back from spring break

Hey Guys,
So I know that I haven't been around for a while, obviously spring break put me back from school a little and honestly, it took me up until the end of this week to get back into the swing of things.  However, I truly believe that I learned more in this week than I have all semester.  After being taught by the head of ID on Monday (professor Don Carr) I learned a ton of things about model making that really helped me improve my skills, and after some awesome lectures by Project H and Professor Dennis Earl, I completely changed my idea about industrial design.  Project H helped me see that design is more than making the next best thing, its become a way of helping the world to become a better place.  (If you don't know what Project H is and you are interested in design at all - check out their website at http://projecthdesign.org/). Emily Pilotin (the founder of project H) is an amazing designer who takes a new look at design for humanity and clearly has some amazing potential to change the world.  The other lecture was about biomimicry (copying natures design in our own human designs) which really inspired me to change my ideals about design.  Using nature as inspiration and actually learning from the way nature designs things will really help all designers to make better products.  If you are at all interested in this idea check out asknature.org and click on the link learn about biomimicry and watch the little video.  It's a lecture and I know that it may sound boring but it is an incredible talk and Janine Benyus talks about some extremely important ideas.  

Finally I just wanted to take a moment to talk about my future plans as a designer!!! Right now I am a second year and I have a twin in mechanical engineering.  What's funny is that there are two other twins in my year whose twin brothers are also in mechanical engineering.  After talking to my advisor I discovered that engineers and designers work together and therefore I came up with the ground breaking idea of Twintuition.  Obviously it's not a serious idea yet but its a fun little firm that maybe I can talk all of the six of us into doing.  It would have some pretty interesting marketability and honestly it would be a fun future for all of us. 
Well, i know this has been a long rant but I hope you enjoy the websites I posted and once again if you have any questions contact me by facebook!!