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Archive for March, 2006

A Circular Object For A Square Hole

Recently I had my eyes tested and found out that I need glasses. So i chose two nice neat pairs and shelled out for the privilidge. I was sent away from the store without a single instruction on glasses / lens care or use and although it’s not too hard to guess where to put […]

CCTV Protection Spikes

It seems that everything in Tube Stations around London has protection, even the Closed Circuit Television Cameras (CCTV)!

Lazy or Stupid?

After spending an extra long weekend away from the office, I have returned to become utterly bemused and bewildered. During my dilly-dally away from the office my group within the company moved rooms. Now it’s only one room along and it’s a nice change from the room before, and although i have a window seat […]

Possibly THE Best Bookshop Ever!

A few weeks back whilst I was in London visiting my girlfriend and the Central St Martins Industrial Design degree course open day we happened across a bookshop called Magma. If you have ever wanted to find a bookshop completely relevant (or as relevant as possible) to your industry then this book totally fits the […]

‘Designer’

For the first time in a little while i bought Design Week this week after flicking through it in the store and reading more than a few articles based around “Three Dimensional Design.” I have been oft persuaded away from buying the magazine because of the concentration more onto the Two Dimensional Design, Advertising, Marketing […]

Industrial Design Engineering or Industrial Design?

Now i always knew that there were different viewpoints on design. But never have I seen it so clearly visible within education before. Yesterday was my first experience seeing the two different angles both proposed so clearly and presented so believable and in such an attractive way.
During my visit to Central St Martins (CSM) yesterday […]

Industrial Design MA

My girlfriend wrote a fabulous post on her blog about what she thinks an MA Industrial Design course should be about, or rather what it shouldn’t be about.
I thought that I would just jot down my public thoughts before visiting an open day tomorrow which I am a little skeptical about.
For me, Industrial Designers […]

Which Marker Pad?

For a lot of my drawing I have given up the ghost on ‘ye ole sketchbook’ when marker pens are involved, purely because they bleed more than a zombie in a shoot ‘em up. I have instead resorted to leaving my sketchbook for design ideas and pre-concept work and turned to a few different marker […]

Are Books Trendy?

Books come in all shapes and sizes. Pretty much anyone in the world knows what one is, and most people know where to get one. Libraries around the world house vast amounts of books and although the Nazi’s burned a fair few, plenty more have been published since then. In fact, 300,000 new books are […]

The Child Like Mind

Is the child like mind the one which could be considered better at certain areas of creativity? The notion of children constantly asking “why?” could be regarded as their intrigue in the world around them. Likewise, a designer is always asking questions and seeking answers to those things which he/she does not know. Looking for […]

Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas: Bruno Manari, Charles and Ray Eames, Marti Guixe and Jurgen Bey by Ed Annink, Ineke Schwartz

Parallel thoughts in different times. Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas: Bruno Munari, Charles and Ray Eames, Marti Guixe, Jurgen Bey. Edited by Ed Annink and Ineke Schwartz.
This is quite possibly the quickest book I have ever read in all of my learned history. Since setting the task for myself at the beginning of the year to […]

Rank In Order of Importance: Car Dashboard

I thought that it might be a good exercise for me to list the order of importance of items on the Car Dashboard.
First off, I have to start by identifying the various pieces of kit one might usually find on a Car Dashboard and then start to put them into some kind of order. There […]

My New Moleskine Sketchbook

I’ve been idling over buying one of the world famous Moleskine sketchbooks for quite a while, and always thought that at around £12 in most bookshops they were a little too expensive for just a sketchbook of moderate size. But then I happened to stumble upon them for sale on Amazon.co.uk for a mere £4.80! […]

Opportunities

One of the things which i failed to grasp at university was how much effort should go into gathering momentum for a project before your current project has ended.
I have come to learn that it is very important to make a healthy start on a new design project whilst a current project is in it’s […]