I had a great phone conversation with John Bielenburg today about his experiences as a designer and more specifically about his project Virtual Telemetrix, a satirical corporate entity. I was writing feverishly as I talked to him and wasn’t able to get the conversation verbatim but I think I came close in my short transcript of it (PDF).

This semester I’ve been collecting annual reports in an attempt to glean some “corporate” goodness for my project. So far I have about 20 from corporation’s raging from moderately evil to very evil. If anyone has any suggestions or must-haves let me know. My collection currently includes, Boeing, Lockhead & Martin, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Walmart, Merk, Starbucks, Ford Motor, Shell, Exxon Mobile, Chiquita and a handful of others.