I like to wish all readers a Merry Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Edit: I am also taking the opportunity during this quiet holiday season to redesign and update my website. This initiative came about due to a few strategic decisions I have
This has to be the world's most useless hook. This hook, I noticed on a tour bus, does not stick out far enough nor is it deep enough. Feels very much like an afterthought.
I was doing my usual weekly “talk back” engagement session by answering my reader’s comments and questions when I stumbled over this. One of Design Sojourn's readers left a question in the “comments” section of my design article "25 Bad Habits of Industrial Designers".
Image from YES Design The books, reissued as part of the Penguin on Design series, include Munari’s 1965 book, Design As Art; McLuhan’s 1967 classic, The Medium is the Massage; Berger’s seminal Ways Of Seeing from 1972; and Sontag’s 1977 essay, On Photography. Penguin has republished 4
Many brands are seeing the light. From Nokia, Apple, Levis, Nike, Nintendo, to Bose, Samsung and Sony, companies today understand the power of branding and know that to allow consumer to fully experience their brand they must create an environment where the consumer is surrounded by
Image from BusinessWeek, original camera image comes from Ralph London of the London Collection. Check out this interesting article on Wired.com on how Bill Buxton, a Microsoft Researcher has complimented Jony Ive and how Jony has learn from the success of Kodak's Vest Pocket camera
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
As part of Google's Authors@Google, Kenya Hara discusses his awesome book "Designing 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
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
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
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.
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,