DesignBytes

The idea, Adidas says, is to get to the point where you can walk into a store, run on a treadmill for a few minutes, and leave with a bespoke, 3D-printed running shoe that fits you perfectly.

"When some new technology comes out, we say thats the end of what was there before it. But there’s so much room for objects that are beautifully crafted, and that tap into peoples emotions." - Yves Behar

1,700 individually shaped cardboard sheets were used to create a fully functional replica of the Lexus IS.

Yale, the lock company, unveiled a digital lock that taps into the “smart home” system designed by Nest.

Autodesk signed a definitive acquisition agreement, expanding their software holdings through netfabb, as well as making a strategic investment in FIT Technology Group, netfabb’s now-former parent company.

45 artists applied their skills to the walls of Detroit’s historic Eastern Market area for Murals In The Market.

Through the last 90 years, Chrysler vehicles were known for innovative engineering, groundbreaking style and “looking more expensive than they were."

“No longer can we say that West Michigan is just about making stuff — that’s only part of the equation,” said Nate Young, VP of global innovation at Newell Rubbermaid Inc.’s design center.

The research investigated several forces affecting the wider automotive ecosystem, including increasingly connected vehicles and the entry of tech giants like Google and Apple, autonomous cars, the rise of the sharing economy and a greater interest in sustainability.

Some cheeky fun at how the world views different designers.

Startup invention company Quirky Inc. has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy to launch a sale.

Last June, Montblanc announced the M, the product of a new partnership with Marc Newson, arguably one of the most influential designers alive today. With this partnership, the first of its kind for the luxury brand, fountain pens take a long-awaited step into the future.

In many ways, 50 years ago at the founding of the NEA, a door was opened into the creative economy and innovative cultural communities to come. Art stimulates, engages and makes us whole.

Transport for London will retrofit windows that open on the upper decks of Thomas Heatherwick's new London buses as the designer originally intended, after passengers complained about the heat.

Chloe Louisin's Wat'bag solves a problem faced by millions and will be developed by Doctors Without Borders.

The design and production worlds seem to come from opposite ends of the spectrum. While designers tend to be creative and highly visual, converters are concerned with structural integrity. Yet, despite their different approaches, they need one another in order to come up with the total package.

Etsy is introducing Etsy Manufacturing, a new service that will link sellers—who often make items by hand—with small manufacturing companies.

Sorry, Apple. Turns out designers don’t use iPads. 64 percent of designers don’t brainstorm with software. They do it with pen and paper.

Herman Miller mastermind George Nelson once said he (Russel Wright) was the designer most responsible for the shift to modern design in the 1930s.

“Ultimately, this is our focus,” says Jonathan Ive, squeezing a new iPhone 6S. 3D Touch “is something we’ve been working on for a long time—multi, multi, multi years.”

Being a leader does not mean being the one that fixes everything. It means empowering others to find solutions. To design is to look at the world and say, “Why is it like that? How would I make it different?”

Shopper-storytellers are now influencers. And they know it.

JanSport asked “What are the things we carry with us? How do we carry them? And how is that changing?”

It's back-to-school time, and you don't have to look very far to find evidence that adults, too, like buying supplies to feel organized.