30 dumb inventions?!

Just spotted an article from the LIFE and it's about 30 stupid or useless inventions made in the past 50 years or so. Looks like the inventors are trying hard to be smart or they just designed it for fun? 
By the way, the Hubbard Electrometer, 1968 reminds me of Roald Dahl's short story 'The Sound Machine'. Ridiculously hilarious.

Link: http://www.life.com/gallery/25371#index/0

7 tips for better relationships and networking

This article is pretty useful in my opinion, and the given tips are something that we could and should learn as industrial designers. The article is about how to make better connections with other people and organize ourselves.

Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/112239/7-networking-no-nos

Knowing smart products

These are some of the simple but clever products that have made quite a success and most of them are selling like hot cakes! They are not really 'life changing' products but I find that the inventors are quite thoughtful.

Here's the link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42978992?slide=1

 

Source: CNBC

My Piranesi: Behind-the-scenes

Technically, we've got 9 more days to finish up our Piranesi drawings. Hopefully, everything will be done by next Wednesday. So far so good, nearly 25% of the drawing has been completed but still got a lot of work to be done. It took me about 6-7 hours to finish 25% of the drawing.

Mind mapping

Mind mapping is a great tool to enhance our creativity and would improve our thinking skills. It could even help us to generate new ideas while drawing the map. I always try and learn to draw mind maps, especially thinking hard and smart of new ideas for assignments, drawings, daily activities and so on. I find that mind maps have the ability to engage and interest us to do things that we do not find it interesting at all.

                                   
Do try to learn and draw mind maps! It might become one of your best ways on how to plan your work more effectively and fun at the same time.

7 insights to make you a great designer

There was a topic on a website called 'Design Droplets' and it's about seven ways/reminders/advices to be a good designer. It's an old link but the info is pretty useful for us. Do check it out and I hope you would learn something from it, whether new or old.

 Link: http://designdroplets.com/articles/7-insights-great-designer/