Image collage from Modu
Recently we covered Bug Lab's modular mobile phone, where it was essentially a CPU "brain" that you can attach modules that you would purchased as you require it. Modu's modular mobile phones takes this same
Alec Saunders has written a great article on Nokia's mobile phone product strategy. While the article just touches on Industrial Design, he gives good examples on how product strategies, combined with a good understanding of the consumer, is used to drive
Image by: KAREN TAPIA-ANDERSEN / Los Angeles Times
With, over 35 Million sold with just as many copies I'm sure, this Sugar Shaker is, according to Bill Stern an Art Historian, "the very essence of modernism, a perfect meld of function
We designers have got it tough. We seem to get blamed for almost everything these days. From seemingly lack of sustainable efforts to poor packaging or just lousy product experiences, we seem to cop it all. However the reality is we cannot and should
Image collage from Ecoble
Check out this amazing and inspirational feat of engineering called The HumanCar. A human powered car that is I am sure inspired by the famous Flintstone mobiles.
I recently stumbled on a post by David Pogue, a technology columnist for The New York Times, who wrote a scathing post on how manufacturers today are not "Designing What’s Right for Consumers". While I agree with some of his points, I can't help coming
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Here is wishing you a happy and prosperous Year of the Rat!
Motus Games, a subsidiary of Motus Corporation, has developed the Darwin Controller of which they tout is the future of Motion Based Entertainment, and the natural evolution of the Wii Controller. Using their R&D experience in developing motion sensing
Image: Courtesy of Seagate
Wired Magazine has done a case study on the Industrial Design creation of the Free Agent portable hard drive between Seagate and Frog Design. While I had high hopes in getting a closer look
Breaking news! Just 5 mins ago from The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft announced that they have made a bid to buy Yahoo for USD$ 44.6 Billion, $0.4 Billion less than their 50 Billion bid in early 2007. Microsoft Corp. Friday offered to buy
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Muji Award 02 Judges' Prize: Chronotebook
By: Wong Kok Keong
Patent 6593942: Event programming guide
By: Dennis Bushmitch et al
Check out this very clever Napkin PC designed by Avery Hollerman that is perfect for collaborating designers. Using e-ink and RF technology it allows designers to draw in colour and skip the very tedious stage of transferring the sketch into a
What a nice way to end 2007 and roll into 2008 with a flying start!
My team and I have won a Good Design Award 2007 from the The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design for our Dragon Electrostatic Speaker
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There is an uncanny resemblance between the great work of Dieter Rams to the work of Jonathan Ive head of Industrial Design at Apple.
I'm always a sucker for cool graphical representations of data such as the Website Graph Generator. Thus one of my favourite reads is "Information Aesthetics", a website focusing on such data visualizations.
Therefore I recently had a pleasant surprise when
Early this year I wrote about the Top 5 consumer trends to watch for 2007 and how it relates to Industrial Design. Following tradition, here we go again for 2008, and this time it is a little earlier and hopefully will help all
This year's 2008 CES Keynote speech is Bill Gates' twelfth and his last as a Microsoft Employee (he is still the Chairman though). He says:
"This will be my last keynote. As of July, I will no longer be a full-time Microsoft employee.
