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A Vertical Campus Reshapes the Boston Skyline  

Azure Magazine

PHOTO: Nick Lehoux KPMB was shortlisted for the project in 2012 and eventually beat out Kohn Pedersen Fox, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Safdie Architects and Elkus Manfredi Architects to win the competition the following year. They settled on triple glazing with angled diagonal louvres designed to account for the site’s unique sun patterns.

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Top 10 Friday Five Posts of 2022

Design Milk

Germane Barnes Shares a Fave Jeweler, Artist, Youth Program + More. Through his work he depicts layers of his Nigerian culture via color, pattern, dimension, and texture. Megan is the creative designer, shop owner, and author behind The ZEN Succulent, a modern terrarium and plant craft line founded in 2012.

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5 Stunning Summer Pavilions Elevating the Outdoors

Azure Magazine

Late last year, Toronto’s The Bentway boldly asserted that its 2021 program would be devoted to play. Of the eight structures comprising the program “Playing in Public,” London-based Assemble ‘s Big Red is perhaps the most joyous. PHOTO: John Nguyen. PHOTO: Ariel Huber.

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Meet the Jury of the 2023 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

We are pleased to welcome this superlative group of leaders in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interiors and product and furniture design to adjudicate the submissions to our international program, now in its 13th year. In 2012 Barber Osgerby launched the strategy-based industrial design consultancy Map Project Office.

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Nature-inspired innovations: Applying design thinking to biomimicry

UX Collective

It brings the patterns, strategies, principles and functions found in nature to inform design. translating strategies by considering nature’s unifying patterns, before implementing it in solutions and inventions. Rogers, 2012) Imitating Nature’s Ecosystem Factory as a forest : “If nature designed a company, how would it function?”

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Best Graphic Design Software: What The Professionals Use

Inkbot Design

And while there are many design programs on the market, not every tool is created equal. Some programs are specifically designed for beginners , and others are more geared toward advanced designers. This article will look at what separates the best design software programs for you. Melanie Perkins launched the website in 2012.

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Design Researcher Zara Arshad on Documenting East Asian Visual Culture and Tracing the “In-between”

Eye on Design

The compromise I made was advertising, but I eventually found myself in the design program at Goldsmiths, University of London, which changed the course I had set out for myself. To give you a specific example, one of my first research projects on this program focused on an 18 th century porcelain teacup from the V&A Collection.