In the last few days alone, I have listened to one designer predicting confidently that the styling of Nokia's new smart phones would soon surpass Apple's, and read an editorial in Creative Review magazine, which cast Microsoft in the Nemesis role by claiming that it may "have edged ahead of Apple in the design stakes" with its new operating software.
Since designers may belong to different technical and scientific cultures however, their understanding of both the design stakes and the evaluation process is too often biased.
Raising the ante in the city's design stakes, the high-concept Internacional Design Hotel has four types of room, each with a radically different aesthetic: Zen is minimalist and clean, while Urban has irreverent, brightly coloured artwork hanging from the walls (idesignhotel.com; Rua da Betesga 3; from £145).
Greenwood and Suddaby (2006), for example, used the instrumental case study design by Stake, combining network location theory and dialectical theory.
The case study research design by Stake (1995, 2000, 2005), for example, is based on constructivist assumptions and aims to investigate the social construction of reality and meaning (Schwandt 1994: 125).
Since it opened at the end of 1999, the trio of owners, Naomichi Yasuda, a master sushi chef; Shige Akimoto, the restaurant manager; and Scott Rosenberg, the business and design manager, staked the restaurant's reputation on a pure, uncompromised expression of the traditional art of sushi making.
While eLuxury is designed to stake a claim as the leader in online luxury, Sephora.com's presence as a straightforward e-tailer is comparatively modest.
1467 of 21 August 1873, designs for stakes were defined for each infantry corps, as well as battalion pennants.
Most weevils were caught with the sticky stake design, made from a pointed wooden stake inserted vertically into the ground with a band of polybutene sticker around the circumference and a plastic board fixed horizontally on top of the stake to provide protection of the sticky surface from rain.
Various modifications of the sticky board trap used in the original work were compared with boll weevil, funnel, delta and sticky stake designs.
