I finally got the time today to sit down and really think about the impact of these troubled times. It has been a very hectic month since I officially started my new role, as a result, I really only hovered around the global impact from
It's about time, the (M)Ad Men figured that out. Well they sort of did before and there always been Industrial Designers in advertising and branding. But much of the focus then was on packaging design, and Industrial Design was often seen as nothing
Image source: Insight One of the key factors I noticed in any successful product and/or design, was that the product's designer had some kind of critical insight. It is this "ah-hah!", this "Wow!", this "Eureka" moment that can turn any design into a great one. It
I have always liked to use the term "Strategy Visualization" as an activity for designers to solidify, by design, a company's business strategy. So recently, I was having a chat with my boss about getting some "visualizations" done for a design strategy by our client.
A couple of months ago we had an open call for guest bloggers, we had a few responses with some great ideas. This week's Design Article, written by MB, was one of them. MB has written a very powerful article on a side of design
Dear Designers, Where do you Think? What level should we be playing at? What sort of conversations should we be having? Think about it? Sincerely, DT
In my opinion, design in China has leapfrogged ahead faster than the West did. But have they arrived? I recently stumbled over a interesting interview, "Taking the Pulse of Chinese Design" with Jia Wei the founder of LKK Design. Here are some of the good bits. Q:
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
So last week, I got issued with a work laptop. It was a 12" Screen Dell Latitude D430 no bigger than my A4 sketchbook. It is a pretty decent, abet slow, system with an Intel Core 2, 1.2 GHz with 2 GB of
I have been invited to conduct a Workshop called "Design for Life" at the Invent Singapore Conference 2008 this Saturday 16 Aug 2008 at 2pm and also at 4pm. Invent Singapore is a convention like no other, where innovators, inventors and the business community come together
This little video excerpt by Allan Chochinov (of Core77 fame), during his presentation at the PSFK Conference New York 08, talks about his observations he made of his students after he asks
Alec Saunders has written a great article on Nokia's mobile phone product strategy. While the article just touches on Industrial Design, he gives good examples on how product strategies, combined with a good understanding of the consumer, is used to drive
Motus Games, a subsidiary of Motus Corporation, has developed the Darwin Controller of which they tout is the future of Motion Based Entertainment, and the natural evolution of the Wii Controller. Using their R&D experience in developing motion sensing
Early this year I wrote about the Top 5 consumer trends to watch for 2007 and how it relates to Industrial Design. Following tradition, here we go again for 2008, and this time it is a little earlier and hopefully will help all
"There is a design revolution, but nobody really knows what it is" ~ Karim Rashid I was reminded of this quote Karim made at the International Design Forum in Singapore a few years back while I was having an interesting debate with long-time Design Sojourn reader
The Strategy Paradox is an interesting book written by Michael Raynor on why certain strategies adopted by certain companies are successful and why some are not. Interesting simply because it directly reflects what I am facing in my industry. However the replies he
Sorry for the slight slow down in the blog posts recently as it has been very busy for me working late at my day job in the last couple of weeks. It is the time of year where companies worry about what they are