Poland Unveils BMW-Designed Subway Cars Which Are 98% Recyclable

The Siemens Inspiro transit concept will bring sustainable engineering to Warsaw's metro system in 2012. By John Pavlus

The 7 Biggest Challenges in Merging Design and Business

By now, businesses should have learned to embrace design. Yet they still don't. Why? By Helen Walters

A changing role for design

The recent Industrial Design Summit 2010 in Cannes attracted top management in design and technological sectors from some of the worlds leading corporations including Audi, Lego, Samsung, Volvo, Scania, Sony Ericsson, Absolut, Campari, Bentley, Carlsberg, 3M and Nokia to mention a few. By David Report

18 best practices to improve your e-commerce website

Designing e-commerce websites is probably one of the most complicated task for a web designer. Your client (or yourself) will have some very clear goals that will make the UI even more important, you will also need to take special care of your visitors. By Mirko

Harley Davidson 1

A motorcycle that remembers the past but creates a future. By Jonathan Russell

Amor Tablet

This 13mm thick tablet-pc was developed in collaboration with Freescale (semiconductor) and Surface Ink (engineering company) It comes with a matching USB,HDMI and power docking station, which also works as a portrait stand. By Mika Becktor

Trasformable Spin vehicle

The Transformable Spin Vehicle was designed to provide the rider with a number of options, pertaining to driving stance and style. By Matias Conti

What Marshmallows and Spaghetti Can Teach Your Design Team

Ever watch a child build a sandcastle at the beach, or a group of kids tackle a pile of LEGOs only to create an entire city in less than an hour? Children are born with an innate ability to design things out of thin air. What happens by the time we reach adulthood? Where does all that talent go? By The ZurBlog

See the Marshmallow Challenge transcript here.

Who dominates your design?

You can learn a lot about an organization or company by viewing its company website or online application process. By The ZurBlog

Why Workflows Work Better than Sitemaps

Workflows are more specific than sitemaps and map to actions a particular user will take through a website or application. By The ZurBlog

Podcast of Tom Conrad’s talk on Apple, Pets.com, and Pandora

At 15 years old Tom saw the 1984 Apple ad during the superbowl. He became fixated on going to California and working at Apple on the Macintosh. He applied for an internship and followed his dream. After his internship he worked on the Finder team at Apple for three years. By Zurb

Waxy Printing

The Wax-on is a solid ink printer that simplifies the process of printing. It removes the need of producing plastic waste and annoyance of using ink jet cartridges. By Yanko Design

Print that screen, literally!

Document Extractor – Combi Monitor is a screen that doubles up as a printer as well. Why? Because you need precious space on your desk to put other stuff! You need to have cool tech devices that put stacks of printer paper hidden away from view! You need to boast of uber cool monitors just cause you don’t own a 27” iMac! That’s why! By Yanko Design

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

Famous Brands shortlisted for 2010 – Who will win the race?

Let’s start off with a simple question…what differentiates a brand from a product? Any idea? Or better don’t bother thinking because whatever you say will be CORRECT! By Famous Brands

I Can See Through Your Juice

The Second Life Mobile Phone Concept works on the premise that we often forget about the battery life of our mobile phones, hence run out of juice, just at the wrong time. By Yanko Design

Sands Of Traffic Times!

The Sand Glass is a new look at traffic lights. By Yanko Design

Boxed and Labelled – New Approaches to Packaging Design

A specialist discipline in itself, Packaging Design is in many cases as important as the product it houses, its about much more than just whacking the product in a box. By Raph Goldsworthy

Principles of Creative Development Research

Consumer research is often seen as a necessary evil rather than a real contributor to the creative process. By Sabine Stork

Emotive Branding: The Path to Meaning (And Kick-Ass Creative)

Emotive Branding from Emotive Brand on Vimeo.

At Emotive Brand our goal is to make brands truly meaningful through emotive branding. Emotive branding is about transforming the way a brand reaches out to people and the way people respond back to that brand. The key is meaning. Read the rest of the article here.

Pierini Partners

In this article, Adrián Pierini, designer and CEO of this prestigious Argentinean agency, tells us about the process that led to the new image of an emblematic icon of the most important beer company in Bolivia. By Processed Identity

The Redesign of the Twitter bird

An interview with designer and illustrator, Phil Pascuzzo. By Karen Horton

The Undesigned Web is Design

…in the 21st century, Internet standards have successfully separated design and content. The two live more interdependent lives, sometimes tightly tied and sometimes completely separated from one another.

