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Auto Design Studios Go Hollywood
This year's Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge is one of the more fun design competitions we've seen in a while. Tasked with designing "Hollywood's Hottest New Movie Car," major auto studios are...
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Design Tide Tokyo 2011: "Hands and Hand" by Proof of Guild
Images and reporting by Hayden Martis What do you get when a jewelry and flower designer come together? The answer: Proof of Guild. The Nagoya based duo Minoru & Keiko Takeuchi were at Design Tide...
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is seeking a Design Research &...
Design Research & Development Specialist Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, New York The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, located in New York City, is looking for a Design...
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Design Tide Tokyo 2011: Seeds for Earthquake Relief
After the great Tohoku earthquake on March 11th, large quantities of vegetable seeds were left unsold due to environmental issues regarding farmlands or the simple decline of sales. "Seeds" is a...
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Paul Caporn: An Artist on the Level
It should be easy for anyone installing, or viewing, these artworks of Paul Caporn's to see if they are hung crooked. Australia-based artist Caporn removed the key ingredient from hundreds of bubble...
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Fabien Dumas' Satellite-like Ceiling Light for Marset
We've been a fan of French designer Fabien Dumas—a.k.a. Too Many Designers (a riff on 2 Many DJs?)—since back in 2004, when we highlighted the "Light au Lait" wall sconce. He resurfaced a few years...
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Building a Successful Furniture Business: Hellman-Chang, Part 6 - Growing...
Here in Part 6 of the Hellman-Chang story we wrap up their history. When the recession began a few years ago, Dan and Eric were running a fledgling firm out of a co-op; they not only weathered the...
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Hot One Inch Action Returns to Hand-Eye Supply - Submit Artwork Now!
After an absolute blast at Hot One Inch Action's summer show at Hand-Eye Supply, we couldn't be more pleased to announce their return to our Portland store on December 1st. What's more, they are...
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Winterhouse Second Symposium on Design Education and Social Change
In October 2010, the Winterhouse Institute brought together 13 representatives of undergraduate or graduate institutions who taught social design in isolated courses or built programs around this area...
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Flotspotting: Raul Gonzalez Podesta's Retina-Bending Renderings
Raul Gonzalez Podesta of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been working for design consultancy Design Plus since 2005, completing both a Bachelor's and Masters in Industrial Design though apparently it's...
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Made By Hand's "The Knife Maker"
If this Made By Hand mini-documentary was only about a guy making knives it would be interesting; but Cut Brooklyn founder Joel Bukiewicz's story has a lot more to offer. Without revealing any direct...
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Mikal Hameed's Found Item Remixes: "Eames Hotrod Boombox" & Rebaroque...
Mikal Hameed is a Brooklyn-based artist and designer who is constantly finding new corners of America's creative culture to explore. After starting out in music and theater, he shifted his efforts to...
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Good Weather App: Kickstart a More Useful Forecast with "Dark Sky"
Adam Grossman and Jack Turner are a couple of "mild-mannered web / mobile developers" based in Troy, New York, who collaborate as Jackadam. If their Kickstarter pitch is any indication, their choice of...
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Design Tide Tokyo 2011: "Suzumo Chochin" Lanterns by Mic Itaya
Artist and Illustrator Mic Itaya became famously became excited by the connections between rock music, art and design from a young age, after Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines,...
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Wiring 1.0 released
Wiring is an open source electronics prototyping platform composed of a programming environment (IDE), an electronics prototyping board, documentation thoughtfully created with designers and artists...
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New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. is seeking a Design Lead, Training & Tennis,...
Design Lead, Training & Tennis New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.Lawrence, Massachusetts New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc., is seeking a Design Lead, Training and Tennis, who will direct, inspire, and...
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Why Mount Six Cell Phones on a Bicycle's Handlebars? Here's Why
Now that cameras have become smaller and cheaper, it makes sense that cadres of creatives would begin using arrays of them to achieve previously unavailable effects. Recently we've seen Jonas Pfeil's...
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Two Different Takes on Designing the Shopping Experience: Apple's In-Store...
Designing the shopping experience is a large challenge that we're excited to watch the progress of, since nobody knows what it will really turn out to be. Recently Apple and Adidas have both proposed...
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Interview with RISD president John Maeda (VIDEO)
Last week John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design and author of The Laws of Simplicity visited the frog San Francisco studio. John presented to a group of RISD alumni and frogs...
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Design Fancy: Trace Hurns
Trained as an architect, Trace Hurns spent most of his career doing graphic design and branding throughout the greater Chicago area. He was known for his often misguided optimism and for his love of...
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