The CEO! Bruce Nussbaum, the person that I see playing an important role in bridging the gap between design/innovation and business, offers up his "Top Ten Innovation Mistakes". While a good read in general, I find his first point is by far the most
Image Source: Newsweek via engadget
The latest buzz on the Internet comes in the form of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader. I had first initially dismissed it as another e-book reader, but with time it has come to
Image: Colador 2 by Josep Altarriba
Fellow designer blogger csven has written a great article on his observations on the state of Intellectual property and its future impact on Design and of cause Industrial Design as well.
Here is an excerpt:
At some
Last night I, like many people in Australia and around the world, switched off my TV in sadness. England beat my beloved Australian Wallabies 12-10. While I sympathised with the Australia team, I can't help admire the English team's game strategy. The
Oh Christmas is fast approaching and I am getting fat. I'm currently stressed and when I'm stressed I eat, and so I get fat, all before Christmas comes. I should exercise instead but I don't and I digress. Christmas traditionally is the best time
Another fantastic Design Sojourn Reader Question! This week its by Fred from Switzerland. He writes: Hello, I am an avid reader of your blog. I like it's broad scope and honest opinions. I also like beautiful well-designed products. Which brings me to my question about industrial design.
Wow, this competition totally went under my radar. I would not have caught wind of this if I did not get my usual dose of virtual goodness at rebang. In fact it was his 10th post in his RSS feed and probably would
Jan Chipchase's latest presentation from his work at Nokia that focuses on Design Research. It was presented at Nokia Connection 2007. Via: Small Surfaces
The Business Week design innovation section is fast becoming one of my favourite reads (Just ignore the blogs!). Recently they featured the strategic redesign of a computer mouse for Kensington Technology Group. More on my thoughts after the jump. Focus on Emotion Having product designers
I have always been a big fan of Oakley sunglasses since a very good designer friend (a hard core collector) got me into it. However just today an interesting cosmic convergence happened and I had to write about it. Firstly I recently after much deliberation
Welcome to part 2 of my coverage of the CeBit Australia 2007. If you have not already, do have a look at part 1 first. In this post we take a look at the rest of the show and some of my noted
Unfortunately I am not so lucky. That lucky person that got his hands on one is Paul Stamatiou. Ah what I would have to give to own one or even the experience of playing around with one. I have written a lot
Edit: This does not apply to ALL designers, but it does apply to some that I have met and spoke too, I have also fixed some typos and cleared up some statements. Managing designers is not easy, some are quiet, some rant and rave, and
No they don’t suck, but my wife might say otherwise with me! Bruce Nussbaum, of Business Week fame, decided that “designers suck” during his recent presentation at Parsons New School of Design. What started as a NextD email me asking what I thought about this
A cool name of a fascinating site on the web's most anticipated Web 2.0 applications based on who has bookmarked it on Del.icio.us (god that is a web address I can never remember). The Museum of Modern Betas has a nice list of who and what
A design and branding case study on 2 of the more prominent Singaporean consumer brands Creative and OSIM. We track their success, as well as comment on what they can do to overcome their current struggles in this very fast pace and fickle consumer
Here at Design Sojourn I like to explore the extent of the Web 2.0 and its impact on industrial design. These days we are starting to see many products positioned as windows to such Web 2.0 environments. For example Nokia N-Series multimedia phones
Something that has always been a career hazard for a designer is being out in front, absorbing information, and then synthesizing to predict what the next big consumer trends are. Trendwatching.com is a great site that does a lot of this data gathering work for you
It always nice as a designer working in industry to catch up with designers in academia. I always come away with an "academic shower" feeling refresh and inspired. Especially when it comes to innovations like dirt repelling paint and ergonomic chairs and my