It's time to work on some new design projects.

With two similar designs to ones I've created popping up recently, I think it's time for me to put some new work out in the world:

Did Urban Outfitters rip me off? Or Suck UK? Or is this idea floating in conceptual zeitgeist?

The original exhibited earlier this year:



See 'Stimulation' in more detail at craightonberman.com.


A recent lamp by British designer Guy Brown:




Coil Lamp, created in 2008:



I emailed with Guy, and he was really nice about it all-- he had never seen Coil before. He had considered making his lamp the way I made mine, and actually I had considered his wire frame solution as well.

So, the take-a-way for me is two-fold:

1. I need to make more projects to stay a head of the design zeitgeist.
   
   
2. Even in the age of Google it's still basically impossible to search for conceptual ideas to see if they already exist. Ideas have no physical form, and are difficult to search for. Search engines are text driven, not image driven. Press & blog coverage is imperatively important.
   

  9/29/2009