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How Cranbrook’s Design Program Redefined How We Make and Talk About Graphic Design

Eye on Design

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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This is why I don’t call myself a service designer any more

UX Collective

I was a student of Industrial design at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics when I was approached by the dean — who knew that I spoke Italian — if I was interested in participating in a program between our school and the Politecnico di Milano doing a double degree. I loved the idea!

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IBM Perfected the Art of the Anti-corporate Corporate Poster

Eye on Design

Major advancements in data processing and mainframe computing brought forth an unprecedented investment in R&D within the company that provided a space for design to flourish. External consultant and director of design Eliot Noyes convinced IBM president Thomas J. of the value that design could bring to the organization.

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Top 10 Friday Five Posts of 2022

Design Milk

Germane Barnes Shares a Fave Jeweler, Artist, Youth Program + More. Germane’s research and design practice, Studio Barnes, investigates the connection between architecture and identity. The studio’s approach examines architecture’s social and political agency through historical research and design speculation.

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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. If you haven’t already, you can enter the AZ Awards at awards.azuremagazine.com! JERRY VAN EYCK

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Branding yourself as a designer

UX Collective

While pondering about going out on my own, I received advice from Brett Lovelady, the founder of Astro Studios in the US and an industrial designer extraordinaire. The reader continued: “I speak at conferences, write a Substack, mentor accelerator programs, and more… but I can’t seem to break through to get a meaningful media feature.

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F5: Rodrigo Buelvas Talks Clouds, Palm Trees, Fave Tokyo Bookstore + More

Design Milk

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 !