A breed apart [I.D. Magazine]
Working across borders, designers Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar create a new strain of furniture. Read full story
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Massive change: now everyone can design solutions [NPQ]
Bruce Mau, the famed designer and collaborator with Frank Gehry, is co-author of Massive Change. His firm, Bruce Mau Design, is based in Toronto. He spoke with NPQ editor Nathan Gardels recently. Read interview
Apple’s blueprint for genius [Business Week]
Handling its own design work is one reason for best-sellers like the iPod and Shuffle. Steve Jobs is the other. Read full story
The Brand Gap
Marty Neumeier’s new book is an insightful justification for tighter integration of design and business strategy to enable strong brands. Read more
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The empathy economy [Business Week]
“Design thinking” can create rewarding experiences for consumers — the key to earnings growth and an edge that outsourcing can’t beat. Read full story
Institute without Boundaries
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Sottsass’s ‘Architecture for People’ [Metropolis Magazine]
> Ettore Sottsass — one of the post-war architects who literally invented the idea of Italian Design — is today eighty-seven years old: a true éminence grise. Recently, I talked to the designer/writer and cultural provocateur at the Barry Friedman…
Design, key factor for success [Philips]
Speech by Dr. Stefano Marzano, CEO & Chief Creative Director of Philips Design at the German Marketing Association Conference in Hamburg. Read the full speech
Anthropologists dig into business with ideas for easier living [San Jose Mercury News]
For a summer, Dev Patnaik and his team of researchers hung out with teens preparing to go away to college. Trained in anthropology and sociology, they observed while the teens and their parents shopped for the essentials of college…
Design for Future Needs
Designers look into the future to meet people’s needs. Design for Future Needs is a research project that discovered how their methods can help policy makers do the same. The 2002 project, run for the EC by a group of…