DesignBytes

Dan Formosa reminds us that the Internet age has returned us to a time when product is the heart of a brand.

How Chinese takeout, a Jewish businessman from the Bronx and NASA-approved packaging have shaped the 50-year reign of a well-loved American condiment.

Design education is a crucial topic these days as the boundaries of product design shift to encompass an increasing set of skills and experiences.

It's been suggested that London turn its underground tunnels into cycle paths, connecting parts of the city while reducing traffic above ground and increasing cyclist safety.

Swatch CEO Nick Hayek is ready to go head-to-head with Apple Inc., which has scheduled its smartwatch introduction for April 2015.

Yes, the frisbee.

Arianna McClain, a senior hybrid design researcher, discusses storytelling through data and the human-centered, data-driven design approach at IDEO in this podcast.

A new concept app from Smart Design aims to improve the health of diabetics, a segment for whom weight loss can be a matter of life and death.

National Office Furniture hosts a yearly competition for Purdue ID students to create a furniture solution that solves a specific challenge—Essay Seating is this year's winner.

The art of making artisanal globes is a craft that is extremely difficult. Each component of the globe is constructed by hand, from casting the spheres to hand painting the illustrations.

The topic is full of wonder, conflict, excitement and subjectivity. For many, originality means drawing inspiration from a variety of sources to create a new idea.

“Tell me if my students are engaged.” Back-in-the-day when students wedged themselves into what we called the one-armed bandit, we rarely considered how the actual furniture in the room might help.

Fiskars has been making new kinds of orange-handled scissors since 1967, and after thousands of variations, it's not out of ideas yet.

Design is in flux. Once expected to produce chairs, lamps, logos and letterheads, today designers' work is often less visible. WIRED asked nine top designers to talk about their craft and what it means today.

Despite denials from both companies, it appears Samsung wants BlackBerry. Part of the appeal—BlackBerry’s medical offering. What does this mean mean for healthcare?

Russian design firm Lapka thinks everyone behind Project Ara may be missing the point; stating everything about Project Ara is five years ahead of the curve...well, except their design. Sleek and subtle? Not at all. This thing has vents. Instead, Lapka’s founder Vadik Marmeladov says his firm was inspired by the brash fashions of high-end sneakers—a collection of various fabrics and foams that assemble into a design forward accessory. They think the design should be a visual and cultural milestone.

You may not be able to take a multi-tool everywhere with you but you can take a bracelet. It's this idea that lead to Leatherman's latest multi-funtional design.

Studios seem to be getting swallowed up by corporations to aid their in-house design teams; leaving many to believe the design service industry is dying. Well, it’s not.

Calling a spade a spade isn’t quite what we expect from design. This is because design more often than not emphasizes some narrative essential to the company or consumer rather than the product itself.

A curated exhibition of Braun design will be at Paris' Moda International gallery on Jan. 29th. It will also include a selection of homages from modern-day graphic designers.

Samsung may be looking for a design overhaul soon. Lee Don-tae, former CEO of Tangerine, a London-based studio founded by Apple's Jony Ive, is Samsung's new global design chief.

Apple's chief executive officer, Tim Cook, recently traveled to DC and has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill. Apple, which has come under increasing scrutiny is becoming more of a regular around Washington.

Based on an eco friendly concept, the residential project has a reduced environmental footprint, seeking harmony between man and nature. The concept offers an alternative to the more and more crowded and pollutant cities by proposing to create communities located in nature without disturbing the natural balance or clear the forest.