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A 2,700-Pound Concorde Sculpture Soars Above the Peninsula Hotel London

Design Milk

The new Peninsula Hotel London is likely to become a popular destination of jet setters, which may partially explain why there’s now a 2,700-pound scale sculpture model of the Concorde hanging overhead inside Brooklands , their rooftop dining destination inside the classic-era British aviation and motorsport inspired space.

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Atomic design 2022: what we can learn from Eames and other design giants

UX Collective

This was probably the moment where the early majority of the design community embraced the concept of atomic design metaphor when Frost did a wonderful job of explaining how we derive atomic design through his association of chemistry particles. For industrial design, it was with the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

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Meet the Jury of the AZ Awards 2024

Azure Magazine

She has designed affordable housing projects for Toronto Community Housing Corporation, affordable student housing at UBC, and prototypical housing for the northern Indigenous community of Fort Severn. She continues to work on the intensification of suburban neighbourhoods with affordable midrise housing.

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Don Norman and the Emotional Side of Design

Inkbot Design

Emotional design considers how a product makes users feel on a gut, instinctual level. Holistic emotional design requires mixing quantitative metrics with open-ended human narratives to understand effectiveness fully. What academic programs or outlets best showcase the latest emotional design innovations?

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Remembering Richard McConnell 1942-2020: the inimitable exhibition designer

Design Week

Having moved to Ruislip Manor, in 1944 aged two, a Nazi V-2 rocket exploding next to a garden where himself and John were playing and covering them both in debris, nearly vanquished the future careers of two men who would go on to be leading practitioners in their respective design fields. A tireless campaigner.

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21 Famous Graphic Designers That Anyone in the Design Industry Needs to Know in 2023

Shillington

So, if you’re after some inspiration or just want to be amazed, then keep reading! Gail Anderson Gail Anderson’s career is super impressive—with stints at Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Random House and currently partner at Anderson Newton Design. Scher’s work has shaped the graphic design of New York City since the ‘90s.

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The extended designer, and the design machine

UX Collective

My aim is to inspire you to approach the toolset with a sense of opportunity and potential, to level-up their own abilities, and to reframe the purpose of the Designer as ‘handicrafts’, and more as ‘governor’. And that is the call-to-action for modern Designers. 2003); ‘Second-Order Cybernetics’. Glanville, R.