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Paul Gaudio says there is a difference between outright copying, imitation as a form of flattery and finding inspiration in other people's work.

Looking way down the road, the future is not about autonomous vehicles, but rather about automated ones.

Doing the same quality/quantity of work as you’ve already been doing can make a much bigger difference when you’re doing it in an organization that is designed to value it.

Milan's furniture fair has become a celebration of marketing over design and has helped feed the public perception of design as a superficial discipline, says design critic Alice Rawsthorn.

This new device recycles plastic bottles into 3D-printing material.

3D printing technologies may represent a threat, particularly for businesses that have not maintained or extended their IP protection.

After unveiling the prototype design back in 2013, IKEA has now announced that it's producing 10,000 of its flat-pack temporary shelters to help refugees who have been made homeless by conflict and natural disasters.

Purina® and Ecologic Brands Reshape Sustainable Packaging with First-Ever Molded Paper Litter Jug. Midwest DVP Stephen Wurth, IDSA and team worked with Ecologic to bring it to market.

Renderman, Pixar’s fabled software that can simulate extremely realistic lighting on 3D objects, is now free to download for non-commercial use.

The last great remaining American preoccupation tech hasn't yet tackled is the automobile. That's about to change.

Google Glass hasn’t exactly been a rousing success. Actually, you might even call it an abysmal failure. So why are we still talking about it?

What the landscape of design will look like in 2020, according to the most innovative designers of 2015.

Check out Oregon Manifest's Bike Design Challenge winner Teague's Denny.

Michael Graves was described as "one of the most renowned and most polarizing architects" by The Washington Post.

Edible Growth is an ongoing project by Eindhoven-based food designer Chloé Rutzerveld that blends food, gardening and 3D printing.

Alex Goad, an industrial design student at Monash University in Melbourne has developed what he calls the Modular Artificial Reef Structure (MARS). Each branched module is built from concrete and coated with textured ceramic which provides the perfect surface for marine plants and animals to colonize.

A senior lecturer in product and industrial design at Loughborough University, has designed what is believed to be the world’s first 3D printed wedding bouquet.

A bright new generation of Polish designers is capitalizing on the spirit of ingenuity hard times bred to win recognition worldwide.

IDEO helps the budget hotel chain rethink
everything from beds to mood lighting.

"When the editors of AUTOMOBILE proposed that I name the 25 greatest car designers of all time, it seemed like a rather simple task." —Robert Cumberford, Automotive Design Editor

The Apple Watch is more Ive’s product than any Apple gadget that has come before. It only officially became a project shortly after the passing of Jobs in 2011.