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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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Prem Krishnamurthy on Design as a “Generous Discipline”

Eye on Design

It was originally published on September 19, 2019. A procession of designers had made their way to the city over the course of the year to take part in a new workshop/exhibition space supported by KW Institute for Contemporary Art — Na Kim , Karel Martens, Esen Karol, Fikra ’s Salem Al-qassimi, among them.

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4 mental shifts to be a User Researcher

UX Collective

Learning to work and think differently Photo by Karla Hernandez on Unsplash One of the first things I was taught in Design school was that, as industrial designer, I was not a mere product builder, I was a problem solver. In this article I will explain the mental shifts I had to make as I moved into User Research roles.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

A major presence in contemporary German graphic design, Andreas Uebele trained as an architect, a thread that continues to present itself in much of his work. He shares analyses of chromatic type specimens, instructions for multilayer type design, and applications across a range of print and digital media. Buy the book.

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iPhone’s focus features and Hick’s law: a context-first design approach

UX Collective

Apple’s answer to our constant phone checking and the distractions presented therein is their aptly named Focus feature. Experience how a deep context-first design approach can reduce decision time to near zero as initial decisions are made for you, and only minimal relevant choices remain. Jason Gross (2012) Redefining Hick’s Law.

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

Eye on Design

When Shedroff chaired the 2014 AIGA GAIN Conference , he described enormous opportunities for designers to use their skills to influence everything from business to government to society itself, but warned of a “great divide” between leaders who view design as an expense and those who recognize it as an asset.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

The Package Design Book. Published in English, French and German, The Package Design Book is any packaging designer’s bible. Arranged in chronological order, each of the 100 ideas is presented through a combination of text and images, which explores when it first evolved and the impact it’s had on the world.