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R&D: The D Is for Design
Monty Montague, a principal at innovation consultancy Bolt, discusses how incorporating design into traditional R and D departments has led to major innovations at companies ranging from IBM to Herman Miller. (Audio
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IDEA Winners, 2008
Check out our extensive special report looking at the winners of this year's International Design Excellence Awards. Hat tip: Stephen GarnerFiled under Design
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Our World Today: Why Everything Is Designer
In the Times Online last week, Lisa Armstrong explores the issue, wondering what it’ll be like if (when) we live in a world where every single object around us, every experience we live, is touched by a designer’s hand - or at least branded to be so.Filed under Design
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The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design
Would you like a process to create more consistently creative work which distinguishes itself from the work of your peers? Would you like a process which would help translate the often vague, unclear wishes of your clients (and yourself, for that matter) into a clear and solid basis for your design? This manifesto will show you how. By Stephen HayFiled under Design
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Talking About Design
23 JUN 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»
David Lewis is responsible for some of Bang & Olufsen's most famous products. Here's how he does it.
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The 10 Commandments of Web Design
The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008.Filed under Design
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Two very different takes on public sculpture and art
Chicago understands public art in a public space. The public will only be interested if they can engage with it. Walk on it, play it in, look into it, touch it, brush up against it.
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PRODUCT DESIGN
23 JUN 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»
It's one thing to have a broad idea of what you want a product to be, but it's something else to figure out how it will all be put together and what it's going to look like. And behind every product, there's a story about why it looks the way it does. Here are seven of those stories, from a water-purifying straw to women's jeans that fit right, and starting with Callaway's i-brid golf club. (Subscription required)
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The New Direction of Design
BusinessWeek Innovation chief Bruce Nussbaum talks to Frank Tyneski, IDSA's Ducati-driving executive director about new directions for design and innovation. (Video
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Johnson & Johnson's Big Design Challenge
J&J Chief Design Officer Chris Hacker is a man with a mission: to bring sustainable design to corporate America.Filed under Design
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Importing Shenzen
Travelodge is in a hurry to build more hotels in London, and so it is importing its properties, pre-fab, in containers from China, reports Fred A. Bernstein in the New York Times (5/11/08). Travelodge current projects include two "modular" hotels, one in Uxbridge and the other near Heathrow airport. Both were designed by Travelodge with each room built as a metal container by a company called Verbus Systems near Shenzen, China, "ready to be stacked into buildings up to 16 stories tall."Filed under Design
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A New Mantra for Creativity
Executives should apply the "Order of Magnitude" rule to any problem that demands a creative solution.Filed under Design
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Great Numbers, Not So Great Design
30 APR 2008 from Subtraction | Read the full story»
Let me admit a real prejudice that I have, and maybe you can try to convince me that I’m wrong: it’s my belief that you just can’t get great design out of a design agency with a staff larger than a dozen or two. Design doesn’t scale well, in my opinion, or at least it doesn’t do so easily. This craft, and whatever pretensions to art it can pull off, rests so much on the efficiency of transferring ideas from the brain to the hand. This means that in its ideal form, it works best when practiced by a single person.
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pre-experience design
30 APR 2008 from russell davies | Read the full story»
I bet there's not a decent-sized corporation anywhere that enables process and experience designers to collaborate on 'expectation design' with marketing and communications people. It just doesn't work like that.
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Talk to the Newsroom: Khoi Vinh, Design Director
21 APR 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»
"[W]e pay a lot of attention to how people use our content online. That is, not just how they read it, but how they make use of it: how they might scan the page haphazardly rather than diligently reading from top to bottom; what parts of the page they look to first and last; what they expect to change from visit to visit; which visual cues are meaningful for them and which design flourishes they find useless."
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Pure Digital Flips the Script
How the Flip—a bare-bones digital camcorder—grew from a simple idea to a contender among giants like Sony.Filed under Design
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Fashion meets technology?
