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Unboxed - Design Is More Than Packaging [NYTimes.com]
The only smart thing said or written about in this article: "It would be overreaching to say that design thinking solves everything. That’s putting it too high on a pedestal," Mr. Kembel says. "Business thinking plus design thinking ends up being far more powerful."
design  Process  designthinking  NYtimes  Article 
october 2008 by mdn
Why America is Fucked [You Tube]
Draplin answers the question of why America is fucked, graphically. A teaser for a new project from Draplin Industries.
design  Typography  signage  Draplin  movie 
august 2008 by mdn
Axel Peemoeller - Eureka Carpark Melbourne
Peemoeller designs an interesting way-finding system for a parking lot in Melbourne. "In Melbourne I developed a way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark. The distored letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. This project won several international design awards."
design  architecture  Typography  signage  parking  wayfinding 
august 2008 by mdn
John Thackara: We Are All Emerging Economies Now [Design Observer]
"It is my growing conviction that, as designers, we can usually do more good in our own backyards than in foreign parts."
Criticism  design  designobserver  Development  innovation  Sustainability 
july 2008 by mdn
More Neo-Biological Design [WorldChanging]
Designs inspired by nature + Bucky's comment.
design  environment  Sustainability  innovation 
july 2008 by mdn
The 10 Commandments of Web Design
It take nineteen people to contribute to the rather silly special report from Business Week on web design.
design  web  business  BusinessWeek  Article 
june 2008 by mdn
Chatting with Stamen Design. [adaptive path blog]
I think live, vast, and deep is some of the terminology that we’ve been using lately.
design  visualization  AdaptivePath  stamen 
june 2008 by mdn
To the Letter Born - Campaign Stops - 2008 Elections - Opinion - New York Times Blog
I think it just amplifies the personality that’s already there. In fact, the typeface would work just as well for John McCain or Hillary Clinton, for that matter.
branding  campaign  communication  design  font  logo  NYtimes  Typography 
april 2008 by mdn
:: Film & Video : Artist Series : Sagmeister08 ::
Having guts always worked out for me.
art  design  inspiration  video  Sagmeister  HillmanCurtis 
april 2008 by mdn
DELIRIOUS DUBAI [LEBBEUS WOODS]
Before anyone could criticize the pandering commercialism of his office tower designs, he would say, “I’m a whore.”
architecture  Blog  cities  Criticism  design  koolhaas  politics  urbanism  visualization  Future  History  Dubai 
march 2008 by mdn
Google your way to a wacky office [BBC NEWS | Technology |]
The wacky office is both a showcase for Google's unconventional approach to business and a symbol to prove that Google is no longer a US-centric firm.
business  Creative  google  Office  Design  Brand  Behaviour 
march 2008 by mdn
An Airline Terminal for a Security-Wary Era [New York Times]
"The design of that terminal was intended to make sure that no one will have to worry that their wait time is going to be greater than 10 minutes."
Article  NYtimes  Airport  Architecture  Design 
march 2008 by mdn
PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" :Gaffer Tape Art in Tokyo’s Train Stations
Article  design  font  graphic  graphics  japan  signage  Typography  visualization 
october 2007 by mdn
Product Packages Now Shout to Get Your Attention [NYT]
“If you’re walking down a row in a supermarket and every package is screaming at you, it sounds like a terrifying, disgusting experience,”
article  product  branding  design  packaging  Pepsi 
august 2007 by mdn
The Road to Clarity - [NYT]
"Less than a generation ago, fonts were for the specialist, an esoteric pursuit, what Stanley Morison, the English typographer who helped create Times New Roman in the 1930s, called “a minor technicality of civilized life.”
