Topic: Visual Arts

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

Web Design Graphic Design

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Reflections on a Design Pioneer

American architect and designer Eliot Noyes made his mark on the world in a manner that is still felt today. Get a long term employee's memories on how the design legend thought, worked, and achieved the monumental success that he did. READ»

Design's Growth

Despite the growing demand for designers in the business world, there remains a dearth of qualified designers.READ»

Sustainable Architecture?

Wikipedia has a great summary of what sustainable design really is. The statement "Sustainable architects design with sustainable living in mind" is very true, and very important! It brings attention to the fact that if ...READ»

The Designer Who Meant Business

It is somehow fitting that what is arguably corporate design's most powerful mantra—"Good design is good business"—is widely credited to former IBM chief Thomas Watson Jr., but was in fact formulated by the architect and ...READ»

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»

Global City of the Year: London

Where one of every eight works in a creative industry.READ»

• 10 Things You Don't Know About London
• Fast Cities 2008

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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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»

Independence Station: The World's Greenest Building?

The world's greenest building might soon be located in the pioneer town of Independence, Oregon. Independence Station--a 57,000 square foot mixed use facility--is on track to receive the highest LEED rating ever awarded when it is ...READ»

Shepard Fairey Fights Back

Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the famous Obama poster image, and who was accused by the AP last week of copyright violation, has now counter-sued pre-emptively sued the AP claiming his use of the image was fair ...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»

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"

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»

The Green Standard?

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

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»

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»

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

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

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

Today’s graphic web 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»

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»

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»