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Collecting
At some point we’ve all been there, noticing the accumulation of a number of similar items and wondering ‘is this enough to be a collection yet?’ After this realisation, there is one of two ways to go: 1) become dedicated to the cause or 2) to realise the dangerous ground being tread upon, resolving to limit the acquisition of anymore similar items.
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Icon Dinosaurs
Here are a few stickers indicating ‘quite zones’ I recently saw on public transport. I thought it was ironic that the icons of the mobile phones still include antennas.
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Nice design and stuff.
Today’s Nice Design And Stuff is a medley of design, graphic art and leaping bunnies. I’ve really tried not to make this a shopping list for my husband, and to be honest I think most of it will be too expensive anyway, so perhaps this is for a millionaire do-gooder instead. Hello you!
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Mary Katrantzou in collaboration with Pablo Bronstein at the ICA
Mary Katrantzou has been making a name for herself as an expert print designer, with her meticulous & detailed designs taking strong information from not only the discipline of fashion – but other areas including product and chiefly interior design.
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Electric Blue Fashion
Land speed record attempts allow for pure uncompromising design. The goal is clear and the rulebook simple. Typically development is cooperative, open and a show case for engineering.
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The Design of Food
Food, our friend and foe has grown up a lot lately. Concerns with organic contents have meant for more considered purchasing decisions, in turn spurring a desire for a more decorative and sensorially stimulating food experience.
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Updating a classic: The padlock
The earliest padlocks are thought to be Roman Era, 500 BC–300 AD, created as a way of securing two items together and a convenient ‘portable’ alternative to locks. Since then the evolution of the padlock has primarily been focussed on the improvement of its security capabilities
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Robin & Lucienne Day: Design and the Modern Interior
The late Robin and Lucienne Day need very little introduction. As a legendary British design couple, their work has been documented, celebrated and mimicked many times over.
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Jamming for service design: a playfully serious event
The field of service design is rapidly gaining its place alongside product design as a wholly important part of enhancing and supporting our lifestyles. While nothing too new in principle, the challenges and ways to approach service design are slightly different from those of product design.
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Smarter Packaging
Over the last year or two we have talked a lot about smart packaging to our clients. Increasingly we are seeing the coming together of traditional physical formats of information with digital media to provide consumers with additional layers of experience and knowledge.
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Part 2: Want to be more creative? Understanding how your brain works can help.
To be more creative we need to take control of our attention but also relax, according to David Rock’s fascinating talk on “Your Brain at Work.” In it, Rock relates cognitive neuroscience research to real-world issues such as how to be more creative, and how to manage teams and people. In this 2-part series, I’ve summarised the key points and drawn some conclusions on the implications of his research.
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Ration Now
Nostalgic design getting serious.
It’s unsurprising that in a time where every other article is about deficits, cuts and generally glum news that design takes this into account, following suit and stripping back accordingly.
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Want to be more creative? Understanding how your brain works can help.
To be more creative we need to take control of our attention but also relax, according to David Rock’s fascinating talk on “Your Brain at Work.” In it, Rock relates cognitive neuroscience research to real-world issues such as how to be more creative, and how to manage teams and people. In this 2-part series, I’ve summarised the key points and drawn some conclusions on the implications of his research
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The link between ethnographic research, human factors engineering and risk management in injection device development
Last week I spoke at the Injectable Drug Delivery International Conference on the essential link between ethnographic research, human factors engineering and risk management in injection device development, a subject close to my heart. We come across many medical companies that engage in ‘over the fence R&D’, a process that can, and does, lead to gaps in device development.
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Sent from the Studio (18.03.11)
Needing something to get you through this Friday? Check out some the links that have been flying around the PDD studio this week.
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Where’s my global scam tracker?
The weathered old man approached me in one of the impossibly difficult to find grocery shops in Havana. Though he spoke no English, he communicated through body language and fierce pointing that he had a small, hungry baby at home and that I should buy him the outrageously priced powdered milk.
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Sent from the Studio (11.03.11)
It’s Friday. But you know that already. What you might not know is that Friday means that we share with you the links that get sent and shared here in the PDD studio. Enjoy!
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