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Are you Reading, Thinking or Doing?
2008-12-09 14:59:00 We can?t get good at something solely by reading about it. And we?ll never make giant leaps in any endeavor by treating it like a snack food that we munch on whenever we?re getting bored. You get good at something by doing it repeatedly. And by listening to specific criticism from people who are already ... More About: Reading , Creativity , Thinking
Kenya Hara on ?Designing Design?
2008-12-08 13:41:00 As part of Google’s Authors@Google, Kenya Hara discusses his awesome book “Design ing Design” and his new book “White”. Warning, it runs for 53 mins and is about 78 MB! If you have not already get the book here on Amazon: Designing Design - Kenya Hara Designer Kenya Hara visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters ...
Acquisition of Industrial Design Companies, a Good Thing!
2008-12-05 11:23:00 I received a few blips of news in my inbox telling me that HTC has purchased 100% of One & Company Design Inc for $USD 4.82 Million in Cash. One & Company Design was involved in the Touch Diamond series of HTC Smart Phones in 2006. I am always excited to hear of such ... More About: Companies , Industrial , Good , Industrial Design
TED Talks: The powerful link between creativity and play by Tim Brown
2008-12-04 02:28:00 If you cant see the player please visit the original site here. At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play — with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn’t). I love the idea of creating an environment where people felt ... More About: Link , Creativity
iPhone vs E71: What a Tough Choice?
2008-12-02 16:01:00 What started with a number of Plurks and Twitter messages, snowballed into what you see above. I now have in my hands a very tasty E71 Steel White which I shamelessly lined up next to my equally tasty white iPhone 16GB! Alright I know you want details. So here it goes! I Plurked ... More About: Iphone , Choice , Tough
Behold The Ocarina! The First Musical Instrument for the iPhone.
2008-12-01 18:33:00 Check out this amazing iPhone application, called Ocarina, that has currently got all of us in stitches or in awe! I have come across Guitar and Drum applications or simulations for the iPhone, but this has to take the cake! To get it to work, the program requires you to blow into the ... More About: Musical , Iphone , Instrument , Behold
Asian Companies able to Embrace Design as a Business Strategy? (Part 2)
2008-11-30 15:50:00 Originally Published July 09, 2006, edited and updated. It is not necessary, but if you are interested in the background of this article, do read Part 1 first. Here are some strategies I have found useful and successful in managing and fostering design as a business strategy in an organization. It should not matter if you ... More About: Business , Companies , Design , Strategy , Asian
Is a Sketchbook, Drawing Tablet or Tablet PC best for my design work?
2008-11-26 17:01:00 In 2006 I had the opportunity to have, in my possession, a Drawing Tablet and Tablet PC. Together with my Sketchbook , I published a 5 part series on the Pros and Cons of using a Sketchbook, Drawing Tablet and Tablet PC for your concept sketching or design work. Here are the 5 parts, ... More About: Design , Work
China?s efforts in Shaping their Design Agenda
2008-11-26 05:44:00 Great write up by the people at Core 77 on how the “The Best Design Policies Are Local” which includes a great collection of speakers reflecting on their efforts of Design in their home countries. What struck me was the presentation by Song Weizu and how China is using design to shape the growth ... More About: Agenda
Can you Measure the Success of your Designs or Ideas?
2008-11-25 15:00:00 Edit 1: Originally published 08 June, 2006. Edited and updated. Can you actually quantify something so subjective and intangible as a design or an Idea? Can it then be used as a foundation to tell you if its a good design/idea or not? As someone who base most of my decisions on a “gut” feel ... More About: Ideas , Business , Success , Business Management , Designs
The Design Process Simplifed
2008-11-23 08:00:00 Post originally published on May 27, 2006. Edit 1: Updated with new written copy, updated links and images. Squiggle by Damien Newman Years ago…kidding, about 2 years ago I published this awesome little representation of the design process created by Damien Newman from Central Office of Design . Lovingly called the “Squiggle”, it seems to have found a ... More About: Process , Business Management
The Next Industrial Design Evolution
2008-11-21 01:06:00 You start with the light blue frame and move towards the dark blue frame which represents a completed product. I have been pondering over the new Macbook Pro’s “Unibody”, with my thoughts often sliding from sheer audacity of execution, to disbelieve, to the wonderment of who got threaten at gun point, and then finally going back ... More About: Design , Evolution , Industrial , Industrial Design
Monocle video podcasts on iTunes
2008-11-19 07:17:00 Being the Multi-disciplinary sort of designer, I was highly impressed with Monocle when I picked it up at one of my better newsstands early last year. Therefore I was very please to discover Monocle as a video podcast on iTunes and free to boot! Produced with equal quality and refinement as the magazine, ... More About: Video , Podcasts , Itunes
10 Tips on landing you an Industrial Design Job
2008-11-17 15:30:00 Originally published on 20 April, 2006. Edit 1: Updated 25 Aug 2007 Edit 2: Updated 16 Nov 2008. This has to be one of the “classics” here at Design Sojourn, and a post that got me noticed in the blogosphere! Here it is updated again for 2008! Actually this post was way overdue for an ... More About: Tips , Industrial , Industrial Design , Landing
A Good Design Makes your Mind BLINK!
