When I was a boy I read a book about the history of battleships. That book illustrated how each generation of ships first grew larger and larger, yet then was superceded and obsolete by a smaller, more nimble type that allowed better maneuverability and survivability. The design industry is no different.
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Design Studios vs. Large Design Agencies: The Changing Landscape of the Design Industry
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Filippa K has launched a very nice website to present its Fall09 collection. The navigation begins in a rather cold way, with a tag cloud which asks the visitors from what they get inspiration from
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Filippa K: what inspires you?
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The INDEX Awards hands out 500,000 euros to winners in five categories The Danish are tremendous design patrons , and each year, The INDEX Awards, sponsored by the Danish government, gives our 500,000 euros in prize money to five designers. The 2009 recipients were just announced, falling in five categories: Body, Home, Work, Play, and Community
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The World’s Richest Design Awards Announced
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Plasma televisions are already on the outs with consumers due to their energy-sucking tendencies, meanwhile LCD screens have closed the gap on picture quality and are more energy efficient. But as many TV buffs know, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens are the future–if scientists can figure out how to produce them cheaply enough. Researchers at Japan’s RIKEN center think they’ve already figured it out, and claim that they can produce OLEDs as cheaply as publishing a newspaper.
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OLEDs Could Be as Cheap as Newspaper to Produce
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London's RKCR/Y&R has gone hyper-local, applying creative expertise honed on clients such as Virgin, BBC, Land Rover and Marks & Spencer to a Polish chap who sells dumplings, local band Dead on TV, the Camden Arms pub and about 25 other neighborhood entrepreneurs.
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A Pop-Up Agency for London’s Mom-and-Pop Shops
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These are rare and wondrous times to be a college president.
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The Architect of Experience: Conversation With a Service Designer
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Savannah, Georgia, with its blocks of crepe myrtles dripping lazily with Spanish moss, is probably the last place you’d expect to find a bubbling hub of design innovation. But one visit to shopSCAD , the boutique that sells the work by students at the Savannah College of Art and Design will change all that.
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Introducing Guest Blogger Paula Wallace: Taking Us Back to School in Style
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A furor erupts when Ikea changes its official typeface. Here are five other controversial fonts, involving Nazis, incest, and comic books.
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Six Fonts That Piss People Off
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The task for the CMO is to prove that the “return” in ROI does not need to be about revenue. It could be an increase in engagement, interaction, click-through — the key is to make sure it is measurable and tied to business objectives.
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A Meeting of the Minds
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