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Building Boats… in 2 Hours or Less
This is something of a ‘blast from the past’. A few years ago I competed in the (then) annual Sea Capers Build-a-Boat Challenge. The rules were slightly different every year, but the gist of it was to design and build a boat for less than $100 (Canadian, even) in two hours or less, and then…
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Now Serving Salt Spring Coffee
I am now on contract with Salt Spring Coffee Company in their Marketing and Design department. Responsibilities include design and production work for a number of their packaging projects and print collateral, and design and technical work on their Joomla-based web site. Glad to be aboard!
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Better Manuals
A few simple points like these can make the difference between instructions or a manual that will help and support your user versus one that will frustrate and discourage. Often these materials are your users first contact with your support system. Leave them with a positive feeling about how you take their enthusiasm for your…
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Yanko Design News
Here’s another interesting source Yanko Design – Modern Industrial Design News. It’s sort of an unfiltered, shallow-but-broad collection, but there are some interesting comments and lots of articles. Technorati Tags: industrial design, sites
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Big on Small
I’m a big guy who likes small things. “Big” is not just a vague, subjective call. I’m 5cm short of 2 meters tall, and 100 kilo’s. Anthropometric studies peg my size at the 95th percentile for North America. (This is especially convenient for consumer product development, since it’s typical to try to cover 90 percent…
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Peregrine’s Perch
Here’s another shameless plug: my old house is for sale: check it out. It’s a beautiful, quiet location not far from Ganges, and a 2 minute walk from some very beautiful coves and beaches. Great for biking into the famous Saturday Market. It has broadband and a separate building that’s perfect as a rental suite,…
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Found on Flickr
Flickr makes it easy to share store, organize and share photos. It’s a great tool for both business and personal life. If you want to be found on Flickr, though, it takes just a few moments longer. Here are a few tips for getting the most out of this great service…. Edit your photos before…
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Apple’s Design Process
Somewhat surprisingly to me, BusinessWeek has become a high profile advocate for design, and especially industrial design. They have regular articles, both in print and on the web, and they even have a design competition. This article by Helen Walters has some interesting info about the design process at Apple. Their recent successes and the…
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The Janet Greene Fund
Janet Greene was about as positive a person as you might ever meet. Most of the time I spent with her was at my mother’s family’s cottage in Thousand Islands Park in upstate New York. I have fond memories of evening walks among the beautiful Victorian cottages there, and of boating on the river. My…