Article  design  type  Typography  signage 
august 2007 by mdn
IDEO’s Urban Pre-Planning | Metropolis Magazine
Sure it's PR but it is also a very interesting project.
architecture  cities  community  urban  urbanism  design  IDEO 
october 2006 by mdn
start [SHiFT - Social and Human Ideas for Technology]
2006  conference  Culture  design  Development  media  participatory  socialsoftware  technology 
september 2006 by mdn
Adbusters : The Magazine - #65 TORTURE - Where do you draw the line? / How Nike Conquered Skateboard Culture
Culture Exploitation Masters Nike crack another underground not yet fully commercialized, extreme activity. What's next - nose picking?
Advertising  Article  branding  business  Design  marketing  Trends  Adbusters 
july 2006 by mdn
The Observer | Magazine | Tim Adams meets architect Rem Koolhaas
'Well one thing is, I am not a control freak,' he says, which is what all control freaks say.
architecture  Guardian  urban  design  oma  koolhaas  rem 
july 2006 by mdn
YouWorkForThem | Profile Magazine:
New online magazine from YWFT - featuring interviews with Geoff McFetridge & James Paterson.
design  Interview  magazine  video  YWFT 
june 2006 by mdn
TEDTalks (audio, video)
Podcasts from TED Talkers
conference  TED  Technology  Podcast  audio  Design 
june 2006 by mdn
Sun.com Design, Usability & Other Stuff
On meeting with Tufte and asking him for some advice on an old SUN app.
SUN  Interface  Design  InteractiveDesign  IA  Tufte 
may 2006 by mdn
Bed Books, the revolutionary way to print books for comfortable reading in bed."
This would have won American Inventor -
books  design  innovation  sideways 
may 2006 by mdn
Powazek: Just a Thought: The Art of No
It's common-sense and long been practiced by me - but it needs to be said, as well as Powazek says it here.
blog  design  management  why  no 
may 2006 by mdn
DigitAll Magazine
Samsung DigitALL magazine - interesting brand campaign.
branding  design  technology  brand  Samsung  campaign 
april 2006 by mdn
all in the head — Five Most Important Considerations
web design considerations.
design  web  internet  blog 
april 2006 by mdn
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Weather Report: 53 Degrees F. Heavy Snowfall Predicted
Yes - what is wrong with design, I mean, the weather?
design  designobserver  comment  blog 
april 2006 by mdn
Brand Aid - or:
Or, The Lexus and the Guggenheim (Further Tales of the Notorious B.I.G.ness), by Sorkin
Architecture  magazine  design  GSD  Essay 
april 2006 by mdn
The future font collection you can buy from playtype -
from copenhagen: +45...
type  foundry  design  typefaces 
april 2006 by mdn
Institute of Design : Profile : Project: Design for the Base of the Pyramid
IIT's work on BoP.
BoP  design  economics  society  Sustainability  urbanism 
march 2006 by mdn
Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts front | It's bad design, not good design, that makes an impression
How can a product that doesn't work and offends the eye possibly be described as a 'design classic', says Germaine Greer.
Guardian  Design  UK  Article 
march 2006 by mdn
Institute of Design Strategy Conference :: Perspectives
SPARC (See, Plan, Act, Refine, Communicate) is a program consisting of physical space, of people dedicated to the program...
Design  Process  Interview  IIT 
february 2006 by mdn
interLiving - Publications, etc.
Designing Interactive, Interfaces for living together.
papers  interaction  design  culture  living  people 
february 2006 by mdn
LIFT06 || Conference about new technologies and people. || 2-3 Feb. 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
LIFT is about teaming talented observers, explorers, and builders with people whose work depends on understanding current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies.
2006  blog  conference  Creativity  design  Future  Innovation  strategy  Geneva 
january 2006 by mdn
My Desktop Diary
Maeda's Desktop diary - screenshots of his desktop over the years.
maeda  design  screenshots  visuals 
january 2006 by mdn
Will Ford's Reflex get big reaction? - Autoblog
Reflex underscores the bold, American design direction for all Ford vehicles going forward. It also is packed with Ford innovation.
ford  concept  design  smallisbig  car 
january 2006 by mdn
Compostmodern // 2006
Designers have a hand in creating virtually every product, artifact, and message we encounter in the world around us, yet collectively we are only beginning to see ourselves as agents of change.