A few months ago, Michael Dell – the newly returned CEO of his eponymous computer company – said, "We are in the fashion business." Yowza. Add another notch on design’s bed post. Now, according to the FT, Microsoft has issued a research paper with the unlikely title "Fashion meets technology: Welcome to the future of PCs."Filed under Design
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The Flip takes 13% of the camcorder market by doing less
Pogue says the secret is that it just simply works. It’s always ready, it’s always trustworthy, it’s always with you. The quality isn’t the sell, the convenience and foolproofery is. You can’t make a mistake, you can’t do anything wrong. Its purpose is pure to the core: Shoot quick videos without thinking about it. I love it. Kudos to Pure Digital for having the discipline to make a camcorder for the rest of us.Filed under Design
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Director's Commentary: Amia Chair
Director's Commentary about the Amia chair. Thomas Overthun, a colleague of mine from IDEO, and Bruce Smith of Steelcase take us through its genesis.
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Is It Worth It?
"Good design" often comes with a hefty price tag. We pitted four popular, pricey products against their low-cost counterparts—with surprising results.Filed under Design
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The State of Indian Design
India's advertising industry is soaring, and a graphic design community is emerging. The country's most exciting creative talents talk about what the future might hold.
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Podcast: Design and the Elastic Mind
Paola Antonelli discusses a new exhibit that shows how design can transform so-called disruptive technologies, complex data, and scientific breakthroughs in surprising and creative works. (Audio)
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Design, democracy, and low expectations
12 FEB 2008 from Dan Pink | Read the full story»
Democracy is inspiring, the way we design it, not so much. I discovered that again this afternoon when I voted in the D.C. Democratic presidential primary. For example, here's the entrance of my polling place. Duct tape keeping up the main sign. The official placard resting on the ground. Nice. The whole aesthetic has a certain Soviet Union circa 1983 despair to it, don't you think?
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Is the Design Revolution Here? Can Designers get to the top of a publicly traded company?
In the past months I’ve read several articles and blogs about the possibility that Jonathan Ive, SVP of Industrial Design at Apple, could succeed Steve Jobs as CEO. As far as I can tell this is only a rumor, but it prompts the questions: Is corporate America ready for the design revolution? Can designers be CEOs?Filed under Design
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A New Model for Green Design
18 JAN 2008 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
A radical document, supported by industry organizations, major designers and leading consultancies, aims to set a new standard for sustainability in design.
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Everything By Design
Alan Lapidus, an architect of hotels and casinos, says his chosen profession is often called the world’s second-oldest, "but sometimes it bears a close resemblance to its older sister." His new book, "Everything By Design," reviewed by Eric Gibson in The Wall Street Journal, (12/26/07), "takes an unpretentious, even mordant, view of the field..."Filed under Design
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Connecting the Dots
Design has more bearing on industry and commerce than one might think. The education of future generations should place more emphasis on creativity and a successful integration of design thinking into these arenas.Filed under Design
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re-design netflix's envelope, or else
Netflix has been hailed as one of the most innovative business ideas in recent history. Much of its success has been down to the brilliant design of its envelope, a very simple, but important element that allows the business to function. It now appears this envelope has been adding costs the United States Postal Service that it can no longer tolerate.Filed under Design
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Work With Me, Baby
06 DEC 2007 from the New York Times | Read the full story»
FASHION is a stepchild, in photography no less than in other areas of the culture. The reach of the imagery it produces influences everything from trash television to presidential campaigns. Yet the slick work cranked out by the fashion machine is rarely taken seriously.
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Star Wars tatts -- best of body-art
The Force in the Flesh, a site that tracks Star Wars-themed body art, has done a roundup of its top-ten Star Wars tatts (including one angry, scarified Yoda). I'm very fond of these subtle, side-finger lightsabers. You could have endless duels during long train rides.
