Industrial Design

Design Briefs Advance Performance

Soren Petersen | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Creativity, Design, Performance, Industrial Design, Strategy, Development, Product Design, Business News

Maintaining an open perspective while staying focused on a goal can cause any aspiring design star to run in circles, wasting much of their valuable time and energy. Can a couple of hours spent composing an Inspirational Design Brief significantly improve their performance?

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Inspired Design: Young Inventors Solve Old Problems in New Ways

James Dyson | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Invention, Design, Innovation, James Dyson Award, Engineering, Industrial Design, Inventors, Technology, UK, UK Tech, UK-Inspiration, Inspiration, UK-Innovation, Technology News

Simple observations can inspire leaps in understanding. In designing a vacuum that didn't choke on dust, I looked to a sawmill. I saw centrifugal force being used to separate dirt and wondered - could the same principle be used on a smaller scale?

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How Marketing Researchers See Design

Soren Petersen | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Design, Marketing, Innovation, Profits, Design Conscious Marketing, Product Design, Product Design Research, Industrial Design, Business News

Cowritten by Dr. Jaewoo Joo "Designers don't just put cosmetics on the skin of a product!" During my interview with a graduate student at Ontario Col...

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$100 Laptop Designers Helps Children Of Mexico See Better

Jacob Slevin | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Industrial Design, Social Entrepreneurship, Glasses, Product Design, Non-Profit, Mexico, Design, Yves Behar, Awards, Slidefreestyle, Index: Award, Free Glasses Mexico, See Better to Learn Better Mexico, Glasses Mexico, Yves Behar See Better to Learn Better, Yves Behar Mexico, Yves Behar Glasses, Arts News

Just moments ago, acclaimed designer Yves Béhar, received the enormously prestigious 2011 INDEX: Award for Verbien See Better to Learn Better, a soci...

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VOTE: Steve Jobs' Design Revolution

Posted 10.25.2011

Apple design. Unique, sleek and unmistakeable. It is no secret that Steve Jobs has an obsessive commitment to simplicity. When Jobs returned to Apple ...

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The Typewriter That Changed Everything Turns 50

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Industrial Design, Mad Men, Postage Stamps, Nancy Worden, Eliot Noyes, Ibm, Selectric, Usps, Typewriters, Design, Ibm Selectric, Ibm-Selectric, Derry Noyes, Technology, Smarter Ideas, Bblog-Ibm, Culture News

Fifty years ago this month, the IBM Selectric typewriter was introduced to the public. In the 25 years that followed, more than 13 million of the t...

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The 'Euthanasia Coaster' And The Art Of The Amusement Park

Posted 08.25.2011

Read More: Industrial Design, Julijonas Urbonas, Amusement Park, Lithuania, Conceptual Art, Royal College of Art, Sculpture, Euthanasia Coaster, Design, Roller Coaster, G-Force, Euthanasia, Gravity, Arts News

The "Euthanasia Coaster," a roller-coaster designed to be fatal, is a conceptual art piece and model for a more pleasant way to die. The sinister-...

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Would Apple Be Doomed Without Steve Jobs?

Ty Fujimura | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Iphone, Industrial Design, Steve Jobs, Motorola, Apple, Applications, OS X, Xoom, Ios, Design, Marketing, Business, Mac, Jony Ive, Ipad, Arts News

The Motorola Xoom has more memory than the iPad 2. It has a larger and higher-resolution display. And it runs flash. Venerable tech blog Engadget repo...

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PHOTOS: Exhibition Spotlight: Ezra Stoller's Photographs Of Iconic Modern Architecture

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Industrial Design, Exhibition Spotlight, Art, Landmarks, Ezra Stoller, Guggenheim Museum, JFK Airport, Photographer, TWA Terminal, ARt Exhibition, Architecture, Modern Architecture, Prints, Slidefullscreen, Arts News

WHO: Ezra Stoller WHAT: An exhibition of architectural gelatin silver prints by Ezra Stoller WHEN: January 6 - February 12, 2011 WHERE: Yossi Milo ...

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IT DOESN'T SUCK: James Dyson Award Winners Announced

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Industrial Design, Dyson, Slideshow, James-Dyson, Product Design, Design, Awards, Dyson Awards, Arts News

The first stage in judging the James Dyson Award 2010 has been completed and the national shortlists from 18 countries have been posted. From these, 2...

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The Next Industrial Revolution May Be Led by Personal Civil Engineering

Jillian Burt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blade Runner, Civil Engineering, William Gibson, Collaborative Consumption, Arup, Dan Hill, James Dyson, Industrial Design, Arts News

Maybe a new generation of designers will make civic and social responsibility cool -- the Walkman of this era might be a personal solar power storage unit that can be carried around and snapped into power grid anywhere in the city.

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Plan ForYourArt, March 4-10

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Mexicali Biennial, Lacma, Otis College of Art and Design, IDEA Office, Urban Planning, Christopher Knight, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Architecture, Sci-Arc, Artists, Pacific Standard Time, Eric Owen Moss, Painting, Ben Maltz Gallery, Industrial Design, Foryourart, Art, The Barnes Foundation, Ucla, Andreas Gursky, Los Angeles Times, Richard Meier, Moca, Gagosian Gallery, Performance, Los Angeles News

The inaugural exhibition for the newly expanded, Richard Meier-designed Gagosian Gallery includes new large-scale photographic work by Andreas Gursky.

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Hijab For Sports: A New Radical Invention

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Industrial Design, Careers, New Radicals, Montreal, Sport, Hijab, Julia Moulden, Religion, Healthy Living News

Instead of saying, "that's wrong!" and organizing a protest march, Elham decided to come up with a solution. That's a distinctly New Radical response: positive, constructive, and hopeful.

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