Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category

Dean Kamen Unplugged

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Segway inventor Dean Kamen- that’s Lord Dumpling to you-has taken his private island off the grid. He replaced every light bulb on the island with LEDs as part of a larger effort to advertise zero net energy living. He and his lighting guru, on loan from Philips Color Kinetics, took Spectrum’s Sally Adee on a tour of the nuts and bolts of the operation, including the solar and wind energy generation, the Stirling engine backup generator, and the systems engineering that makes it all work together.

VIA: IEEE Spectrum

Scott Robertson Interview

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Scott Robertson

Scott Robertson is a big hitter in the design world. He know what he wants and he gets what he wants. He has carved out a solid career for himself as a respected product designer, lecturer, author, publisher and even computer games developer – and that’s just for starters. This man is driven.

However don’t mistake this go-getter attitude for arrogance. The fact is you’d be hard pushed to find a more modest person. This is someone who’s got where he is today because of pure passion for design – Something that has never wilted in his 40 years on this planet.

Below is an image and small exert of Scotts from the book ‘Concept Design 2‘:

Scott Robertson - Launch Crane

“This was a really fun piece to do because it came together so easily. A value sketch was done first, by compositing some photographs I had taken of various things, none of which could be identified by the time I had collaged them together in Photoshop. I looked at the collage for some time and found what I thought could be an interesting composition, then I went into roughing out the forms. Since I started with the collage, I already had a hint of depth due to atmospheric perspective. I simply tried to find the shapes that were already in the piece.”

Concept Design 2 provides insight into the design process of some of the worlds top designers and is filled with glorious colour prints of their work. It is an indispensable addition to the library of anyone who appreciates entertainment design. Concept Design 2 will take you on an imaginative and personal journey throughout the minds of 24 world renowned and fabulously skilled artists.

Download the interview PDF …

VIA: designstudiopress.com

Design Droplets – Designer Q&A with C. Sven Johnson

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Designer Q&A with C. Sven Johnson

The team at Design Droplets have done a really great job going out and interviewing some major international faces in the international ID world. In this interview Raph Goldsworthy asks C. Sven Johnson about the future of Product Development Tools, Transreality and potential design futures.

Read the full interview here.

VIA: Design Droplets