Can A Tiny Company Compete With A Huge One?
I spent the first sixteen years of my career working for Polaroid Corporation starting out as a design engineer. It was one of the most…
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How to be the Best Designer in the World?
Have you ever wondered how you could be the best designer in the world? How to be that money making Design Virtuoso? I know I…
The Top 10 Mistakes Inventors Make
In working with numerous inventors and designers over the years, I’m surprised to see how many make the same errors. So from that perspective I’ve…
The Dark Side of Design
There is something really nasty about the Design Industry; something many know of but never really spoke of. In our ever-competitive society, we always seem…
20 Tips for Designers to Beat the Recession
It is all around us, talk of Doom, gloom, job cuts, job losses and recession etc. This is not what a young designer, fresh out…
Little Trailer That Almost
This is the story of one product evolution from idea, through design, prototype and finally production. You might notice how the idea came, how the…
The Arc Of The Project, A Real World Tale
Entrepreneurs/inventors go through many stages of enterprise and end to end can mean from product conception through to some resolution. The normal resolutions are sale…
From the Trenches by Zippy Flounder
Zippy Flounder; regulars will certainly recognize his name. His comments have been met with both colloquial admiration and austere criticism. Love him or hate him, he has…