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While preparing for our Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop next week, I stumbled over a nice little infographic by Prof. Ralf Beuker, that clearly spells out the relationship between Design, Design Management and Design Thinking. A relationship that many designers, including myself, would have pondered about at some stage of their professional career.
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Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god. ~ Constantin Brâncuşi I had almost forgotten this quote, one of my favorites, by Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi. It w …
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At the end of December last year, we said that our StoryBook sketchbook product was going to be put on hold indefinitely. However, in our pillar article: 9 Lessons from a Design Entrepreneur, I shared that all I really needed was a two month break before I jumped right back into this self-funded project! Not settling for no, I decided that shipping and getting this product …
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I just wanted to let you know that we have officially launched a new refresh of the Design Sojourn Website, our 5th website upgrade and variation to date! Now almost 1 year into running my own design consulting business, I felt it was high time to make this website a little more business like and a little less like a blog. Here are some of the new UI functionality and website …
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Check out this great little video, by Aaron Trinder, on how designers or creative people work within a space and how this may impact how we design desks in the future. Some food for thought?
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Insert expletives of awe here!Finally, you can now sketch on real paper, with a real writing instrument, and get your artwork converted seamlessly into an Illustrator or Photoshop format. Here take my money...
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Sadly WebOS/HP is no more...
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Amid Moradganjeh, a Masters student at the Umeå Institute of Design, dropped me an email with a link to his thesis project done in collaboration with Microsoft. Rimino, is a next generatio …
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Clive Thompson, in his column on Wired, dispels the myth that innovation comes as a surprise and is difficult to predict. He writes:The assumption is that breakthroughs are inherently surp …
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Clive Thompson, in his column on Wired, dispels the myth that innovation comes as a surprise and is difficult to predict. He writes:The assumption is that breakthroughs are inherently surp …
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Derek Sivers, whom I have had the pleasure to meet recently, shares in a short TED snippet advice on “How to Start a Movement”. What was very interesting was his key insight between the re …
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Derek Sivers, whom I have had the pleasure to meet recently, shares in a short TED snippet advice on “How to Start a Movement”. What was very interesting was his key insight between the re …
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You might have missed this TED talk by Eames Demetrios, the grandson of Charles and Ray Eames.
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It's official. With the backing of the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i), which focuses on improving skills, productivity and the lives of our workforce in Singapore, we will be running our very cool Introduction to Design Thinking workshop on 29th to 30th of September.Traditional Design Thinking workshops are often run specific to organizations, or in special …
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Check out this really cool video about Supermarket chain Tesco's Korean arm, Homeplus, and its bid to become the Number 1 supermarket chain in Korea.
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Here is something slightly off the beaten track today. Technology is one of the key drivers of change today, in particular, it changes the way we live and work. Designers, being mostly early adopters of technology, are always very quick to jump into the next big thing. When the iPad was launched every fan boy designer, rightly or wrongly, saw that product as the digital …
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July 2011 was just a crazy month for us here at Design Sojourn. We have been drowning in project work and did not have much of a chance to share some of our more exciting news and events that has or will be happening to us. So I hope you don't mind that I will be announcing it all in a series of blog posts in the coming days.One of our big announcements is that from 1 July …
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How cool is that? Click on the image for a bigger viewOur own Spaces for Ideas brand has been featured today in an article on products designed and made in Singapore. This article is pretty apt seeing that it is our National day on the 9th of August. If you look at the back of the image above, you can catch a glimpse of our new product the Story Book that will be launched …
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Just the other day, I walked pass a number of elderly gentlemen playing a game of Chinese chess on a nice sunny afternoon.
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The photos do a good job of showing how this thing works. Here, in the first picture, some plucky worker has marked the clock with his goals for the day: Whoops, looks like he fluffed it on a couple of them: And another… C’mon, dude. via fastcodesign.com
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