It’s Speculation, All The Way Down

You'll see it too, when you start glazing over.
August 11, 2025
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5 min read
March 2, 2025
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2 min read

February Linkdump

A collection of interesting design, design-adjacent, and unrelated links for February 2025.
February 24, 2025
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5 min read

The Halo in the Holistic

To have a great design, first you need a good one.
February 17, 2025
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6 min read

The Devil in the Details

How attention to detail turns good design into great design.
February 10, 2025
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6 min read

Get Mad

An old Industrial Designer yelling at Copic marker refills.
February 9, 2025
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4 min read

Design Glossary

A glossary of terms I use throughout this blog which may not be familiar to some readers. Continually updated.
February 3, 2025
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6 min read

Invisible

How can we expect people to care about design when they don't even see it?
January 31, 2025
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2 min read

January Linkdump

A collection of interesting design, design-adjacent, and unrelated links for January 2025.
January 27, 2025
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5 min read

2025

What will you spend your time doing this year?
January 20, 2025
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4 min read

And That’s Why We Only Focus On Medical…

Retrospective Series: Republishing some of my original articles when I first started Virtimachi in 2021.
January 13, 2025
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4 min read

When Should Industrial Design Be Engaged As Part of Development?

Retrospective Series: Republishing some of my original articles when I first started Virtimachi in 2021.
January 6, 2025
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3 min read

What Can Industrial Design Do For Your Medical Device?

Retrospective Series: Republishing some of my original articles when I first started Virtimachi in 2021.
December 30, 2024
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6 min read

Choosing the Right Industrial Design Partner

Retrospective Series: Republishing some of my original articles when I first started Virtimachi in 2021.
December 26, 2024
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1 min read

Linkdump: Clearing the Decks on 2024

A collection of interesting design, design-adjacent, and unrelated links for what's left of 2024.
December 23, 2024
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3 min read

The best time to plant an apple tree was thirty years ago; the next best time is now.

Retrospective Series: Republishing some of my original articles when I first started Virtimachi in 2021.
December 16, 2024
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6 min read

Have You Got Taste?

What is taste in a world of tasteless hype? And importantly, what do we do about it?
December 9, 2024
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5 min read

How Much Design Gets Lost In Realisation?

How do the tools we use change our designs as they exit our heads?
December 2, 2024
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6 min read

The Seven Levels of Tutorial Hell

What getting stuck in tutorial hell taught me about learning.
November 25, 2024
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5 min read

The Fragility of Ideas

How to deal with the fickleness of our human creativity.
November 18, 2024
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6 min read

Is Design Too Cool For School?

Is a degree still a necessary investment for a career in Industrial Design?
November 11, 2024
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7 min read

Managed vs Collaborative

How does a managed project differ from a collaborative project? And which one is the right one?
November 4, 2024
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4 min read

They Can’t All Be Bangers

It's ok that your work sucks sometimes.
November 2, 2024
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2 min read

October Linkdump

A collection of interesting design, design-adjacent, and unrelated links for October 2024.
October 28, 2024
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7 min read

Minimalist Travelling

Optimised packing for speed and comfort.
October 21, 2024
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5 min read

Show Your Working

How can a single concept deliver as much value as 50 concepts?
October 14, 2024
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7 min read

Tesla Cybercab

An Opinionated Design Analysis
October 7, 2024
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5 min read

Learning Design Skills

The skills we want to learn as designers are usually not the ones we need.
October 1, 2024
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3 min read

September Linkdump

A collection of interesting design, design-adjacent, and unrelated links for September 2024.
September 30, 2024
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5 min read

The Aesthetic Bandwagon

If you're copying what's cool now, it's already too late.
September 23, 2024
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6 min read

Rendering Low-Res Screens for Product Visualisation

How to add a little more texture to your renderings.
September 16, 2024
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5 min read

The Cult of Work

Spending more time and ticking more boxes doesn't mean more value.

ⓒ Lincoln Black 2024

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