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July 23, 2007

2007 International Design Excellence Awards

"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

July 20, 2007

Megan Jaegerman's brilliant news graphics

Information designer Edward Tufte looks at the exceptional information design graphics of Megan Jaegerman

June 29, 2007

Static branding

The time of the static, stiff, inflexible brand is over - but some design studios just haven't got it yet

May 18, 2007

Quadroplastic

maxim zhestkov's motion, graphic and toy design work - quadroplastic

May 02, 2007

Timeline design

The BBC have designed an easy to use interface for exploring the last 3000 years of British history.

April 26, 2007

New Moleskine city

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.

April 12, 2007

20ltd.

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.

April 04, 2007

Communicating Information

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.

April 03, 2007

Plagiarism Museum

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.

March 21, 2007

2007 Industrial design tastemakers

Forbes present their list of the top industrial designers for 2007

March 16, 2007

Design Indaba

The Design Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa has been covered by Ping Mag

Philippe Starck in Beijing

Some good images of Philippe Starck's newly completed restaurant in Beijing called Le Lan

March 09, 2007

Alessi Spring/Summer 2007

Alessi have launched their new range of designer products for Spring/Summer 2007

February 08, 2007

Timorous Beasties

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.

Luca Nichetto

Italian designer Luca Nichetto - above: the ceramic hook box

January 19, 2007

Readymech v2

Readymech have released their second version of free flat pack toys for you to print out and construct.

January 17, 2007

An evening with Peter Saville

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.”

December 20, 2006

Duncan Wilson

Duncan Wilson Pixel Notes

Conceptual design from Duncan Wilson

December 14, 2006

The graphic design glass ceiling

An interesting discussion at Design Observer about the glass ceiling in Graphic Design.

December 07, 2006

The thin red line

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

December 05, 2006

GeriljaWorks



GeriljaWorks
product design from Norway

Seamless

Zaha Hadid's new exhibition of 'furniture' called Seamless

December 04, 2006

Sky Umbrella

Tibor Kalman's 'Sky Umbrella' available from the MoMA store

Holiday reading list

Design Observer have put forward their list of suggested reading material for the 2006/07 holiday season.

November 23, 2006

Free card models

Print them out, cut them up then put them together - free card models

November 20, 2006

Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell

GK VanPatter from NextD Journal talks to Malcolm Gladwell author of Blink and The Tipping Point about design thinking

November 15, 2006

Swedish Design, Tokyo 2006

Ping Mag talks to Katja from Swedish design group Front at the recent Tokyo Design Week 2006

November 13, 2006

Tado

Lots of fun vinyl toy designs from Mike and Katie at Tado

November 09, 2006

The Art of Complex Problem Solving

A wonderful example of information graphics.

Designing for the Environment

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.

November 06, 2006

Anthony Dickens

British designer Anthony Dickens and his linear timepiece

November 02, 2006

Tord Boontje Interview

Mocoloco interview French based designer Tord Boontje

October 23, 2006

Containership Powersupply

Jess Giffin & Jim TerMee are New Hampshire based designers whose collaborative work is more than just 'designing as a solution'.

October 19, 2006

Kancept

Design ideas to vote and comment on - Kancept

October 18, 2006

The Curiosity shoppe

If you are looking for something a little different, try the Curiosity Shoppe

October 17, 2006

Plantwall

Swedish designers Hans and Johan from Green Fortune have a desire to bring plantlife into the urban environment.

October 06, 2006

Lego ice cubes

Build your own ice sculptures (or monoliths) with lego ice cubes

October 03, 2006

Dadadum

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.

September 12, 2006

Playsam

Designer toys from Sweden - Playsam

September 11, 2006

My Process

Michael Beirut (Pentagram) talks about his design process

September 07, 2006

Binvention

Binvention from Sprout design, their first self-initated batch production project - via

July 31, 2006

John Walters Interview

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.

July 18, 2006

Trevor Jackson

Designer, DJ and Producer - Trevor Jackson

July 17, 2006

BoardPusher

Design your own skateboard deck - BoardPusher

The art of credit card design

What makes a great credit card design and how has credit card design changed in the last 30 years

Launchpad

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

July 10, 2006

Kone by Karim Rashid

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

BLANKA is a collection of original, vintage and limited edition posters and prints.

July 06, 2006

Sydney Design 06

Sydney's 10th annual design fortnight begins in one months time - their website has just gone live

June 30, 2006

IDEA 2006

108 top designs as picked by BusinessWeek in their 2006 IDEA Awards

June 28, 2006

Test your web design

If you design web pages and want to see what your creation looks like in many different browsers on different operating systems try browsershots

Nakamura Motomichi

New York animator/vj/artist Nakamura Motomichi is interviewed over at Submarine channel

Arkitip

Original designer prints, magazines and accessories - Arkitip

June 21, 2006

National Forest

Some nice illustration/photo montage work from National Forest

June 15, 2006

Amnesty International

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.

June 13, 2006

Camo football boots

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.

June 09, 2006

Q&A with Peter Saville

Fact magazine talks to Peter Saville about his design work for the music industry

June 08, 2006

Fuego

Stylish outdoor cooking - Fuego

Colour

If you are interested in colour theory or just what looks nice

June 07, 2006

Five Fingers

Shoes with a hole for each toe, designed to give you that barefoot feeling - fivefingers

June 05, 2006

Wall Design

Wall decals from Paris France - Wall design

Lovely Lovely


Doilies, mugs, plates and glasses - Lovely Lovely from London

June 01, 2006

Antenna

New York design studio - Antenna

May 30, 2006

Inflate

British design group - Inflate - 10 years of designing the inflateable

May 25, 2006

Packaging and Music

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.

Super Robot

Japanese design group SuperRobot are interviewed over at ping mag