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(58) Blog Improvement (43) Business Management (20) Design Articles (85) Design Strategy (37) Design Tips (49) Designer Musings (65) Entrepreneurship (38) Fabbing (4) Fitness (5) Industrial Design (81) Interviews (5) Meta Design (56)Archives by Month
November 2008 (5)Detailed Monthly Archive
17: 10 Tips on landing you an Industrial Design Job (5) 12: A Good Design Makes your Mind BLINK! (4) 10: It is Design Sojourn’s 3rd Birthday! (7) 09: Adobe Photoshop Print Ad: “as real as it gets” (5) 04: Design Thinking or just Thinking? (15)
October 2008 (13)Detailed Monthly Archive
28: Has Design Evolved since Papanek? (8) 27: Sketch your NURBS Model with ILOVESKETCH! (6) 23: A Designer’s Secret Weapon: Active Listening (8) 22: A Good Strategy is like a Good Movie (6) 20: 100 Push ups : Week 3, 4 and 5! (4) 15: Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty (and Design) (1) 13: 10 Useful Cost Saving Design Strategies for these Troubled Times (0) 11: “Flatshare” wins Electrolux Design Lab 2008 (2) 07: More Stefan on TED (3) 05: Industrial Design and The Branding Mad Men (9) 04: These Designers Have a Hard Time! (1) 02: Better Time to Market with Rapid Manufacturing (1) 01: Slow Blogging Week (1)
September 2008 (11)Detailed Monthly Archive
24: Designers must Develop Critical Insight (8) 24: 100 Push ups : Week 1 Redux and Week 2 (2) 18: Sketching is Offically Back, Finally (11) 16: Adventures in iPhone Land (6) 16: A Vision of the Future: Outlaw Planet (2) 12: Do Designers Visualize or Articulate? (13) 10: Learning about my Design Sojourn Brand (1) 08: The Underbelly of Design: Brand Dilution from Sourced Products (4) 06: 100 Push ups : Week 1 : Pushing through the pain (2) 04: Where do you Think? (9) 01: Tasty Books I Bought this Weekend! (4)
August 2008 (15)Detailed Monthly Archive
28: Has Chinese Design Arrived? (5) 27: My 100 Push Ups Challenge! (10) 25: Thinking about Sex? (4) 21: The Lifecycle of a Designer: Part 2 (13) 21: Never Let Your Client do Design for You (5) 18: Old Habits are Hard to Break… (2) 16: Invent Singapore Conference 2008 (3) 13: The Lifecycle of a Designer: Part 1 (14) 11: Conducting Workshop at Invent Singapore 2008 (1) 08: Taking a Bow (5) 08: Meta Design Links: 08 Aug 2008 (0) 06: If You Were a Product, What Would You Be? (9) 04: Question of the Week: What are the Responsibilities of Designers Today? (2) 03: Otaku Gundam Weekend (1) 01: Designers need to be 3 People at the Same Time! (7)
July 2008 (13)Detailed Monthly Archive
31: A new experience at Design Sojourn: Curated Shopping (0) 30: Disappointed with Objectified (8) 29: Photo Musings (0) 25: Meta Design Links: 25 July 2008 (1) 23: Think of Creating a Language Rather than a Form (3) 22: Sketch Techniques with Michael DiTullo (4) 21: Post Occupancy Design - Life after the Designer (0) 16: How to avoid “Mental Masturbation”? (2) 14: The Art of Selling (4) 11: Sustainable Brands 08 Video Log (0) 10: Meta Design Links: 10 July 2008 (1) 03: 30 Essential Books for Industrial Designers (33) 01: Bilingual Branding (3)
June 2008 (8)Detailed Monthly Archive
30: Singapore’s 4th Multi-Disciplinary University (4) 29: Happy World Industrial Design Day! (2) 25: Want to have your say? (0) 18: A Blueprint for Design Education 2.0 (11) 12: GINA - Awesome BMW Fabric Car (6) 11: What are the Differences between Chinese and Western Form-giving? (6) 10: The Blackberry Prayer (1) 02: Why You Should Always Determine Your Own Design Schedule? (1)
