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Why Do So Many Designs Or Products Look The Same?

Why Do So Many Designs Or Products Look The Same?

I’m surprised to see two similar designs have won the 2010 iF Concept Award. The Easy Needle (left) and the Ppin Needle (right) were both created by students from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

Here are another pair of ideas, the e-Cart on the left and the Saving Cart (which won an [Read More…]

The Secret To Design Effectiveness Is Internal Design Groups

The Secret To Design Effectiveness Is Internal Design Groups

When I was a design student, the common perception was that if you were really talented you might get a job with a design consultancy.  The rest of us, if we even got a job, would have to settle for an in-house position working for a manufacturer; dreaming of the better pay, more attractive [Read More…]

Industrial Design Disease All In The Genes

Catherine Harvey asked:

With the introduction of the computer age came the emergence of a whole new array of industrial design possibilities. The technological age, it seems, knows no bounds. But with all this, comes a price.

And that price is Industrial Design Disease. It manifests itself in the for [Read More…]