As a designer working mainly with on screen design, I have had a few discussions about whether text in a design is readable or not. These discussions have previously resulted in a situation where one party ended up unhappy with the result because this was discussed as a matter of opinion. Fortunately, it’s possible to put [...]

The Aliens are Coming! We have now published the new website for The Alien Abduction Lamp, and we are showing a picture of a prototype for the first time! The picture shows the last prototype, and there will only be very small changes (if any) before production starts. If you have been following the progress [...]

  Freshome were among the first to write about the Alien Abduction Lamp back in june 2007, and I have been following them since then. They have now included the Alien Abduction Lamp in their list of 40 of the most creative lamp designs ever. I recommend this article to get a look at the other lamps. [...]

Standing before me on my desk at home is a fully functional prototype of the Alien Abduction Lamp – complete with lights and alien pilots. As the designer of this lamp, I am not going to begin to describe the feeling of holding a physical version of the lamp that I have been working with renderings [...]

I am happy to announce a project that I have been working on for a while now. The Abduction Lamp is not meant to be a toy. It is supposed to be made in high quality from metal and glass. It is my hope that someone with a playful mind like yourself would want to [...]

To publish or to protect Like many others, I have a few ideas that I am constantly playing around with. And like many others I even think that some of these ideas may one day be materialized into releasable products. It appears that one should worry more about waiting too long before publishing an idea [...]

I was recently hired by Opera Software to give a course on television design for the team responsible for adapting the Opera web browser for Nintendo Wii. With more than six years of experience in designing interactive applications and motion graphics for television, I found that this was a great trigger to write down some [...]