A visit to Selfridges
Last week, I paid a visit to a very popular multi-brand store called Selfridges. Its on Oxford Street in London. Its a very popular store in U.K. As I enter the store I saw very sophisticatedly designed shops of different brands. The shops with glass partitions. Shops...
Brief 4 – Timeline
This week's brief was very interesting. We had to think of critical thinkers, designers, artists and design movements of all time and put their names on a timeline on a huge piece of paper. This exercise help us recognise critical thinking. It helps us realise who the...
The man who wore sanitary napkins
I want to tell you about this amazing man. His name is Arunachalam Muruganantham. He is a brilliant entrepreneur. Essentially he is a social design innovator. In my earlier post What is Design Innovation? I said that a design innovation is essentially a progressive...
Conflict
When we work with others in a group, sometimes there are difference of opinion and often this situation leads to conflict. Why does it happen? This question often boggles my mind. How a group of people who are working to achieve same or at least similar goal, end up...
Clockwork of the soul
I came across this amazing piece of innovation on Facebook. I was so mesmerized by it that I decided to look more into it. So I found out about the great Dutch artist Theo Jansen. He had been working for over two decades of his life to develop these 'creatures' which...
Brief 2 – Identify an Online Brand
A new brief came our way on 1st October. It said that working in groups, we were to identify a new online brand, product or service and address a few questions: Who is the target audience? Who or what are the main competitors? What is if anything is effective about...
Brief 1 – Identify 3 Good Designs and 3 Poor Designs
Our first brief was to analyse and present three examples of Good design and three poor designs. We were free to critique them and were suppose to study them thoroughly so as to face the cross-questioning session. So here are my 3 good and 3 poor design examples.....
What is Design Innovation?
On my first day of college, my Tutor asks me what is Design Innovation? I think to myself, 'hey what do you know, I never ever thought about it. I don't think I know the exact words in which I can describe it.' Come to think of it, I feel that I have always tried to...
Brief 1 – First Cut
This was our first exercise for at UCA. We were supposed to work in groups and make observations in a certain environment (in this case the Shoreditch Triangle) and negotiate views and ideas and come to a common consensus. As I visited the area, we strongly got...
Visit to Shoreditch Triangle
With my start of the session at UCA, we had the privilege to go to Shoreditch Triangle in London, during the London Design Festival. Our tutors Brian and Sue don't leave anything to chance. They wanted us to grab this opportunity, so there I was exploring the city of...