I'm sure you many of you have experienced this before. Here you are, a designer in the zone waxing lyrical about your design to your client or perhaps a group of engineers. You are feeling good about things and pretty sure that your design is
I'm a big fan of Dieter Rams, so much so that I have even dedicated an entire article here at Design Sojourn to his design philosophy. Therefore, I was quite excited to watch this
I'm pretty conscious about my work rhythm these days. There is a lot to do in running a business and I welcome any way to do it more efficiently. Therefore, I found Y-Combinator advisor Paul Graham's blog post about a Manager's schedule vs.
Michael Bierut, of Pentagram fame, has shared on his Design Observer blog 7 things designers can learn stand up comics. I've extracted and summarized it here for our discussion and reflection. I’ve added my summaries below, but the 7 points are by Michael.
In dreaded job interviews or in portfolio documents, many designers under sell themselves. It's a tough world and if we want the job or the project, we will need to go for it, hustle, if you like. Strangely, many creative people are too polite
Awesome things happen! This is why designers need to run their own personal projects, where they are their own clients.
Paula Antonelli indirectly answers the question "What makes good design?” by sharing some of MoMa's selection criteria.
Feng Zhu, Entertainment Design Guru and friend of Design Sojourn, recently released a really cool video filled with tips and techniques on designing with traditional mediums, i.e. pens, paper and sketchbooks. Remember those? Just kidding! With many designers now working with digital sketching tools
Image by Anthony Dickens on Twitpic. Click for a larger view.
Anthony Dickens recently shared, on a Linkedin discussion, a list of Design Truisms written by Tim Parsons.
Jessica Hische has created a nice little flow chart to help designers decide if we should work for free. Jessica has helpfully incorporated into her flow chart many
As designer Matt Jones says, "don't keep calm and carry on", we should instead:
It’s all up to your and your work.
Chuck Close from Wisdom said:
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of
As designers, we all have processes, systems and tools that we use day in and day out. Each one employed to solve a specific problem in a specific way. As we attempt to automate our design process and optimize our methods we invariably realize that
The kind folks of Autodesk heard that I loved SketchBook Pro so much that they extended their Comic-Con only 30% discount to all Design Sojourn readers!
I'm sure many of you know what SketchBook Pro is all
That's right people, no fear! Image by StreetFly JZ
When Moo approached me to see if I was interested in some Moo cards for Design Sojourn readers, I immediately said "yes!" These Moo cards
Design? from Design Says Hello on Vimeo.
A nice little introspective on how people understand the profession of design in Singapore. Student director N.Ziqq interviews, in just under an hour, a number of multidisciplinary designers and artists for
Atari 900 Concept
Atari 1200 Concept
Atari 2600 Concept
I really love these old school hand rendered Atari
The quality of writing at Design Observer must be dropping. Through a tweet link that read "Design Observer Spits in its face", I was lead to an opinion piece written by Maria Popova on how she wishes the "Death to Design Awards". What a horrid
Friend and ex-colleague Pernilla Johansson, Design Director at Electrolux, shares her story about her career in design and how she got into it. You might remember Pernilla in my interview with her during the 2009 ICSID