The message is now free from the medium. By Designs Sojourn

Project Modai

Julius Tarng is wrapping up one of the most brilliant student projects worth seeing. By Michael DiTullo

Frog Design on the Nautilus Mobia

Working out at home may be convenient and cost effective, but why do the machines for home use echo gym units so closely? By Core77

A Typographic Clock That Tells Time The Way People Do

QLOCKTWO's exquisite hands- and number-free face makes time easier to digest. By Suzanne Labarre

New Firm Built on "Hybrid Thinking"

Continuum Advanced Systems gathers experts in far-flung fields to tackle complex design problems, from Humvee safety to ultra-fast AIDs testing. By Suzanne Labarre

Sliding Walls Turn Tiny Apartment Into Home Office (and Back)

How do you add new rooms when you can't add floor space? If you're Yuko Shibata, you just make the walls mobile. By John Pavlus

Xerox Fills Nation's Airports with Life-Sized Interactive Commercials

Environmental marketing takes to the unfriendly skies. Brills or not? By Susanne Labarre

Design Thinking for Social Innovation

Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design techniques to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world. Businesses were the first to embrace this new approach—called design thinking—and nonprofits are beginning to adopt it too. By Tim Brown & Joycelyn Wyatt

Redesigning the airline boarding pass

Designer Tyler Thompson gets frustrated with boarding passes and attempts to redesign them. By Richard Pak

Vision home energy-mamagement system for tendril

A revolutionary digital display that promotes household energy savings. By Ideo

Magazine Cover and Layout Design: 10 Inspiring Examples

Magazine layouts for inspiration. By Freelance Review

MoVete personal mobility device allows electrifying ride in crowded places

The “MoVete” by Argentine designers Natalia Portugal and Sara Aletta de Sylvas is a personal mobility device for people of all ages that running for compact wheels provides stability to the rider. By Naresh Chauhan

Designing the future: Soundscape Tower to become the world’s largest speakers

Proposed for the dense urban area of the San Lorenza neighborhood of Rome, the “Soundscape Tower” is a series three modern towers that blending the past with present and history with modernity adds significance to the rich culture and heritage of the “once walled-in old city.” By Naresh Chauhan

Method's Method for Building Breakthrough Products

The design chief of the eco-friendly soap company -- with those great bottles hipsters go gaga for -- reveals the secrets to innovation. By John Edson

The Darwinian Business of Designing Machines, Part 2

In part one, industrial designer Gadi Amit discussed what it takes to make the guts of a machine. In this article he talks about objects' internal logic -- and explains why Apple violates one of the cardinal rules of machine design.

The Darwinian Business of Designing Machines

Industrial designers spend their days creating the DNA of machines. Just like with animals, the best survive, the worst die out. Here’s what it takes to create a winner. By Gadi Amit

Who Really Designed the Brown Paper Bag?

A MoMA curator investigates the industrial-design drama behind one of the world's humblest inventions. By John Pavlus

Handheld 3-D Theater

Traits of Successful Design Managers

A Design Manager is not an easy role to play in today’s design industry. How a design team gels together is very much affected by how the “boss” manages them. By Design Sojourn

Modular Motorhome: Hybrid Camper Car + Caravan Combo

Campervans are great for the wide-open road, but what happens when you reach your destination and want to travel in something a bit less clunky? By Dornob

iDrop Information, Simple!

i dropper this wonderful stylus pen for an intuitive connective experience on mobile devices. By Yanko Design

Pavement Pressure For Your Cycle

Concept Maps

Go to Dubberly Design Office website and download concept maps, such as Hugh Dubberly’s great concept map “A Model of Brand”. By Sarah Brody

Encounters with Paul Rand

Paul Rand from Sarah Brody on Vimeo.
Steve Jobs talks about Paul Rand and his design for Next Computer, plus Paul shares his thoughts about design principles.

Is "Undesigned" the Next Great Web Trend? Fat Chance

The solution to frustrating web experiences is better design -- which is often mistaken for "less" design. Some top minds in the field discuss this topic. By John Pavlus

Evolution of Apple Ads

Apple first started advertising its products in the late 1970s. By Webdesigner Depot

Start your presentation with PUNCH

The primacy effect, when applied to presentations, suggests that we remember more strongly what happens at the beginning of a presentation. By Presentation Zen

Logitech Revue Google TV

Packaging design for the Logitech Revue Google TV. By Notcot

US UX versus EU UX: What’s the difference?

In response to questions from Amy Knox regarding US.UX and EU.UX, Søren Muus (creative director at FatDUX and co-initiator of ECUX) recently posted on the mail list of the Information Architecture Institute some interesting ideas in this matter. By Soren Muus

Windows Phone 7 Series UI Design & Interaction Guide

The Windows Phone 7 Series UI Design and Interaction Guide is available for download as a PDF from from microsoft.com here. By Charlie Kindel

Going Mobile: Designing for Different Screen Sizes | Promoting Your Mobile App

Screen sizes seem to be diverging more and more, with huge desktop monitors coexisting with tiny mobile phone screens—meaning an app’s available screen space is difficult to know. By Janet M. Six

Using Personas During Design and Documentation

Picture this scenario: You are using an application to work on a time-critical project, and suddenly, you are stuck for want of information about a particular screen. Time is running out. You reach for the application’s documentation and spend a few minutes trying to figure out what to do next. By Niranjan Jahagirdar and Arun Joseph Martin

