Conference organizers of the world, pay attention: The Industrial Designers Society of America is schooling you in how to put together a convention. Let's start with a little surfing in the morning, then lunch in a gallery, and then a ...READ»
BYMark Dziersk Relevancy Score: 100 Thu May 28, 2009 at 11:10 AM
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»
BYMark Dziersk Relevancy Score: 100 Fri May 29, 2009 at 3:40 PM
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»
BYMark Dziersk Relevancy Score: 92 Fri May 29, 2009 at 10:45 AM
A decade ago the ability to generate ideas for businesses was a terrific and unique offering, and often a good business. Many companies and consultants were conducting workshops aimed at coming up hundreds of ideas, and ...READ»
BYMark Dziersk Relevancy Score: 83 Fri May 22, 2009 at 10:53 AM
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»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 79 Fri May 22, 2009 at 12:09 PM
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»
BYManuel Saez Relevancy Score: 73 Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 3:26 PM
In recent years concern has risen about the potential of China as a global design superpower and the threat of China becoming a design source for the west, threatening the livelihood of thousands of designers and designers-to-be ...READ»
Today, the winners of the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards were announced. The awards, created by the Industrial Designers Society of America, are among the most prestigious in the design world, and their winners garner a ...READ»
BYMark Dziersk Relevancy Score: 52 Wed May 27, 2009 at 11:05 AM
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»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 46 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:14 AM
Industrial designers gathered at an elite conference last week to meld their veneration of the new and fashionable with an appreciation for the old and lasting -- namely, the necessities for designing a meaningful life.READ»
BYFred Collopy Relevancy Score: 42 Sun Jan 18, 2009 at 8:54 AM
In 2002 Michael Lewis wrote a New York Times Magazine article In Defense of the Boom. In it he observed that a rational stock market “channels less than the socially optimal amounts of capital into innovation.” I came across the ...READ»
BYBill Breen Relevancy Score: 30 Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 11:10 AM
Is market share a meaningful measure of design's financial performance? You'd think so, judging by the number of design consultancies that use increases in sales and market share to trumpet the "success" of their redesigns. The ...READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 21 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:10 AM
Like lots of troubled companies before it, Herman Miller slashed and burned--people, facilities, businesses. But at the same time, it took a deep breath and made a big bet on the future.READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 19 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:43 AM
Technology promised to make our lives easier. Instead, too many gadgets today seem to require an engineering degree to operate. Designer Brett Lovelady aims to change that by teaching his clients the mantra "Simplify, simplify."READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 19 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:40 AM
Technology promised to make our lives easier. Instead, too many gadgets today seem to require an engineering degree to operate. Designer Brett Lovelady aims to change that by teaching his clients the mantra "Simplify, simplify."READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 13 Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 1:30 AM
John Maeda is a highly networked, Web-enabled thinker who also happens to be an artist, designer, and author -- probably the closest thing to a Renaissance man the digital world has produced. As the new president of the Rhode Island School of Design, can he help reconcile the design world's competing impulses: creativity and pragmatism, uniqueness and marketability?READ»
BY Fast Company Staff Relevancy Score: 7 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:55 AM
If you're leading a team or mapping out a strategy -- if you're trying to solve a problem -- you're engaging in design. And the creative folks featured in our second annual celebration of design's best and brightest have a lot to teach you.READ»
