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Want more passion from you automotive product?  See Hyundai for examples.

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 9:07 am on July 19, 2010

Hyundai and Kia have made immense gains in the past decade by re-invigorating their brand with truly unique designs and exciting offerings with their products such as the sporty Rear-wheel drive Hyundai Genesis coupe and Sedan, and attractive yet affordable Front wheel drive Kia Forte, Soul and Sorento. Consumers...

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From car design to innovation consultant – a story about joining Idea Couture

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 10:41 am on June 17, 2010

My career up until 2007 had been about design and styling on the exteriors and interiors of automobiles.  This type of design work is essential for car companies, as it is better aligns the appearances and function with the demographic in mind for a brand.  While working at GM Holden in Australia,...

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Bygone Nostalgic Design VS. the Emerging World.  Part 2

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 8:03 pm on May 20, 2010

To address better ways of integrating Transportation in Urban environments requires a very wide-angle perspective lens in order to view the whole scenario of life in an urban environment as well as those in and around the  emerging world. It requires that we put ourselves on the same streets of the...

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Bygone Nostalgic Design VS. the Emerging World.  Part 1

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 10:01 am on May 18, 2010

Traditionally, the notion of Beauty and Elegance is what makes classic examples of automotive design, which is designed to encourage observers to dream about an irreverent future.  In the early days of the 1920’s and 1930’s these notions of dramatic proportions were predicated on people who lived...

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Meet these Eco-friendly Innovators on Earth Day

Posted by: ltse, at 12:00 am on April 22, 2010

Recently there have been a few great and green projects that have caught my eye and feel the need to share these innovations with all of you… The Clever Little Bag by Puma Recently Puma announced the Clever Little Bag that will reduce their environmental footprint. As a shoelover, a shoebox is...

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From Logs to Logarithms

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 1:22 pm on April 20, 2010

As designers/industrial designers/architects/visionary futurists we must be able to employ many tools, and with the passing of the hand-drawn ship curves we are now permanently entering the realm of an almost fully digital process.   With so many new softwares becoming available, the creative...

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Automobiles to Fembots

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 5:54 am on April 16, 2010

Automobiles of the future and the Designers who develop them are at a decisive moment in history.  The Automotive design field as a whole which has notoriously been a heavily veiled and secretive field is now in state of accelerated change.  Previously, only a select lucky few have ever had the chance...

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Magazine you can wear and play

Posted by: ltse, at 8:31 am on March 29, 2010

I stumbled upon this very innovative magazine that you can actually wear it.  Like the regular subscribed magazine, each “issue”, designed by T-Post will focus on one news issue. In this past issue, you can play rock, paper, scissors with the t-shirt through a webcam. Not only it take publishing...

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HCI IS PLAYING CATCHUP WITH FAST CHANGING COMPUTING PARADIGMS

Posted by: Idris Mootee, at 12:03 pm on January 13, 2010

Industry (aerospace, telecom, defense, automotive, consumer electronics, etc.) has developed a growing interest in Human-Computer Interaction. They see it as being powerful with numerous features but that does not ensure a product will be successful at all without having a clear usage understanding by...

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Engineer Desirability That They Don’t Teach You In Design Schools

Posted by: Idris Mootee, at 12:37 pm on December 29, 2009

Being the dean of a design school is no easy job today. Design schools are struggling to serve three masters: the student, the industry and society. The last one is a new one as generally designers have now come to a consensus that designs for social change is a part of the design agenda. With limited...

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