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. […]
IKEA Project 01
Check this out.
This is my IKEA Project. We had to use two existing products within the IKEA range and combine them into a brand new product with a function and under the value of £10.
After two weeks i have spent about 16 hours in IKEA (more than unhealthy) and come up with this […]
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 […]
bombaysapphire invitation 01
I recieved an invitation of some sorts yesterday from Bombay Sapphire. The rather well presented invitation gives me all the information i need to persuade me to enter into the competition.
The award of £20,000 is aimed to recognise excellence and innovation in the use of glass.
This got me thinking (along with the tubular […]
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 […]
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. […]
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Benjamin and Rosamund Stone Zander is the latest paper based factual adventure that I have partaken in. The reccomendation for this book came through Tom Kelley who mentioned one of the chapters within his book “The Art of Innovation.” After becoming intrigued within the type […]
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 […]
WOW!
This weekend I didn’t choose to go out on the town and purchase myself the latest in Ferrari supercars, nor did I wander down to an airbase and ponder upon the lavish expense of a private jet. What I did, however, was purchase the latest in Colgate’s range of super toothbrushes.
The Colgate 360º Toothbrush encompasses […]
The need to relieve myself has compelled me to visit the little boy’s room whilst at work within the past few weeks on a number of occasions. This isn’t usually a problem (except for the on-going maintainence at work which forces me to circum-navigate Bath to get there), but today as i walked into the […]
Recently I heard a Technation Podcast with Dr Moira Gunn. The episode was with Gerd Leonhard, about the state of the music industry. One thing within the podcast got me thinking. Gerd mentioned the competition between real world music stores and online music distribution and sales. He explained briefly that he believed music stores would […]
Back in 2004 at my degree show i had the chance to meet Trevor Baylis. He had been a viting lecturer in the technology department for a while at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and during the degree show he chose to give an award to the most innovative student at the degree show.
Unfortunately I think […]
It’s not very often that I am captured by a book that I would actually class myself as addicted to it. I believe that it takes great content, a great writer, an interesting sway of dialogue and it also takes an interest in the subject. For me, all of these virtual boxes have been ticket […]
When i switched my mobile contract near the beginning of last year i chose a neat little popular phone which i had to wait around a week for. The phone, Samsung D500. A 1.3 megapixel camera, full colour screen, music player, speakerphone, small, neat, and it had all the functions I thought i wanted. It […]