Interested in working in UX, but no idea what roles are available to you as a trained Industrial Designer? We chatted with 3 designers with experience for ideas
""Build locally" sounds wonderful at first, until considering the premium cost for domestic manufacturing, so that your clever gadget will be undercut immediately by new overseas sourcing. More to the article's point if your gadget is complicated you are probably duplicating in parallel the kind of factory infrastructure that already exists somewhere else in the world, making any carbon-savings irrelevant. Local manufacture is like a meme from 2020, at least for any designed goods that 'move the needle'. "
"Gotta virtue-signal your eco smugness somehow though.
The best cooler is the one you already have. Rainforests aren't being depleted just because your beach beer gets warm too quickly."
"...wake up from your Opus bed, squeeze out some Juicero, send a text message on your $100 OLPC. Life is good in the South Park reality distortion bubble."
"This is craft - guy started in wood crafts, now in tool crafts. The 'sustainability' argument is valid - tools generally cost more than the individual parts they fabricate - but the other three factors are in-line."
"They neglected to show the meat locker photos, with the various big game animals hanging on hooks for dry aging.Understandable yet ceaselessly appalling that a healthy market exists for things like this. "