I thought i’d take the time to express my personal music habits, in the form of the personal music systems which I divulged in since my childhood. In the past 15 years or so I have had four portable music systems. I think the small amount of different players is due to a few reasons. […]
On the rather chilly morning of the 12th of December 2006, the final of the lamp post climbing robot competition was to commence.
Just twelve weeks previous to the event, 18 members of the unsuspecting design world joined into the fast track system to begin understanding more about becoming a design engineer through an MSc Design […]
Change Seat 01
This may look like just a regular seat first of all but take a closer look. The back of the bench actually pivots on the underneath and moves from one side to the other.
I took this picture on the SS Great Britain in Bristol a few weeks ago and it strikes me as […]
Late on a Monday evening i recieved a phone call from a friend at work. David is a man who seems to have experienced most things. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if he had lived three lives all at the same time. He proposed that we enter The Bellringer Regenerative Braking Challenge as part […]
Last weekend i took a trip down to Plymouth with my girlfriend, and on the Saturday we took an adventure over to The Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall. The purpose of The Eden Project is:
‘To promote the understanding and responsible management of the vital relationship between plants, people and resources leading to […]
I was interested to see that in one of the regular emails which popped into my inbox from Business Week Online there was an interesting article about a new lamp which was being released later this year by Herman Miller.
The new lamp is dubbed the leaf lamp and it’s interesting to see that this product […]
I am a big fan of the Amazon recommendation scheme they have in place on the site which automatically recommends new products for you to try based on products you have already bought.
This works great for books, and I have found myself checking out the reviews of recommended books and even buying them. Bonus! Music […]
The mugshot on the right belongs to a guy called Julien Macdonald. Now, i must confess, until the other day i really hadn’t heard of him. He is a well known fashion designer. I’m not really sure whether I have seen any of his work before or not, but from what i have seen in […]
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Beating The Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organisation, by Tom Kelley and with Jonathan Littman.
IDEO are world leaders in their field. They are essentially an Industrial Design Consultancy with numerous offices worldwide and have a unique view on how to solve real world problems with […]
For the past year I have been using Rhino (Rhinoceros 3D) at work and for a further three years before that, and I am only just starting to realise some of the key things which should be addressed quickly to make sure you can work quicker and therefore cram more work into a shorter period […]
I happened to glimpse upon an article yesterday evening “Arup Joins IDEO with Cards for Innovation” over at Bruce Nussbaum’s Design Blog (Businessweek.com).
The article explains that Arup, a leading engineering firm, have launched their “Drivers of Change 2006” series of 50 cards and made them available to the public for the reasonable price of £19.95. […]
This weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) to have a look at the newly opened Modernism exhibition. Apart from being packed full of people, the exhibition was a great chance to learn more about modernism in a very visual and friendly environment. The whole exhibition took us around […]
I have been thinking over the last few days about how a designer can improve his or her chances of being accepted for a job interview. One of the key things I think that is important, apart from the Portfolio, is the Cover Letter.
“Of course,” I hear you chanting by the thousands, but I was […]
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 […]
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 […]