Sustainability  green  design  conference  SF  2006 
january 2006 by mdn
Book Covers
Book Covers
design  books  art  covers  inspiration  graphics  book  Typography 
january 2006 by mdn
10 mph : Segway : America Dream : Documentary
Road Trip - documentary about travel across the US on a Segway.
blog  culture  Design  documentary  Film  fun  movie  segway  travel  video 
january 2006 by mdn
Influx: The Bono-ization of celebrity
His biggest obstacle were the kids themselves, who were reluctant to give up fast food for the healthy food. However, by involving them in the preparation of the food and educating them in the process, he succesfully won them over.
Influx  Jaime  Oliver  participatory  design  process 
january 2006 by mdn
Democrat & Chronicle: Local News
"We want to break out of the box, in a lot of ways," says Betty Noonan, director of brand management and marketing services at Kodak.
design  business  logo  kodak  article 
january 2006 by mdn
MousePlanet | Mark Goldhaber's World View
Designing Disneyland (parts of)
Design  Disneyland  SpaceMountain 
january 2006 by mdn
Town Meetings on Technology
The "consensus conference," a recent Danish innovation, gives ordinary citizens a real chance to make their voices heard in debates on technology policy. And business and government, as well as the general public, could reap substantial rewards.
social  technology  participatory  design  ethics  politics 
january 2006 by mdn
InformationDesign SourceBook
resource  links  design  japan 
january 2006 by mdn
Bucky: Conversations
It was like Christmas all over again coming across these videos: In 2002, to celebrate the acquisition of the Fuller archive, the Stanford University Libraries and the Stanford Humanities Laboratory launched a series of Conversations on R. Buckminster Ful
Bucky  Archive  Architecture  Design  Sustainability  Foster  Brand 
december 2005 by mdn
Boxes and Arrows
A-Z indexes are sometimes seen as the less desirable counterpart to other navigational elements such as sitemaps and, especially, search.
BBC  Design  Article  B&A 
december 2005 by mdn
Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right
"I don’t think it was that we were "too early" or that we got killed when the bubble burst. I believe it all came down to product design, and to some very slight differences in approach."
Article  blog  Design  Development  yahoo  Product  interesting 
december 2005 by mdn
DDC - Danish Design Centre > Knowledge > Articles > HYBRID: Interview with Marko Ahtisaari
Marko Ahtisaari is the Director of Design Strategy at Nokia. (If in Danish, and you'd like the English version - click the 'English' link above the interview.)
Design  Innovation  Interview  Mobile  social  strategy  Trends 
december 2005 by mdn
cityofsound: An industrial policy for creativity. Nearly.
Dan Hill's review of the recent Cox Review on Creativity and Innovation in the UK.
creativity  DesignCouncil  design  Innovation  CoxReport  blog 
december 2005 by mdn
Newsdesigner.com
King Kong advert on Dayton Ohio Newspaper - for some reason people think this is paid advertising...
Design  Newspaper  Kong 
december 2005 by mdn
PARK(ing)
art  SF  urban  design 
december 2005 by mdn
Phylotaxis / for Seed by Jonathan Harris / About
Phylotaxis is an exploration of the space where science meets culture.
Design  software  art 
december 2005 by mdn
Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Q: What can be done to improve the suburbs of Paris? A: People are starting to understand that the real challenge is to turn peripheries into cities
Renzo Piano, by reputation among the world's greatest architects, tells Emma Brockes why cities have been betrayed
architecture  design  cities  urban  politics  society  economics  Article  Guardian 
december 2005 by mdn
PSP™ (Playstation®Portable) Design Club
PSP Design Club has brought together fourteen of Europe’s most esteemed creatives...