May 2008 (13)Detailed Monthly Archive
29: Question of the Week: How do I fix my Scattered Personal Brand? (3) 28: Ringshot: The Evolution of The Slingshot (3) 26: Where do Boom-boxes come from? (3) 23: Naoto Fukasawa: Without a Thought (2) 21: Jonathan Ive on Apple’s Industrial Design Strategy (1) 20: Nintendo Wii Crowdsourcing? (7) 16: Can we Crowdsource Great Designs? (8) 13: How best to Manage “Design”? (1) 12: Give Credit where Credit is Due (8) 08: Stefan Sagmeister - Things I Have Learned in My Life so far (2) 07: Award Winning Dump Truck of the Future! (10) 06: Life’s Like That: Part 2 (1) 01: Is Industrial Design Dead? (10)
April 2008 (10)Detailed Monthly Archive
30: Frog Design’s Earth Day Presentation (0) 28: Life’s Like That: Part 1 (2) 21: Why Sh*T matters in Design. What? (0) 16: New Era Marketing is all about Joining the Conversation (3) 14: An Exercise Born Out of Frustration (3) 10: 11 The Beautiful Game of Foosball (5) 07: Philips “Design Probes” into our Future (6) 05: Iconic photographs recreated in Lego (1) 03: Solar Panels Inspired by Leaves (13) 03: A Cross-Pollination of Creative Ideas at Blueprint 2008 (0)
March 2008 (12)Detailed Monthly Archive
31: Starck says Design is Dead, yet Again? (11) 28: Get around Earth Hour with the Lightway! (0) 26: What are your Principles of Good Design? (23) 21: Top 10 Ways to Nurture a Thriving Creative Culture (4) 19: Bye Gary, Thanks for the Memories and My Ability to Design (2) 18: Overcoming Barriers to Creativity in a Corporate Environment (2) 14: The Best “Products” Have Really Simple Strategies (4) 13: Starting a Wee War in My Browser is a Sign of Things to Come! (2) 12: The Future of Creativity and Design (3) 11: How Well Designed is the MacBook Air? (4) 08: Oh No! Another Design Bites the Dust… (1) 02: Blogging slow down… (2)
February 2008 (11)Detailed Monthly Archive
25: Everyone has Ideas, How You Execute them is What Matters (5) 21: Modu’s Modular Mobile Phones (4) 20: Nokia’s Mobile Phone Strategy (0) 19: Celebrate Ubiquitous and Unsung Designs with this Iconic Sugar Shaker (0) 18: The Power of a Recommendation Gets Things Your Way (3) 14: Get your own Human Powered Fred Flintstone Car Right Here! (4) 11: Why can’t Everyone be like Apple and Other Nonsense (13) 10: Gong Xi Fa Chai! (0) 06: Awesome new Motion Controller may just kill the Nintendo Wii (7) 04: How we give birth to a Gadget? (2) 01: Microsoft wants Yahoo for $44.6 BILLION! (1)
January 2008 (14)Detailed Monthly Archive
30: Share your Favourite Creation Moment on Lego’s 50th Birthday! (4) 28: Do these Award Winning Designs Infringe Patents? (13) 26: Finally a PC that Every Designer has Dreamed About! (27) 24: Good Design Award 2007! (10) 21: How I Simplified My Life and Became a More Efficient Designer (5) 19: Jonathan Ive, Design Genius or Something Else? (7) 16: MacBook Air : Disgustingly Thin (11) 15: Friend Wheel : A Visual Representation of How my Friends are Connected on Facebook (4) 13: 8 Important Consumer Trends to Look Out for in 2008 (4) 10: Bill Gates says Good Bye (1) 09: Design Sojourn will be Under Maintenance (Completed!) (0) 05: The Biggest Hinderance to Innovation in an Organization is… (4) 03: Networking Design Sojourn with Social Networks (0) 01: Happy 2008! (4)
December 2007 (5)Detailed Monthly Archive
26: 25 Bad Habits of Industrial Designers (24) 17: Merry Christmas to all Readers! (11) 11: Mechanical Critters, an Interview with Chico Bicalho (2) 05: Workout that Portfolio baby! (7) 03: Is the Amazon Kindle Product 2.0? (10)
