Nowadays design is a word that can be as vague as one wants it to be, there's industrial design, fashion design, web design, graphic design, game design and lots more. But if there's anything that can keep them within the same playing field, is how a project becomes reality. This process, may have differences depending on what you are doing, but the basics are the same, so I just wanted to share what i think about this subject. I'll begin talking about what I think is designs "main" branch, which is Industrial Design.

Well, it may be the fact that I'm an industrial design student, but the reason that i think it's the "main" (or at least the approach my school takes on it) is because even if the main goal of an industrial designer is to create objects for everyday use with a high aesthetic value and possible to be produced with industrial processes, but that doesn't exactly mean that all of my projects involve the creation of one object, or the use of only one material.

As a matter of fact an industrial designer has to know about everything he can, he has to know materials, and processes for everyone, from metals to ceramic, from plastic to wood, everything. But that isn't all, because I've also had to do graphical presentations for most of my projects, so I've learned quite some graphic design, and the use of some computer programs, I've done animations, web pages, posters, and brochures, as well as chairs, plates, and home appliances , I'm even working with spaces this semester, taking a page from architecture, but thinking everything to the last detail, designing the outside, inside and contents of a place.

So, that's my view on industrial design, it's easy to go on and explore other areas of design, which isn't possible if one wants to focus on an area from the beginning. On the next entry I'll get more on detail on how the real design process is, seeing that I've cleared my background and from which point of view it'll come.

I just realized, i've been a gamespot memeber for a little more than 4 years... 4 Years!!!!! and maybe one or two more before being registred...

I've been a gamespot regular for half its lifespan, I remember when it was videogames.com, and I can't beleive how fast time passes by.

so um.. have I wasted my life??.. at least it wasnt drugs....

I tried the user video upload feature with 2 shorts i made while learning how to use iMovie, they are nonsense and in spanish, but bring a smile to my face.

Also I'm doing a 3D animation course using 3ds Max, its going well, as it's actually simple to use, and while the exercises haven't been terribly complex its going on nicely, hopefully I'll upload some of that.

So.. Enjoy.

Well, got 2 more gamespace banners admitted by gamespot, one for rocky!!, which is great, and another one for bruce lee: quest of the dragon.

Something else I would like to say its that well, gamespot's E3 coverage may have been monstruous, but it nwas strange to me to see all those octopuss tentacles all over the place, just like my banner....  mmmm I sense a conspiracy.... or probably just a bizarre coincidence, but cool nevertheless, as a matter of fact that octopusss is going to be in one of my brother's band t-shirts, and when I saw gamespot T-shirts, almost identical... well i was just shocked.

Well, got some new emblems so cool, I just wanted to see what those conferences would be all about.

I'll try to get some videoblog emblems now that I got a new computer with webcam, an Apple Macbook, wich should get here by next week, so I'll try to post something.