DesignBytes

Wendell Castle, the whimsical designer who coaxed wood into mind-bending shapes that blurred the boundary between furniture and fine art, died on Jan. 20 at 85. (Shown with Pattie Moore, FIDSA)

As we age our homes can become an unsafe place to live. Judd Lord, IDSA, discusses how homes can be retrofitted to achieve a universal design that is safe for an aging population.

For designers, smartphone screens are one of the most challenging elements to design. Google creative lead Alberto Villarreal, IDSA, explains his vision of creating the perfect phone and the future of smartphone design.

IDSA International Design Conference 2017 speaker Marlisa Kopenski says that business and design don't speak different languages. They just use different vocabularies.

Designer Carol Catalano, IDSA, is interviewed by HermanMiller WHY Magazine on her two decades of experimenting with molded plywood.

Samsung and Intel will supply February's Winter Olympics in PyeongChang with everything from custom designed smartphones to drones, VR and AI.

A wearable, ultraviolet light sensor produced by L’Oréal and designed by Yves Behar, IDSA, is in the media spotlight, along with products ranging from robotic dogs to self-flying taxi concepts!

Here are 10 apps and tools that kept me productive, informed, creative and impactful in 2017.

Of the thousands of new products on display at CES, these lucky 21 are the standouts identified by PC Magazine that will help define the next year in technology.

The Global Industrial Design Services Market Research Report 2018–2022 recapitulates the factors that will be responsible for the growth in the market in the forecasted period.

Dozens of companies and awards programs recognize new product innovations. The International Design Excellence Awards was recognized as one of the top awards programs for new products.

Dieter Rams’s design principles get a 21st-century update.

'Tis the season to travel! From ping pong and board games, to innovative workspaces and pet friendly attitudes, the hotel lobbies of today are not just for checking in. See how design plays a role.

IDSA SF's Linda Jiang's Essential phone design is among Bloomberg's Best Gadgets of 2017. "For a combination of performance, price and stunning industrial design, nobody came close to the Essential." See why, and what other products make the cut.

According to research by Kiersten Muenchinger, IDSA, head of product design at the University of Oregon in Eugene, there are four emotional drivers of sustainability.

A design studio is breathing new life into old computer parts. See how.

New research finds 3D printing of human tissue scaffolds has "tremendous potential" for regrowing bone.

"I went to the first ever [IDSA] Women in Design Summit last May. This was a tremendous place to meet other women in the field and I left feeling so inspired and connected. It made me realize that I was not alone in the struggles, nor are you—there's a tremendous community of support out there," Nichole Rouillac, IDSA, tells Forbes magazine.

As IDSA gets ready to kick off its Student Merit Awards 2018 competition, ApplianceDesign and Lou Lenzi, FIDSA, take a closer look at the 2017 winners who set a new record.

Check out what's happening in these design-minded destinations—from Paris to Singapore—early in the New Year.

Microsoft, a winner of multiple IDEA Gold awards, has been dropping hints that the ultimate mobile is still in works, while whenever they were asked, the company executives have declined to comment.

Well-known Italian food company Barilla has been busy developing its own pasta 3D printer, and it even held a contest with a goal of creating fun new shapes of pasta using 3D printing technologies.

Fast Company reports CES, the biggest tech convention in the world, is taking heat for the lack of female speakers in recent years.

Trademark applications jumped by 16.4% to about seven million, and worldwide industrial design applications grew by 10.4% to almost one million—both driven by growth in China.