November 2007 (10)Detailed Monthly Archive
29: How to be a Design Superstar! (27) 25: The Un-p3 Project Update (8) 23: Why don’t people complain about Good Design? (4) 22: Google reminds me why I blog (7) 20: The Dandelion Exhibition Launches! (2) 17: Yet More Apple Bashing (3) 16: Question of the week: What sort of Industrial Design Education should I take? (3) 13: There is no such thing as a Gphone (9) 07: The Corporate Designer’s Survival Guide (7) 02: Build your own product with Bug Lab’s Open Source Hardware (11)
October 2007 (11)Detailed Monthly Archive
31: The future relationship of IP and Industrial Design (9) 29: Autumn in Nanjing (11) 24: The blogging hiatus continues this week (2) 18: On the Horizion… (2) 15: Let’s talk about Design Strategy and Sustainable Behaviors (10) 13: Question of the week: How to move from Drawing to Designing? (2) 09: Six Tips for Managing Design or Specification “Creep” (0) 07: England beating Australia in Rugby World Cup and Creativity (3) 05: Make many Mistakes but make them Early (2) 03: Dandelion Online Industrial Design Exhibition (0) 02: Blogging slowdown last week due to an Emergency (0)
September 2007 (16)Detailed Monthly Archive
29: Meta Design Links: 29 Sept 2007 (6) 27: Harry Potter and The Scary Book Design (3) 21: How to be self critical with your Design Work? (8) 19: Innovation is Everybody’s Responsibility (6) 18: Region Coding an exercise in Stupidity (6) 17: Coming Out and Tumbling Over (5) 14: Essential Websites for Industrial Designers (5) 12: Achieving a Constant state of Design Readiness (4) 08: The Importance of Mastering Materials Use and Manufacturing Processes (4) 07: Meta Design Links: 07 Sept 07 (0) 05: How the Nintendo Wii remote came to be (4) 05: Question of the week: Can a Design employee work off site? (4) 02: Design Sojourn is Finally Moving to a New Server! (8) 02: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Final Sunday (1) 01: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Saturday (6) 01: Meta Design Links: 01 Sept 07 (0)
August 2007 (19)Detailed Monthly Archive
31: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Friday (4) 30: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Thursday (12) 29: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Wednesday (2) 28: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Tuesday (6) 27: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Industrial Designers: Monday (4) 25: Singapore Girl: One of the Amazing Brand Icons of our Time (4) 23: The future of the Industrial Design Discipline (6) 20: Blog Action Day: Bloggers Unite for the Environment (1) 19: Meta Design Links: 19 Aug 07 (0) 18: What really inspired the design of the Segway! (3) 17: Down and out with the flu (3) 15: The Most Basic and Probably the Best Design Tip Ever! (3) 14: Question of the week: How do I Hire the Right Designer for me? (4) 13: Icon Magazine’s 50 Manifestos (1) 10: Please Help Me Improve Your Visit to Design Sojourn? (6) 09: 10 Tips for Guaranteed Concept Development Success (3) 07: Site Down and Up and Down and Up (0) 02: Is My Work Beautiful Because I’m Beautiful? (6) 01: The Brand-You Wordpress Theme (5)
July 2007 (15)Detailed Monthly Archive