PSP  SONY  Designer  Design 
november 2005 by mdn
GraphicDefine » 10+ Mistakes that New Design Businesses Make
Additional items to a list...
Design  graphic  business  list  Resource 
november 2005 by mdn
AR+D
ar awards for emerging architecture 2005
Architecture  Awards  Design 
november 2005 by mdn
Blank
Collaborative Collective notebook
art  design  social  notebook 
november 2005 by mdn
Managing as Designing
Position Papers
design  management 
november 2005 by mdn
Barnacle Press: Papercraft
art  design  illustration  interesting 
november 2005 by mdn
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Smart directions for green ideas
Electro-car public transport and a scheme to track the proper disposal of waste are two of smartest ideas for using satellite-navigation technology.
design  Sustainability  Product 
november 2005 by mdn
The Twentieth Century Society
The Lawn Road Flats, a four-storey block of small apartments, were built at a time when the Modern Movement just started to happen in Britain.
Hampstead  London  Architecture  UK  Design 
october 2005 by mdn
Utopian Office - Context
We have commissioned a documentary that will bring you visual representation of some of the most interesting workspaces in London.
architecture  design  office  documentary 
september 2005 by mdn
Institute of Design, IIT : Strategy Symposium, New York City, October 26, 2005
The program will consist of short presentations, a discussion including you and other participants and a reception with the panelists.
IIT  Design  Strategy  Symposium 
september 2005 by mdn
sachlichkeit. a blog on the intersection of design+management+life.
blog  design  DE 
september 2005 by mdn
NextD Journal 7.3 - David Kelley
A conversation with David Kelly, founder of d.school and co-founder of IDEO
Stanford  d.school  IDEO  design  interview 
september 2005 by mdn
Cool Hunting: skinnyCorp, 6 Questions
Chicago-based skinnyCorp is the parent company of the ever-popular Threadless, the t-shirt company that produces winning designs chosen by online reader polls.
t-shirts  design  interview 
september 2005 by mdn
The Fat Channel: architecture, art, and design.
Fat is a company that makes architecture and art (and all kinds of things in between).
architecture  design  art  UK 
september 2005 by mdn
SpaceSyntax
Space Syntax provides a creative and analytic input to the design and delivery of building and urban development projects
architecture  design  UK 
september 2005 by mdn
dezain.net - today
architecture  design  blog 
september 2005 by mdn
Lift : creative communication design
Lift is a design studio that specialises in creating attractive communications that are easy to use, read, and understand.
Design  Firm  UK 
september 2005 by mdn
Workplace Co-op 115,
Robin Kinross, Writer and publisher who runs Hyphen Press and co-set up Workplace Co-op 115
UK  Design  Type  Publishing 
september 2005 by mdn
Green By Design 2
On September 28th and 29th, 2005, Steelcase will host Green by Design 2, a two-day sustainability symposium that will focus on innovative ways for companies to develop, manufacture and distribute eco-effective products and services.
Sustainability  Design  Symposium 
september 2005 by mdn
Mia&Jem_Making Meaning™
graphic  design 
august 2005 by mdn
Who Is Buckminster Fuller?
Design 
august 2005 by mdn
Designit - All around you
Design  Product 
august 2005 by mdn
Subtraction Form 0.1
Good web page form design fro Khoi Vinh
Design  HTML  CSS  Resource 
august 2005 by mdn
:: Vol. 2: the design management weblog | by ralf beuker :
Design  Weblog 
august 2005 by mdn
The Engineer Supporting Serra’s Sculptures | Metropolis Magazine
Architecture  Gehry  Design  Interview 
august 2005 by mdn
Ambidextrous Magazine
Stanford d. School Magazine
Design  Stanford  Magazine 
august 2005 by mdn
Cool Hunting: Joshua Davis, 6 Questions
illustration  design  inspiration  tools 
august 2005 by mdn
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