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It’s no secret that cardboard is among one of the most effective materials for building prototypes, yet the material rarely ever moves past prototyping stage for obvious reasons. Ernest Packaging, a nationwide custom packaging solution company that was started out of a Los Angeles garage in 1946, has been spending the past year pushing the limits of what’s possible with cardboard as a part of their Cardboard Chaos series.

Wearable tech, that much-buzzed-about phenomenon coming soon to a body (very) near yours, has already arrived at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View with an exhibit called “On You: A Story of Wearable Computing.”

Matthew Walzer, who has cerebral palsy, wrote a viral letter asking Nike for more accessible footwear, the company responded with a new accessible sneaker.

For a once-major consumer brand, the Finnish tech giant has been in an odd place since offloading its mobile phone division to Microsoft a little over a year ago.

Design Council Chief Executive John Mathers welcomes the government’s focus on boosting UK productivity and argues that design must form an active part of the government’s initiative.

Some new books tout the benefits of informal drawing and freehand scribbling—even for the unartistic.

Coca-Cola has created the world's first plastic bottle made entirely from plant-based material.

Perhaps a lot of the present-day ill-will towards Helvetica stems from the bandwagon or me-too mentality.

Last week creatives gathered at Cannes Lions, the world’s biggest annual awards and festival for professionals in the creative communications industry. Here are five lessons learned.

This under-appreciated transformation is probably the most distinct design change to come to cars over the past half-century, and for most US cars, it happened within just a few years, starting in 1986. You can even pinpoint the exact year curves arrived for some models.

A Forbes report shows product strategy often is led from the very top—59% of CEOs own their company’s smart product strategy. "This is about how product data will dramatically change the way products are designed, manufactured, sold and serviced."

Time/Life reminds us When JFK Airport Was a Shining Beacon of Industrial Design. "Today’s outmoded dinosaurs are often yesterday’s architectural triumphs." See why.

As companies and organizations around the world look for ways to solve a seemingly endless number of problems, we’re seeing unprecedented attention to design, and to designers, to provide solutions. Creative techniques in design thinking are being adopted by people in fields that never previously considered design or creative thinking.

Urkanian industrial designer Ivan Zhurba developed a lamp that reuses Apple iPhones like the ‘4’ and ‘4s’ or ‘5’ and ‘5c’ versions to convert them into light sources and audio speakers.

LEGO is investing $150 million in a sustainable materials research center to find green alternatives to the plastic used in its products and packaging.

With newly-promoted Jony Ive in charge of design and more at Apple, a new report says the tech giant will kick off a "premium feel" for its retail stores and product packaging in July 2015.

Yes, innovation is extremely difficult. You are not the only one who thinks it's a real challenge.

Fairphone's new ethically sourced smartphone is built to be repairable, not disposable.

What do objects tell us about our lives—and about themselves? “Design Oracles,” a new exhibition running through August 16 in Paris, attempts to answer those questions.

Many people believe that you can’t teach those skills, and define themselves and others as “not creative.”

The State Department has confirmed its intention to act as gatekeeper for when Americans can legally publish online data that could allow someone to digitally fabricate a gun.

A new wearable device called Brightly aims to turn the $17 billion Incontinence industry on its head.

Check out three, medical device design industry trends embracing and contributing to the dynamic change that is taking place both in design and manufacturing.

Frog's Head of Venture Design, Ethan Imboden tells us how being an entrepreneur made him (and could make you) a better designer.