Fashion week opened in my town yesterday and all of us attending received a warm greeting, complementary drinks and a wonderful spectacle with a bit of overblown bass. Everybody who is anybody in fashion seemed to be attending, mingling and…
From the size of the original iPhone to the hight regulations on doorframes, good designers have always aspired to integrate objects into our daily lives as seamlessly as possible because of an interesting fact about human nature; our bodies don’t…
An interesting phenomenon is happening today, that might have not have had a chance to exist a few decades ago. Even though technology has given us unprecedented means of connecting with one another, we have become so individualised that many…
When your learning to be a designer, you may not be able to work part-time for Nike or Land Rover to finance your studies, but there are hundreds of small mom-and-pop businesses that you can contact with small work proposals…
Usain Bolt receives a check for about 10.000.000 $ every year from Puma. Why? Because he can run really fast – faster, then any other person alive actually, and in several Olympic disciplines. But the apparent value of his skill…
Even though it is one of the most popular styles of painting today, impressionism was given far from a warm welcome when it was first presented in Nadar’s studio in Paris in 1874. Many viewed the new style as amateurish and…
If you ask people the question “What does art so?” a lot of them might tell you, that art is something that has no real function, apart from maybe an aesthetic one – at least not compared to architectural design…
Recently I redesigned my extremely outdated portfolio website and I had a really down-to-earth moment when I looked at some of the images I had put in there in the past. Among the 50+ works that the site showed, I…
When you buy bread, do you expect to get an email from the bakery the next day to ask if you liked the loaf and maybe some pictures of the baking process? Not really, even though it would be kinda cool…
If design teaches us anything it is that it does not matter what things can do if they don’t do it for people who have a genuine problem that they need and want fixed. To say it differently to sell…