Fun with Design and Technology in Singapore: Good Design for Everyday Living Part 1

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Good Design for Everyday Living Part 1

I posted this great design video by Dick Powell, one of the founders of SeymourPowell, an award-winning company from Britain in 2009. Thus this is just a repost. There are a total of 8 parts of the video. This is part 1. He gave a great presentation of the design process of conceptualizing, developing,evaluating and realizing product. Do view the rest of the videos.

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Design Quotes

"The best way to a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. Charles Eames"

``You see things, and you say: `Why?' But I dream things that never were, and I say `Why not?' '' George Bernard Shaw

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."Freeman Thomas"

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognise it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."David Herbert Lawrence

Design is a response to social change.George Nelson

Design is art optimized to meet objectives.Shimon Shmueli, Founder of Touch360

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it’s also about the ability to do systems thinking.James P. Hackett, President and CEO, Steelase

Design is not a plan for decoration.Brian Collins, Executive Creative Director, Brand Integration Group, Ogilvy & Mather

Design, in the end, is about creating better things for people. Along the way, it can generate better profits as well.Bruce Nussbaum, Editorial Page Editor, Business Week

Design is everything. Everything!Paul Rand, Graphic Design Pioneer and Educator

Design is an integrative process that seeks resolution (not compromise) through cross-disciplinary teamwork. Design is intentional. Success by design simply means prospering on purpose.Michael Smythe, Partner, Creationz Consultants

Design—in terms of thinking and process—is the champion of the future, envisaging and interpreting insights and ideas through strategy, ideas, products, spaces and communications.Peter Haythornthwaite, Principal, creativelab

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