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Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Process
Photos follow the development of an external hard drive from concept to completion, with bonus shots of the machines and material needed for the process.Filed under Design
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Video tribute to designer Paul Rand - video
Here is a 4 minute Quicktime film tributing Paul's work, a delicious animated journey through very familiar shapes and colors as Paul explains graphic design. In short, it looks really great. (Video)
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better for the environment- hummer or prius?
[Nathan Shedroff's] presentation highlights the massively complex challenge involved in creating products that are better for the planet, because the definition and proof of what constitutes "better" is hard to come by and hard work to generate.Filed under Design
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Where Designers Rule
05 NOV 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
Electronics maker Bang & Olufsen doesn't ask shoppers what they want. Its faith is in its design gurus.
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Dell Is Getting Serious About the Customer Experience.
Dell is getting very serious about transitioning from the PC cube to the consumer experience.Filed under Design
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Enabling Innovation Through Office Design
15 OCT 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
Work has become more mobile and team-based, but most organizations have been slow in changing their workplaces to reflect the new reality.
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At Last! PC Industry Gets Serious About Good Design
Computer makers have discovered that good industrial design sells -- and some, like Dell and Hewlett Packard, are making well-designed products a priority.Filed under Design
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Active Design
Design should not only look great, but also make shoppers act. By Jonathan Dodd.Filed under Design
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What is Design Thinking? Who Teaches it Best?
Check out this video on design thinking. It's amazing. You have Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman Management School, Harry West head of strategy and innovation from Continuum, Dan Pink, Jeff Huang and others. (Video)
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As boomers go gray, will big money mean better tech?
Companies targeting a large retiree market with money and time to spare could result in better features for all.Filed under Design
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Paola the Populist
The design universe revolves around a woman who loves Q-tips, Post-its, and The Twilight Zone.Filed under Design
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Streamlining HP
"It's fine with me if design is regarded as nothing more than a business tool."-Sam Lucente , VP of design, Hewlett-PackardFiled under Design
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What HP's Design VP Learned from IBM and Netscape
How do you design a coordinated, focused design strategy for a sprawling, $97 billion behemoth comprised of scores of business units that are used to operating independently? If you're Sam Lucente, who leads Hewlett-Packard's design practice, you leverage some of what you learned at your previous two gigs, even as you ignore the conventional wisdom on "managing design." ... In an interview, Lucente spotlighted some of the genetic code from IBM and Netscape that found its way into HP's design DNA.Filed under Design
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Romancing the Flat Pack: Ikea, Repurposed
10 SEP 2007 from the New York Times | Read the full story»
Do-it-yourselfers and technogeeks, tinkerers, artists, crafters and product and furniture designers, the hackers are united only by their perspective, which looks upon an Ikea Billy bookcase or Lack table and sees not a finished object but raw material: a clean palette yearning to be embellished or repurposed. They make a subset of an expanding global D.I.Y. movement, itself a huge tent of philosophies and manifestoes including but not confined to anticonsumerism, antiglobalism, environmentalism and all-purpose iconoclasm. (Subscription required)
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if advertising equals myth, does design equal truth?
"Design is so popular today mostly because business sees design as connecting it to the consumer populace in a deep, fundamental and honest way. An honest way. If you are in the myth-making business, you don’t need design. You need a great ad agency. But if you are in the authenticity and integrity business then you have to think design."Bruce Nussbaum-Business Week- Speech given to the Royal College of Art- London
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The top 50
01 SEP 2007 from the Guardian | Read the full story»
When it comes to design, the UK is home to some of the world's biggest talent. But who are the brightest stars? We put together a panel of judges to identify the hottest names.
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Phaidon's Ice Cream: 100 of the Coolest Artists
Phaidon’s recent release Ice Cream, following its earlier collections Cream (1998), Fresh Cream (2000), and Cream 3 (2003), showcases a selection of works from 100 of the most significant up-and-coming artists working today.
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MIT software measures clutter
Web design purists who favor simplistic pages like Google.com can take heart.Filed under Design
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Drawer Fridge
Let's face it, fridges are ugly. They're big, chunky and take up a whack of space. The Norcool Drawer Fridge takes the bulk out of your kitchen and kicks it up a notch on the trendiness scale. The sleek metallic refrigerator is built right under your existing counter top space into easy pull-out drawer.
