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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

How designers can capture the voices that represent non-human living beings. Yes, there are important movements like sustainable design, eco design and circular design. There are plenty of tools and frameworks to consider the environmental impact during a design process. Sams Publishing. Tomitsch M.,

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Meet the Jury of the AZ Awards 2024

Azure Magazine

He also co-founded many design institutions, including the nomadic gallery MASA, the experimental glass-making collective VISSIO, the evocative EWE Studio, and – of course – his own design and architecture practice, Esrawe Studio , which he launched in 2003. 2024 KEY DATES January 2 Competition opened.

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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. He has taught architectural history, theory, and design in the UK, U.S., JERRY VAN EYCK !melk’s

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How well do you understand the context of the problems surrounding customers ?

UX Collective

Airbnb founders, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia were industrial design students, based in California, looking for a means to pay their rent. They had realized an opportunity to create revenue for themselves as a result of a need that stemmed from a design conference they were going to attend? Haha… the life of an entrepreneur).

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50 Best Design Blogs You Have To Read (2020 Update)

Shillington

This image-led blog presents you with a new, hand-picked design project every day, across UX and UI design, illustration, animation, 3D art, graphic design, branding, industrial design and photography. Primarily a print magazine, Wrap is published bi-annually and champions contemporary illustration.

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There’s a Crack in the Pavement

UX Collective

Vignelli learned how to design lighting fixtures and a house in Venice, but eventually realized , “the architectural process was too slow if compared to the speed of the industrial design process.” This led him to shift his focus towards editorial, product, and packaging design. Dad lost his job at the bottling factory.

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RISD’s New President Is a Signal of Changing Priorities in Design

Eye on Design

A mere eight years separate the end of Maeda’s term from the beginning of Williams’, but their profiles and priorities are radically different, signaling a cultural sea change and shifting priorities in design. . When John Maeda arrived at RISD in 2008, expectations ran high.