BMW and Tesla are currently the two main contestants locked into an electric arms race to be top dog in the electric(ish) super(ish) car sector based on BMW’s release of the new i8 hybrid roadster Who will win? Our prediction highlights the role of vision in creating truly ground-breaking products…

How do I react to a generic, blanket email from someone looking for a job as a product designer? Emails asking for a favour and with very little thought behind them tend to get a similar (usually internal…) response from me. If you’d like some feedback – on the plus side I quite liked the […]

We’ve talked about this before – the Plinth Tablet Stand is one of those innovative products that you don’t know you need until you have one and start using it. Then you realise that it’s brilliant – especially when at the push of a button it springs out of a little flat plastic package into a […]

It was Einstein’s birthday yesterday. He was born 155 years ago. So it is remarkable how relevant his thinking is today. What I find fascinating was his ability to visualise the universe in many unusual and complex ways, and yet distil this into simplicity. This seems to have not just given him the insights that […]

Here’s an email I received last month. It comes from China. A manufacturer in China, I think. There are many things I like about this. What I like best is that it touches me. It is of course ridiculous… Having spent years working at becoming leaders in the field of electronic products, I discover that […]