30: How to get Recognition for Your Design Work? (6) 26: Steelcase Second Life Chair Design Competition (5) 25: The Evolution of the Toothbrush (6) 24: Is Good Design Art? (16) 23: Good Books on Design Sketching (3) 22: Clever Graffiti (1) 19: Celebrating 1000 comments left at Design Sojourn (2) 19: What are your Design Laws? (5) 17: Nakamichi Lumos featured in T3 Magazine (6) 11: On Home Leave and Loving It! (0) 08: Visual Communication Principles in Design (5) 06: Jan Chipchase Insights on Design Research (4) 05: Ok I’m convinced that the iPhone is not THAT Bad (2) 04: Eight Things You Probably Dont Know About Me (5) 03: Design Theory 7: Elements of an Innovative Product (2)
June 2007 (22)Detailed Monthly Archive
30: Site Upgrade and Maintenance In Progress (2) 29: Starck Naked (4) 27: Nokia N95 vs. iPhone (8) 24: The Sorted Book Project (9) 23: A Busy Designer is Never Stuck (4) 22: Navigating and Sharing Design Sojourn (5) 21: What da Vinci Knew about Sex (0) 21: More on the Theories behind Japanese Design (2) 19: Inside the Minds of Designers (10) 19: I Love Steam Punk Industrial Design (1) 18: Entrepreneurship is really all about a Mindset (8) 17: Photosynth is Zooming on Steroids (8) 17: You Too, can Design a Better Mouse! (0) 16: Tree Drawings (4) 14: The Changing Role of Industrial Design (3) 12: Useless Stats on Who Will Buy the iPhone (2) 11: Oakley is Looking Beyond Design (0) 10: Linking Policy (4) 08: 10 Tips on How to be a Better Blogger by Surfing for Porn (3) 07: Wacom Bamboo: It’s all in the name? (5) 04: Fabbing: A Primer for Guerilla Design Strategies (11) 01: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Unplugged! (4)
May 2007 (20)Detailed Monthly Archive
31: Designing for Overcoming Information Overload (0) 30: Microsoft Surface the Next Generation in Computing (6) 28: Graduated from design school? Where to Next? (4) 27: I Follow, Do you? (6) 27: Why do I blog? (3) 26: A Thinking Meme (4) 26: Rethinking Fashion Design (0) 24: Yves Behar on Design in 2012 (2) 24: Brionvega’s Latest (0) 23: Is China the Only Copier on the Block? (8) 20: The Un-p3 Project Part 2: Prototype Samples (27) 16: An Apple Rant but Really Much Ado About Nothing! (11) 15: Why does China Copy Designs? (16) 13: Design for Brand Talk Monday 14 May 2007 (0) 07: The Most Innovative Companies of 2007 (11) 07: A new Authority at Technorati (2) 05: CeBit Australia 2007 Part 2: Trendspotting (0) 03: CeBit Australia 2007 Part 1 (2) 02: Social Networking Site’s Unethical Practice (4) 01: When it Rains it Pours! (0)
April 2007 (17)Detailed Monthly Archive
29: Be a Better Designer 8: Avoid Ctrl + Z (6) 28: Samsung NV10 Review (3) 27: Good Marketing Went Bad (6) 25: My name is DT and I have a Monetizing Addition (6) 23: Chris Bangle: Great cars are Art (8) 22: The Un-p3 Project Part 1: Design Rational (2) 21: The SmudgeGuard (2) 18: 10 Influences the Web 2.0 has on Running Businesses Online (0) 17: I Can Now Design and Wii Anytime I Like! (7) 13: Hands on the $100 Laptop (4) 13: Gameboy Survives War and Returns Home (9) 11: 7 Ways to Unleashing your Creativity (8) 10: Blog Improvements Galore! (2) 08: Happy Easter Everyone! (2) 06: The Design Philosophies of Toshiyuki Kita and Naoto Fukasawa (2) 03: A Blueprint for Designing Engaging Products (6) 01: Get Rid of Instant Messaging at the Workplace (4)
March 2007 (17)Detailed Monthly Archive
