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just published an article about a discussion that has been going on for decades in Brazil. Should design professionals have a regulation or not? This article is acctually a letter I wrote some time ago, to a colleague that was gathering people to discuss this subject. Take a look at ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/08/22/about-design-as-a-professional-field-in-brazil/ I just made some improvements on this website. Now it's also "printer-friendly": when you print a page, no menus, no sidebars and no search fields are printed, only the "core" content. This is specially useful for the 'Articles' section. I guess some people will find it strange, because this way "what ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/08/21/feira-moderna-printer-friendly/ It's been a while since the release of Helvetica, a film by Gary Hustwit. I only got to see it now, although I already knew about it a long time ago. Helvetica it's not only a nice documentary about Helvetica typeface. It's a very interesting film about how designers from different ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/08/20/helvetica-film-autorship-and-subjectivity/ I've just published a new article here. It's a copy of the paper I will present at P&D Design 2008, 8th Brazilian Conference on Design Research and Development. In this article, I discuss the role of designers and users in the authorship of messages and products. To do so, I've highlighted ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/08/14/new-article-authorship-and-communication-in-interaction-design/ Resumo Discute o papel de designers e usuários como co-autores de mensagens e produtos. Para tanto, destaca três momentos da história do design, nos quais a noção de autoria aparece distintamente: o período relativo ao design modernista e o Estilo Internacional; o início dos anos 90, com a retórica visual pós-moderna; ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/08/14/autoria-e-comunicacao-no-design-de-interacao/ Those who read my post about Copacabana's wi-fi free network might think that I'm against investing public money in free Internet access. That's not the case. In fact, I've been discussing how Internet access can decrease social gaps, build bridges among different cultures, and help to improve our lives. This ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/08/14/internet-to-the-people/ And again, Banco do Brasil surprises me with it's lousy internet banking. I've recently changed my computer at home, and, as nothing can be simple with the worst bank in Brasil, I just can't use their internet banking until I have my computer registered in their system. To do so, I ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/08/02/worst-internet-banking-2/ Last week it started working the wi-fi network access in Copacabana beach, a project that is held by the government of Rio de Janeiro - read more in the website of Secretaria de Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro. I have a mixed feeling about this. Although it's nice to ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/07/29/wi-fi-in-copacabana/ Last year I wrote an article about 'experience design'. The article has been accepted by the brazilian journal Design em Foco, and it was supposed to be published in the first half of this year. Well, the journal had some problems with it's database, and after waiting for about 6 ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/07/15/new-old-article-online/ Resumo O artigo apresenta as diferentes denominações utilizadas para definir profissionais que desenvolvem projetos de mídia interativa, com o intuito de fornecer material para discussão sobre esse campo de atuação em constante evolução. Descreve as principais alterações que ocorreram ao longo do tempo no perfil dos profissionais envolvidos com projetos de ... http://www.feiramoderna.net/2008/07/15/do-design-de-interface-ao-design-da-experiencia/