I often like to get myself into a spot of teaching, collaborating with and critiquing students. I find it enhances and consolidates what I have learned in my career in Design. I do recommend that designers, especially the senior ones, take some time
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This is probably all over the place by now. But frankly, not only am I impressed with the final result, I am ecstatic over BMW sharing their design philosophy which I
"An introduction to formgiving in Chinese product design" is a research article, written by Vigleik Norheim from the Department of Product Design from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. It gives some interesting insights on the cultural influences that impact the form-giving methodology
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A phrase coined by an anonymous CEO who walked into a boardroom for a meeting to see every executive bowing their heads, operating their Blackberries. The Blackberry prayer is a plea to
Watts Humphrey, who retired from IBM in 1980, once led Big Blue’s software development. His group “who had never before made a delivery schedule, did not miss a date for the next two and a half years.” Here is a persuasive list of bullet points
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The Question of the Week comes from Ezra, who read and wanted to expand on some of the ideas discussed in my Pillar Article: How to be a Design Superstar.
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Sometimes there comes a design so simple and so clever that I just have to share it with all my readers!
Design Exchange of Toronto, which calls itself "Canada’s national centre for the promotion of design," claims that the Project G stereo, which Clairtone Sound Corporation produced, was "conceptually original, technically and functionally perfect, and aesthetically superior." It was "the
Now this guy on the right has to be one or my all time favorite Industrial Designers. Simply because he has been able to successfully combine his unique design philosophy with a very obvious sensitivity
Claire Beale is one of the lucky few that has been granted a rare interview with Jonathan Ive, who, unless you have been under a rock in the past decade, is Apple's senior vice-president of Industrial Design. You know, that guy responsible for the
I fired up my email today and low and behold, I received an official Nintendo press release of their launch of their Wii Ware Shop.
I stumbled over an interview conducted in 1957 between Mike Wallace and Frank Lloyd Wright where he discussed his thoughts on the common man and designing for the common man.
Wow a burst of link love and pointers from all my friends today seem to revolve around this theme. So I thought to compile it all right here in one place!
This is interesting. In the many portfolios I have seen, rarely have I seen a portfolio that clearly indicates if it was group work or a project done with a team. If fact, it happens so infrequently that I sit up and take
This looks like it's been out for awhile, but the Guru of Graphics has recently launched his book of wisdom that I'm sure will be a massive hit. I'm going to get it, at the very least for the
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It is about time someone designed one that has totally broken the traditional configuration of a Dump Truck! It is really
Image: Poop Hat from Jbox
So where was I? Ah yes.
On two separate occasions, I had a similar discussion with two designer friends. One of
So csven and I were doing our usual "ping-pong" discussion on Twitter. This time we were talking about The Death of Industrial Design. Csven laments that there is a confusion on what an Industrial Designer does, as the world sees it as
In honor of Earth Day, Adam Richardson, Director of Product Strategy at Frog Design has shared a presentation on "Design Green Now". As Adam, mentions it does miss a little without the supporting talk, but it does give you an idea of what Frog is
It has been awhile since I wrote a post that adequately fits into my "Designer Musings" category. In the start-up days of this blog, more than 2 years ago, I had defined this category as “My personal reflection and opinion on Design and the