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Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson on 13 years of running a studio and where they believe design is heading next

Creative Boom

Since launching SDCO Partners in 2009, founders Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson have designed hundreds of brands worldwide – including names like LeCreuset and Soludos – but it's their work with industry-disrupting, women-owned businesses that drives their passion. How did the pandemic compare to 2009 for you?

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Women’s History Month–Worldview Purveyors

Thinking Design

She received the Timeless Talent Award in 1999, and in 2009 she was awarded the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Lifetime Achievement in Fashion. * * * * * * * * * It’s been a minute, wanna catch up? In 2003 she transformed the brand by expanding into other markets, introducing shoes, handbags, jewelry, and swimsuits to her collections.

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20 Essential Architecture and Design Lectures to Catch During Fall/Winter 2023

Azure Magazine

In this lecture, she speaks about designing and building in the Senegalese context, with references to its climate, culture, traditions and unique “concrete modernity.” Mboup will address working with biomaterials, passive design strategies, her various cultural projects, and her research and collaborations.

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Future London Academy's ‘Design The Future’ Global Collaboration

Abduzeedo

As you’ve most likely read, these chips could play a huge part in our daily lives, implanted as babies and uses as ID, trackers, currency, health checks, keys…Ours is a BLUP chip as we imagine they’ll be the designer option!” .

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The many deaths of UX design

UX Collective

It’s widely believed that designers are busy asking people what they prefer, but haven’t we all heard the fake Henry Ford’s quote about faster horses? In 2009, Walmart lost a tremendous amount of money after having launched “an uncluttering project” and asking their customers whether they’d like “Walmart aisles to be less cluttered?”.

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Gretel's Dylan Mulvaney on city life, serendipity, and why graphic designers never get famous

Creative Boom

We have thirty-five very talented people from around the world working together across design, strategy, operations, and IT. There were four full-time people when I started in 2009. They teach and inspire me every day. Have you been through a lot of changes over that time? Yeah, Gretel began as a motion studio.

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5 Best UX Books to Elevate Your Design Skills

Inkbot Design

By immersing oneself in the users' world and understanding their behaviours, preferences, and pain points, designers can gain invaluable insights that shape the entire design strategy. Buy on Amazon One of the distinctive strengths of “Designing for Interaction” is its emphasis on designing for various platforms.