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May 7, 2014 In About Design Sojourn, Industrial Design

Next to the Skin : 8 Weeks, 10 Wearable Concept Designs and Everything Else in Between!

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I'm super excited to share that tomorrow marks the launch of one of the biggest projects we have led and worked on to date. In partnership with ETPL, we brought to...

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July 14, 2013 In Industrial Design

How Industrial Design has Changed in the Last 10 Years?

A great little video that accurately describes the changes the Industrial Design profession has gone through in the last 10 years. Notably how in the past a product's form was largely driven by the engineering components inside...

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July 12, 2013 In Industrial Design

Pointless to Treat the PC and Tablet as Separate Markets

The frame of tablets stealing PC market share might not make sense much longer. Even if it doesn’t soften the sting for fading makers of desktops and laptops, industry observers like Mikako Kitagawa, the Gartner analyst who worked on its report, are just waiting for...

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July 10, 2013 In Industrial Design

Samsung's Design Aesthetic is Minimal Organic

I don't make this kind of stuff up. According to Surface Magazine Asia:

Samsung's aesthetic motto, Minimal Organic, is all about simplicity and a focus on softer features. The applies to small, mobile products, just as much as larger hardware like TV or speakers.
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March 7, 2013 In Industrial Design

How to Make Silicone Moulds and Resin Cast Stuff

B5600SLC_a__b_550px_3 It has been awhile since I've shared some cool Industrial Design goodies. And since 2013 is my year of Industrial Design do check out these two awesome articles on how to make homemade silicone moulds and...

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November 15, 2012 In Articles

This is NOT the End of Apple

rotting study 2 Since the recent keynote by Tim Cook (October 2012), there has been a media furor on how it is going to be the end of Apple, or that Apple after Jobs...

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September 13, 2012 In Design Leadership

Bill Moggridge 1943 – 2012


Dear Bill, Thanks for everything! You will be missed. Warm Regards Brian.
(Check out the memorial videos after the jump.)...

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July 6, 2012 In Articles

Thoughts on the Nokia Lumia 900

Click on the image for a larger view. I've written before about how excited I am about the merger between Microsoft and Nokia. More so when the folks from Fleishman-Hillard kindly invited me to...

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July 3, 2012 In Industrial Design

Our Kickstarter Industrial Design Picks for Week 27

We have three picks for you this week that hopefully epitomizes what we think are the coolest Industrial Design projects on Kickstarter. We hope you enjoy reading this article as much as we did selecting these projects! If you are running a crowd funding program...

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May 22, 2012 In Industrial Design

Our Kickstarter Industrial Design Picks for Week 21

Design Sojourn was originally conceptualized to live on the confluence of the Internet and Industrial Design. As such, one of the biggest shakers to bubble up from this confluence is the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter. Kickstarter is changing the way we design and make...

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February 29, 2012 In Industrial Design

The Finger Friendly Keyring

I really love how we can still find opportunities for innovation in the simple products we still use daily. ...

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February 22, 2012 In Industrial Design

The new Porsche 911 (2012) is just Sublime!

Perhaps it is my advancing age, or just a mid life crisis, but I'm getting really turned on by the Porsche 911, especially the latest 2012 iteration. Despite many fans criticizing the designers for...

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July 26, 2011 In Articles

10 Essential Tips for Creating that Killer Portfolio

portfolio-tips It is actually a perfect time to update your portfolio! Not only are we somewhere in the middle of the year, we are right smack in the middle of summer and it’s blistering out there! Lazing...

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July 14, 2011 In Industrial Design

Vol Portable Speaker

hironao-tsuboi-vol-speaker01 The Vol portable speaker designed by Hironao Tsuboi is a work of beautiful precision crafted electronics that will appeal to any designer (or non-designer) music aficionado that grew up during the era of...

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May 5, 2011 In Articles

9 Lessons from a Design Entrepreneur

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...

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March 8, 2011 In Designing Designers

Back to Designing and Sketching on Traditional Mediums

Feng Zhu, Entertainment Design Guru and friend of Design Sojourn, recently released a really cool video filled with tips and techniques on designing with traditional mediums, i.e. pens, paper and sketchbooks. Remember those? Just kidding! With many designers now working with digital sketching tools...

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March 1, 2011 In Articles

Good Books on Design Sketching (Updated October 2011)

Good sketching skills are important in any design process, and something truly needed in the design industry today. While working in the design industry, I have seen many young designers give...

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February 22, 2011 In Articles

The Nokia and Microsoft Alliance is a Good Thing, Really!

I'm sure most of you have heard the news about the Nokia and Microsoft alliance. Nokia announced that it has decided to use the Windows Phone 7 as their primary Smartphone platform. Their...

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January 11, 2011 In Industrial Design

The Future of Digital Cameras, Showcased at CES 2011!

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...

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January 7, 2011 In Industrial Design

The Impressive Fling Game Controller

I'm actually rather impressed with the industrial design of the Fling game controller by Ten 1 Design. It is one of those products born from a beautiful fusion of design and engineering....

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