The Design of Everyday Things

Brian is a Strategic Design Leader that spends most of his time on www.designsojourn.com. He loves Soya Mochas and Pizzas with Rocket, Parma ham and Parmigiano Reggianno!

Stick on To-Do Lists for Notebooks

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Interesting way to increase the functionality of your notebooks.

Time to get things done.

The photos do a good job of showing how this thing works. Here, in the first picture, some plucky worker has marked the clock with his goals for the day:

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Whoops, looks like he fluffed it on a couple of them:

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And another... C'mon, dude.

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69 by Malika Favre (NSFW)

MUJI Hard Case Roller Bag

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Usual Muji Tastiness.

W1200xD380xH480 by Kana Nakanishi

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Very zen like and minimal.

How the Eames Lounge Chair is made at Vitra.

My favorite chair of all time.  A nice video, though it makes me a little disoriented.  

 

Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule is Simplicity at its Best!

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I love this so much that I am turning it into a desktop wallpaper. I think we can do much more to reduce the complexity of our lives and I am keeping this as a reminder.

Come to the Business of Design Forum in Singapore. It's Tomorrow and FREE!

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This is awesome.  This forum, organized by the Design Singapore Council, is about how design is an enabler for business and the various government grants avaliable to help design consultancies out.  Some of the topics unclude:

1.       Why is Design important to Business?

2.       How can Design help businesses?

3.       What do businesses need from Design?

4.       What does DesignSingapore do to help?

5.       What grants can Design Clients tap on?

6.       What grants can Designers tap on?

In Singapore, Design is a National Strategy.  So I'll be there and see you if you are going. 

For more information check out their facebook page.

Consumers are Unpredictable

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So what should user-centered designers do?

God is in the rendering details

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Received this architecture rendering visualization in an email and I immediately noticed those wine bottles!