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"Design the New Business" Documentary is Ready to Go! Here's the Trailer
Last year we noted there was an exciting new documentary being shot, called "Design the New Business." Spearheaded by designer/author/entrepreneur and TU Delft professor Erik Roscam Abbing, the doc is...
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Coach International is seeking an Associate Web Art Director in New York, New...
Associate Web Art Director Coach InternationalNew York, New York Coach, founded in 1941, is America's premier accessible luxury accessories brand and a leader in international markets. They are...
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Book Review - Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving, by Jon Kolko
The current era sees a great deal of cross-pollination between "interaction" and "product" designers, in part because their goals aren't that different. While one may push pixels and the other a mill,...
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Combine Business & Pleasure in Dwell & DWR's "Live/Work" Design Contest
Last week saw launch of the "Live/Work" Design Contest: our friends at Dwell Media and Design Within Reach are challenging designers to come up with a "classic of tomorrow" for the workplace,...
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Angles and Attitudes
Communities in China use a lot of outdoor furniture. And chairs, laundry, food preparation, morning ablutions all spill out onto the narrowhutong and urban streets. Because they do, everyday people...
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A TED Talk... From the Year 2023
We've all seen product placement on TV, or movies like Tower Heist that insert real-world newspeople like Matt Lauer covering the Thanksgiving Day Parade in order to lend it some verisimilitude. An...
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SparkLab Gives New Meaning to Hands-On Education
I'm not sure if it already sounds anachronistic to talk about 'shop class,' but I have vague memories of a wacky middle school Metals teacher and an altogether incongruous Printing elective at my high...
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Mies van der Rohe's gas station gets serviced
In 1969 Mies van der Rohe built his famous gas station on Nun's Island, Canada, a prototype designed as part of a four-unit development project that included a full service car destination, from sales...
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Volkswagen Diversity
In a move that many business analysts have dismissed as poor judgment, the Volkswagen Group has decided to partner with the Dark Side of the Force following the success of their earlier Superbowl ads....
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Design Indaba 2012: Collaborations with Time and Place
The annual Design Indaba conference brings the most innovative design practitioners from around the world to Cape Town, South Africa. This year was the magazine's 15th conference and along with three...
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30-Foot Chocolate Fountain and the Trippy World of Joyville
Tasked with the marketing for chocolate maker Cadbury, the UK branch of global creative agency Fallon erected a massive, Willy-Wonka-esque chocolate fountain at London's Westfield Shopping Centre. The...
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Obama for America is seeking an Interactive Designer in Chicago, Illinois
Interactive Designer Obama for AmericaChicago, Illinois Want to work on the Obama campaign? Obama for America is looking for a designer to join the online marketing team. They're looking to run the...
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Saul Bass' long forgotten children's book gets reprinted
Saul Bass, the legendary graphic designer, has been getting a lot of play this month. First, his opening title sequence for Anatomy of a Murder has been masterfully restored for Criterion's new Blu...
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Awesome iPad Concept Video
This concept video by digital effects house Aatma Studio Animation is both sweet and convincing. It depicts a fictional future iPad with a currently-technologically-impossible full-bleed screen,...
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A Steampunk Watch Powered by Wireless Induction
These days, there are more ways to keep time than ever before: our cell phones automatically update themselves through wireless networks; our computers keep sync with atomic clocks; even our cars,...
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Quick Vid on the History of Thonet's Chair No. 14
Imagine designing something today that would still be in production in the year 2165. It's virtually unthinkable, no? Yet cabinetmaker Michael Thonet designed his iconic Chair No. 14, often referred...
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Made in the USA: Handcrafted Amish Steamer Trunks
People who make things by hand in America, particularly things made of wood, are a small breed of revivalists and family-legacy craftspersons. But one stable population of builders in little danger of...
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Epic "Double David" (after Michelangelo) to Skip Florence, Stop by NYC en...
New York City's Storefront for Art and Architecture is pleased to present "DOUBLE [copies, fakes and replicas]," a Manifesto Series event on the occasion of the arrival and subsequent departure of...
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A Worthy Kickstarter Cause: Design Build Students Want to Save a Mies van der...
In 2009, a group of architecture students at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago designed the gorgeously minimal Field Chapel in Boedigheim, Germany, which won an AIA Honor Award in 2010. It...
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A Veritable Treasure Trove of Vintage Polish Movie Posters via Eye Sea Posters
Perhaps more than any other era, the 60's and 70's seem to have a graphic identity in themselves, the upshot of high modernity, mass culture and a certain creative spirit that brought the psychedelic...
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