30: Trends in the 2007’s Business and Design Landscape (6) 28: Managing Designers Like Students… (5) 27: Theories behind Japanese Design (11) 26: Designers Suck? (8) 25: Have Design Schools Stop Teaching Design? (8) 21: The Harsh Realities of Blogging (8) 20: Ace of Bass - Updated - (9) 19: Clickless Computer Interface (4) 17: Slight Pause in Blogging for Some Site Maintenance (2) 14: The Museum of Modern Betas (0) 13: Google now has a Patent Search! (4) 12: How Asian Companies can Better Manage their Design and Branding (9) 10: I have been Chumby-tised, Resistance is Futile (8) 07: Designer Portfolio Shootout! (0) 06: Condom Applicator Wins Most Beautiful Award (12) 04: The Future State of a Product’s Existence? (16) 01: Design Theory 6: In the end does it look good? (2)
February 2007 (18)Detailed Monthly Archive
27: Lone Ranger I am Not (13) 23: This Buddha Machine is Just Delightfully Tacky! (5) 23: The Strategy Paradox… (3) 22: Design Theory 5: Does the objective of your design solve a problem? (0) 21: 2 More Tasty Awards for the Design Translator (4) 19: Designing Products That Will Work with Web 2.0 Strategies (13) 15: Out With the Old, in With the New and a Recap (0) 13: How to Turn Your CD into a Table Saw? (2) 11: Spring Cleaning Time (0) 09: Top 5 Consumer Trends to Watch for 2007 (5) 08: Blog Meme Participants, all Some Get Scared and Run For The Hills (23) 08: Biomimicry: The answer to your design question is all around you (1) 06: The Carnival of the Mobilists No.61 (4) 05: Smart Money Bets on the Developer Friendly Platform (2) 05: Restarting the Design Entrepreneurship Push (2) 04: Many Ways of Seeing (0) 02: Marketing vs. Advertising vs. PR vs. Branding (6) 01: Why Does Everyone Know That a Clean Install of Windows is Good, Except Microsoft? (4)
January 2007 (23)Detailed Monthly Archive
31: Be a Better Designer 7: Write your own brief (3) 31: Are you a blog-celebrity? (7) 29: How (fill in the blanks) are you? (1) 27: Designing stupidity? Thankfully not everybody! (5) 26: Minority report in reality (2) 25: What to use to visualise your work and data? (0) 25: How to talk to all your friends? (2) 24: Updated: 2000 bloggers from around the world in one place, links removed (5) 23: A Classic iPod Parody (1) 23: SWEEP that CHAIR right from under you! (2) 22: What is the big deal of high resolution computer displays anyway? (0) 20: Prada’s Touch Screen Phone! (6) 20: The world’s best D-Schools. Huh? (1) 17: Forget the Apple Phone, give me a Newton anytime! (9) 17: The Z-List Network (3) 15: How to be Creative? (0) 15: Impossible Structure? (1) 13: NISSAN DESIGN FORUM “IMAGINATION FACTORY” Singapore Event Report (2) 13: Easy come, easy go… (0) 11: Time Management Tips for the Wired Designer (2) 10: The iPhone rumours are true (0) 06: 2007 will be big year for Design Sojourn (5) 01: Which Super Hero are you? (6)
December 2006 (14)Detailed Monthly Archive
29: How to not suffer with “Works in progress” (0) 28: Intrapreneurship in an Asian context. Possibility or Myth? (6) 26: Design Sojourn soon to be Z Lister no more (3) 23: Getting Fat on Turkey, Stuffing and Ham (0) 19: Be a Better Designer 6: Yo Designer, are you HOT or not? (4) 18: Fire FOX! (24) 15: Ho ho ho! Christmas Comes early at Design Sojourn! (Updated 24 Dec) (15) 13: How to spot the Apple fake? (2) 12: The internet a new form of media with new rules? (11) 12: Even better than sliced onion! (10) 11: 10 TouchPoints - Better Living in Singapore by design! (2) 08: Tips on how to improve your drawing ability (20) 06: Do I have to be able to draw well to be a good designer? (16) 04: $100 Laptop Launched! (10)
November 2006 (12)Detailed Monthly Archive
