DesignBytes

From cellulose guitars to shape-shifting walls. Eastman Innovation Lab wants to introduce designers to emerging material science.

VA Tech student Gabriella Jacobsen designed the Onward Bag to address the issue of plastic bags as a waterway major pollutant.

“Not only is Silicon Valley taking design more seriously, but design is actually taking over.” —John Maeda

It’s easy to give such advice as “If you can design one thing, you can design everything,” when you are already a master designer and craftsman, widely regarded as an influential leader in your creative field.

It's the first time Pantone has chosen the blending of two shades instead of one. According to the company, by breaking from tradition, it hopes to "transcend cultural and gender norms."

The biggest challenge with simplicity is that you must spend a lot of time in complex thought in order to achieve it—weighing trade-offs, practicing artful subtraction and vigilantly defending the white space.

Before Peter Muller-Munk molded plastic into headgear, the articulate, cultured German silversmith was a 22-year-old immigrant from Berlin to New York City. In the mid-1920s, he landed a job at Tiffany & Co., then left after less than a year to open his own studio. In a prophetic review of his silver designs published in December 1927, The New York Times called him “an artist of vision and taste.”

Industrial designers approach each product as a problem to be solved–and no problem is too small—from incentivizing men to clean more to guiding people into positions that yield accurate images in a skin cancer-screening imaging booth.

Rivalries can be productive. They can push both parties to deliver the very best effort, even when we’re talking about washing machines and refrigerators.

Journey maps can and should be used during the development phase; if they were used during this phase more often, then we wouldn’t have as many customer experience breakdowns as we do today.

Ever wanted to shoot a home movie on 8-mm film? Yesterday, anyone might have told you that you missed your chance by a few decades — but Kodak surprised the world recently with the announcement of a brand new Super 8 film camera that it hopes will kick off a revival of the nearly forgotten format.

MoMA, considered a cultural juggernaut, was the result of the efforts of Alfred Barr Jr. and architect Philip Johnson who worked together to make the museum an influential platform for modernism.

Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank is betting almost $1 billion that Under Armour can beat Nike.

For their next generation of speakers, Sonos decided they still wanted to ensure listeners could get the best audio with the device, but give it a complete makeover.

There's a lot of media obsessing on how the Fitbit app hit the number one spot on Apple's App store on December 25 and continues to ride high in the rankings.

After studying industrial design at RISD, James Wolf turned his childhood knack for working with wood into some well thought out product design.

By tracking the behavior of cows and gaining insights about their health, farmers are able to run their farms more efficiently.

Words shape design. Real words, not lorem ipsem, should form the ground-up basis for product design.

Polymers and plastics processing technologies play a vital role in medical product design.

Highcon invited students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to take part in a 3D Paper Product Design Challenge.

Apple and Star Wars explain why much of the world around you looks the way it does.

Uber’s new director of product design says his team is made up of "the broadest spectrum of creative roles I’ve experienced," and the "mix of disciplines adds a richness to our organization that is unique in the tech industry, and new to me."

The first Collaborative Glass Robotics Laboratory in the US, an initiative of Virginia Tech and the Rhode Island School of Design, has pioneered a new 3D printing process, and is about to expand.

A digital media artist designs a chair for pups using roller blade wheels, standard skate bearings, screws, acrylic tubing, straps and yes, 3D printed joint pieces.