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Proving Design Moves Markets
We know that great design fuels revenue and grows margins. But thus far, most companies -- with the possible exception of pioneers like Procter & Gamble and Whirlpool—have been unable to prove it.Filed under Design
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The Best Product Design Of 2007
30 JUL 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
This year's awards run the gamut from "split-head" hammers to ultralight jets to savings plans for shoppers.
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Books shaped like cigarettes
Tank is launching a series of books designed to mimic cigarette packs – the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane. TankBooks pay homage to this monumentally successful piece of packaging design by employing it in the service of great literature.
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Proving the Value of Design
We know that design is an expense—just look at any company's balance sheet. And we know intuitively that for many companies, design is a profit center. But few organizations can actually prove that great design drives profits.Filed under Design
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[Mailbag] Volvo, Seagate, Tufte Mint, etc.
The new Volvo S40
From: Régis Kuckaertz
Volvo has redesigned (sic) the S40 model, following a few — scandinavian — design principles:
...Seagate packaging like Apple
From: Ross Hill
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The Best Web Sites Are Useful and Ugly
Functionality and usefulness are far more important to the success of your Web site than how nice and elegant it looks.
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New Media Meets Old: A Look at Redesigned Mainstream News Sites
02 JUL 2007 from Read/WriteWeb | Read the full story»
I thought it might be interesting to compare three big media sites that have launched new versions of their web news properties in 2007: CNN, USA Today, and AOL News. I'll look at the different approaches each news outlet took, and what cues they took from web 2.0.
Hat tip: Signal vs. Noise
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Beach Reading--Design and Innovation.
[H]ere are four intangible assets that good designers tend to share...Filed under Design
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The Automobile as Accessory: Current Car Trends
Forbes Autos published an article earlier this week discussing the various emerging trends in car design, focusing on ten current innovations that seem to indicate new consumer attitudes towards the vehicles they are purchasing. Like in so many industries right now, the old business model of conservative action and pure number-crunching is gradually being replaced by a new wave of dynamic, fashion-conscious strategies that serve to get brands recognized in an increasingly fast-paced and savvy consumer market.Filed under Design
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Dyson Airblade
"We’ve taken a totally different approach," says James Dyson, commenting on his latest creation, Dyson’s Airblade, in a USA Today article by Bruce Horovitz (6/18/07). Not to be confused with Dyson’s best-selling, $599 vacuum cleaners, the Airblade is a $1,400 commercial hand-dryer...Filed under Design
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Pushing the Boundaries of Design
12 JUN 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
Innovation often arises out of crossing disciplines and combining technologies. That's a focus of our look for the top cutting-edge designers.
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Boxfish Roadster
"The key advantage of working with designs that are in harmony with the laws of nature is that evolution has formed creatures to be very economical with energy," says Dieter Gurtler of DaimlerChrysler in a Business 2.0 article by Ethan Watters (Jun ‘07).Filed under Design
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Heated Architecture Competition Inspires Creative Solutions for Staying Cool
Every year the P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center in Long Island City hosts a series of summer music concerts called Warm Up. For 10 Saturdays, 5,000 partygoers converge on the museum's 15,000-square-foot courtyard to pump up the jams with their favorite bands... Rather than put up humdrum tents, the arts center holds a competition for temporary structures in the courtyard.
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The Sony Odo Digital Camera - Eco Friendly and Powered By You
In Tokyo this weekend, Sony unveiled a few eco-friendly digital products at their “Sony-made ECO showcase". The coolest by far though has to be the Odo digital camera. You put your two fingers in the holes and spin it vertically until it's powered-up.
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Pimp My Chair: La-Z-Boy Thrives on Overstuffed Innovation
A piece of souped-up patio furniture spurs eight decades of comforting craftsmanship.
