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design
Designs of the Week: Furniture
1. Signalement desk Just Apple-tastic! This desk was created by Dutch design group, Signalement. This is what we’d imagine Apple would make if they did furniture. The design is obviously sleek and simple, but it’s the details that really make this desk pop. They took the extra attention to make the leg height adjustable. It’s
Design that Moves Business: Apple’s “Overnight” Success! (Part 1)
When has design moved business? Design and business folks love the example of the iPod. Designers say, look at how one design-driven product was able to reshape an entire industry. MBAs emphasize how the strategy behind the iPod-iTunes system and the product roadmap led to Apple’s success. We all tend to point to the iPod
Redesign That: Design That Moves Politics? (Part 1)
By Guest Authors Charley Bush and Kathy Hwang 2008 has been called “the year of the young voter.” Eighteen- to thirty-one-year-old voters turned out in droves to the presidential primaries, and the media is scrambling to capture this audience. Who would have ever thought that CNN would co-host a debate with YouTube? Or that you
So…What is Design?
By Guest Authors Charley Bush and Kathy Hwang Can design have the power to raise your stock prices? In 2004, the British Design Council decided to try to answer this question. They created a “Design Index” out of 63 companies that were best-of-breed in design and compared shares of the Design Index with those of
Top Four Architectures That Move
And here is the compilation of the Architecture That Moves pictures. Be sure to click on the links and read the beautiful words that go with them.
Design in the 21st Century: A Coffee with Barry Katz (Part 8)
SM: To me 20th Century art looks like the ‘anti-beauty’. Is that reasonable? Today I look at the products people are lapping up and they are beautiful objects. Are we returning to appreciating beauty? BK: I am not going to disagree with you completely, although I will refrain a bit.
Design in the 21st Century: A Coffee with Barry Katz (Part 7)
SM: What is your interpretation of what is going on in Steve Job’s head that allows him to do something really interesting and leapfrogging with design every time? BK: I don’t think it is every time. Apple has cultivated a mystique of the ‘magic Job’s touch’. SM: He did look outside of America to get
