This video was recommended to me and it could not have come at a more perfect time. I have had an internal debate about my role as a designer for some time now, and “The Story of Stuff” by Annie Leonard brought my internal struggle into the limelight. If taken at face value, the video [...]
I had the opportunity to attend the “small thoughts BIG IDEAS” exhibition in Singapore this week. I found it to be a great showcase of what a few talented designers can do when they break free from their day-to-day professions and let themselves create products on their own terms. These designers formed ‘The Little Thoughts [...]
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Rob Thompson delivers 528 pages of highly useful, graphically interesting and inspiring content written specifically for designers. This is the type of book I wish I could plug into my head and consume every bit of the information. It covers “over 70 manufacturing processes…with full technical descriptions; analyses of [...]