Say a product designer comes up with an idea for a pedometer armband.
"When we learned that there were five children who lost their lives that day, that's really what sparked the idea, " designer Keith Kaseman said.
Watson, says author and industrial designer Gordon Bruce, got the idea from Eliot Noyes--an unsung genius who, before he died in 1977, revolutionized the role design played in corporate life.
To bring his idea to life, the Silicon Valley-based designer first created a 3D computer model of the Tardis's interior using the free-to-use open source computer software programme Blender.
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He worked for a set designer on shows in New York and elsewhere, then toyed with the idea of becoming a doctor.
As they began to think about forming a business, Galeotti and Armani toyed with the idea of teaming up with Walter Albini, then an Italian designer who was becoming famous for his luxury women's sportswear.
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He came up with the idea in 1998, fresh out of college and already hating his job as an urban designer.
According to former Mattel designer Carter Bryant, messing with Barbie had become so taboo at the company that he took his idea for dolls with big heads and dressed in hip-hop clothes to competitor MGA in 2000--where they became Barbie's first true rival, Bratz.
The Tower Bridge idea was from a man called Tom Armitage, who describes himself as a twenty-something games designer and technologist.
Of course, accidentally publishing an entire website dedicated to the idea seems a bit crazy for something that wasn't even being pitched -- what kind of designer has that much free time?
The project began in the summer of 2010, when Rodrigo Corral, a book designer who has created covers for Junot Diaz, Jeffrey Eugenides and Jay-Z, began to toy with the idea of a visual novel that used images, rather than words, to tell the story.
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