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Over the last few days, I conducted a whirlwind tour of the different events and exhibitions at the Singapore Design Festival 2009. There were some interesting work exhibited that reaffirmed my faith in the quality of designers or designs from the region. Some of the more notable exhibitions in...
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I finally got the pleasure to meet up with Michelle Berryman in person. I got know Michelle as a moderator at Core77 and also follow her closely on Twitter (@micberryman). Many Design Sojourn readers from the US would probably recognize her as the former president of the IDSA. During the day s...
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I manage to get an opportunity to have a quick to chat with Pernilla Johansson. She is the Asia-pacific Design Director of Electrolux and is based here in Singapore. In the spirit of designing the future in 2050, I asked her about “The Future of Food Preparation”.Oh by the way when s...
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As promised here are some of the highlights of Day 1 of the Icsid Design Congress 2009. I’ve summarized all the best points and significant comments. Unfortunately, I won’t cover all the content as it will just be too much. Also, I’ve kept the comments short and in point form, as I...
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Our next little chat is with Bruce Nussbaum, former editor at Business Week, advocate of Design Thinking, and provocateur of both designers and businesses. I was curious to find out if he felt that design thinking had evolved in the 2 years since he started blogging (or talking) about it. Here&...
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Throughout this Icsid congress (and maybe after), I will be running a special podcast series where I will conduct a very casual 5 minutes “unplugged” session with a prominent design professional and ask him or her a question related to a pressing concern in design or something to do w...
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As mentioned in a recent post I will be taking part and covering the Icsid Congress 09 here on Design Sojourn. What’s even better, is that I will also be covering the Singapore Design Festival, where I will try to go to as many events as possible! Please don’t forget to bookmark thi...
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I’m a man who loves his folders. Every since I started school, I always had a little fetish for those Japanese made frosted Polypropylene folders, especially those with refillable pages. I’m not sure why, but I guess it was probably the unusually silky but rough texture or the crispness of the ...
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This post went out a little later than I expected, but I just wanted to remind all of you that the Icsid congress 2009 is but a less than a week away!If you are not planning on going, you can keep up to date with the action as I will be Tweeting live from the congress at my @designsojourn or the ...
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I stumbled over a really interesting interview of Kenya Hara by Oliver Reichenstein from iA or information architects. This interview was part of a New York Times feature on a new fad in the US, making Japanese Bento boxes. Kenya explains that Japanese culture has a craftsman inspired sense of...
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Design Sojourn Music on your mobile phone speakers
So now you know. ... Read More on The Design of Everyday Things http://post.ly/Ca16
A few weeks ago, I pinged on my Twitter Stream: “I have been musing if simplicity is overrated. Humans are inherently complex creatures. What do you think”? I got a few responses mostly disagreeing with my thoughts, with many people suggesting that we need simplicity in our overly complex world....
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Piano Staircase:”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here.This vi...
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From what the experts tell me about comment moderation, the best tactic is to leave a little note to remind visitors the following: Commenting Rules: I love reading your comments as it allows me to interact and learn from you. Being critical is fine, giving constructive criticism, even better. H...
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Michael Bierut of Pentagram and Design Observer fame, has shared some of his words of wisdom collected through his years as a designer. He digs through his 86 notebooks filled with his design work, and distills his thoughts down to 5 awesome design secrets. If you don’t have the time to ...
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Design Sojourn Princess Leia in her Iconic Bikini sun bathing
via boingboing.net Sunning together with her stunt double. This iconic bikini was the obsession of many a geek's childhood fantasy. Nice to see it actually works! ... Read More on The Design of Everyday Things http://post.ly/BiDp
Click on the image to zoom in.Check out this visualization of the Design Process taught at the Stanford D-School . The photo was taken by Nina, a senior at Stanford majoring in product design. The visual is familiar, logical and strangely alluring. The design process made sexy? Just follow the...
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Design Sojourn Photoshop Magnet Kit
via meninos.us This made me smile! ... Read More on The Design of Everyday Things http://post.ly/BRjz
Design Sojourn Media Temple Cosmic PR Fail
Receive this in my Gmail email inbox. An invoice for payment for Media Temple Server services followed up with a notice that my website on that server went down and up. I’m sure Media Temple can’t c ... Read More on The Design of Everyday Things http://post.ly/BGw9
Design Sojourn Hasty Barricade
Saw this hastly put together barricade at a train station. A short term solution to crowd control. Bit of a mess of parts. ... Read More on The Design of Everyday Things http://post.ly/B3RJ
Completely opposite to our highly rushed product development cycle, Singgih Kartono took 13 years to produce his designer collection of Magno wooden radios. It started out as a university project in 1992 where the main stumbling block was ironically his inability to source for small volume of ra...
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This morning, my colleague pointed me in the direction of this great little New York Times interview with Tim Brown, the chief executive and president of IDEO. (Wow, he even gets on the NY Times!)In the interview, Tim shares that (design) leadership is not about having all the answers but asking...
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I was really impress with the $10 Kiran Solar Lamp by D.Light. Finally someone is using the cost advantages that come with manufacturing economies of scale to keep the price of a product low rather than using it to enjoy higher margins.A socially conscious product, the Kiran Lamp was designed to...
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While all the fan boys were getting Macgasms over the new 27″ iMac or the Macbook with the sausage shaped profile, I was interested in only one thing: Apple’s financial results. I tweeted my response on my twitter stream. Here’s a screen-shot.Yep, I wanted to run to every roof...
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Joe Duffy’s “Demystifying Design: An Argument for Simplicity” is a great little piece that calls out Design like it should be. Here is my favorite bit:What is design? It begins with ideas–ideas based in purpose. It requires a plan or a process. It yields innovation, inven...
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Edit: Originally published Jun 29, 2006. Updated broken video links because I just bought a similar version to this toy!I could not stop laughing after watching this. This Razor Ramon character has got it right. Despite his looks, he actually does know something about product development.Hard ...
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The problem with touch screen interfaces are that your finger tends to block the GUI (graphic user interface) object you are engaging. On small screens with just a single finger (or digit) it is not that big of a deal. However on a multi-touch interface where you use more than one finger, viewi...
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I love it when Industrial Designers don’t take themselves and their sketches so seriously. Reviewing sketch after sketch in a automotive style does get tiresome at times.Enter Craighton Berman, Industrial Designer and Creative Director, that is not afraid to share his view on the lighter s...
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Click image for a larger view!Thought I might share a quick snap of the workspace that I use for my personal design work. As you can see there are some interesting things that are happening to it. My desktop computer went in the way of the dinosaurs a number of years ago, because I hated the wi...
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Many of us have been taught in design school to be very user focused when seeking design solutions. However if you have been in the industry as long as I have, there is this insidious sickness that tends to influence this fundamental approach we have with design. The reason is that the majority...
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Here at Design Sojourn, we are always encouraging you to push the limits of your ability and capability in the aim of being the best designers we can be. So this post might come across to you in a slightly different tone of voice. In a similar discussion, we spoke about consciously putting in t...
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