"Winners from 20 countries took gold, silver, and bronze prizes for service innovation in banking, creating broad corporate and brand strategies, bolstering sustainability via electric cars, and remaking hammers and wrenches in new, better forms" - some nice eye candy
Information designer Edward Tufte looks at the exceptional information design graphics of Megan Jaegerman
The time of the static, stiff, inflexible brand is over - but some design studios just haven't got it yet
maxim zhestkov's motion, graphic and toy design work - quadroplastic
The BBC have designed an easy to use interface for exploring the last 3000 years of British history.
Moleskine have released a new form of diary, the Moleskine City Notebook Each notebook contains a map of your chosen city with various stickers to help your day to day manoeuvres.
20ltd. is an online shop which stocks 20 unique, beautifully designed objects from some of the worlds top designers. Each product is a limited edition.
Stanford Magazine looks at Edward Tufte's drive to communicate the beauty of communicating information.
Meanwhile a study at the University of New South Wales has discovered that basic display techniques more commonly used in Power Point (Matching what is said with the same words on the screen) actually muddles the information instead of re-enforcing it.
On April. 1, a new museum of counterfeit goods opens in the German city of Solingen, near Cologne. The museum will permanently exhibit 300 original products together with seemingly identical rip-offs. These items range from fashion and household products to electrical and medical equipment.
Forbes present their list of the top industrial designers for 2007
The Design Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa has been covered by Ping Mag
Some good images of Philippe Starck's newly completed restaurant in Beijing called Le Lan
Alessi have launched their new range of designer products for Spring/Summer 2007
After enjoying a roll of success that has been inspired by their anti-establishment wallpapers and prints, the Timorous Beasties are slowly moving into the mainstream by opening up a new shop in London. Stuart Jeffries from the Guardian talks with the Timorous Beasties.
Italian designer Luca Nichetto - above: the ceramic hook box
Readymech have released their second version of free flat pack toys for you to print out and construct.
Highlights from an Architectural Association talk in London by Peter Saville
On record covers
“I’d been doing them since I was 23 and you just grow out of it. The playground is not an appropriate place for a grown-up.”
Conceptual design from Duncan Wilson
An interesting discussion at Design Observer about the glass ceiling in Graphic Design.
Andy Rutledge takes a good swipe at the self-indulgent, award fixated rhetoric that is predominant within the graphic design & advertising industries - The Thin PMS185 Line
GeriljaWorks product design from Norway
Zaha Hadid's new exhibition of 'furniture' called Seamless
Tibor Kalman's 'Sky Umbrella' available from the MoMA store
Design Observer have put forward their list of suggested reading material for the 2006/07 holiday season.
Print them out, cut them up then put them together - free card models
GK VanPatter from NextD Journal talks to Malcolm Gladwell author of Blink and The Tipping Point about design thinking
Lots of fun vinyl toy designs from Mike and Katie at Tado
A wonderful example of information graphics.
Following on from the financial risks of environmental disaster as written about by Sir Nicholas Stern, George Monbiot proposed a “ten point plan for drastic but affordable action". From both of these sources John Thackara from 'Doors of Perception' puts forward eight tasks/projects that the pro-active environmental designer could undertake.
British designer Anthony Dickens and his linear timepiece
Mocoloco interview French based designer Tord Boontje
Jess Giffin & Jim TerMee are New Hampshire based designers whose collaborative work is more than just 'designing as a solution'.
Design ideas to vote and comment on - Kancept
If you are looking for something a little different, try the Curiosity Shoppe
Swedish designers Hans and Johan from Green Fortune have a desire to bring plantlife into the urban environment.
Build your own ice sculptures (or monoliths) with lego ice cubes
Each day is a dot, passing from one day to the other is a line - by the end of the month a picture appears. A fun calendar from Dadadum to be enjoyed by children.
Designer toys from Sweden - Playsam
Michael Beirut (Pentagram) talks about his design process
Binvention from Sprout design, their first self-initated batch production project - via
For the past seven years, John Walters was editor of design magazine EYE. Walters talks to Stephen Heller from AIGA about EYE's history and what he has done to both preserve its legacy and make it relevant today.
Designer, DJ and Producer - Trevor Jackson
Design your own skateboard deck - BoardPusher
What makes a great credit card design and how has credit card design changed in the last 30 years
The top 20 Launch Pad finalists will be showcased in an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum from July 11-26 2006 - view their work here
KONE™ is a cordless hand vac designed by Karim Rashid for Dirty Devil - the type of portable vac you can leave out on display - on your table, shelf, or counter.
BLANKA is a collection of original, vintage and limited edition posters and prints.
Sydney's 10th annual design fortnight begins in one months time - their website has just gone live
108 top designs as picked by BusinessWeek in their 2006 IDEA Awards
If you design web pages and want to see what your creation looks like in many different browsers on different operating systems try browsershots
New York animator/vj/artist Nakamura Motomichi is interviewed over at Submarine channel
Original designer prints, magazines and accessories - Arkitip
Some nice illustration/photo montage work from National Forest
A sophisticated billboard campaign from Amnesty International blending what is behind the street signage with images that project the suffering brought about by conflict and torture.
Puma have released a new range of boots that camouflage your feet by using a grass style print so your feet blend into the field.
Fact magazine talks to Peter Saville about his design work for the music industry
Stylish outdoor cooking - Fuego
If you are interested in colour theory or just what looks nice
Shoes with a hole for each toe, designed to give you that barefoot feeling - fivefingers
Wall decals from Paris France - Wall design
Doilies, mugs, plates and glasses - Lovely Lovely from London
New York design studio - Antenna
British design group - Inflate - 10 years of designing the inflateable
David Byrne talks about the role of package design within the music industry and the current path designers need to take now that the physical package is quickly disappearing.
Japanese design group SuperRobot are interviewed over at ping mag