Chinese factories have traditionally excelled at manufacturing products, with any deficiencies in skills compensated for by low labour costs. However, this reliance on cheap labour is now becoming a thing of the past.
Since we design lots of shapes as macro-concepts for the products that we design we started exploring the Influence of Sexual Shapes in Product and Industrial Design. Macro Concepts are basic shapes that could act as a shell of the components contained in the device and they often have a relationship with the hand or part of the body of the user. Sexual shapes are always around the corner, lofts and sweeps often take to organic shapes that resemble sex toys or torture instruments. Here are a few of them.
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Tools like DALL.E are changing the way designers work. The possibility to see thousands of concepts [...]
Biomimicry, also known as biomimetics, is the practice of using design inspiration and strategies fr [...]
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We live in an interconnected world where even design processes are now connected. Modern communicati [...]
I was recently reading the beginning of the amazing Gillo Dorfles' book "Introduction to Industrial [...]
Our clients often ask about the future of their products. Especially in a world of fast changing tec [...]
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Yes, we are Italians and all China talks about us, we have a fantastic culture, our design is recogn [...]
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Opening an office in Shenzhen means dealing with the most exciting and fertile environment for start [...]
What is “Open Design”? Open design it’s a design that everybody can reproduce because the company th [...]
Re mixing is taking samples of published songs, putting them together to build a new song; Eminem kn [...]
So here we are designing another working space for a futuristic IT Chinese company with office table [...]
During a recent convention on architecture, president Xi Jinping said that he wants to put an end to [...]
Patent law in modern mainland China began with the promulgation of the Patent Law of the People's Re [...]
Part of the new Chinese government silly protectionism is the new regulations about patenting. The C [...]
Chinese new challenge to evolve from the condition of “Factory of the World” to a nation that can ex [...]
Why is it important to understand Chinese Product Design? Because China today is the factory of the [...]
Thanks to my job I see customers everyday that come to my office or that I visit during the weekend [...]
"Next year we are going to bring some production to the U.S. on the Mac. We’ve been working on this [...]
I tried to ask myself why all the interior design projects that I see published in magazines and rev [...]
The IT market is getting faster and faster and China is facing a new era because nowadays suppliers [...]
The creative European entrepreneurs went to China to teach our way to do things, because they think [...]
There's a sentence by Bruno Munari which I'm always in love with and fits perfectly to creativity in [...]
Chinese design is today trying to conquer the world with the help of a huge productive system behind its shoulders. But does it have the right assets to succeed? Here’s a brief analysis of the most common concepts that pop out when you find yourself involved in the design of a product in China.
Mr. Wu lives in a five star hotel in the city, he's always surrounded by two big guys and he's very [...]
Recently I found an advertisement that tells us a lot about the attitude towards research and develo [...]
Computer Graphic Images (Rendering) are together the best and the worse part of the design project i [...]
It's pretty difficult for a normal Chinese person to travel outside the borders of their country. I [...]
