Valerie Casey of Ideo is rallying the creative community to the Designers Accord, her version of a Kyoto treaty for designers -- and her peers are signing on in droves. Now comes the hard part.READ»
The aughts were all about aught-onomy...but that's so last decade. Entrepreneurs need to stop overextending their firms by trying to do everything and start coming up with better ways to work together.READ»
Valerie Casey recaps her Designers Accord keynote from last week's SXSW Interactive festival, and includes some suggestions for action designers can take today.READ»
I attended the Annual Masters of Design (MOD) Gala that was held yesterday night at (appropriately) the recently opened Museum of Art and Design where Marcel Wanders, world-renowned Dutch designer, John Maeda, president of Rhode ...READ»
SXSW Interactive this year was all about ethonomics, or social media for social change. "How do we create a future we want to live in?" Danah Boyd asked in her keynote on "Privacy and Publicity in the Digital Age," based on her ...READ»
Sustainable design is a hot topic. While most people applaud the idea of designers using ecofriendly materials, others insist that that's missing the point--that by designing for mass consumption, designers are still part of the ...READ»
A new way to organize small groups, a focus on a deliverable, and declaring the conference a Twitter-free zone were a few successful elements of a recent meeting of design educators.READ»
The IDEA Awards are supposed to represent the most cutting-edge industrial design. So why do some of the winners feel like they're nine years old?READ»
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»
There's a moment, at the beginning of the documentary Objectified, where Jonathan Ive, Apple's head of design, takes his iPhone out of his pocket and wipes it along the hem of his shirt to remove the ...READ»
