We take a short break from design blogging today to dive into some extreme geek blogging. Apparently you can buy a Windows Vista upgrade for your Windows XP, COOL! But in typical Microsoft manner they actually literally put the upgrade OVER your existing
Dear readers, I need to first apologize for the lack of postings here at Design Sojourn. This is simply because in the last few weeks I have been busy to the point of exhaustion. Before I can explain why, let me wish you
My first ever Blog Meme, and one that is pretty good as well! Getting a "tag your it!" from a fellow designer blogger AiAlone.com, I feel compelled to join in! Basically the idea is "Mack over at Viral Garden has started a little pyramid scheme to
Yesterday I got out of my National Service commitments just in time to attend the prize-giving ceremony of the Red-Dot Award: design concept 2006. This award is the industrial design industry's equivalent of the Oscars, and it was held at the red-dot design museum here
Recently I was in a discussion with a good friend of mine who is a database management expert. We concluded that site tracking and SEO or Search Engine Optimization is an important tool for any successful website Inspired, I look at all my little site tracking
I would like to humbly announce to my dear readers that Design Sojourn has been selected as one of HOW Magazine's top 10 websites for the month of November. They have even a nice, very cool, little trophy! Founded in 1985, HOW Magazine provides graphic-design professionals with
Hayashi Yoshihide. That's me. The wonderful people from Nissan have given me this cool Japanese name based on the Chinese Characters or my name. That's right people I shall now embrace that name and will answer to it if called! Thanks, Gina and Haruko. I do
Michael Donahue from E-Auction-Air did a really nice Podcast on my blog. You can download it here. The gist: Design Sojourn is a blog well worth reading for insight into coming up with affordable products. Ideas..remember them? E-Auction-Air is a great blog and podcasting site where Michael,
Now for a nice change of pace, occasionally I get a flash of something that inspires me to take of an everyday product and re-design it with a twist. I had intended for it to become one of my first few simple easy to
I stand humbled after reading a really nice and well articulated review of Design Sojourn and my analytical thinking abilities at James F Katz's blog on Design Arguments: Critical Judgements. He writes: In terms of King and Kitchener's scale of reflective judgment the articles in
I have been subscribing to Yaro Starak's Blog Traffic mailing list and highly recommend it as its a fantastic read. Unlike the other gazillion sites out there on blogging, Yaro's blog and mailing list focuses on the most important in a successful blog how
I have been thinking about this for a bit. For a long time actually. So finally I've decided to "Come out" on the internet. Ah No. I'm not gay. Heh-Heh! But it's more coming out of the closet of anonymity, actually posting a real picture
Arrgh! I am truly having a hard time trying to design this blog. After running a blog at xanga.com for a bit, I realize that at Blogspot I have to be a robot. I have to learn to read HTML code. But I not