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April 19, 2012 In Designing Designers

The Journey to Becoming a Designer is Never Easy

Design Juices recently published an interview with Michael DiTullo, a designer I greatly respect, where he shares his insights and challenges he faced to get to where he is today, namely a Creative Director at Frog. (Actually it seems he is now the Chief...

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November 1, 2010 In Designing Designers

Inspiration is for Amateurs

Chuck Close from Wisdom said:

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of...

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October 29, 2010 In Design Process

When Designing: Focus on Methods, Not Process

Bryan over at the ZURBlog wrote that designers should focus on methods, not process.

At a glance, method and process may seem like the same thing, but a closer look reveals their distinct differences. A method is a how you do something, while process is putting...

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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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March 23, 2010 In About Design Sojourn, Designing Designers

Come to the Designing Designers Forum?

Edit: Due to unforeseen circumstances this presentation has been postpone to 23 April 2010. Designing Designers Click for a larger image! Most long time followers of Design Sojourn will remember I use to blog...

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November 18, 2009 In Design Leadership

How Japanese Culture influences their Designs

I stumbled over a really interesting interview of Kenya Hara by Oliver Reichenstein from iA or information architects. This interview was part of a New York Times feature on a new fad in the US, making Japanese Bento boxes. Kenya explains...

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October 10, 2009 In Designing Designers

What happen to my Workspace?

Macbook 13 inch and Wacom 9x12 (A4) Intuos 3 Click image for a larger view! Thought I might share a quick snap of the workspace that I use for...

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December 8, 2008 In Design Leadership

Kenya Hara on "Designing Design"

As part of Google's Authors@Google, Kenya Hara discusses his awesome book "Designing Design" and his new book "White". Warning, it runs for 53 mins and is about 78 MB! If you have not already get the book here on Amazon: Designing Design - Kenya Hara Designer Kenya...

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August 21, 2008 In Design Leadership

Never Let Your Client do Design for You

Designers often complain about Clients that don’t know anything about design and how they have to spend more time educating them. On the flip side, working with well informed and design savvy Clients can be a headache as well. One thing the latter tends to...

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May 31, 2007 In Industrial Design

Designing for Overcoming Information Overload

Check out Hackzine's video blog on how this (apparently famous in his field) blogger named Scoble reads 622 Feeds a day. It’s interesting to see in today's internet environment, the deeply wired net surfer has to deal with the fact the blogs and post...

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