Work is a pleasure in tomorrow's office

Work stations with a built-in treadmill and portable meeting rooms are just some of the developments that may become commonplace in the offices of the future.

7 Ingredients of good corporate design

For a good corporate design, we need to be aware of two main elements, which can be further broken down into a total of seven “ingredients”.

Incredible Custom Shoes Designs

Here is a mix of cool custom designs for shoes.

Creative Bus Stop Advertisement Designs

To catch the eye gives cause to design something completely different.

Gadgets we love...because of fine design

American industrial designers are the secret heroes of the marketplace, finessing products to make them easier to use and help them sell better. Here's how five top firms have been busy shaping our world.

8 concept cars that'll never see production

These prototypes may never go into production, but you'll find elements of their designs in the cars of the future.

Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right

Audio content is becoming increasingly prevalent. But do you know how to design it effectively? Jens Jacobsen combines information architecture, journalism, usability engineering and interface design to resolve some of the issues that arise from introducing audio. He shows us how he makes his magic..

Futuristic PCs

Review the fourth Microsoft-sponsored Next-Gen PC Design Competition, which this year encouraged entrants to dream up futuristic designs that not only feature eye-catching aesthetics, but also cater to people's passions

(Re)building a town

When a tornado leveled Greensburg, Kansas a class of college students took it on to help rebuild the town - with an eye on the environment.

Take on the urban with Beema

Beema is a inner city trick bike by Andreas Martin that allows you to take on any obstacle that the urban area throws up; chairs, banks, rails or just the street. It fills the gap between FMX, scooter and BMX.

Design for Social Impact

How can we unleash and leverage the power of the global design community on some of the world’s most intractable problems? How can we increase the collaboration between the design industry and the the social sector? And do so in a systematic and sustainable way? Read this great PDF article to find out.

5 Unusually Inventive Kitchen Furniture Concepts

When you think of interesting design in the home, the kitchen typically isn’t the first room that springs to mind.

Crazy: City-In-a-Pyramid Could House a Million Dubaians

A particularly optimistic design firm in Dubai called Timelinks has proposed designs for the Ziggurat, a complete city to be layered inside of a massive pyramid that could serve as home for a million people at a time.

Web Design: Black Layouts

Here are some beautiful designed black layouts.

Some interesting desgn concepts

According to Wikipedia, a concept car is a car prototype made to showcase a concept, new styling, technology and more. At Toxel, they believe that concept cars are made to inspire!

A skyscraper in motion

It's always been one of the enduring truths of architecture: buildings stand still. Parts may move--the arms on a windmill, the elevators and escalators, the occasional rotating restaurant on the top floor--but not whole huge swaths of skyscraper.

Why Apple doesn't do 'concept products'

Technology giants like Microsoft and Nokia have also had a penchant for concocting concept products that never see the light of day in the market. Why hasn’t Apple, the most innovative and visionary company in computing, produced a single concept product or vision in over a decade? Because, to paraphrase Jobs, 'real artists ship'.

Renzo Piano

Piano was born in Genoa, where he still maintains a home and office (Building Workshop). He was educated and subsequently taught at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1965 to 1970 he worked with Louis Kahn and with Makowsky. He worked together with Richard Rogers from 1971 to 1977; their most famous joint project is the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1977). He also had a long collaboration with the extraordinary engineer Peter Rice.

On March 18, 2008, he became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Also check out the upcoming opening of the new California Academy of Sciences building designed by Renzo.

7 essential guidelines for functional design

Look at what you’ve made. Beautiful, isn’t it? But does it work? For whom does it work? Of course you can use it, but can anyone else? In short, is it functional?

2008 Annual Design Review: Packaging

ID magazine evaluates several packaging ideas for its 2008 Annual Design Review.