Design

10 Aug 2007 2052H

How to keep Lego going in the early 21st century

Fantastic Monocle interview with Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego about how they are trying to make the product and brand relevant in a video game dominant, global age. Pay attention around Minute 12 when he starts talking about the Lego family personas. 20 minutes, flash video.

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28 Jul 2007 0726H

Monocle

I’ve just twigged to this newish magazine, Monocle, through a series of videos on city design at the International Herald Tribune, one of my favorite designed readings on the net. Look at this gorgeous modernism that does not use sans serif type for its headers. It’s simply beautiful. I can even forgive the black background [...]

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24 Jul 2007 2051H

Design notes, on PBS

Was watching NOVA tonight, and saw a sculpture called Kryptos, which contains coded messages about light and darkness, and the wonder of discovery, embedded within it. An awe inspiring piece. (As a complete aside, there was also a marvelous piece about the discoverer of gravitational lensing and how he’s giving back to his community.) Then [...]

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18 Jul 2007 0604H

Designing human error out of windows, doors

Not that windows, made by that firm in Redmond, WA, but glass and wood and plastic windows. Some kid fell out of a window in a high rise in Toronto, reports the CBC and so on Metro Morning this morning, they brought in an industrial designer to talk about how they might approach the problem [...]

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13 Jul 2007 1000H

Customer service as design investment

Just wanted to talk about this article from MSN that says Sprint’s dumping 1000 customers because they complained too much. I can’t say that this is entirely due to consumer fraud, because if it were the case, would Sprint rate so far down the scale in consumer service? (Perhaps Sprint should not have rebranded with [...]

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04 Jul 2007 1825H

Two notes for July 4th

We had a Weber grill, a black one, for about 20-30 odd years, which we trundled out every summer for the obligatory cookout. This year, since the family has expanded now that my sister has two kids, and we’re no longer stoked (so to speak) about using charcoal, I bought another Weber to replace it. [...]

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03 Jul 2007 0752H

My Design Barbie making a comeback?

Says this press release on BizJournals. (We wrote about My Design Barbie back in January.) But it’s disintermediating the entire online channel! FAO Schwarz is entering into the customized Barbie thing as a way to drive traffic to stores with an exclusive in-store experience. Of course it will be using touchscreens to put the doll [...]

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01 Jul 2007 2143H

Have you seen Everyday Edisons? On PBS?

Caught it by chance this morning on one of our four PBS HD channels. Everyday Edisons allows people in competition to take an idea from thought to paper and then the whole design and ideation process, including prototyping, and also there’re some intellectual property aspects. It’s hard to be excited about work after you do [...]

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27 Jun 2007 1856H

Wasting away again in . . . oh never mind

Trapped at MCI on account of inclement weather. For those keeping track at home, this makes 12 hours this week spent waiting in an airport. Even after having gotten in at 3AM this morning into Kansas City, it turned out to be a pretty productive morning. It’s a little curious, but when I get to [...]

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23 Jun 2007 2123H

Look at the iPhone?

I’m just as tired as everyone else is about hearing about the iPhone. But there’s a guided tour of the iPhone released the other day which I think is probably worth studying just to get an overview of the functions and more importantly, what Apple does not say about the iPhone, viz. what the thing [...]

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