josh williams r&d


I am a Product Design major at San Francisco State University. I am on track to earn my Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design with a concentration in Product Design and Development.

I am wowed by the timeless architecture and design of the 50’s that still remains relevant and modern today.

I am inspired by everyday situations that pose interesting or unique problems and change the way we look at our surroundings. I like the feeling of a new discovery or respect with objects that we use every day.

I am influenced by my friends, colleagues, and professors. I look up to anyone who is willing to take creative risks and submit themselves to public critique. I recently watched Objectified and want to buy a Banzai tree to be more like Dieter Rams.

I am thoughtful, hopeful, patient, resourceful, indecisive, and restless.
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Achieving Sustainability: Seriously, enough with the disposable cups already.

Let’s say you work in an office building and on the way to work everyday you stop in at your local Coffeepeetbucks for a nice cup of Java. Generally speaking they’ll give you a single cup, with one of those sleeve thingies and a nice plastic lid. With any luck you’ll at least recycle all these products, but the vast majority of them, Starbucks annual cup use alone is 1.5 Billion (that’s right, it’s a B, not an M), end up in a landfill somewhere. So not only are you filling landfills, but think of all the energy and raw materials that went into that cup, thingy, and lid so that it could be used once and chucked. It makes no sense.
I think it’s important to keep in mind that 1.5 Billion is for Starbucks alone! Time to find a statistic that accounts for all disposable cups - if it’s even possible. Donut shops, AA meetings, gas stations, church on Sunday… everything! I think it would be staggering - and entirely preventable.



July 13, 2009, 5:46pm