Posts Tagged Product Design
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Posted by Julie
I sewed my own “Beanie Babies” as a child. That’s right, I sewed ‘em up and stuffed ‘em with rice. I think that was the first hint that I might become a soft goods designer… or one of Santa’s elves.
When these plastic pellet- filled plush toys became a craze, I was just the right age to want them. But I was also just the right age to be required to use my own money to buy them. And when deciding what to spend my precious birthday money on, N SYNC discs were more of a priority to me than Beanies, so I never accumulated too many of the little critters.
However, not wanting the Beanie fad to completely pass me by, I resorted to sewing my own. I had already been sewing clothing for my Barbie Dolls for a couple of years, so why not plush toys? I wasn’t to be trusted using my mother’s sewing machine yet , so I completely hand-stitched my first couple of Beanies. I even made my own little heart-shaped tags for them with made up names, just like the real deal. I’ve always been obsessed with every little detail–perhaps another hint of what was to come in my adult life. (more…)
Add comment January 25, 2010
Industrious… by design
Posted by Julie
While I was getting my degree in Industrial Design (or “I.D.” as we call it in the trade), I was amazed at how many people really had no idea what our discipline really is. Most think it is some form of engineering–and while there can certainly be a lot of engineering involved, Industrial Design is not defined by it.
So today I just felt, for no particular reason, like blogging about what it is that we I.D. people do and why we love it…
1 comment November 25, 2009
