Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Monday, March 29, 2010

Paul Smith's design rules



i.e. The design rules of Paul Smith.
"My whole life is about being childlike; not childish, but childlike. Which means you have a lateral mind; a lateral way of thinking. You are curious.
If you are looking at what other designers are doing, or what other products are out there, then you are already buying yesterday's news...and yesterday's news nobody wants".
..unless they want nostalgia or history.
Evian clearly believe Paul Smith's design rules (OK).

Final thought....being childlike and curious and open are, I think, a prerequisites for researchers, planners and lot's of other people, many of whom, like myself could be considered to have a designers bone in their body (apologies to all those hip well dressed planners and researchers out there). 

Friday, March 26, 2010

Bits of Wisdom from Harmut Essling

This guy runs Frog Design - creating products and services for the likes of Sky (HD Set-Top Box) and Yahoo (Music Unlimited interface). He's got some interesting things to say about about design, boy more especially about hiring people and having an organisation adjust to people, not the other way around - that is of course on the basis that they are very talented.

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