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Muller-
Munk
Gave
‘Mad
Men’
Their
Style

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.”
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Next Step: Make Technology Disappear

There's loads of technology in cars, but it is all very obvious to the passengers—the goal is to offer a greater level of integration between design and technology.
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Get That Cool Job

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.
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CAD Is a Lie

Repeating things for decades doesn’t make them true. I can prove this pretty easily because, for 52 years now, people thought CAD was an acronym for computer-aided design. But it is time to face facts: It really stands for computer-aided documentation.
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CES' Most Cutting Edge Tech Might Be: The Fridge

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.
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Turning
Point for
Women in
Leadership

FastCo author writes, "...it had never occurred to me that once new doors opened, women wouldn’t rush through them."
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Are You Using Journey Maps?

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.
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Star Wars Costume Maker Strikes Back

British prop artist Andrew Ainsworth free to sell replica helmets, court rules, but now open to US copyright claims.
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Kodak Goes Old School at CES with
New Super 8 Film Camera

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.
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Will Samsung Kill the TV Bezel?

Samsung’s creeping towards that platonic ideal of a bezel-less design: A television whose picture is hanging there in the air without any frame around it at all.
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MoMA Modern

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.
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Wacom Gets Creative with Education

Wacom's commitment to making cutting-edge digital art and design technology more accessible to students has led to the formation of Wacom Education or WE™.
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Can UA Beat Nike?

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

According to The Washington Post, Detroit is in the midst of a culinary transformation. Considered one of the country's poorest cities, it is becoming a food mecca.
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How Sonos Reinvented
Their ID

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.
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Important Design Jobs of the Future

Yesterday's graphic designers are today's UX designers. Will tomorrow's UX designers will be avatar programmers, fusionists, and artificial organ designers? The simple answer: Yes.
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Fitbit vs. Apple Watch – Really
a Contest?

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.
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Rolling Sculpture

Many people don’t step back and think about how their cars are designed by artists. It’s easy to forget when the artwork in question is sitting on a snowy dealership lot instead of a museum pedestal.
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Wood Bike Building Zen with Boo Bikes

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

Third-year industrial design students at Israel’s Holon Institute of Technology were recently asked to re-think the idea of a pencil.
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Fitbit for Cows?

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

60 Minutes on CBS goes behind-the-scenes at Apple with CEO Tim Cook and Chief Design Officer Jony Ive. "What is it that makes Apple so innovative and so profitable, and yet so secretive, almost obsessively secretive?" asks the television news magazine.
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Designers:
Stop Asking
Copywriters
to "Punch Up"
Your Work

Words shape design. Real words, not lorem ipsem, should form the ground-up basis for product design.
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Game-
changers
in Design
Education

Helvetica is just one of five game changers in the field of design education. Find out what the other four are according to v.doop.com.
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Plastics & MDEA

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

75-year-old HP splits into Hewlett-Packard and HP Inc.
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SCAD Students Rising to the Challenge

Highcon invited students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to take part in a 3D Paper Product Design Challenge.
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Students Asked to Design 2025 Dodge Hellcat

Dodge announced the 2016 FCA US Drive for Design contest will challenge US students in grades 10-12 to think to the future and design a Dodge Hellcat SRT for the year 2025.
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Let the Force Be with You!

Apple and Star Wars explain why much of the world around you looks the way it does.
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What Happened to Apple’s Faultless Design?

Are these things signs of a larger design problem?
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An Exciting Ride

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."
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Start with the End

A fan of design thinking believes there are lessons to be learned from IBM's new approach.
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Glass Robotics Expands

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.
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Be Lazy

Want to create things that matter? Be lazy. Learn the type of "behaviors that can change the world."
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FiGo

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.
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Why Detroit Needs User-Centered Design

US car makers could learn a thing or two from the design minds and methods of Silicon Valley.
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Connecting Design Education and Industry

Furniture and home furnishings company Groovystuff uses not-for-profit programs to integrate students and the marketplace.
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RISD Students Await Public Vote

RISD students created products based on the organized home, with the chance to have their designs produced and sold at The Container Store; public online voting has begun.
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KU Students Design City Transport Ideas

SafeBeacon is a call station for SafeRide and SafeBus users that increases the programs’ awareness, usability and convenience for students looking for a safe ride home.
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Design Intersections: Cars

Dalliances with the worlds of architecture, fashion, and industrial design mean that automobile brands are now creating products for entire lifestyles.
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A Life Designed
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5 Toy Designers
to Watch

Designer toys have been growing in popularity—each artist has their own style and theme to their designs and you can quickly become addicted to collecting their work.
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Strong
Safety

Making football safer may not only be about the equipment players wear. At Detroit’s Viconic Sporting, researchers are developing a layer meant to be installed under synthetic turf to make fields safer for players.
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Star Wars
Lightsaber as
Envisioned by
a Designer

In the history of sci-fi pop culture, only a few objects have ever elevated to ‘legendary’ status.
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Serenity NOW!

Pantone announced its Color of the Year selection for 2016: PANTONE 15-3919 Serenity AND PANTONE 13-1520 Rose Quartz.
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A Behavioral Approach to Product Design

Changing behavior is har— New Year’s resolutions fall through, gym memberships remain unused, and well-intentioned plans to eat less, or save more, never come to fruition.
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Class Project Turned Job

Kendall Industrial Design professor Tom Edwards said Taylor Petroelje is the first one of his students to get a job as a designer in the eyewear industry.
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PlayStation VR

The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced today that the first Japanese company has registered an industrial design internationally by taking advantage of the Hague Agreement.
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Form, Function and the Feminine

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today” forges a connection among today's female designers and those in the mid-20th century.
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Injection Molding Explained

University of IL professor Hammack takes us on an informative deep-dive into the wild and wonderful world of plastic injection molding.
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