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2021 Year in Review: Where I Work

Design Milk

After first checking out New York-based designer David Weeks’ studio in 2012, we decided it was time for an update after moving to a new studio in Bed-Stuy. In his Brooklyn studio, he designs and develops a diverse collection, from lighting and furniture, to accessories and his super fun CubebotĀ® wooden robot toys.

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Meet the Jury of the 2023 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

ALAIN GILLES Portrait by Lydie Nesvadba Design as a second life: After a brief stint in the financial world, Gilles returned to study industrial design, at the urging of his wife, in France. In 2012 Barber Osgerby launched the strategy-based industrial design consultancy Map Project Office. JERRY VAN EYCK

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Top 10 Friday Five Posts of 2022

Design Milk

Lucaā€™s work is inspired by the Murano glassmaking industry. In 2006, he founded his eponymous multidisciplinary design practice back in Venice, specializing in industrial design, product design, and design consultancy. Luca Nichetto Appreciates Spritzes, Murano, Challenges + More.

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Ken Garland Was Graphic Designā€™s Moral Compass

Eye on Design

I was lucky enough to interview Ken Garland in 2016, portions of which are published here for the first time, at his home office, which was still the same Camden studio from the memorable photo from 1982 which was reproduced on the cover of Unit Editionsā€™ excellent 2012 monograph on Garland ( which is now available for free as a PDF ).

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

Designed by an all-women team, and covering a wide range of backgrounds, crafts and skills, the work is reproduced beautifully, often across full double-page spreads. Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012 by Gerda Breuer. Why are there so few women in the history of design? Buy the book. Buy the book. Buy the book.

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Meet the Jury for the 2021 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

Adelaide Testa is co-founder, with Andrea Marcante, of the Milan design studio Marcante ā€“ Testa , which creates atmospheres that, while rigorously composed, set out to elegantly combine a multitude of values: serious and fun, authentic and refined, with deep roots and a love of the world. Paul Filek. Barbara Bestor.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

He picks apart how design can convince us of a certain way of thinking, in both an overt and covert manner. Through examples, not just from graphic design but also product design, industrial design and architecture, Adams illustrates how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger or reassure us and the reasons why it does this.