February 2012
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Marc Newson designs the k01 camera for pentax talks about his process when designing a product. Its interesting he mentionst how most cameras are designed in house at corporations usually by engineers and while they might be great engineers they are not designers! Also Marc doesnt care what we want and im okay with that.
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tips for designers
this one is from producthub http://productdesignhub.com/2011/11/3-tips-for-designers-making-people-love-to-work-with-you/
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Design in other countries
I like to visit sites that incorporate other countries. its so easy to get sucked into one area of design or one countries notions of it. if you check out icsid.org there are alot of articles on whats going on around the world when it comes to design. its pretty interesting stuff. Youll see some foreign governments are utilizing designers in order to market products for companies that innovate and...
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brought to you by my obvious love of big boxy fuel guzzling cars and the people at monkeedesign, the Icon toyota fj44.
My favorite part ” I hate paint, paint sucks”
Sketching the basics Eissen n Steur
In our first book for delineation .1 I realized there’s a section on digital sketching and product context graphics and backgrounds. I must have overlooked it or just forgotten about it since last semester, but its pretty informative for those of you that have it.
Lots a cool designs from designers and design... →
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WHAT could designers do with LIFI? anyway I posted this cause this guy also looks like SLOTH from THE GOONIES! LOL anybody remember that movie?!
“HEY YOU GUYSSSS”
lol sorry the resemblance is uncanny
CORE 77 DESIGN VOICES for free on kindle
Core77 posted this ebook its only 3 bucks on amazon for kindle but its FREE for kindle if you have amazon prime. check it out I GOTS MINE AND SAVED 3 BUCKS, WHAT!
Its actually really just inteviews with designers but it should be interesting and offer insight into whatever and its short so +++
who doesnt like free stuff?!
When the sketch looks better than the real thing..
Obviously sketches are emotional renderings of products, however its interesting to see the sketches against the actual finished product. alot of the time I like the sketch of the car better than the real car. Sketches are powerful tools dude! check this jeep example out for instance
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I saw the real thing first and didnt like it much. the sketch wins in my book.
Words about design
When you cant find anything inspiring to look at it sometimes helps to read. these are quotes about design . It also helps because with all the techniques your learning you kinda lose sight of why your doing all that your doing to begin with. so here
http://designwashere.com/80-inspiring-quotes-about-design/