DesignBytes

Fortune and the New York Times report IBM will hire 1,500 designers to reignite stagnant growth. "Design thinking is all the rage in the corporate world right now."

A vigil was held remembering Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old Cal State Long Beach ID student described as charismatic and compassionate, who was killed during the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Imagine someone designing a table and another person making jewelry. Did you picture a man in the first case and a woman in the second? “Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today” tackles gender bias.

Ask anybody looking for a job in impact investing, corporate responsibility, or social enterprise and you'll hear the same thing over and over again: There aren't enough impact jobs that provide a decent salary.

Skipping Rocks Lab, a London-based start-up consisting of three industrial design students, has created a new kind of packaging made from seaweed that proposes an alternative to plastic bottles … and it’s edible.

There's a new call for a "stable and flexible safety net” for the many freelancers and independent contractors who have sprung up as a result of the sharing economy and independent gig workforce.

John Sculley believes his Obi Worldphone can grow to become a $1 billion company by addressing the smartphone design gap and eliminating the “sea of sameness” surrounding the mobile devices.

Nick Woodman's wearable camera company is being accused of copying the design of the Polaroid Cube.

"Pioneering companies in mature economies are learning from emerging market companies a new way to expand their businesses." They are using a concept designers know very well.

When asked "most people agree that Lego cannot be considered an art form in the institutional sense."

8 costumes that leave no doubt about your design passions.

Why aren’t there more women leading design teams at top tech companies? Of course, there’s the problem of corporate culture generally (and tech culture specifically) that makes the path to leadership disproportionately stressful for women.

Piracy is easier to commit than ever. Never mind hackers—designers have been known to steal fonts from their own companies’ libraries or source them from websites like the Pirate Bay.

Harley Earl was the first "Vice President of Design" at any automaker and was also the first auto executive to advocate the hiring of women. The first seven female designers, dubbed the "Damsels of Design," worked in the color department in the 1950s.

When it comes to brain growth and speech development, a child's first four years matter more than the next 80 years combined.

Design the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games logo and win a million yen plus ringside seat at the opening ceremonies.

Domino’s has been making a reputation lately as a tech company, with lots of innovations in digital ordering. So it’s not too far a stretch for the pizza giant to become an automaker as well.

The New York Times will distribute 1M+ Google Cardboard virtual reality (VR) viewers to its home-delivery newspaper customers in the U.S. as part of a new campaign that includes a launch slate of VR films.

This is the latest step in what has been a fun ride for students and faculty members. “It’s been shown all over the U.S., which is extremely cool,” said Russell Kittel, 23, a CCAD senior majoring in industrial design. “I can’t recall that happening with another student project." The prototype, which students named the Pursuit, is housed at the college after making several appearances around the country.

Concepts of vertically parked cars, sauna-equipped motorcycles and self-shortening coupes by Steven M. Johnson.

The world's first 3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam uses a technique that designer Joris Laarman says could soon be used to build "infinitely large structures". The pedestrian bridge is being printed in steel by six-axis robots, which will "draw" the structure in the air. The bridge, which will be eight metres long and four metres wide, will be printed in one piece in a former shipbuilding hangar in the Amsterdam's NDSM shipyard and then transported to the city centre. Work will start next summer. Earlier plans to print the bridge in situ had to be abandoned as it was "just too dangerous".

Every designer is different, naturally, because every person is different. Figure out what inspires, motivates or resonates with that person and gauge a leadership style that will elevate their growth.

The company behind Twine had its last product flop on Kickstarter. Having licked its wounds, it's ready to go again.