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Naoto Fukasawa: Without a Thought
2008-05-22 18:01:00
Now this guy on the right has to be one or my all time favorite Industrial Designers. Simply because he has been able to successfully combine his unique design philosophy with a very obvious sensitivity to manufacturing constraints. Something a lot of designers these days do not seem to be able to do ...
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Naoto Fukasawa: Without a Thought
2008-05-22 11:01:00
Now this guy on the right has to be one or my all time favorite Industrial Designers. Simply because he has been able to successfully combine his unique design philosophy with a very obvious sensitivity to manufacturing constraints. Something a lot of designers these days do not seem to be able to do well. He is truly, I dare say, a Designer's Designer.
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Jonathan Ive on Apple?s Industrial Design Strategy
2008-05-21 05:52:00
Claire Beale is one of the lucky few that has been granted a rare interview with Jonathan Ive, who, unless you have been under a rock in the past decade, is Apple 's senior vice-president of Industrial Design . You know, that guy responsible for the iMacs, iPods, and iPhones etc? Here it is with all the good parts and non design bits snipped off. The Bold bits are mine.
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Jonathan Ive on Apple?s Industrial Design Strategy
2008-05-20 22:52:00
Claire Beale is one of the lucky few that has been granted a rare interview with Jonathan Ive, who, unless you have been under a rock in the past decade, is Apple 's senior vice-president of Industrial Design . You know, that guy responsible for the iMacs, iPods, and iPhones etc? Here it is with all the good parts and non design bits snipped off. The Bold bits are mine.
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Nintendo Wii Crowdsourcing?
2008-05-20 11:31:00
I fired up my email today and low and behold, I received an official Nintendo press release of their launch of their Wii Ware Shop.
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Nintendo Wii Crowdsourcing?
2008-05-20 04:31:00
I fired up my email today and low and behold, I received an official Nintendo press release of their launch of their Wii Ware Shop.
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Can we Crowdsource Great Designs?
2008-05-16 11:09:00
I stumbled over an interview conducted in 1957 between Mike Wallace and Frank Lloyd Wright where he discussed his thoughts on the common man and designing for the common man.
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Can we Crowdsource Great Designs?
2008-05-16 04:09:00
I stumbled over an interview conducted in 1957 between Mike Wallace and Frank Lloyd Wright where he discussed his thoughts on the common man and designing for the common man.
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How best to Manage ?Design??
2008-05-13 06:21:00
Wow a burst of link love and pointers from all my friends today seem to revolve around this theme. So I thought to compile it all right here in one place!
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How best to Manage ?Design??
2008-05-12 23:21:00
Wow a burst of link love and pointers from all my friends today seem to revolve around this theme. So I thought to compile it all right here in one place!
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Give Credit where Credit is Due
2008-05-12 16:04:00
This is interesting. In the many portfolios I have seen, rarely have I seen a portfolio that clearly indicates if it was group work or a project done with a team. If fact, it happens so infrequently that I sit up and take notice when a portfolio actually has credits. In today's Internet environment the term "don't take a dump in your own backyard" is becoming more and more relevant as your "backyard" has become a lot bigger than you think.
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Give Credit where Credit is Due
2008-05-12 09:04:00
This is interesting. In the many portfolios I have seen, rarely have I seen a portfolio that clearly indicates if it was group work or a project done with a team. If fact, it happens so infrequently that I sit up and take notice when a portfolio actually has credits. In today's Internet environment the term "don't take a dump in your own backyard" is becoming more and more relevant as your "backyard" has become a lot bigger than you think.
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Stefan Sagmeister - Things I Have Learned in My Life so far
2008-05-08 12:48:00
This looks like it’s been out for awhile, but the Guru of Graphics has recently launched his book of wisdom that I’m sure will be a massive hit. I’m going to get it, at the very least for the “type candy”! Check it out at Amazon: Things I have learned in my life so far Via: ...
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Stefan Sagmeister - Things I Have Learned in My Life so far
2008-05-08 05:48:00
This looks like it's been out for awhile, but the Guru of Graphics has recently launched his book of wisdom that I'm sure will be a massive hit. I'm going to get it, at the very least for the "type candy"!
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Award Winning Dump Truck of the Future!
2008-05-07 04:52:00
All images from HaiShang Design. (Click for a larger image) It is about time someone designed one that has totally broken the traditional configuration of a Dump Truck ! It is really impressive how this designer re-thought how one would operate, and then used that insight to designed a break-through product. Absolutely amazing concept, and sure sign of the amazing pedigree of Chinese designers to come.
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Award Winning Dump Truck of the Future!
2008-05-06 21:52:00
All images from HaiShang Design. (Click for a larger image) It is about time someone designed one that has totally broken the traditional configuration of a Dump Truck ! It is really impressive how this designer re-thought how one would operate, and then used that insight to designed a break-through product. Absolutely amazing concept, and sure sign of the amazing pedigree of Chinese designers to come.
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Life?s Like That: Part 2
2008-05-06 05:58:00
Image: Poop Hat from Jbox So where was I? Ah yes. On two separate occasions, I had a similar discussion with two designer friends. One of which was a very senior designer almost two decades older than I. We were discussing how designers have "Use by Dates" and how we all will eventually get there. This is because the older designers would eventually get surpassed by new blood that has access to new training, technologies, skills and thinking. So I pondered: "How can designers remain relevant in today's fast pace design world?"
