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May 28, 2008 In Industrial Design

Ringshot: The Evolution of The Slingshot

Image from Flickr Sometimes there comes a design so simple and so clever that I just have to share it with all my readers! ...

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May 26, 2008 In Industrial Design

Where do Boom-boxes come from?

Design Exchange of Toronto, which calls itself "Canada’s national centre for the promotion of design," claims that the Project G stereo, which Clairtone Sound Corporation produced, was "conceptually original, technically and functionally perfect, and aesthetically superior." It was "the...

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May 16, 2008 In Design Leadership

Can we Crowdsource Great Designs?

I stumbled over an interview conducted in 1957 between Mike Wallace and Frank Lloyd Wright where he discussed his thoughts on the common man and designing for the common man....

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May 13, 2008 In Design Leadership

How best to Manage "Design"?

Wow a burst of link love and pointers from all my friends today seem to revolve around this theme. So I thought to compile it all right here in one place! ...

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May 7, 2008 In Industrial Design

Award Winning Dump Truck of the Future!

All images from HaiShang Design. (Click for a larger image)

It is about time someone designed one that has totally broken the traditional configuration of a Dump Truck! It is really...

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May 6, 2008 In Designing Designers

Life's Like That: Part 2

Image: Poop Hat from Jbox So where was I? Ah yes. On two separate occasions, I had a similar discussion with two designer friends. One of...

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May 1, 2008 In Design Leadership

Is Industrial Design Dead?

So csven and I were doing our usual "ping-pong" discussion on Twitter. This time we were talking about The Death of Industrial Design. Csven laments that there is a confusion on what an Industrial Designer does, as the world sees it as...

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April 30, 2008 In Design Leadership

Frog Design's Earth Day Presentation

In honor of Earth Day, Adam Richardson, Director of Product Strategy at Frog Design has shared a presentation on "Design Green Now". As Adam, mentions it does miss a little without the supporting talk, but it does give you an idea of what Frog is...

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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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April 14, 2008 In Design Process

An Exercise Born Out of Frustration

First of all, I like to apologize for the lack of my usual "insanely useful" design articles lately. I have been in the last couple of months really busy resettling back in Singapore. Not only that, work has been really busy as we...

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April 10, 2008 In Industrial Design

11 The Beautiful Game of Foosball

11_thebeautifulgame_intro_small.jpg Donn, a former student of mine, and an Intern at Gro Design recently sent me notice of a very cool foosball (link to what is foosball?) project he was part of. Finally someone is sitting up an taking notice!

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April 7, 2008 In Industrial Design

Philips "Design Probes" into our Future

In the same spirit as Visions of the Future Project, Philips generously shares with us their research findings of what our possible lifestyles could be in the era post 2020. Called Design Probes it is:

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April 3, 2008 In Industrial Design

A Cross-Pollination of Creative Ideas at Blueprint 2008

Blueprint 2008 Yesterday, at the height of the Singapore Fashion Festival, I was invited to view a wonderful fashion show that was unlike any other. Called Blueprint 2008 the show was a...

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March 21, 2008 In Design Leadership

Top 10 Ways to Nurture a Thriving Creative Culture

spark08.jpg From the recent SPARKCon, a creative conference for the Southern states in the US. One of the community discussions were the top 10 recommendations of how to build a creative scene in your area or, I dare say, in your...

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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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March 14, 2008 In Design Leadership

The Best "Products" Have Really Simple Strategies

There must be a gazillion websites out there on the internet, and subsequently thousands that aggregating or collecting the best stuff from it. The problem is, "product" offerings like Technorati, Plaxo life-streams, FriendFeeds, Digg, PopUrls, Design-Feeds, Design Float etc., all run information through you...

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March 13, 2008 In Industrial Design

Starting a Wee War in My Browser is a Sign of Things to Come!

weewar.comI've always been a huge fan of strategy games of all types. Board games, tabletop miniature war games and of course, war gaming on the computer. Some of my favourites have...

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March 12, 2008 In Design Leadership

The Future of Creativity and Design

creativitydesign.gif The image speaks for itself. Thanks David....

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March 11, 2008 In Industrial Design

How Well Designed is the MacBook Air?

macbook air wires...

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February 25, 2008 In Design Leadership

Everyone has Ideas, How You Execute them is What Matters

saplings Image by: Jane Fellow designer blogger KK has uncovered a great representation on the value of ideas in relation to a success of a business. Derek Sivers, in his post for O'Reilly, conceptualises an idea vs. execution formula, which...

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