Article by Martin Gibson – @embody3d @martingibson – Monday – 8/08/11
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We had the great pleasure of talking to Barton Smith an industrial/user-interface designer at QPC which are developing the Ouidoo platform, an exciting new mobile platform which utilises technologies like augmented reality among others. Barton explains his journey from humble Monash University in Melbourne Australia to one of the most innovative open platforms in the mobile market [...]
Article by Martin Gibson – @embody3d @martingibson - 02.10.2010 Rating: Have you ever considered once what your company colour(s) even mean and what they say about your organisation to perhaps the thousands of individuals that interact with it day in and day out? Or was your company colours something that was conjured many years ago by a designer [...]
Rapid prototyping is a tool that can be utilized by industrial designers to stem the gap between sketches on a notepad or a CAD model to making the huge commitment of mass producing parts. Traditionally designers have used materials like modelling clay or foam to construct prototypes or presentation models. But let’s face it, these techniques require lots and [...]
Article after article, interview after interview on Embody3D has revealed one very prevalent theme, which is China’s inundation and domination of world manufacturing. Whether you’re in America and you thought Mexico was enough competition, then there was China. Whether you’re in developed Europe and you thought the baltic states and Eastern Europe was enough competition, [...]
Unless you have been living under a cave the last couple of months you would know about the impending Apple release next week supposably featuring a new Apple Tablet potentially called the ‘ISlate’ ‘IPad’ ‘ITablet’ or for apple enthusiasts ‘Newton 2′. Despite countless rumours from Macrumours, Apple Insider, Endgadget, Gizmodo (all which are great sites [...]
Each year for a week CES or the Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas) an array of ultra cool gadgets and concepts from some of the largest players in the industry including Samsung, Lenovo, Toshiba, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, HP, HTC, Motorola, 3M, LG, Intel, Sony , Dell, Palm, Philips and much much more, as well as [...]
This post titled: ‘User Interface and Products’ is a three part look at the design of interfaces from a product design perspective. In this first part I will give an introduction into what are interfaces and the importance of the interface in modern products. The second part of the series I will state a design [...]
In this post I will talk about what a logo is, what they do, how they should be designed, protecting logos and logos in relation to product designers. I will be talking about logo theory in reference to a logo for a business, not an event logo or product logo, although some of the lessons will [...]
There is a fine art to website optimisation. It is a very necessary service for creating sales leads from an emerging web market place. Nearly all markets now have a considerable web presence from the young to the old. Like local competition wasn’t difficult enough many service industries are competing against international competitors who often [...]