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Life?s Like That: Part 2
2008-05-05 22:58:00
Image: Poop Hat from Jbox So where was I? Ah yes. On two separate occasions, I had a similar discussion with two designer friends. One of which was a very senior designer almost two decades older than I. We were discussing how designers have "Use by Dates" and how we all will eventually get there. This is because the older designers would eventually get surpassed by new blood that has access to new training, technologies, skills and thinking. So I pondered: "How can designers remain relevant in today's fast pace design world?"
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Is Industrial Design Dead?
2008-05-01 04:37:00
So csven and I were doing our usual "ping-pong" discussion on Twitter. This time we were talking about The Death of Industrial Design . Csven laments that there is a confusion on what an Industrial Design er does, as the world sees it as styling and making beautiful things. Basically it looks like we just do shallow stuff. (Check out the post for more background information.) Perhaps in my view, has the definition of Industrial Design changed? Perhaps we should not be called Industrial Designers? If so what should we be called?
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Is Industrial Design Dead?
2008-04-30 21:37:00
So csven and I were doing our usual "ping-pong" discussion on Twitter. This time we were talking about The Death of Industrial Design . Csven laments that there is a confusion on what an Industrial Design er does, as the world sees it as styling and making beautiful things. Basically it looks like we just do shallow stuff. (Check out the post for more background information.) Perhaps in my view, has the definition of Industrial Design changed? Perhaps we should not be called Industrial Designers? If so what should we be called?
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Frog Design?s Earth Day Presentation
2008-04-29 18:01:00
In honor of Earth Day, Adam Richardson, Director of Product Strategy at Frog Design has shared a presentation on "Design Green Now". As Adam, mentions it does miss a little without the supporting talk, but it does give you an idea of what Frog is doing to save the earth. | View | Upload your own I would suggest that you actually view it in full screen size, so that you can make out some of the more interesting details in the presentation. Check it out at Slideshare.
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Frog Design?s Earth Day Presentation
2008-04-29 11:01:00
In honor of Earth Day, Adam Richardson, Director of Product Strategy at Frog Design has shared a presentation on "Design Green Now". As Adam, mentions it does miss a little without the supporting talk, but it does give you an idea of what Frog is doing to save the earth. | View | Upload your own I would suggest that you actually view it in full screen size, so that you can make out some of the more interesting details in the presentation. Check it out at Slideshare.
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Life?s Like That: Part 1
2008-04-28 12:06:00
It has been awhile since I wrote a post that adequately fits into my “Designer Musings” category. In the start-up days of this blog, more than 2 years ago, I had defined this category as ?My personal reflection and opinion on Design and the Design Industry?. So as I have not posted in ...
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Life?s Like That: Part 1
2008-04-28 05:06:00
It has been awhile since I wrote a post that adequately fits into my "Designer Musings" category. In the start-up days of this blog, more than 2 years ago, I had defined this category as ?My personal reflection and opinion on Design and the Design Industry?. So as I have not posted in a while I thought that this would be a good time to do some ?Designer Musings.?
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Why Sh*T matters in Design. What?
2008-04-21 05:46:00
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 them to design the perfect pooper-scooper.
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New Era Marketing is all about Joining the Conversation
2008-04-16 06:26:00
One of my big interests as a Strategic Designer, is in the field of marketing, advertising and branding. In particular this whole buzz about new media and its impact on today's consumers. This is also one of the reason why I started this blog in the first place. I always believe, the best way to find out about something is to do it. From my stand point as a designer, I have always found the consumer behavior part of marketing most intriguing and a very important aspect of the profession of Industrial Design. It is unfortunate that it is not stressed enough in schools in favor of the more engineering requirements. (Which is also equally important.) Daily, I lament on how it is now getting harder to design products that consumers want. The Internet has influenced how we buy things, and as a result, consumers as we know it have change. Consumers are no fools, and we cannot treat them as such, for example by selling them inferior products tempered by price. Armed with the k...
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An Exercise Born Out of Frustration
2008-04-14 06:09:00
First of all, I like to apologize for the lack of my usual "insanely useful" design articles lately. I have been in the last couple of months really busy resettling back in Singapore. Not only that, work has been really busy as we have kicked off a good year of product development. Lastly as the title of this post alludes to, I have been working on something that I would like to give back to the Design Industry that I love so much.
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11 The Beautiful Game of Foosball
2008-04-10 04:10:00
Donn, a former student of mine, and an Intern at Gro Design recently sent me notice of a very cool foosball (link to what is foosball?) project he was part of. Finally someone is sitting up an taking notice!
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Philips ?Design Probes? into our Future
2008-04-06 18:01:00
In the same spirit as Visions of the Future Project, Philips generously shares with us their research findings of what our possible lifestyles could be in the era post 2020. Called Design Probes it is: …a dedicated ‘far-future’ research initiative to track trends and developments that may ultimately evolve into mainstream issues that have a ...
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Iconic photographs recreated in Lego
2008-04-05 11:30:00
Photographer Mike Stimpson has recreated some of the most famous photographs of the 20th century. Very interesting as he managed to match the mood but injected a little of his own creativity and wit into them. Lunch Atop a Skyscraper
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