Bridge design

A new program by the designer fund will pair great designers with great startups.  By Fast Company

Silicon Valley’s New Secret Weapon: Designers Who Found Startups

If you want to ship great products, writes the Designer Fund's Enrique Allen, consider having a designer in your founding group. By Co.Design

IKEA interior designers dem small space solutions

IkeaMalaysia has started posting a series of videos featuring their interior designers giving tips on how to squeeze every last inch—sorry, centimeter—out of a living space. By Core77

Infographic Of The Day: America's 50 Most Influential Designers

How do you capture the present state of design in one single chart, with only 50 names? You don't. By Cliff Kuang

A New VC Model That Turns Designers, Not Techies, Into Startup CEOs

Enrique Allen's angel-investor and mentoring network is meant to encourage entrepreneurial designers to get into the tech startup game. By John Pavlus

Designing the Designers

Control is every tyrant's dream. It may be the rest of ours, too. By Lang Davison, Andrew Markell, Kate Markell

20 Motivating Design Quotes for Graphic Designers – Words Visualized!

“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”

The maestro, Leoanardo Da Vinci, illuminates the beauty of simplicity in art and graphic design through such brilliant words. By Graphic Design Blog

Clement Mok

Clement Mok, recognized for his enduring and visionary work in interactive design and multidimensional branding, and leading the profession in its progression toward experience design and design strategy. By AIGA

Fortune's smartest designers in tech

Fortune's 50 Smartest People in Tech article highlights individuals in the expected categories of CEO, Analyst, Engineer, Scientist, Academic and, we were pleasantly surprised to see, Designer.

Starting out

Starting Out is a new series by Core77 about designers who have recently struck out on their own. More than a string of studio visits, the series profiles talented, risk-taking professionals all around the world. We hope their anecdotes will inspire your own entrepreneurial spirit. By Lisa Smith

Cooper-Hewitt Asks: Can Designers Save the World?

The world's drowning in dark news of political unrest, climate change, environmental disaster, and poverty. But we can still take heart that right now, designers have fixed themselves on the day's problems with a vigor that the world has never seen before. Can design save the world? By Cliff Kuang

Designer of 2015 competencies

In order to fulfill the expectations placed upon designers in the future, they will need to employ a set of skills that include some beyond today’s typical scope. By Aiga

The Hand of the Designer: Design in the Making

Moleskine announced The Hand of the Designer, a collection of 462 reproductions of hand made sketches by 150 internationally recognized designers, including Bouroullec Brothers, Michael Graves, Hella Jongerius, Karim Rashid, and many others.

Why We Should Teach Design Early

A group of Austin designers is helping students at a local high school recreate their campus. By Rob Stokes