Topic: Design

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Joomla is one of the most popular content management systems available today. Web design industry has embraced the used of Joomla especially in the last couple of years. Modern websites today require professional and powerful ...READ»

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A Different Shade of Green

Can a green building be green without LEED certification?READ»

Faultless Towers

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

Introducing Guest Blogger Dan Harden: In a Recession, Creativity Starts with How You Run Your Business

About a year ago, Dan Harden, the president and chief designer of Whipsaw, the Silicon Valley industrial design and product development firm, stopped by the Fast Company offices bearing an armload of products that were as eclectic as they were fascinating.READ»

• Dan Harden's Whipping Post blog

Which State Has the Boldest Architecture?

Quick: Which state has the boldest architecture? Ohio didn't roll of your tongue, did it? But Bowling Green State University, near Toledo, just broke ground on a new building by Snøhetta. And that's on top of a slew of other ...READ»

The Green Standard?

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

A Building? A Plane? Nope. It's Frank Gehry's Newest Chair

This week at the Milan Furniture Fair, Frank Gehry, the white-maned maven of expressive architectural design, is unveiling his newest work: An undulating chaise lounge for Emeco, a Pennsylvania-based furniture maker with a ...READ»

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Goes Green Collar

Industrial facilities conjure up images of smokestacks and pollution, but the Brooklyn Navy Yard is planning a series of sustainable buildings that could change how we think about urban industrial parks. First up is the ...READ»

A Graphic Design User's Manual: Q&A With Adrian Shaughnessy

Graphic designer Adrian Shaughnessy lives and works in London where for 15 years he was creative director of Intro then a consulting creative director of This is Real Art. He now splits his time between design and editorial ...READ»

Why Are the Majority of Things We Consume Inherently Unsustainable?

Although we've made great strides in sustainability--Wal-Mart, for example, has taken a huge step forward by setting a new standard for green manufacturing with its Sustainable Product Index--the majority of products, buildings, and ...READ»

The Case for Conservative Web Site Design

Web design isn't about creativity alone. It depends crucially on reader expectations.READ»

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»

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»

• Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go
• Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers
• Welcoming Guest Blogger Mark Dziersk: "Creativity Plus Risk Gets You the Grade"

What I Didn’t Get to Say to Michelle Obama (But Maybe My Message Still Got Through)

The National Design Award honoree took your statements about design and the U.S. all the way to the White House. Did he get his moment with Michelle?READ»

• Tom Dair's Smart Design blog

Big Awards for the Year's Best Industrial Design

The International Design Excellence Awards were announced yesterday, and represent the 150 best designs among over 1600 entries.READ»

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»

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»

• Stuart Karten's Dear Stuart blog

iCopycats: Apple Does Not Equal Good Design

Now that I have your attention with that bit of blasphemy in the title, let me explain.READ»

Five Truths About Design Awards

The industrial design awards season has ended. A look back on what exactly winning--or losing--means to designers.READ»

• Gadi Amit's blog: The New Deal

Habitat for Humanity Greens Low-Income Homes

Sure, LEED and Energy Star-certified houses are great, but they can never make a difference on a large scale until low-income homes are included in the mix. Habitat for Humanity aims to bring green housing to all income levels with a ...READ»

The Masters of Typography: House Industries

A merry band of typeface provocateurs is styling down to the letter. READ»

• Evolution of a Typeface: Neutra

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»

• Six Ways to Avoid Landing in the Product Failure Bin
• The Myth of the Rational Buyer: How Too Much Thinking Can Hurt Your Brand
• Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go

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»

• Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers

Crowdsourced City Design: 4 Designers Take on San Francisco

Last month, GOOD Magazine and the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) asked city officials to present a "call for problems"--ways to improve local public education or create a more effective citywide recycling ...READ»