Divergence on Demand
Generative AI delivers variants by the minute. What research on fixation, homogenisation and critique says about whether judgement grows along with them.
Impasse Is Not a Pause
Intention stalls. Not dramatically—more awkwardly: an artefact that has the technique and refuses the form.
Sticky Notes Aren’t a Strategy Yet
Monteiro describes a scene you know without ever having loved it: strategy translated into colourful sticky notes, heterogeneity in the studio, a “creative flash”. Design is made acceptable by leaving out the hard dimensions.
Design Knowledge Management Dislikes
Classic knowledge management thinks in SECI cycles, cubes and levels – useful, but blind to design. Thoring and colleagues state it plainly: without an understanding of what makes design knowledge distinct, a company’s capacity to innovate declines.
Patina is use, not distress theatre
In the repair shop an inherited object sits on the bench — third generation of the same family. Time was the author; hands were the tools.
Problem and Solution Wander Together
The kick-off is solemn, the briefing on the wall like a will. A week later the problem was never the problem — it wandered with the first solution.
The Ghost Shift
The ghost shift is the nicest team you ever had. It shows up on time, it does not complain, it does not want remote Fridays.
Design as Checkbox
Design integration is often treated as a trendy checkbox rather than a strategic necessity. Whoever only ticks the box gains the appearance of progress.
The Spark Comes from the Side
The spark is not a bolt from nowhere. It comes from the side: not harder in the same track, but leaving the track.
The line becomes a vessel
A sketch becomes a turned form. Shape Shifter, a SOL LAB studio tool: line to vessel, download as STL.
Between Things
Design rarely begins with the object alone. It begins where things, people, and systems meet and set one another in motion.
Form and Technology
Form today often emerges on the screen: command, mesh, export. The surface is clean, the decision quick, the result interchangeable.
Form comes from holding back
The less a form explains, the stronger it lands. The essential only shows once everything superfluous has been left out.
Auteur Design and the Cavallino
Ferrari has taken its first step into electric with the Luce, and entrusted the form to Jony Ive and LoveFrom. The result is precise, rich in material, and rigorously minimal.