The CG Annual Report is done and is with shareholders. For 14 years, Crompton Greaves Annual Reports have been designed by ICD. We’ve seen the company through several phases, through turnarounds, slumps, high flying ambitions and the eventual return to earth. Including the latest, with control passing into new hands. CG is a formidable company,… Continue reading CG Annual Report
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Not a flash in the pandemic
Speculating on post-coronavirus life is a raging contagion that infects the worker-from-home. Prior susceptibility is needed. It attacks the mind, causing fevered contemplation of the design of things in a post-corona world. It’s harmless: once you’ve read this, you can wash your hands and move on. Caveat: how the pandemic will play out is unknown.… Continue reading Not a flash in the pandemic
Clear and present danger
Some innovations succeed to the point of redefining the problem they tackle. Some give way to better ones, or having served their time, fade into the section of the graveyard reserved for the no-longer-needed. Yet others fail flagrantly, and quickly: tagged as laughable, or a good idea poorly executed, or ill timed. A broad consensus… Continue reading Clear and present danger
Innovation and all that
If there’s a bigger darling than design these days, it’s innovation. We’re seeing a tendency to link, or in geo-political jargon, hyphenate them; in academese, conflate the two; at any rate, we’re &-ing them. Most will agree that It’s a Batman and Robin thing, and innovation is the caped crusader. Design belongs downstream. An enabler,… Continue reading Innovation and all that