Design Milk

MAY 20, 2022

Multidisciplinary designer, creative thinker, and educator Rodrigo Buelvas holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, and a master’s degree in interior design from Savannah College of Art and Deshsign (SCAD). Today Rodrigo joins us for Friday Five !

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

During my time on the product design team at Mailchimp in 2018, one of my most memorable conversations was with CEO & Co-founder Ben Chestnut. In the early days of starting Mailchimp, Ben spent most of his time on design and brand. Ben comes from a design background having studied industrial design.

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UX Collective

JULY 17, 2022

s first major step towards his goal of reinventing IBM with a design focus was to hire Eliot Noyes as the company’s first design consultant. He was a well-respected architect and industrial designer with a distinguished career, including his work as curator of industrial design at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A listing of BIPOC owned studios working within architecture, graphic design, industrial design and more. Directory of BIPOC owned studios across architecture, art, design, product design, art direction and more. Organization of Black Designers. Pro Bono Artist Consulting for BIPOC Visual Artists.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 18, 2025

That fresh moniker marked the start of his career’s second chapter, which he has dedicated to addressing more multi-faceted design problems still creating products, but also folding in bigger-picture strategy work. Two years later, in 2017, we paid a visit to the industrial design and branding agency’s Hackney headquarters.

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UX Collective

JUNE 1, 2023

When I studied industrial design in the 1990s, a simple design process was baked into the structure of our coursework. We received a brief, did some “pre-design” to better understand the problem, came up with a bunch of concepts, picked one to refine, and built a prototype. I found myself straddling two era’s of design.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They were referring to the fact that they were facing a hard time charging the kind of expensive fees it once used to command and were now often having to compete with independent designers who were willing to do the same job at a fraction of the cost. This design agency no longer calls itself a design agency. Ok, I digress.

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Graphic Mama

JUNE 24, 2020

Freelancers, on the other hand, see you as a client. They usually work with multiple clients, and usually won’t get too attached to you and your mission. Even if the time zone is not such an issue, remember that the freelancer has other clients, as well. 99 designs. But their goal is to develop their own business.

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UX Collective

JULY 23, 2023

One of the readers of my newsletter reached out to me, replying to the piece I wrote recently about starting a company as a creative , in which I shared several pieces of advice from my industry friends/colleagues. Build your brand” was the advice. Is the only way to get your thoughts out through hiring a PR person? Quite unique indeed.

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 15, 2023

Midjourney's unique approach to AI-assisted design can enhance a designer's creativity in several ways. Artists use Midjourney to rapidly prototype artistic concepts, showing these AI-generated images to clients before starting the work themselves. He currently provides SEO consulting for SaaS brands.

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Just Creative

APRIL 5, 2021

Nathan holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from The Ohio State University, where he majored in visual communications and cultivated an affection for industrial beer. — LPK is a brand, innovation and customer experience consultancy, helping organizations build enduring brands that thrive in the emergent culture.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

And so, design anthropology combines all my interests in looking at the culture behind the things that people make. Maya Desai, in our Environmental Design program, is the first racialized woman to serve as a Chair. Howard Monroe is the first Indigenous person to serve as a Chair in the Industrial Design program.

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Moo

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They even made a chess set once and Tom himself – an industrial designer – made the first one personally. In my own list of clients alone, I can think of several more examples of strong sh*t-giving cultures. Andy Whitlock is founder of strategic brand consultancy, The Human Half.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Spanish-born designer believes in an original design point of view merging humanistic, technological and social approaches, and constantly experiments and dares to move towards better design and architecture. In 2019, The New York Times Style Magazine named Marcante-Testa one of Italy’s most innovative architecture firms.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 29, 2021

We’re joined by Brooklyn-based industrial designer Joseph Guerra of Guerra Office. He’s won world-wide acclaim for his work for clients like Cooper Hewitt, Away, Google, Harry’s, and our absolute favorite, Outdoor Voices. Finding “Surprise and Delight” in Everyday Objects.

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Creative Review

AUGUST 20, 2020

From the best way to share your portfolio to tips on how to make sure you’re remembered, we’ve highlighted the most valuable insights shared by a number of design leaders in Creative Conversations for the Class of 2020, a recent virtual talk organised and hosted by design consultant Matthew Cockerill.

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Design Week

OCTOBER 29, 2020

.” “We all got internships” The idea, Hunter says, is to replicate the support he had during his own formative years as a designer. ” Hunter was lucky enough to earn a placement with IDEO, the design consultancy he would later become a partner at.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 6, 2024

Growth Design and the big shift happening in our industry. However, the reality is that the design process is seldom a linear journey, kicking off with user research and smoothly progressing to design, and testing. 2023 might not sound like a good year for many tech people.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 26, 2024

How to Prevent Design Clients from Hell: Essential Guide Are you fed up with demanding clients who make your job miserable? Dealing with “clients from hell” is an unfortunate reality that most designers and creatives face at some point. You're not alone.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

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. My job was to design and define the technical specifications to meet the requirements of the client.

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Eye on Design

JUNE 9, 2021

After 18 months, he moved to a more prestigious job, as he took up a role as Art Editor at Design , a magazine published by the Council of Industrial Design, an organization set up by the British government during WW2 to help encourage British design in the hopes of aiding post-war economic recovery and exports.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This book contains quotes from noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design. Do you often wonder how to deal with clients, create an efficient workflow and stay on top of your designing all at the same time?

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Eye on Design

JULY 22, 2021

Graphic design became a more pronounced area of study at Cranbrook with the arrival of Katherine and Michael McCoy in 1974. The husband-and-wife team came from industrial design backgrounds, but Katherine had cut her teeth at Unimark, the international design consultancy known for spreading American modernism (and co-founded by Vignelli).

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Design Wizard

JUNE 20, 2019

Sahre seems to believe that designers need to have a degree of selfishness to create something of note. Sahre probably feels that some of his fellow designers are pandering to clients and that their own unique style is not being reflected in their creations. Design adds value faster than it adds costs.” - Thomas C.

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Shillington

JUNE 14, 2021

Typography is the name of the game for Venezuelan designer Isabel Urbina Peña—she runs her own studio in Brooklyn that focuses on lettering, book covers and designs, typeface design and branding. Her client list is equally impressive. Prior to starting her studio, Fili was also art director of Pantheon Books for 11 years.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 5, 2023

Buy on Amazon 7 – Michael Bierut: 1957- He's not just a graphic designer but a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning – now that's impressive! So, he joined forces with Pentagram in 1990, where he's been making the world a more beautiful place, one design at a time.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

He picks apart how design can convince us of a certain way of thinking, in both an overt and covert manner. Through examples, not just from graphic design but also product design, industrial design and architecture, Adams illustrates how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger or reassure us and the reasons why it does this.

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