Industry Scavanger Hunt

Yesterday we went on an Industry Scavenger Hunt in Farringdon. The point of this hunt was to get us thinking about other ways of finding design studios around London rather than just googling them. So we were given a task to find three design studios, then take an interview from a designer, get a business card from another one and take photos of one of the studios. We were put into groups of threes.

The IDEO Studio

In the beginning of the hunt, we found the IDEO studio, and asked at the reception if we could meet one of their designers and have a chat for five minutes, luckily they weren't busy at that time, so we met their Industrial Designer, I forgot to note his name down. We talked to him about what he studied and how he got into IDEO and how he finds working there. He was very nice and friendly and gave us answers to all our questions. What we found out from him was that he graduated in Industrial design from Central Saint Martins and straight after his degree he got and internship at IDEO in July 2007, and then was kept on permanent and has been working there since then. He told us that at IDEO they like to have T shape designers, it means that they like people who are good at two things at a time, one their own specialization and an extra thing on top of that, like he is an industrial designer there which is the stem of T and the top (extra thing) is the graphic designer. Here are a few photos we took at the IDEO studio.

This is our group looking at the small exhibition corner in the studio.

This is the phone designed by IDEO.

The first laptop design by IDEO and also I was quite surprised to see these white kitchen accessories were designed by them too as I bought all of them a few days ago as I loved their distinctive style, the ones I bought were in bright colours.

Pictures of some more stuff designed by them.

Visit to the GREY Studio

So for our second task, we found this really nice studio in Farringdon. I quite liked the interior of the whole studio, it was very well designed and had a contemporary feel and look to it. So it was a rather good hunt for our second task which was to take photos of a design studio.

This is the picture of their reception area.

The display wall for different stuff designed by them.

The 3rd Task

The third task which was to get a business card from a designer, sounded like the easiest one, but came out to be the most difficult one, as by the time we had finished the first two tasks, it was about lunchtime and we couldn't find any more designers. So we kind of cheated a bit and took a business card from a printers shop.

So it was quite a fun day and a really good experience on the whole.