Tablet PC’s are around for quiet a while but when Apple is reinventing it there becomes a great deal of buzz and mania. Apple is a master in managing the perception around a new product and creates clang for the weeks before the launch and weeks after, very clever. So is the Ipad such a [...]
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Ipad Mania, managing perception
Two talks that inspired me in 2009
OK, so I won 4 Design Awards in 2008 / 2009. This brilliant talk of Malcolm Gladwell learned me its not about the Awards, its about what I’ve learned since I started as freelance designer during my studies in 1994. The awards are about recognition for giving myself the time to learn, make mistakes and [...]
-Newsflash- EYE-D Wins the Red Dot Award
Passion for creating innovative and attractive product- service combinations, talent and 15 years of experience and skill accumulated in winning the most prestigious award possible for an Industrial Designer, the famous Red Dot for the Vega Handheld Barcode Scanner Designed for Champtek from Taiwan. The Red Dot Website
The Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen (Essen, Germany) has [...]
Technology changes rapidly but do people change?
The titel of this blog is basically what has driven me for years and undaubtly will drive me the rest of my life.
To make a long story short, I believe that human behaviour is more predictable and stable then innovative technology. In this Blog I will walk through 2 very popular innovative technologies and services [...]
Innovate Or Die, Creativity Is Vital For Worldchanging Ideas
Bike manufacturer Specialized and Google launched a contest for Earth Changing Innovation based on bicycle mechanics http://www.innovate-or-die.com/ From the 102 projects that entered I like the variety of ideas and solutions people came up with. To me it proves that creativity is vital to paradigm shifts in comming up with solutions for a more sustainable [...]