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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Saturday
Saturday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they have "Strong communication and people skills".
Saturday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they have "Strong communication and people skills".
1) My iPod is like my model girlfriend, and my Zune is like the girl next door. Who would you marry? 2) "Sense and Simplicity" in the Philips brand really communicated in their designs? 3) The conversation sketching tool kit. Use sketching as a means to align
Friday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they have the "Ability to sell well".
Thursday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they have "A Renaissance outlook in life and unique specialist interests".
Wednesday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they have "Good general management skills".
Tuesday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is "Proactive, passionate, motivated and truly loves what he/she does".
Monday's habit is that effective industrial designers are "Creative problem solving instead of problem creating".
Wallpaper Magazine has done a nice write up on the history of the Singapore Girl and her fashionable Sarong Kebaya uniforms. A true design classic that embodies all aspects of the Singapore Airlines brand, in fact, I would go as far as to
Every once a while I like to look back to see what sort of trend predictions research companies made, that have come true. In 2002, some clever researches from British Telecom published in BTexec that in 5 years time, ie 2007, lifestyle brands will
What if? What would happen if every blog published posts on the same issue, on the same day? For that one day, we could change the global conversation, raise awareness and act together to create a better world. I was humbly invited by Collis, one of the brains
1) What do you do when an executive says "I don't like orange" or "can we use circles in stead of squares"? Visual designer Nick Meyers of Cooper explains how the right kind of research with, not only the user, but also the stakeholder can
Sorry guys. I just had to drag myself out of bed to post this. Really made my day! Via: Technabob
I think that's about all I can manage to write. Do check out my new archives and categories on the right, for great stuff to tie you over until I can think again
Without sounding like a broken record or stating the obvious, if there is one and only one design tip you will ever need as a professional designer, it has to be don't forget to SAVE your work! Save it frequently and save it regularly. Don't
Another fantastic Design Sojourn Reader Question! This week its by Fred from Switzerland. He writes: Hello, I am an avid reader of your blog. I like it's broad scope and honest opinions. I also like beautiful well-designed products. Which brings me to my question about industrial design.
The latest August issue of Icon Magazine has a super-human collection of 50 manifestos of the word's leading designers on their view of design in the future and today. It's a great read on insights in the mind of some of our greatest design
Something I love to do is receive emails suggestions or get feedback from all my readers on how I can better tailor your experience when you visit Design Sojourn. However what I have not done is actually turn it into a formal exercise to
Sketch by Michael Bretherton The concept development phase can be one of the best or most frustrating times a designer can experience during the design process. Furthermore managing the concept development work from both from an Art directors or designer's view point can also be
I like to inform and apologise to all readers for the down time of Design Sojourn yesterday and today. This is due to 2 hard drive crashes on the server that is hosting this site. Sorry for any inconvenience caused if we missed
Heh-heh this has been doing the rounds in the boutique design blogs. Great watch and very funny as it's all about "Why good design comes from hot designers". NOT! But hey it's eye candy all the way. Gosh I'm so shallow. Via: Architectradure