29: Feel the Gravity Chair on your feet (8) 28: Nokia E61 Review or How to get organized? (7) 25: A little red-dot for the Design Translator (13) 19: Tachikoma in the field (3) 18: How to REALLY “feel” the beat (1) 15: Tips on Being Creative Military Style (4) 14: Blogging slowdown while I’m serving my Nation (2) 09: Design Sojourn V3.0 is up and running! (19) 08: Design Concept as a Visual Map (1) 07: An Ultra Mobile PC with a Haptic Attitude (4) 03: A Hint of Minty Freshness (8) 02: Design Sojourn is Top 10 at HOW! (7)
October 2006 (17)Detailed Monthly Archive
31: The appropriateness of getting your customer to design a product for you? (2) 30: “Design for brand” presentation Tuesday 31 October 2006 (16) 28: A petition to bring back buttons on phones? (18) 25: Examples of clever advertising design (5) 25: Run its a vortex! (2) 23: Design Sojourn v2.0 Site Teaser! (11) 20: Crazy Sony Bravia Ad! (6) 19: Its redesign time! (0) 17: Fugly Industrial Design: Virtual IPA (4) 16: Why do I always get rejected? 10 tips on how to get the “buy in”. Part 2 (0) 14: Why do I always get rejected? 10 tips on how to get the “buy in”. Part 1 (4) 11: Conceptual Designs: How we can recycle the digital graveyard (6) 11: I’m a Maverick, are you? (0) 10: There are more factors to a successful business than having a good product (4) 09: Is Black Diamond Phone $299,550 too much? (2) 07: How to sketch a design MIT style! (2) 04: I’m in Melbourne… (0)
September 2006 (18)Detailed Monthly Archive
28: Industrial Design 103: How to know your target consumer intimately? (7) 27: How to Market test your products? (7) 26: London Design Festival 2006! (3) 24: I’m Back… (0) 17: Where’s DT? (0) 13: Jumping iPod gadget-gasms batman! (0) 13: Get your Icons for your Nintendo DS games at DSicons.com (2) 13: Design Sojourn is one of the Top 50 Communities at MyBlogLog (0) 12: Industrial Design 102: Competitor Audit and Analysis (1) 11: Visualize your website as a graph (3) 10: How to Paint like Jackson Pollock (7) 10: Lamy + Richard Sapper = Dialog 1 (4) 07: Industrial Design 101: How I am going to build an iPod Killer! Really? (5) 06: Crazyegg’s picture paints a 1000 words (2) 05: How I almost got killed by logistics and distribution! (0) 05: iPoor at MAAD Sunday (2) 04: I now have a Japanese Name thanks to Nissan PR team! (2) 01: Trust in thyself is paramount for a designer (2)
August 2006 (24)Detailed Monthly Archive
31: Get your Chumby while its hot! (2) 30: Design Sojourn Featured in a Podcast! (0) 29: How I use Paypal for my online transactions of iPoor T-shirts (2) 28: A Creative Strategy: If you cant beat them join them? (2) 25: iPoor Status: Testing testing… (0) 21: iPoor Status: We are back in stock but 60% SOLD! (2) 21: Is re-badging or face-lifts a viable design strategy? (3) 19: A quicker and dirtier guide of branding yourself (6) 18: A quick and dirty guide to branding yourself (5) 14: Concept Design Equipment Shoot-out: Part 5 (2) 14: Spine Chilling Design : The Art of the Shiv (0) 13: My Design Events Calendar for August and September (0) 11: Design Theory 4: What should the right form of the product be? (1) 10: Random Musings of the Day (0) 10: iPoor on Engadget! (4) 09: Levi’s iPod Jeans…iPoor but i not dumb (0) 08: The Art of the Very Small Start: Part 2 (4) 07: Want to get fed by me? (0) 06: Sick Sick Sick! (3) 04: Addicted to Quizzes (0) 04: The Art of the Very Small Start: Part 1 (5) 03: New posts are on the way! (0) 02: Koff Koff… (1) 01: Singapore 2nd easiest place to do business in 2006 (3)
July 2006 (18)Detailed Monthly Archive
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