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More about the Aspen Design Summit

Doug Powell wrote 1 week ago: There are a few follow-up items from the Aspen Design Summit that I can point you to. I just contrib … more →

Tags: Service Design, Aspen Design Summit, Core77, Design, Doug Powell, Entrepreneurship

Design For Obama, featuring my Vote! print

strawberryluna wrote 1 week ago: Design For Obama book, edited by Spike Lee & Aaron Perry-Zucker w/ an essay by Steven Heller. Cl … more →

Tags: News & Events, Stuff I Like, New Releases, strawberryluna, typography, Illustration, Design, Barack Obama, steven heller

Truth in photography

wiedemar wrote 4 weeks ago: Fred Ritchin has an essay on the future of photography, and how it may become more truthful. Exhibit … more →

Tags: Photography

100 Colors, 100 Writings, 100 Days1 comment

Audrey Khew wrote 1 month ago: I saw this on Design Observer’s twitter and thought Rachel Berger’s project was so good, … more →

Tags: LooK and SeE, 100 colors, 100 day Workshop, 100 Days, 100 Writings, Art, Art Project, Billowy Clouds, candied yams

City vs. Suburbs

mpknecht wrote 1 month ago: So many young progressive people in Spokane and beyond have taken up the “City good, Suburb Ba … more →

Tags: Design, Spokane, city, Suburbs

Monday 28 September 2009: Cooler than Cool

flannelgraph wrote 2 months ago: Women in their 50s in Columbia are earning a living making arty maternity dresses that grow with you … more →

Tags: Chilly, Expandable maternity dress, Marisol Rodriguez

Wednesday 23 September 2009: Two Hearts Beat as One

flannelgraph wrote 2 months ago: When you’re pregnant you think about all of the women in the world who are pregnant at the ver … more →

Tags: Sunny, Freeplay fetal heart monitor

Building A Brand-less Brand

stellasuru wrote 3 months ago: Clothing label Freshjive launches 360 anti-branding campaign Via PSFK and Design Observer. … more →

Tags: Branding, Fashion & Branding, Freshjive, PSFK, Rick Klotz

Ch-ch-ch-changes: The New Design Observer2 comments

Doug Powell wrote 3 months ago: As the writer of a blog that focuses, in part, on design and designers, I would be remiss by not ack … more →

Tags: Online Social Media, Change Observer, Debbie Millman, Design, Design Matters, Doug Powell, Entrepreneurship, Jessica Helfand, Michael Beirut

Placeholder for recent and random influences, yet to be explored1 comment

Jim Meredith wrote 4 months ago: Fuzzy ideas in a spaghetti bowl Dean Kamen’s “Thought Leaders” interview in Forbes … more →

Tags: strategy design, Detroit, Innovation, opportunity briefs, Design Briefs, Urban Agriculture, NRDC, Whirlpool

Cool Philadelphia Small Businesses4 comments

Josh wrote 4 months ago: If weirdos make up the populace of a cool city, then perhaps small businesses are where weirdos go w … more →

Tags: Pa, sustainability, Philly, New York Times, Moment Blog, dmitri siegel, Urban Outfitters, small businesses

The legacy of Personal Space

criticalterrain wrote 5 months ago: As mentioned here earlier, a longer analysis of Robert Sommer’s Personal Space: The Behavioral … more →

Tags: Architecture, Books, Design, Perception, personal space, Robert Sommer

An Open Letter

redjotter wrote 5 months ago: Jessica Helfand writes an open letter to design students everywhere in Design Observer: “It is … more →

Tags: Made me think, people i like :, Design Education

Todays Images

Six wrote 6 months ago: Go and have a look at Design Observer’s ‘Todays Images’ — always stimulating. … more →

Tags: Dan Bull, Posters, typography, Typewriters

Project M and Winterhouse

Doug Powell wrote 6 months ago: Recently I was asked whether the focus of Merge is strictly on capitalistic entrepreneurship, or whe … more →

Tags: Social Entrepreneurship, AIGA, Design, Entrepreneurship, Firebelly Design, Jessica Helfand, John Bielenberg, participle, Project M

c.o.l.a. cola

ceebees wrote 7 months ago: Probably the most unappetizing can of cola ever! Packaging sure has evolved since…whenever thi … more →

Tags: Packaging, typography, cola, Ligature, vintage

Design Paradoxes

ethanmartin wrote 7 months ago: Design Observer posted a great article by Adrian Shaughnessy a little while ago titled “Ten Gr … more →

Tags: Graphic Design, adrian shaughnessy

Being A Designer Is About Accepting Certain Truths

tishon wrote 7 months ago: Adrian Shaughnessy’s Ten Graphic Design Paradoxes: Not so much a list of paradoxes as they are … more →

Tags: Articles, Design, Design Principles

Found: Can Design Save the Newspaper?

thehappyhuskie wrote 7 months ago: Found this through Design Observer. As someone who spent years in the newspaper industry, I still ha … more →

Tags: found, TeD, Newspapers, Design, Jacek Utko


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