The shelter magazine is refocusing its website as a community-driven collaboration tool for modern design fiends. Move over, Pinterest?
Dwell.com Relaunches As A Social Network For The Design-Obsessed
Environmental Graphics, Branding, and Interior Architecture
Julie Maggos, director of environmental graphics for IA, oversees the discipline, also known as experiential graphic design, that integrates a story narrative with the built environment to create a memorable experience. Clients increasingly leverage EGD features to support, and in some case develop, an organization’s brand and IA uses a range of materials–from coffee beans to crayons–to help tell their story. Sometimes, we even get to carve it in stone.
In a World's First, DIRTT Demonstrates Power of Mixed Reality for Construction
On the Chicago Theatre stage, in front of more than 700 people from DIRTT's worldwide team of distribution partners and employees, DIRTT unveiled the first-ever demonstration of ICEreality™ -- mixed reality technology for design and construction.
Why The Sound Of A Brand Name Matters
The sound of a word like "knife" or "truck" seems totally arbitrary—it’s just a random sound we’ve assigned to a thing, right? But for several decades, scientists have found good evidence that the sound of words have meaning in a very real way. Sound can convey subtle information about traits such as size, shape, smoothness, and also, according to a new study in Cognition, distance. This suggests that while the sound of company and product names—Lyft, Smuckers, Nike—may seem meaningless, it may actually quietly shape consumers' perceptions.
Tech by Design San Francisco
Kontor recently hosted our second Tech by Design event, which brought a crowd of West Coast influencers in tech, business, and design to Instacart’s office in San Francisco. At the event, Kontor officially unveiled a suite of new workflow tools that enable designers and their clients to easily collaborate.
What Made The Aeron Chair An Icon
Your average furniture designer would like you to believe his products will change your life. Most don't, of course, but for millions of desk jockeys in offices around the globe, one task chair has done precisely that: the Aeron by Bill Stumpf (1936–2006) and Don Chadwick for Herman Miller.
How Should the Creative Brief Change in the Always-On World?
In this edition of Firestarters, we focus on a topic near and dear to planners' hearts: the creative brief. Industry leaders share how they've adapted creative briefs at their agencies to help drive projects in an always-on world.
Watch People in Other Industries React Hilariously to Being Asked for Free Spec Work
People in other industries don't provide their would-be clients with "spec work" for free. That would be asinine. So, why do office furniture dealers, interior designers and manufacturers continue to do it?