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April 21, 2008 In Designing Designers

Why Sh*T matters in Design. What?

This little video excerpt by Allan Chochinov (of Core77 fame), during his presentation at the PSFK Conference New York 08, talks about his observations he made of his students after he asks...

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March 31, 2008 In Designing Designers

Starck says Design is Dead, yet Again?

PSFK posted an article on their blog about Starck feeling that "Design is Dead" and is also shamed for all the excess he has created in his designs. Well it was sometime ago he spoke about his distaste for design and a...

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March 19, 2008 In Designing Designers

Bye Gary, Thanks for the Memories and My Ability to Design

Gary Gygax Futurama Simpsons I wanted to write this much sooner but it kinda got lost in the back burner. Sadly, half of the population, depending on your age, may or may not...

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March 18, 2008 In Designing Designers

Overcoming Barriers to Creativity in a Corporate Environment

Personally as Head of Industrial Design for an in-house design department I find this quote particularly interesting and quite an accurate reflection of creativity in most corporate environments.

In a recent survey by our company, eight out of 10 in-house designers said it's difficult to convince...

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February 18, 2008 In Design Leadership, Designing Designers

The Power of a Recommendation Gets Things Your Way

We designers have got it tough. We seem to get blamed for almost everything these days. From seemingly lack of sustainable efforts to poor packaging or just lousy product experiences, we seem to cop it all. However the reality is we cannot and should...

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January 21, 2008 In Designing Designers

How I Simplified My Life and Became a More Efficient Designer

What a Mess!

About 5 or 6 months ago, I decided that I needed to simplify my life. Due to a lot of diverse interests and that little bit of an overachiever in me, I have a bad habit of taking on and doing more than...

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January 15, 2008 In Designing Designers

Friend Wheel : A Visual Representation of How my Friends are Connected on Facebook

wheel-s.gif I'm always a sucker for cool graphical representations of data such as the Website Graph Generator. Thus one of my favourite reads is "Information Aesthetics", a website focusing on such data visualizations. Therefore I recently had a pleasant surprise when...

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January 10, 2008 In Designing Designers

Bill Gates says Good Bye

This year's 2008 CES Keynote speech is Bill Gates' twelfth and his last as a Microsoft Employee (he is still the Chairman though). He says:

"This will be my last keynote. As of July, I will no longer be a full-time Microsoft employee....

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December 5, 2007 In Designing Designers

Workout that Portfolio baby!

I have always felt and encouraged designers to update their trusty (probably rusty) portfolios at least every 6 months. While many designers feel that they should only update their portfolios when they are looking for new work or job hunting, I find there...

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November 23, 2007 In Designing Designers

Why don't people complain about Good Design?

I know I do, I always swear like a "Potty Mouth" when ever I stumble over any kind of great Industrial Design work. Even though I am from sunny Singapore, I rarely actually comment about the local design industry back home. Why? Well...

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November 16, 2007 In Designing Designers

Question of the week: What sort of Industrial Design Education should I take?

Our budding young Industrial Designer David is back this week with a new question on his education and training in Industrial Design. He asks:

If I were to take up a course such as Engineering/Industrial Design double degree or take something up like Product Design...

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October 29, 2007 In Designing Designers

Autumn in Nanjing

China is actually a wonderful place with many interesting things that shows its culture evolving as it finds a happy relationship between east and west. Enjoy the photos. Colorful lunch A lunch of stir fry vegetables and pork...

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October 13, 2007 In Designing Designers

Question of the week: How to move from Drawing to Designing?

This week's question is from David, and avid 11 grader looking to get into a career in design. Wow they start young these days don't they? He writes:

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September 21, 2007 In Designing Designers

How to be self critical with your Design Work?

You can look at this in another way, as one of my designer friends calls it "Don't Bull Sh*t yourself", if a work is bad it is bad. That leads to and another oldie but goodie or as what most call it "You Cant...

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September 12, 2007 In Designing Designers

Achieving a Constant state of Design Readiness

My former lecturer in design used to say that designers need to get into a state of readiness before they can become productive in design work or concept sketching. Some designers require more time, some require less. Some require going through fifty sketches,...

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September 5, 2007 In Designing Designers

Question of the week: Can a Design employee work off site?

This week's welcomed question comes from none other that Drew Kora:

"I mean to ask can a designer work from home AND BE PRODUCTIVE? And how might it affect the rest of the team?"
It is quite a difficult question as there are a lot of...

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August 15, 2007 In Designing Designers

The Most Basic and Probably the Best Design Tip Ever!

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...

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August 14, 2007 In Designing Designers

Question of the week: How do I Hire the Right Designer for me?

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....

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July 19, 2007 In Designing Designers

What are your Design Laws?

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...

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July 8, 2007 In Designing Designers

Visual Communication Principles in Design

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...

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