Thursday, December 31, 2009

Industrial Design Is in His Blood

Tucker Viemeister
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. By Alissa Walker

All Up In A Cell

Audi Allivictus by David Polášek

Concept cars is what everybody needs in the future. You bet. This right here is a futuristic vision of the Audi cell car set up on independent axles and center turning drive shafts. By Yanko Design

The Decade's 14 Biggest Design Moments

minority report

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. A look back at the last ten years in the design world reveals 14 moments where design changed the way we interacted with technology, culture, sustainability, and ourselves. By Fast Company

Three Brilliant Bits of LED Lighting Design

Jean-Marie Massaud

Today's most beautiful lamps also tout some ultra-smart engineering details. By Fast Company

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

yves behar/ fuse project: one laptop per child generation 3



Back in 2007 yves behar of fuse project together with nicholas negroponte
released the 'one laptop per child XO laptop'. By Designboom

Designing Interactions is a book and a DVD as well as this website

In this book Bill Moggridge introduces us to 40 influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. The introduction and final chapter combine to describe the approach to designing interactions that has evolved at IDEO.

NYC High Line Designers Turn Their Eyes to Downtown Cleveland

How do you revitalize a downtown area that's become a ghost town? With a stunning new park. By Fast Company

Three Strategies

Yes, not smart designing

Monday, December 21, 2009

Friday, December 18, 2009

3 High Design Hammocks

Hammocks have come a long way since pre-Columbian natives in South America wove together sheets from the bark of a Hamack tree and strung them up between two poles. By Spot Cool Stuff

3 High Design Hammocks

Barefoot Running Shoes

Question: What’s the single best designed piece of running equipment?

Answer: It’s a pair of gear you already own—your bare feet.

Barefoot Running Shoes: Vibram Five Finger KSO

23 creative and amazing bike designs

If you think that bikes are pretty boring, think again. These bicycles or concepts will maybe convince you to drop your car, or at least they will be please your eyes.

nulla minimalist bike

The 15 Best Articles For Designers in 2009

Here are fifteen of the most popular design related articles from 2009. There are great resources for fonts, Photoshop, web design templates, as well as amazing web design and graphic design tutorials. By Design Reviver

"Objectified" - Jonathan Ive talks about Mac design & Unibody MacBook manufacture



A clip from the 2009 documentary "Objectified" which is all about industrial design. Here, we see the wonderfully creative genius of Jonathan Ive, as he talks about the Mac, and specifically the Unibody design of the MacBook/MacBook Air & MacBook Pro.

What good is design research?

A recent article by Don Norman brings up some valuable and provocative questions about the value of design research. By Adam Richardson

5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2009

It was a huge year for data. There's no denying it. Data is about to explode. By Flowing Data

5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2009

Mag+, The magazine’s digital future

This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future.

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

60+ Creative & Inspirational Newsletter Designs

Web designers know how to build a modern, semantic and accessibility-oriented website, with proper XHTML and CSS. They understand all the necessary ingredients in making a good website and their implementation.

How about creating an equally good newsletter that matches its company’s standard. Many companies practice sending newsletters periodically/occasionally to their clients. By Best Design Tuts

10 Twitter Design Lists You Must Follow

With Twitter giving one the ability to create lists, here's a list of 10 Twitter Design lists to follow. By Just Creative Design

.mitIntroduces the Copenhagen Wheel

The Copenhagen Wheel, which turns any bike you already own into an “electric bike with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities.”