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The Role of a Designer? Encourage More People to Become Designers

Everyone is a designer, whether they do it professionally or not. The world needs more of them to heed their calling to make the world a better place.READ»

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Welcoming Guest Blogger Mark Dziersk: "Creativity Plus Risk Gets You the Grade"

One of the biggest complaints designers in consumer product companies have is that their organization's engineers just don't ‘get' design. That, they would argue, is why so many products--especially in consumer electronics--are so ...READ»

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Deutsche Bank Converts Horrid '80s Towers Into Horrid '80s Eco-Towers

Deutsche Bank is set to become carbon neutral, starting with the world's first LEED Platinum retrofitted skyscrapers. Too bad they're so damn ugly.READ»

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Web Manchester

Web Design Company Manchester delivers great looking Web design Manchester websites through adept SEO Manchester services.READ»

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Meeting the Parent Company, and More Signs of Designer Monogamy

What happens when the thrill of working together is gone? Should your designer meet the parent company? Is it time to get designer-exclusive? Stuart Karten has answers.READ»

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Why Design Still Has Such Limited Corporate Impact--and What to Do About It

Despite the best efforts of the design community to the contrary, design is still struggling to influence companies in meaningful ways. The fault lies mostly within the design profession itself, which is unable to supply leadership ...READ»

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Faultless Towers

Real-estate moguls know there's good money in green buildings. But the little guy can play too.READ»

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I.D. Magazine, a Design Icon, Folds After 55 Years in Print

Devastating news for the design world: After 55 years in publication, I.D. Magazine, America's foremost design publication, has folded. I.D. was the oldest product design** magazine in the country, and was the one-time employer of ...READ»

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City Center Las Vegas: Too Big NOT to Fail?

With a big budget and a big footprint MGM Mirage is crossing it's fingers for positive financial and environmental impact of City Center.READ»

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The Green Standard?

LEED buildings get lots of buzz, but the point is getting lost.READ»

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Industrial Design and your Invention

Article in a sentence: Industrial Designers offer the ability to improve your inventions usability, aesthetics and ergonomics, increasing your inventions perceived value and ...READ»

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What's Even Greener Than LEED? The Omega Center

An educational center in New York might be the world's first building to earn a tough, ultra-green designation.READ»

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The Green Products Innovation Institute: Is This What "More Good" Looks Like?

A new sustainability certification system for products has just been unveiled by Cradle to Cradle guru William McDonough and endorsed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Is it the change we've been looking for? READ»

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Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers

Design thinking is currently an "It" concept, the topic of countless books and blogs and conference panels. While it can mean a lot of different things to different people, for me, design thinking is a methodology, a tool, ...READ»

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Web Design Basics for Entrepreneurs

When is it appropriate to hire a graphic designer? When should you use Flash animation or HTML? We are joined by Sparxoo’s Senior Designer, Deirdre Zahl, to discuss the basics of web design and how entrepreneurs can utilize design for their brand.READ»

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The Myth of the Rational Buyer: How Too Much Thinking Can Hurt Your Brand

What if something you thought you knew to be true, turned out to be exactly the opposite? What if an approach you imagined was working for you was actually working against you? Imagine if it were true, for example, that almost ...READ»

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Web Page Design is Not Just About Colors, Images and Fonts

Today’s graphic design involves Flash, Java Script, and custom dynamic design attributes that quickly date pages stuck in the static.Because your website is a powerful marketing tool that creates valuable first impressions, a ...READ»

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Taipei 101 Skyscraper to Be World's Tallest Green Building

The Empire State Building may be set to become the world's most famous green office building, but the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan is gunning for the title of "World's Tallest Green Building," with $1.8 million in upgrades that ...READ»

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Web Design Graphic Design

We are a Professional Webdesign Agency/Company in India, our Website Designers offer innovative e commerce & Online Marketing Solutions/Services, Flash, Graphic Design, Illustration Design Services. We also specialize in Web ...READ»

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Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go

The topic of design has generated a lot of buzz lately--so much, in fact, that some suggest that the renewed interest in all things creative is a passing fad. Not exactly. If we let history be our guide, we'll see that there's a ...READ»

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What Is "Industrial Design"?

The demise of I.D. magazine leads Tucker Viemeister to examine the term "industrial design" and what it has meant throughout the years.READ»

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The True Inconveniences of Designing Al Gore's Office

For a high-profile environmentalist such as Gore, politics sometimes interfere with making the right decision.READ»

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Is a “Sustainable Industrial Designer” an Oxymoron?

Recently, I was invited to speak at a conference celebrating “Earth Day.” My presentation consisted of “Everyone Considered,” a talk concerning our design process, which considers everyone that comes into contact with ...READ»

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Know Your Graphics

Every website needs images. What you don't need as a business, are the headaches that come with using images that you don't have the rights to.When choosing a web designer, too often a business will assume the web designer has bought ...READ»

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Features to Know Before Hire a Website Design Company

One of the most important factors to judge when choosing a web design company to develop a website is the type of web designs which the company has developed in the past. Many web design companies will create portfolios for potential ...READ»