2008-11-12 15:00:00 (This post was updated and edited. The original was published on the 19 Dec, 2005!) John Maeda, formerly from MIT Media Labs, and now RISD President, spoke about how “good art makes our mind blink”. This is so true, and if we further extrapolate this, I would say “good design makes our mind blink”. ... More About: Design , Mind , Good , Blink
It is Design Sojourn?s 3rd Birthday!
2008-11-10 16:29:00 Image: Happy 3rd Birthday by Laura-Beth Wow I almost missed it yet again! Yesterday, November 09, was Design Sojourn’s 3rd birthday. It has been 3 great years of blogging and to mark this event it I have been thinking about what I should do to celebrate it with you dear reader. Oh before I ...
Adobe Photoshop Print Ad: ?as real as it gets?
2008-11-09 14:14:00 “As real as it gets” by advertising firm, Bates 141 Jakarta. A very clever representation of, I dare say, one of our design software’s most recognizable user interface. Even the tag line is great. I love it! Check out their production process and the full size (obviously photoshopped) final print image on their ... More About: Photoshop , Adobe , Print , Adobe Photoshop , Real
Design Thinking or just Thinking?
2008-11-04 15:49:00 Edit 1: Tim is from Frog! Sorry Tim! Edit 2: Completely forgot to highlight, original seed concept “Just Plain Old Thinking ” is from csven of rebang. Sorry csven. Edit 3: Lesson: Blog when awake! Duh! Tim Leberecht, Frog Design ’s VP of Marketing, has written about Design Thinking and how it is the new Marketing “Buzzword”. He ...
Has Design Evolved since Papanek?
2008-10-28 14:24:00 Such legendary negativity. There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them. And possibly only one profession is phonier. Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don?t need, with money they don?t have, in order to impress others who don?t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence ... More About: Design
Sketch your NURBS Model with ILOVESKETCH!
2008-10-27 15:07:00 I think this would have done the rounds in the design blogosphere by this time. Sorry, it is a little late as I completely forgot to post it. But here it is, and all I can say is I WANT THIS! ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo. ILOVESketch is a 3D curve sketching system that ... More About: Model
A Designer?s Secret Weapon: Active Listening
2008-10-23 17:48:00 Image Source: Listen to ME! One of the key skills I noticed great designers have is the ability to engage in Active Listening . I was lucky. I managed to pick up this skill 6-7 years ago in a training seminar and it has been vital in helping my access situations quickly, make good decisions, ... More About: Secret , Designer , Weapon
A Good Strategy is like a Good Movie
2008-10-22 16:05:00 The title of this quick post came up in a recent discussion I had with a business partner. After further reflection, I find this very true. It is applicable to all forms of strategy including design. So let me reword this: A good design strategy is like a good movie. A beautiful ... More About: Movie , Strategy , Good
100 Push ups : Week 3, 4 and 5!
2008-10-20 17:46:00 Wow! That was quick, according to the program, I should be now into my 6th and final week. The last week before the big 100 push-ups attempt! The reps in week 3 and 4 were getting really tough. I was having a lot of trouble getting through all the sets. ... More About: Fitness , Week , Push
Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty (and Design)
2008-10-14 18:01:00 October 15, is Blog Action Day 2008 ! This is where bloggers from around the world get together to talk about a common theme or topic. This year’s topic is about Poverty , and as Design Sojourn is a design blog, it will be about Poverty and Design. I’ve decided to do something different, rather than ...
10 Useful Cost Saving Design Strategies for these Troubled Times
2008-10-13 17:16:00 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 “doom and gloom” of the global impact from the US Sub-Prime Crises. With ... More About: Design , Strategies , Cost , Times , Troubled
?Flatshare? wins Electrolux Design Lab 2008
2008-10-11 16:49:00 I don’t really do this sort of thing often, but check out this worthy forehead slapping idea that really makes one say “why did I not think of that”? Stefan Buchberger, from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, has been chosen winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2008 competition for inventing Flatshare. Flatshare is a ... More About: Industrial Design , Wins
More Stefan on TED
2008-10-06 18:01:00 Last time I wrote about Stefan’s book and how I bought one. Here he is again, in a short blurb on TED, where he runs through some of the things he has learn in his life so far. Oh, a kind person has compiled what Stefan has learn in a nice little cheat sheet that ... More About: Creativity
Industrial Design and The Branding Mad Men
2008-10-05 12:26:00 It’s about time, the (M)Ad Men figured that out. Well they sort of did before and there always been Industrial Design ers in advertising and branding. But much of the focus then was on packaging design, and Industrial Design was often seen as nothing more than skinning. Core77 has a pretty good article called “Stepmothers ... More About: Branding
These Designers Have a Hard Time!
2008-10-04 03:52:00 It is interesting how these two different products are packaged in such similar form factors. The only differentiating factor seems to be the graphics. Right? Some things to think about… 1) Why does the package on the left cost $80 and the one on the right $12? 2) Why do we implicitly know that the ... More About: Time , Designers , Hard
Better Time to Market with Rapid Manufacturing
More articles from this author:2008-10-02 16:45:00 We have an interesting Design Article contribution this week by Chris Nobles, an Industrial Designer working for HJC Design in the UK. He write today about Rapid Manufacturing and its impact on our product development process. A great read with lots of technical points, positives and negatives for our consideration should we need ... More About: Market , Time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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