If you have been working from home the past year or so, you are not alone! As you know, since the Covid-19 pandemic erupted, remote working has started to become a norm (due to safe management measures to mitigate the risk of wide-spreading the virus). You
Picasso said: "Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal".
This controversial quote is more relevant than ever in today's design industry. We now live in a world where the
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
Bradley Derry (at Fuel Your Product Design) ran a really nice interview with Chris Bangle on what makes a good design leader. It is really good to hear from Chris, a friend of Design Sojourn, who has been somewhat quiet of late. <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24080982?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="520"
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.
One of the problems of Design Thinking is that it has inherited some of the bad habits of the Business mindset. In particular the need for repeatability and for research data to help justify any design decision the organization makes. Frog Design's Ben McAllister
Some time ago (July 14, 2009 to be exact) I wrote an article encouraging designers to walk the entrepreneurial path on their own by bringing some of their own creations to the market. My article "Sometimes Designers need to Walk the Path on
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
Sometime in 2006, I decided that if I were going to be designing commercially successful products and strategies, I would need to know what it is really like to run a business, a business that would
Check out this awesome digital camera showcased at CES 2011. It has a huge viewfinder display (5" AMOLED, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels) on its slim camera body that seconds
If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before? ~ Francis Ford Coppola
Good design and designers everywhere, just browse the Internet and you will see. From the comfort of your laptop you can consume the hottest cars, furniture, digital cameras, laptops or mobile phones etc. Sure there are some great designs, but the rest of the majority
As designer Matt Jones says, "don't keep calm and carry on", we should instead:
I’m surprised to see two similar designs have won the 2010 iF Concept Award. The Easy Needle (left) and the Ppin Needle (right) were both created by students from Zhejiang University
Christmas comes early for all Design Sojourn readers! It is indeed the season of giving, but more on that
Forget Black Friday, if you are reading this, it is now time for the Spaces for Ideas Cyber Monday Sale! Well at least in my timezone it is (+8 GMT).
It has been far too long since I have written an update on this project. I have been so caught up in setting up and running Design Sojourn Consulting that my own produced (brand managed)
What a nice little pencil hack for workshop junkies!
I'm sure most of you would have probably heard of Scott Wilson's little entrepreneurship adventure on Kickstarter, the TikTok and LunaTik iPod Nano watch? FastCo Design, then Cool Hunting and Gizmodo picked up the project