Posted in Communication, Design on May 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
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Most individuals upgrade their computers every three years whereas they change their mobile phones annually. This results in millions of phones that need to be disposed of every year.
One of the reasons consumers’ replace their phones is the pace of change in hardware, features, and software (interfaces).
Manufacturers like Nokia did, in [...]
Posted in General on May 15th, 2007 No Comments »
I couldn’t resist this when I saw it in the shops recently. I was attracted to it because of it’s white colour. The fragrance is called Fleur du Male and it’s from Jean Paul Gaultier.
The torso shaped bottle comes in a metal tin which, at first, looks as if it needs to be opened with [...]
Posted in Communication, General on May 10th, 2007 No Comments »
For me Simplicity and Elegance go hand-in-hand. On a recent trip to the Design Museum in London I came across the book The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda.
Maeda has reduced the laws of simplicty down to 10 in number. Briefly the laws are;
Reduce
Organise
Time
Learn
Differences
Context
Emotion
Trust
Failure
The One : Which is a law that tries to encapsulate the [...]