This Brilliant Tool Helps Designers Refuse Dismal Pay
Industry-wide change starts with designers saying no to unpaid work, and talking to clients about why. Jessica Hische shows us how.
Beyond Textbooks: High-tech Tools Help Students Build, Create
From robot parts to works of art, maker spaces across the Forty Acres are inspiring students. Check out where students are bringing their ideas to life.
The Way Designers Pick Materials Is Broken
From cellulose guitars to shape-shifting walls, Eastman Innovation Lab wants to introduce designers to emerging material science.
The designer's guide to printing a poster
Make sure what you designed on screen is accurately reproduced on paper with our pro's guide to poster printing.
Why car designers stick with clay
In an age when vehicle styling teams have supercomputers and virtual reality at their disposal, a venerable — and defiantly low-tech — design tool persists.
3 Things You MUST Know About SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer
Learn 3 things about SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer that enable customers to quickly create multiple shapes and concepts that evoke an emotional response.
Leveraging Trends for New Concept Inspiration
As an industrial designer, my first inclination is to go right to the seemingly cool stuff. I’m referring to those times when an inspiring new technology is introduced and designers quickly incorporate it into new design concepts.
15 Brilliant Examples of Interactive Print Ads
Check out the creativity of these interactive print advertisements.
The Brilliant Firework Sculptures of an Artist Who Draws With Gunpowder
There’s a video floating around the internet this week that shows an impossibly tall ladder of explosions climbing impossibly high into the sky. It’s not photoshop or a hoax—it’s the work of one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary artists working today.
Shapes: Extrusion quick guide for designers
The manufacturing and production process starts with design, whether you are designing a new bicycle frame, a car or a table. It is on the drawing board that the extrusion takes shape and features are built in to reduce weight, simplify assembly, add functionality and minimize finishing costs.
How 3-D Printing Is Changing the Way Architects and Designers Work
The technology has all but eliminated the need for costly hand-built models
47 Designers on Their NYFW Collection Inspiration
The Designer's Guide to the Golden Ratio [With 14 Examples]
The Golden Ratio is known as a prerequisite for breathtaking art. Learn what it is and where it's found in nature, art, and the human face, so you can begin creating more beautiful designs.
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Why Designers Love Graduate Art Shows
A guide to successful Design Handoffs
A comprehensive walkthrough to help Designers handoff their designs effectively. Also includes a few tips & tricks to simplify the process.
What Are You Even Designing?
Think of a designer. You might work with a designer, or you might have seen one in passing with that unmistakable designer affinity for apple products and snark. You might even be one yourself! Now picture this designer working. You're probably imagining this person heads down at an immaculate desk with a Moleskine in hand and earphones in their ears. She's blissfully pushing pixels around a screen until they're just right. Ah, DESIGN!
Science for Designers: How Complex Adaptive Systems Work
Anatomical forms do not arise within one large undifferentiated collection; they develop as specific groupings of systems and sub-systems.
Why architects make great UX designers
User experience design requires technical curiosity and user advocacy -- a natural for architects (even the kind who design buildings for a living).
Why Interior Designers Need Art Museums
Museum exhibits feed our imagination, create connections to our client projects and 'connect the dots' to so many aspects of our daily work.
4 Simple Habits to Learn Like a Designer
Acquire these 4 simple habits to learn like a designer, to fuel your imagination: See Like A Bird, Pollinate Like A Bee, Extend Like An Octopus and Learn Like A Sponge.
