Design Juices

Who We Are

Design Juices is an online Design magazine which I have owned and run since it’s inception in late January 2010, this idea stemmed from my love of design and creativity and previous attempts at writing across the web. I had previous experience in writing for small blogs on blogspot of my own and also for a friends amateur design blog. I then took the plunge to setup and write for my own site, writing about the topics from which I am inspired by each week.

I cannot write everyday, so a big amount of credit must go towards the many guest contributors and writers who take their time out to write for Design Juices. I have been able to build up some great relationships with other designers from whom have had really good responses from writing on Design Juices. Guest writing is a big part of my online life, I love to social network and partake in social media. Find me on Twitter and many other social media sites.

Who is Jared Thompson?

I am a 21 year old Product Design graduate from Bolton (Greater Manchester) England.

I have setup and run Design Juices as a interactive online design magazine of inspiration and design advice. I have a keen interest in all aspects of design and love to write and showcase great works of design and creativity from all the web and the world.

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What is Design Juices?

Here on Design Juices I also love to work with guest writers and people in writing about all things design, I’m very open to working with new people at any time in writing articles on any aspect of design.

I love to write on a daily basis for both Design Juices and Nenuno Creative, I am currently an unemployed graduate and looking for my first step up the employment ladder. I have attained a degree in Product Design (BSc) which I hope to build upon, this past June I exhibited my final years portfolio of work at the London New Designers Exhibition.

Why Product Design? What Inspires me?

Within Product Design I have picked up several great influences in my design ethics and aesthetics, and I owe a great deal of thanks to my teachers at College. I have a great deal of love for the Bauhaus design movement, this modernist movement inspired many of today’s designers and I love the simplicity and modernist styles from which the Bauhaus designers all worked towards. I think a personal design icon has got to be Dieter Rams.

Dieter Rams is a designer from Germany who changed the whole make-up of Braun electronics to a more functional product design process, his work is most know for his ‘ten principles of design.‘ Someone which I have been massively influenced by in my education of design, who was also heavily influenced by Dieter Rams, is Jonathan Ive. His work for Apple has turned their fortunes around massively. Would the iPod and iMac have been what they are today without the industrial design knowledge and styles of Jonathan Ive?

My Personal ‘Design Mantra.’

I have developed a specific skill set in design which incorporates the ethics and design styles of the Bauhaus design movement and the modern simplicity of Jonathan Ive. I have also taken a lot of inspiration from the Ford ‘Kinetic Design‘ movement and would also claim to be inspired by designers such as Daniel Eatock and Dieter Rams especially. I love to spent time writing and researching all aspects of design; web, graphic, industrial and many more. I have a keen interest in writing for other design sites where I have built up a large design community of friends and acquaintances across the many online social network streams; such as Twitter, Stumbleupon, Flickr, DeviantART & Facebook.

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