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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Dear Bill,
Thanks for everything! You will be missed.
Warm Regards
Brian.
(Check out the memorial videos after the jump.)...
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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...
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...
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...
I really love how we can still find opportunities for innovation in the simple products we still use daily. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....