We make design, and in turn, design makes us.
The rapid-AliasWavetyping-curvification design revolution is exploding. High tech manufacturing techniques are making the unbelievable almost mundane. Technology has changed the speed of design - you can now make detailed renderings and 3-D models in a fraction of the time it took 10 years ago. Yet design is still a buggy process. It is contradictory, it's a pain in the ass, it's endless. It's as unpredictable as ever because it's human. It's words, pictures, thoughts, emotions, materials, sound. It's power and humor and spark. How do you capture all that in injection-molded polyurethane? Why does so much design still suck? There is no formula. There are only the insights and antics of the world's best designers, the people building our tools and catalyzing our future.
The New ID From DNA samplers to anonymous numbers, IDEO reinvents the business of introduction. Here's my card.
Power Players Today's energy meters suck, says Bruce Sterling. So he started an international race to design tomorrow's lean, green machine. And the winner is ...
Flash Forward Polaroid's five-year plan.
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly A conversation about design, moderated by Chee Pearlman.
Stuff Love The new competitive edge.
RAW Essence By day they're a bunch of San Francisco's hottest product designers. By night they're guerrilla concept hackers.
Soft Focus New York designer Karim Rashid wants to change the way you feel.
"Design Is Evil" The Designworks/USA manifesto.