Design Mind Salon with Bill Buxton

Resonance: a short film about getting to the right idea

In this short film, Continuum strategists demonstrate and discuss the methods they use to guide the development of experiences and products that matter to people and keep them coming back for more. By Continuum

Whole systems and life cycle thinking

What a great idea: a 'green' product to make a difference, make one happy, and assist in performing the menial tasks that litter an otherwise hectic day. Or is it? By Simon Lockrey

Building design teams like cables

If you look at the way many professional corporate and consulting design groups were set up in the past they were segregated by discipline. The product designers sit over here, usually with the engineers, and possibly the product marketing or business strategy folks. By Core77

Gap's failure wasn't the logo

Gap experienced the power of social media about two weeks. They unveiled a new logo, quite badly designed, and the reaction was an immediate social media backlash. By Baekdal

The future of the MacBook Air

The new Air is really beautiful, ultra slim, and have that Apple "gimme gimme gimme" factor. By Thomas Baekdal

Success Secrets from Clement Mok

-Think constantly. Be curious about the world.
-Realize that you don’t know what you don’t know, and that you’re on a quest to figure those things out.
-Never burn your bridges, and if you do have to burn your bridges, try to end things nicely.
-A career is really what you make of it, so follow your heart; follow your passion.

By Clement Mok

Link-T cruise bike folds for easy parking and transportation

With increasing number of big, motorized vehicles cramping the city roads, two-wheelers especially bikes have emerged as a brisk and sustainable mode of commutation in urban environment. By The Design Blog

Honda Air Design: The pow(air) dreams of future!

Conceptualizing the vision of the future of four-wheeler vehicles, Honda Air Design is the latest take by Honda Advanced Design Studio. By The Design Blog

Vario concept trike with variable wheel width for the urban commuters

Making commuting sling and affordable for two persons, Vario concept takes the definition of the vehicle to a new dimension. By The Design Blog

Dialum Task Lamp emits efficient and intense spectrum of light

Designed by Matt Day, the Dialum Task Lamp has lot more to speak apart from its sleek and elegant design. By Shikha Chauhan

40+ Cheerful Bird Logos to Inspire Your Creativity

This post is a compilation of 40+ Cheerful Bird Logos to Inspire Your Creativity. These logos illustrate a few effective utilization of a bird image in logo-making. Check out this “tweet” collection and see the great possibilities of creating art inspired by those well-loved creatures! By Youthedesigner

35 Awe-Inspiring Booklet Designs for Print Design Inspiration

Booklets are useful tools in conveying information and in advertising. Aside from being easy to carry, they are less likely to bore the reader since their content is shorter. By Youthedesigner

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

Why design now?

Where good ideas come from

"Clean, Green" TATA Tower is a Bleak Vision of the Future, Dominated by Cars

It is a future where we never get out of our cars, just drive home into the lifts and rise up to our apartment and desks. Where every resident gets to park their car in their own little "garden." By Lloyd Alter

Design Demigod Tokujin Yoshioka Creates Transparent Cell Phone

The X-RAY is a totally new type of cell phone: one designed for pure aesthetic delight. By Suzanne Labarre

Dyson's Full-Powered City Vac Is Small Enough to Sit on a Sheet of Paper

If you live in a city, you've probably seen a Dyson vac or two sitting in a corner, attracting undue attention -- simply because the thing is too big to store. The new Dyson City is meant to solve that problem. By Cliff Kuang

Push-Pull; Tug Of War Is Over!

Sticker industry may get a setback because their “Push” and “Pull” stickers may soon get redundant. The In & Out Door solves the problem of indicating push or pull on doors by making the door handle intuitive. By Yanko Design

The Nail Within!

How many of you see carpenters fumble for the nails in their span or gripping a mouthful quite hazardously. The Nail Hammer is an easy solution, where the handle holds a silicon case full of nails and is easily accessible. By Yanko Design

The future of the book

Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch global design and innovation consultancy IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?

EV Drivers Get a Cure for Range Anxiety

The electric vehicle (EV) revolution has begun. But it can only be fueled if the right ecosystem is put in place to support the mass of energy-conscious consumers who hope to hit the road in one of the new EVs soon to hit the streets. By Kristina Loring

Know Your Customer's Motivations

The concept of user experience (UX) is a good one, but many people try to position it as a role in an organization that helps make an app or website successful. By Bryan

How Best Buy evolves its brand

How do you keep evolving the brand for a $49 billion retailing giant? At Best Buy, keeping the company brand fresh starts with the vision of CEO Brian Dunn, who addressed 650 Razorfish clients and employees at the 10th Annual Razorfish Client Summit. By DDeal

5 Futuristic Concept Phone Designs

The now ubiquitous cell phone has progressed by leaps and bounds, from the bricks-with-battery-packs of the 1980s to the sleek touchscreen devices of today. By Amy-Mae Elliott