Etsy's Handmade Hack-a-Thon Is the Perfect Antidote to SXSW Tech-Talk Overload A pop-up community center offsite at SXSW teaches sewing classes, engages Austin crafters, and even manages to turn those craptastic swag bags into something usable!
Updated Tue Nov 29, 2011
Biomimicry Challenge: IDEO Taps Octopi and Flamingos to Reorganize the USGBC The Boston office of IDEO worked with the United States Green Building Council to find a new organizational structure that matched their sustainable mission.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
Biomimicry Challenge: For IBM, Smart Design Draws Water Conservation Inspiration From Ecosystems Smart Design was paired with IBM's SmarterCity initiatives to find a better way to monitor water consumption on a personal, community, and societal level.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
Infographic: The Absurdity Of The Recession Revealed, Through Multisided Dice You only need to look at one of Co.Design's most popular features to see how society is inundated with information. Artist James Bills has a different take on our info-overloaded culture. He creates art that nods to our desperate need for orderly facts and figures, yet populates his work with his own, random self-generated data.
Posted Fri Sep 9, 2011
Infographic Of The Day: Are You Adventurous In Bed? Every sex study that comes out seems to fall into two camps. One is stuffed with cheesy, "relatable" graphics that end up talking down to young adults. The other packs too much irrelevant information into a dry, overly serious format. Either way, you walk away, well, unsatisfied. The new Sexperience 1000, a survey of 1,000 sexually active Brits, avoids all the cliches, with timely content packaged in a vibrant interactive experience that invites plenty of exploration. Ahem.
Updated Fri Aug 19, 2011
AIGA Launches Design for Good, Asking Members to Donate 5% of Their Time to Social and Civic Causes How the design association is advocating on behalf of designers in government, business, and society--plus how AIGA helped Gap rethink their disastrous crowdsourced logo idea.
Updated Tue Mar 22, 2011
The Future of Reading Online Is Customization & Sharing, Not Tablets (Yet) An iPad app is not going to transform the magazine industry, says Khoi Vinh, the former design director for NYTimes.com. Instead, more robust web browsers will change the way we read.
Updated Thu Mar 17, 2011
Scared Green: Ideas for Tough-Love Climate Change Campaigns That Get Results The key to kickstarting a slumping sustainability movement? Pressure. Social media pressure, peer pressure, and pressure from the--gulp--government.
Updated Thu Mar 17, 2011
Introducing Guest Blogger Tucker Viemeister: Industrial Design Is in His Blood Designers often talk about the moment they realized their destiny lay in design. For Tucker Viemeister, it was pretty much the moment he was conceived. Tucker was born to Read Viemeister, a famous industrial designer (and an activist mom, Beverly, who nurtured his social responsibility side). And the name Tucker?
Updated Tue Jan 11, 2011
Twitter Announces @Anywhere at SXSW A new set of frameworks will allow content producers to embed Twitter data anywhere on their sites, letting users follow and view accounts without leaving Web pages.
Updated Thu Jan 6, 2011
Infographic of the Day: The World's Insatiable Resource Demand, Rendered on a Rug
Eva Dijkstra and Michael Lugmayr, Dutch designers living in Melbourne, have created Infographiti a series of works that uses the idea of graphs or charts as abstract art. Most recently, they've created a rug that visualizes the planet's ecological footprint, and a wallhanging that displays wealth vs. happiness.
Fri Oct 22, 2010
USC Brings Together Filmmakers, Engineers, Doctors for Its New Body Computing Center The new collaboration is a revolutionary way for motion graphics artists, product designers, and health care providers to work together to save lives.
Fri Sep 24, 2010
Making of Touching Stories: Director Sean Ehringer Messes With "Sarah and Jerry" Tool of North America and Domani Studios have just released an app that allows viewers to interact with live-action video. This week we focused on each of the films and the unique challenges that came with directing them.
Fri Jul 2, 2010
Making of Touching Stories: Director Tom Routson and Hotel Tryst Tale, "Triangle" Tool of North America and Domani Studios have just released an app that allows viewers to interact with live-action video. All this week, we're focusing on each of the films and the unique challenges that came with directing them.
Thu Jul 1, 2010
Three New LED Lights by Humanscale Are Smart, Bright, Efficient These sustainable, hyper-efficient task lights will help keep you on-task.
Fri Jun 18, 2010
Famous Designers You Probably Haven't Heard Of, But Should: Robin and Lucienne Day A new documentary features a British design duo whose abstract, modernist design helped transform and uplift a post-World War II Britian.
Fri May 14, 2010
School's Almost Out, but These Modular, Eco-Friendly Classrooms Are In As schools fight for classroom space while facing budget cuts, these smart, sustainable modular systems can deliver healthy learning environments--before summer vacation is over.
Thu May 13, 2010
Vegas Train War! Another L.A.-to-Vegas Train Will Get Gamblers There Slower, but Drunker Yet another Sin City Express is on track: The X Train isn't high-speed, but it features luxury bar cars and a plan to be up and running by 2011.
Thu May 13, 2010
Atheism Gets a Much-Needed Rebranding The Illuminated Atheist provides a new visual identity for a misunderstood way of life.
Thu May 13, 2010
SVA Student's "Spoonful" Project Helps People Eat Local, Seasonal Foods SVA MFA Design student Carli Pierce created a concept that encourages sustainable meals, one ingredient at a time.
Wed May 12, 2010
