Michael Graves Its amazing that the Moleskine has manage to brand and associate themselves with the great talents of our time. Don't get me wrong as I think this is a good thing, but I wonder if this branding aspect has been taken too far.
I have been nursing this article since June 01, 2007. It was originally called "Who stole my design? A Primer for a Guerilla Design Strategy", I felt the context just did not seem to be comprehensive enough as it covered only the creation aspect
Congratulations, if you have just completed your design studies. You are finally qualified to begin your journey into the working world of design. Now that you have graduated, where do you intend to pursue your design career? More often than not, fresh design graduates
This post started as an interesting discussion in another post, when a Design Sojourn reader wondered why China suffers from this syndrome of copying product designs from the West. I'm no expert on this but having work with Designers and Vendors from China, as
No matter how good a designer we are, they are times when we face mental blocks that disrupt our design thinking. So in times like these, how can we then boost our creative juices? Here's another exciting post by our resident contributor py, helping me
One of the things about the future of Industrial Design that I've always been interested in, is the interplay or relationship between software and hardware interfaces, the pros and cons of each, as well as being a product designer, how we can give an object's
Aen, the guy who banged out the design of this site has an interesting write up of the theories behind the Japanese approach to design and aesthetics. Also called Wabi - Sabi (I know I had to re-read it after thinking it was Wasabi too), the
Updated: I cleared up a few statements and typos. Dan over at his Adaptive path blog, has written a interesting rant on the quality of graduates today. He bemoans the lost of thinking designers that can "think, make and do", and furthermore blames the schools,
A design and branding case study on 2 of the more prominent Singaporean consumer brands Creative and OSIM. We track their success, as well as comment on what they can do to overcome their current struggles in this very fast pace and fickle consumer
More often than not, fresh graduate designers have found themselves searching for a design job, unaware of what they are capable of. Hence, when it comes to interviews, they fall short of showing their unique design capabilities, which makes them stand out from the others.
Here at Design Sojourn I like to explore the extent of the Web 2.0 and its impact on industrial design. These days we are starting to see many products positioned as windows to such Web 2.0 environments. For example Nokia N-Series multimedia phones
It always nice as a designer working in industry to catch up with designers in academia. I always come away with an "academic shower" feeling refresh and inspired. Especially when it comes to innovations like dirt repelling paint and ergonomic chairs and my
Intrapreneurship or Internal Entrepreneurship is fast becoming a big buzz word as companies start to embrace design, innovation and creativity as a strategic competitive advantage. Using the viewpoint that "innovation begins with everybody" as a credo to beat the competition, companies like IBM, 3M and
Further our previous discussion on the merits of the ability to sketch and how sketches are used in studios, I now present a list of hints and tips that has helped me improve my drawing ability. Tips on how to be a sketch god! (or at
This by far, is one of the most frequent questions designers always ask of me. Furthermore, "I can't be a designer cos I can't draw" is also one of the most frequent reasons people give for not being a designer or any type. I myself had
So from Part 1 we really get a gist of the direction of where digital businesses are moving. If we use Crowdsourcing, which is a way to generate ideas and source for labor, and The Long Tail Effect which tells us that people buy niche products
Updated: New links were added and my usual poor grammar was corrected. A Web 2.0 marketing plan focusing on real tangible products, was really only made possible for our discussion today because of the pipeline pathway opened by the Internet. The Internet is amazing in the
Finally, I'm back to this last installment of this series. Phew! Took awhile, more than 6 months, but I finally got all my thoughts organized. Just in case do check out Part 1 and Part 2 first. In summary, the last two installments talked
I wrote this in 06, December, 2005. And with such topics it rears its ugly head again. I've updated and reposted it with ping backs to relevant blogs. The term "Design" is truly the in-thing theses days everybody is talking about it and how they
During my usual lunch trolling of my RSS feed from Tomorrow.sg, I am once again faced with the amazing ad-nausum argument of whether it is possible to teach creativity and its cousin entrepreneurship to an individual. This comes at a very important time as we are