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December 26, 2007 In Articles

25 Bad Habits of Industrial Designers

thumbdown.png Image: Thumbs Down by CraigPJ About time I got to this one and I though it makes a great post to face the year end with!...

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December 11, 2007 In Articles

Mechanical Critters, an Interview with Chico Bicalho

Cosmojetz About 6 months ago I discovered the work of Brazilian designer Chico Bicalho in, of all places, the Artist village of Leura in the Blue Mountains of Australia. I was in...

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November 29, 2007 In Articles

How to be a Design Superstar!

Bono Glasses by killkenny That's right everyone just wants to be a Design Superstar? Oh really? No the fact of the matter is, when all else is equal, Superstars get hired, and boring designers don't. The main difference between the two? The...

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November 7, 2007 In Articles

The Corporate Designer's Survival Guide

A designer in corporate life is not that easy. It does has it pros and cons, but the reality is not only will you have to do good design work, you will have to navigate the corporate ladder as well as all its related...

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October 15, 2007 In Articles

Let's talk about Design Strategy and Sustainable Behaviors

Mario Vellandi author behind the very excellent Melodies in Marketing, spent the last couple of weeks conducting a hard hitting interview on my views on the future of industrial design, design strategy and sustainable design. It was a great discussion with very high...

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October 9, 2007 In Articles

Six Tips for Managing Design or Specification "Creep"

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....

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October 9, 2007 In Articles

Six Tips for Managing Design or Specification "Creep"

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....

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September 19, 2007 In Articles

Innovation is Everybody’s Responsibility

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...

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September 14, 2007 In Articles

Essential Websites for Industrial Designers

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...

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September 8, 2007 In Articles

The Importance of Mastering Materials Use and Manufacturing Processes

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...

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September 2, 2007 In Articles

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Final Sunday

Our final Sunday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they are "able to wear many hats". ...

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September 1, 2007 In Articles

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". ...

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August 31, 2007 In Articles

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Friday

Friday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they have the "Ability to sell well". ...

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August 30, 2007 In Articles

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Thursday

Thursday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they have "A Renaissance outlook in life and unique specialist interests"....

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August 29, 2007 In Articles

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Wednesday

Wednesday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is that they have "Good general management skills"....

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August 28, 2007 In Articles

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Tuesday

Tuesday's habit of effective Industrial Designers is "Proactive, passionate, motivated and truly loves what he/she does"....

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August 27, 2007 In Articles

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Monday

Monday's habit is that effective industrial designers are "Creative problem solving instead of problem creating"....

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August 23, 2007 In Articles

The future of the Industrial Design Discipline

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...

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August 9, 2007 In Articles

10 Tips for Guaranteed Concept Development Success

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...

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July 30, 2007 In Articles

How to get Recognition for Your Design Work?

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...

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The Design Thinking Process Paradox

Designers or Design Thinkers often like to think that they require a certain level of “freedom” to allow their creativity…

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