Check out this WSJ interview with Bang & Olufsen freelance designer,
David Lewis.
Definitely different than what I would have expected.
http://tinyurl.com/48d9py
- dave
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"It's really one man thinking a crazy idea" - wanted Senior Crazy Idea Man.
2008/7/1 David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Check out this WSJ interview with Bang & Olufsen freelance designer,
> David Lewis.
> Definitely different than what I would have expected.
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> http://tinyurl.com/48d9py
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Is there any good design that's not "at least" initiated by "one crazzy guy,
(or gal)"?
Rich
On 6/30/08, Steve Baty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> "It's really one man thinking a crazy idea" - wanted Senior Crazy Idea Man.
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> Joseph Rich Rogan
> President UX/UI Inc.
> http://www.jrro
Yes - but it does not make for great press, and is a much harder press
release to construct. Most everything in journalism these days is
subject initiated. Few journalist take the time to really be creative
and dig for story ideas. Its much easier to draw from a mountain of PR
efforts.
There is
Thanks Dave for that link. Two things really stand out to me:
1. "We wouldn't dream of doing something that wouldn't hold. This is part of
the culture."
Working in the USA, it seems that the whole product design & deployment culture
is based around planned obsolescence. I had to essentially thro
"As a designer or an engineer, you can only be open-minded and
flexible and ask how we can best realize the ideas these people have.
Sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong.
All I can do is keep making good design in every respect."
Yea, that's definitely going on the wall. Thanks
For an alternate perspective to this article, read about how Bang &
Olufsen's "great man" design process failed them in the past when
trying to enter the digital music market:
http://tinyurl.com/55t7g4
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To me that doesn't say anything bad about the process. Heck, Apple
has had a slew of failures. Fail big! is a designers mantra. Just
bounce back and keep going!
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30924
On Jul 2, 2008, at 5:47 AM, dave malouf wrote:
To me that doesn't say anything bad about the process. Heck, Apple
has had a slew of failures. Fail big! is a designers mantra. Just
bounce back and keep going!
Apple's Board of Directors wasn't completely replaced.
WSJ: A lot of changes are u
