This week's question is from David, and avid 11 grader looking to get into a career in design. Wow they start young these days don't they? He writes:
One of the issues industrial designers, often working in a high level strategic roles, face is the dreaded "Design Creep" or some call "Specification Creep". Year after year it's the same old unproductive story, and I hazard a guess probably for you as well.
Last night I, like many people in Australia and around the world, switched off my TV in sadness. England beat my beloved Australian Wallabies 12-10. While I sympathised with the Australia team, I can't help admire the English team's game strategy. The
Oh Christmas is fast approaching and I am getting fat. I'm currently stressed and when I'm stressed I eat, and so I get fat, all before Christmas comes. I should exercise instead but I don't and I digress. Christmas traditionally is the best time
A while back I started this non-profit social-entrepreneurship endeavour called IDAsia.org as a means to network, uncover and perhaps showcase Industrial Designers from Asia.
As a result of these efforts, my team of volunteers (py, ec, kk and <a
Sorry for the slowdown in posts last week as I had to make a last minute trip back to Singapore to attend to a family emergency. I just got back and am now catching up on work. However not to worry and do
1) It's Time To Call One Laptop Per Child A Failure It breaks my heart to see such wonderful design work from so many talented designers go to waste but the announcement that the One Laptop Per Child Foundation is offering a 2-for-1 sale in the
I'm probably now one of the millions of "children" that have finished reading the last installment in the Harry Potter series. But the interesting part of this is the amazing cultural fall out of this book series has created. My cousin was telling
You can look at this in another way, as one of my designer friends calls it "Don't Bull Sh*t yourself", if a work is bad it is bad. That leads to and another oldie but goodie or as what most call it "You Cant
A few times a year most companies tend to start or relook at their Innovation and product development cycles for the following year. Often involved in such matters, I've experienced that most of the time, elements of the answer involves Innovations and some of
Recently my trusty not so rusty DVD player died. It just refuses to play my DVDs anymore. So I'm back in the market for a DVD player and my one and only requirement is that is has to be able to play DVDs
Some breaking news on the new Design Sojourn Tumble Blog at http://designsojourn.net as well as DT has decided to let down the facade, and let readers get a gist of who he really is in real life.
There are just so many websites out there these days, so how do Industrial Designers determine the ones that are worth looking at, and relevant to the wide range of topics covered in the Industrial Design profession? Therefore I have decided to create a
My former lecturer in design used to say that designers need to get into a state of readiness before they can become productive in design work or concept sketching. Some designers require more time, some require less. Some require going through fifty sketches,
Our guest contributor py brings us this week a very informational article on how a designer can get better in the use of materials and their manufacturing processes. As usual it is very well researched, I hope you enjoy it as much as I
1) Toshio Iwai's much anticipated Tenori-On is finally available today. Check out the videos to see how it works. It's a totally rad music making device. (Thanks Drew) 2) Ravi Chhatpar, Strategy Director in frog’s Shanghai studio, has written an interesting piece called "Innovate Faster by
You might have caught this on Gizmondo, but if you have not, it seems in 2001 Matt Presta from Bridge Design was brought in to conceptualise, as a product pitch, the idea of a revolutionary motion sensing game remote control to Nintendo. I'm
This week's welcomed question comes from none other that Drew Kora:
"I mean to ask can a designer work from home AND BE PRODUCTIVE? And how might it affect the rest of the team?"It is quite a difficult question as there are a lot of
DT's adventures of moving Design Sojourn to its new home at Media Temple.
Our final Sunday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they are "able to wear many hats".