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FAQ: Guide to indoor lighting
How many inventions does it take to change a lightbulb for good?Filed under Design
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Design for the Other 90%
The vast majority of designers put their talent to where the money is: crafting products and services that aim to beguile the richest 10% of the world's population. Nothing wrong with making a living.Filed under Design
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Sinking Titanic Lamp
Viable London describes their product as, "leaning as if sinking below the surface of the table... titanic is designed to throw a wash of light across a room."
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Did we ever remember design?
When it comes to design, every year is the same.Filed under Design
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Space Shot: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
The Seattle office of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects is never the same place twice.Filed under Design
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Simplicity - Maeda vs. Bauhaus
23 APR 2007 from Sachlichkeit | Read the full story»
Anybody who has ever been in a design briefing knows about the fragmentations of our modern world. Anybody who has ever been to a second meeting with two new people on the client side knows this even better. And anybody who has ever given up after the third meeting and has still continued with the assignment also knows how design by compromise looks and feels: it has frictions more than one can count. - In this essay we explore the nature of 'simplicity' - from Maeda to Bauhaus - and its central implications for both the job of a designer and for the job of design management.
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Made in China
The world is bigger than Detroit. It's bigger than North America.Filed under Design
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A Career in Enhancing The Way Consumers Shop
Sarah E. Needleman on the pros and cons of a job as a customer-experience-designer, also known as user-experience designer information architect and interactive designer.Filed under Design
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The Designer Who Meant Business
It is somehow fitting that what is arguably corporate design's most powerful mantra—"Good design is good business"—is widely credited to former IBM chief Thomas Watson Jr., but was in fact formulated by the architect and industrial designer Eliot Noyes.Filed under Design
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50 Affordable Designs by Famous Designers
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A Manifesto On Sustainability In Design
Allan Chochinov at Core77 has written an important Manifesto on Sustainability In Design that should be read by business people and designers alike.Filed under Design
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PSFK TV : Product Design Trends By Allan Chochinov At The PSFK Conference NYC
Has the ability of the web to share ideas forced a sudden shift towards the consumption of the idea of a product rather than a product itself? How does this impact design and product development? (Video)
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Design Vs. Design Thinking--The Talent Battle Continues.
There is a nasty civil war going on in design education between traditionalists who want to focus on form and a new generation who focus on concept. This generation is into design thinking.Filed under Design
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Novelties: How to Soften the Edges of Technology
Some companies will now encase both a computer and its peripherals in a back-to-the-future covering of a different sort: warm, glowing wood.Filed under Design
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Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?
Here's the speech I gave at Parson's on Thursday that deals with the backlash against design.Filed under Design
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Newspapers and web design
Good newspaper design is all about effectively presenting large quantities of text/information in a usable, straightforward way. That’s got a lot more in common with good web design than most of the sexy print pieces you find in design magazines/annuals.Filed under Design
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Savage, funny mobile phone review
Charlie Brooker, writing in the Guardian, reviews his phone under the headline, "My new mobile is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary features aimed at idiots." It gets even better from there.Filed under Design
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Pimp My Bentley - Bentley Tricks Out Their Knob!
