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Innovation: principles, not models! Innovation cannot prosper without curiosity, serendipity, unpredictable outcomes, inspiring vision, and sheer hard work. These things are principles, not models Paper to the conference Insight Shanghai on how to translate social trends into new products – new technologies and emerging patterns of use
Interview at the Connecticut home of the late Dick Hess, co-inventor of Paint By Numbers and one of the 20th century's greatest illustrators and graphic designers In terms of the workforce skills it develops, how should a region of South Africa like the Eastern Cape respond to the credit crunch? It took the Apollo mission for man to come to terms with the mechanics of himself and of the man machine interface. Today, space has other lessons to offer, but it remains instructive to designers on Earth Two new books on cars have much – but not everything – to recommend them Interview with the late Raymond Loewy, the man who invented industrial design Mission creep; the limits of design Transcript of speech at the Intersections conference on design, Newcastle, 25 October 2007 Brown's 'get fit' towns: Kim Jong-il would be proud With its new towns that will force people to keep fit, New Labour is pushing an authoritarian health agenda that will be the envy of tinpot dictators Twenty years ago, design was just beginning today's upswing – but the US had clearly begun to regain its worldwide prominence in the field Soaring flights of fancy: Howard Hughes, the Spruce Goose and American power Back in 1991, when it had only just won the Cold War, the US looked shakier than it does today. And yet... Interaction design and the failure of post-modernism Review of Gerhard M Buurman, Ed, Total interaction: theory and practice of a new paradigm for the design disciplines, Birkhäuser, 2006 So what rough beast, its hour come round at last, emerges for the worlds of architecture and design, from Gordon Brown’s summer rejig of ministerial posts? Thirty years ago, product design and graphics helped the Apple II outsell Commodore’s PET, and paved the way for today's obsession with computer games Forecasting the Frontiers of Design Measures of design effectiveness have become more and more subjective. It's time to call a halt
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