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Article: PRODUCT DESIGN: Blur the boundaries.
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- February 24, 2005
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Designers from other disciplines who diversify and those who take an active role in the production of their creations are injecting new- found vitality into product design, says John Stones
Crossover is a word that can have distinctly pejorative overtones. Opera divas singing music they really shouldn't. That kind of thing. But people moving beyond their usual sphere, as well as traditional and comforting boundaries, can also result in genuine innovation as a fresh pair of eyes are brought into play.
The now ubiquitous cliche 'paradigm shift' has its origins in Thomas Kuhn's famous 1962 study of scientific revolutions, which found that changes in a ...