Design to Move

I wrote a very popular piece 2 years back called Hey CEO: Do you know how to dress? In the interim 2 years, Design has become a critical and celebrated element of business success. Business leaders have started paying attention. Nerds have started getting intrigued by right-brained creativity, even though they don’t quite understand the

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Teaching Design in Business

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author I have always been attracted by well designed products, well thought through customer experience in service and great user experience in software. I wonder why so many organizations do not take more cues from superbly well designed offerings. In an economy where design is king and drives brand differentiation and

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Designs That Move: Noguchi Lamp

Isamu Noguchi loved working in forms that suggested light and weightlessness. His Akari Freeform column floor lamp is still in production.

Designs That Move: Chanel No. 5 Box

I often use the Chanel No. 5 Box as my design brief to web designers. It is completely white, except for a black border, and the letters.

Designs That Move: Deborah Krupenia Vessel

“The intimate object is always my concern. The small scale of jewelry is an appealing format for my continued research in surface and form development, using my well-established palette of Japanese copper alloys (most of which I make) and colored golds and the technique of married metals.” – Deborah’s Artist’s Statement.

Designs That Move: Noguchi Table

If you’ve ever wondered which designers have inspired Steve Jobs, Isamu Noguchi is one of them. Here’s a famous table by the Japanese master.

Designs That Move: Issey Miyake Watch

“The designer’s imagination is infinite, as time flow. But even the time is the subject to design: look what they create!” Read more about uncommon watch designs here.

Designs That Move: Fabric & Fabrication

I’m not sure who designed this, but since I was on the subject of Issey Miyake, who has been a great experimenter with innovative fabrics and fabrication, this design just blew me away! I don’t believe this is one of his, though.