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
Often I get questions from designers by email on how to solve various problems they may have in their design careers. Most of the time my advice is returned via email. This time however one of my readers, Bill, has asked a great question that
Wow, this competition totally went under my radar. I would not have caught wind of this if I did not get my usual dose of virtual goodness at rebang. In fact it was his 10th post in his RSS feed and probably would
I've always been told to get my mouth out of the sink or never drink from a public facet as it is a festering hole of germs. You know the things people tend to do in sinks, like rinse their after dinner mouths, clear
One of the great things I love about blogging, is you get to meet so many great people through your blog. One of them, whom I now consider a friend, is William Lehman from the Artist Hideout. Not only is he a
A collection of some of the most creative graffiti ever. Though annoying, graffiti continues the best means of understated social commentary. Check out the rest of the images at Dark Roasted Blend. Via: Stray dog scraps.
Fitting that this should go to long time reader and fellow designer Drew Kora, for his comment left on this post. Wow time really flies when you are having fun! Thanks Drew for all the great feedback and please keep do keep in
Marc Rapp advertising guru and blogger at Uniquely the Epitome, has created a meme that actually benefits not only the people that he tagged but other designers as well. He has created "It's the Law" meme that focuses on design rules or laws that
Launched more than a year ago, the Nakamichi Lumos portable DVD, designed together with Tithima S. and E Chin, for Nakamichi, has been featured in the latest UK version of the T3 Gadget Magazine. (August 2007, Page 18). Very nice. The design was
I'm currently back in Singapore on home leave and catching up with family and friends. So many apologies, as there will be a short blogging break till next week when I get back to Sydney. As always, if you need a design fix
While doing some research on design basics, I stumbled over this great site that lists a great collection of visual principles. It was created by Francisco Chinchilla as part of his research in "Theories, Methods and Principles that Assist and Support Form Generation on
Jan Chipchase's latest presentation from his work at Nokia that focuses on Design Research. It was presented at Nokia Connection 2007. Via: Small Surfaces
The only other thing that is as tiring as News of Paris Hilton going to jail is the mega-over-hype of Apple's iPhone. As usual I go a hunting and after reading most reviews there are to find. I'm now convinced that the iPhone
Very clever designer and advertising creative director Marc Rapp (yes the meaning after you join your name did cross my mind!), has tagged me with this wonderful meme. I see it as a great way to get to know each other much better.
A few years ago I attended a design seminar of which one of the speakers was an Innovation Manager from Philips. She spoke about the innovation process and design's role at Philips. She first described her role in the organisation and her
edit: All right people everything has been upgraded, tweaked and transferred. So far the sites all looks like they are running fine. So lets get back to regular programming at Design Sojourn! Sorry for the slow down in posting in the last couple of