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July 21, 2010 In Industrial Design

Dangerous Classic Toys We Love!

ClipGun
Oh the nostalgia! Designer Shira Nahon designed this range of classic toy weapons all in the name of fun! Aptly called "Piu Piu", it is a nod towards the sounds we make when we...

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July 20, 2010 In Design Leadership

This Huge Humanitarian Design Debate is a Moot Point

I have been reading, with a lot of amusement, the huge humanitarian debate that is raging across the internet. You would have probably heard or read about it but here is a quick summary if you have not. Bruce Nussbaum starts the opening volley with...

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July 15, 2010 In Spaces for Ideas

Spaces for Ideas: New Additions to the Family!

When I started developing the Expandable Sketchbook it was meant as a fun personal design exercise that was an outlet for my passion for sketchbooks and design. What I did not expect was the...

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July 10, 2010 In Industrial Design

Holga D Digital Camera Concept

It is really nice to see designers mature in their profession! Do check out, long time Design Sojourn friend, Saikat Biswas' awesome Holga D digital camera concept. You would probably have seen it,...

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July 9, 2010 In Articles, Design Leadership

How Can We Fix the Problems of Design Thinking?

This article has actually been sitting as a draft for a few months now. I knew I wanted to write a follow up to the popular (49 comments at the time of writing!) Design Thinking is Killing Creativity, however I held off, as...

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July 7, 2010 In Design Leadership

How Steve Jobs turned Apple around in 1997

This speech probably took a lot of guts to deliver to the Apple faithful, and not surprisingly much of it was followed with of boos and jeers. However the thing to note...

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July 6, 2010 In Design Leadership

We should Ban the Word Innovation

Scott Berkun, author of "The Myths of Innovation", shares on the Economist why we should all ban the word innovation. He writes:

Einstein, Ford, Picasso and Edison rarely said the word innovation and neither should you. Every Fortune 500 crowd I've said this to...

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July 6, 2010 In Industrial Design

Old School Design Methods and the Value of Craft in Our Digital World

You probably would have read a very rare Jonathan Ive interview on Core 77 by now. If you have not, do check it out? I would say a lot of the interview was...

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June 28, 2010 In Design Leadership

Strategy's Golden Rule

Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab, writes:

What your fiercest rival does badly, do incredibly well.
It makes so perfect sense, that it is painful when people don't seem to follow it. Anyone who is serious about winning starts of by looking at how...

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June 22, 2010 In Industrial Design

A Moleskine Cover for your Kindle?

Check out this new Moleskine sketchbook! Oops, no, it’s a Moleskine cover for your Kindle. And if the reports are true, there is a Moleskine cover for your iPad in the works. The...

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June 22, 2010 In About Design Sojourn, Design Process

A New Category at Design Sojourn: Design Process

A short note today. During my usual blog maintenance, I've decided to create a new category called Design Process. This category is specifically meant as a place for you to locate design process discussions and visualizations that can help you better under our complex design...

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June 18, 2010 In Design Process, Designing Designers, Industrial Design

Rethinking the Hairdryer

Ariane Prin, a Masters student at RCA, shares her thinking and conceptual process behind her Air Hair Project: hair dryer for hairdressers. ...

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June 17, 2010 In Industrial Design

IDEO and Steelcase Unveils Schooldesk of the Future

Steelcase, together with IDEO, has launched the Node Chair, an awesome seating solution that either solves or fulfills a number of needs found in a common school environment. ...

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June 2, 2010 In About Design Sojourn

Wow, That was a Big Gap!

A 25-day gap to be exact. 25 days from my previous post to my most recent few. Not to mention that I have been tardy in publishing this post. So what I wanted...

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May 29, 2010 In Industrial Design

OLPC's XO-3 Prototype Tablet Coming in 2010

Nicholas Negroponte's 3rd Generation OLPC (not surprisingly a table PC) is on the way with a prototype out this year and a product launch at CES 2011. The target retail...

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May 4, 2010 In Design Leadership, Industrial Design

Microsoft Kin is User Centered Innovation at its Best

I’m sure most of you have heard of the Microsoft Kin by now. Furthermore you would probably have moaned about how this product lacked innovation and how it was a failure in strategy to...

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April 30, 2010 In Designing Designers

Creativity is How Well You Recycle it!

Bill Buxton reflects:

As a person who tries to be creative and have new ideas, it's interesting to be reminded of how few ideas I actually have. Could it be that the two main skills and acts of creativity are (a) forget what you said before,...

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April 29, 2010 In Industrial Design

Universal Packaging System Concept

This packaging concept by Patrick Sung might force postal organizations to review their methods of calculating shipping costs as you can now save on empty air space. The only disadvantage is you lose the stacking...

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April 29, 2010 In Designing Designers

2 Key Elements that Make Up the Ability to Draw

Entertainment designer Feng Zhu writes:

There are two parts to drawing. One is the technical execution of drawing itself – a pure mechanical skill. This is the hand-eye-brain coordination which can be trained and perfected over time. For example, by drawing something everyday in a sketchbook...

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April 28, 2010 In About Design Sojourn, Design Leadership

Time for Designers to get Back to Basics!

Tools for Sketching Image by Plindberg I would like to take a moment from my daily grind to share something that I have been considering for a long time now. I seem to be doing a lot of that lately eh? Fellow designers,...

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