Using Nature as Divine Design Inspiration Nature never fails to produce something new and interesting. Connecting it with your craft yields inspired solutions.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
How to Design Like You Give a Damn in 5 Easy Steps Joe Duffy has five rules for designing and doing good.
Posted Wed Apr 28, 2010
And the Olympics Uniform Gold Medal Goes to...the Dutch! (Designed by Canada) How about asking a native artist from the host nation to design your uniforms? That's what the Dutch did, and they deserve the gold medal in design.
Posted Thu Feb 25, 2010
The Winter Olympics Uniform Review: Part Deux After a week of the winter games, Joe Duffy is back with more commentary on what the athletes wore.
Posted Fri Feb 19, 2010
The Winter Olympics Uniforms: For God, Country, Fashion, and Sport Appearances are everything when it comes to competing for your country. Joe Duffy gives the U.S. and Canadian Olympic uniforms a design review.
Posted Thu Feb 11, 2010
When a Picture's Really Worth a Thousand Words: The Client Pitch Meeting The best design is verbally indescribable. You quite literally have to see it, touch it and feel it, in order to appreciate or even understand it. No amount of words can sell a great design idea.
Posted Tue Dec 22, 2009
Why Design Needs to Appeal Waylon 'n' Willie and Dixie Chicks That country audience is the one we designers need to "play to" if we're going to broaden the appeal of our best work.
Posted Tue Dec 8, 2009
Fishing for Design: A Day at the Market With Wolfgang Puck A day with the culinary genius inspires Joe Duffy to think about food in a completely different way.
Posted Wed Nov 25, 2009
Get Your Hands Dirty A ceramics show at the Walker Art Center got Joe Duffy thinking about the importance of working with his hands.
Posted Fri Nov 20, 2009
Good Design Is a Gift That Keeps on Giving As the holidays grow near, Joe Duffy reminds us that good design--yours or someone else's--can make great gifts for loved ones.
Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009
The Bar as a Brand Experience: Growing Up a Saloon Keeper's Son Barkeeping and branding are both in Joe Duffy's blood ... and have more in common than you might think.
Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009
A Plea to All Creatives: Stop Going to Work Designers thrive on the information available to us through this newly heightened era of connectivity. But we need inspiration to truly reach our creative potential. We need to get out of the office.
Posted Mon Oct 26, 2009
When Great Design Becomes Its Own Language The brands that have been designed in the best possible ways have their own proprietary language that tells their story, sets them apart from all the brands they compete with, and connects them in a very meaningful way to their audience.
Posted Wed Oct 14, 2009
Demystifying Design: An Argument for Simplicity Design is as much a process as it is an end product. And it should be a process that designers and clients resolve to make simple.
Posted Mon Oct 12, 2009
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