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Hasbro Magic
“Games are math puzzles with a thousand details, but what you want customers to feel is that they’re getting magic in a box,” says Rob Daviau, a senior game designer for Hasbro, reports Carol Hymowitz in The Wall Street Journal (2/26/07).Filed under Design
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Lamborghini Spiga - The New Gallardo Concept
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Flashback: Bone Fone
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The human factor in gadget, Web design
New gizmos and Web sites may be cool, but they're not always easy to use. Some people are out to change that.Filed under Design
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New School
Life Is Carbon points to a design for the Ordrup School in Denmark where the Danish design team of Bosch & Fjord have created a whole range of spaces for "differentiated teaching and creative thinking". The design was based on the premise that all people are different, think differently and learn differently.Filed under Design
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Design and class
[W]ith all the talk over niche markets and long-tails, could it be that the perception of social class remains a powerful tool in marketing to consumer groups?Filed under Design
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Whirlpool Metrics
Chuck Jones knew he needed a new approach when his management at Whirlpool wouldn’t approve a design flourish that would add five bucks to per-unit costs, reports Bill Breen in Fast Company (February 07). Chuck is Whirlpool’s design chief...Filed under Design
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Ambient Autos
"Lighting is going to be the next big thing in automobile design," says Ian Callum, Jaguar’s design director, in a New York Times article by Phil Patton (1/14/07). What’s promised is "a sense that light is capable of providing the style once imparted by stamped metal or molded glass."Filed under Design
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Interactive Design: Where Tech Meets Art
Industrial designer Bill Moggridge mines the history of interactive design to better understand how we mortals interact with technology.Filed under Design
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Design Life Now
Eighty-seven designers across a range of categories are on display at Andrew Carnegie’s former N.Y.C. mansion in a triennial exploration of American design, this year called "Design Life Now," reports Roberta Smith in The New York Times (12/15/06).Filed under Design
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Designing for Contagion
Begin with Desire: create an offering that will bring value to people's lives by starting your process with a focus on their needs. Not on your killer technology. Not on your brilliant business model.Filed under Design
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Happy New Year
We wish you a new year filled with prosperity and growth, both personal and professional.
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Economic View: Goodbye, Production (and Maybe Innovation)
Over the long run, can invention and design be separated from production? (Subscription required)Filed under Design
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Inventables DesignAid Kit: The Secret Weapon of Great Designers
A peek inside the Inventables DesignAid kit, the odd but thought-provoking secret weapon of great designers.Filed under Design
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Happy Holidays!
We're observing the Christmas holiday today and will return to posting tomorrow, Boxing day. We wish you a day filled with joy and peace.
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Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design
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What's Trendy in American Design?
Biomimicry, interaction and do-it-yourself initiative ride the forefront of U.S. design, says a new exhibit. Michael Myser gets a sneak peek at the Design Life Now triennial at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt in New York City.Filed under Design
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Thinking Simple At Philips
11 DEC 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
A panel of outside experts is helping the electronics giant reinvent itself.
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Thoughts of a Design Pioneer
30 NOV 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
In his new book, Designing Interactions, IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge profiles the most influential designers in the history of Silicon Valley.
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How Home Depot is borrowing a page from the Target playbook
At the FORTUNE Innovation Forum in New York, Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli explained how the company is experimenting with a new innovation program called Orange Works that will create new high-design products for the home-improvement retailer.Filed under Design
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Color of Ideas
Pantone aspires to inspire the global creative community. By Drew Coburn and Jeff Verses of G2 Branding and Design.Filed under Design
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Designing the 21st century cubicle
15 NOV 2006 from Business2.0 | Read the full story»
From conference rooms that collapse to desks that roll, companies like Google and Cisco are giving their offices a makeover to meet the needs of a mobile workforce.
Hat tip: MyBusiness Magazine
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Multiple personalities
Should we integrate creativity into our usual thinking behaviour, or should we keep it separate and then choose to 'switch' when required? This is an important question.Filed under Design
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Design your own Penguin cover
"Penguin has released six classic titles with pure white, art-quality covers for people to design their own book jackets. Titles include The Picture of Dorian Gray,Magic Tales from the Brothers Grimm and Emma."Filed under Design
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Happy Thanksgiving
We hope that you all have a day rich with community and contentment. The wire service will resume tomorrow.
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Advertisements Revisited
"Ready. Fire! Aim." is one of Tom’s favorite mantras. In that spirit, we've been experimenting with advertising here at the TP Wire Service. We've also considered and researched it for our parent site, tompeters.com. The results have underwhelmed us. We're removing the ads from the TP Wire Service RSS feeds today and will be removing the ads from the TP Wire Service home page in the near future. Tompeters.com will remain ad-free. We welcome your thoughts on the subject. Here's to "Relentless Experimentation!"
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