Azure Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

For design lovers seeking respite from the temporal void, here are our top five architecture-inspired timepieces. Pei–inspired watches make for a simple standout. Timed to the movement’s 100th anniversary, a wave of Bauhaus-inspired products hit the shelves. Pei Collection by Breda. Bau by Swatch.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. Whether you’re an emerging designer or one who has new projects in your portfolio to share, the A’ Design Award & Competition will help get your designs out onto the world stage.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 26, 2023

Inspiration can strike anywhere, any time. Take for example designer Adam Miklosi , who observed how his phone charger cable had wound and wrapped around a blister pack of sore throat lozenges while in his backpack in a manner that almost seemed as if they were intentionally designed for the function. Thus was born the co.

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Inspiration Feed

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The graphic design industry is tough. No matter where you go, you’ll see amazing talent through the work of other designers in the field. Some may apply styles that are similar to yours, while others use a very unique approach,…

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Design Milk

AUGUST 12, 2022

Scott Henderson is a top industrial designer, creating product designs for global Fortune 500 clients. is based in New York City and specializes in industrial design, engineering, digital design, branding, IP/patent generation, and manufacturing sourcing. Cleverness + Lightness In Design.

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High on Design by Wix

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

An outstanding portfolio website serves as the modern foundation of any creative career—from graphic designers and jewelry makers to 3D artists. And if you’re looking to update your portfolio website or create one from scratch, we’ve compiled 17 of the very best portfolio website templates to get you started.

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Design Milk

JULY 14, 2023

Designer Andrew Ferrier spent his youth in Canada dedicated to guitars, bikes, and snowboards – all pursuits that would go onto inform and inspire his work as an industrial designer of human-centered products ranging from lighting , smoking accessories , to a modular seating system – all elegantly simple industrial forms shaped from milled aluminum.

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SpyreStudios

JUNE 21, 2021

Realistically, surrealist art may be difficult to interpret and is hard to relate to commercial or industrial designs. However, there are some web designers that can incorporate all these dream-like art into adverts and even web design. How do we know if a designer is using surrealism in their design?

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Inspired by their similar geographical settings, each project introduces abundant light and nature – and incredible artworks – through bold new moves. We also sit down with Róisín Lafferty, a Dublin interior designer breaking all the rules by bringing rich jewel tones and material blocking into her ever-expanding portfolio of residences.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

50+ Best Gifts for Designers on Every Budget Designers are creative professionals who use their artistic talents to communicate ideas visually. Whether in graphic design , industrial design, interior design, or other specialities, designers rely on inspiration, software, tools, and technology to bring their visions to life.

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Inkbot Design

APRIL 24, 2024

It is like diving straight into designing without having time for anything else – but fret not because teachers, alongside classmates, shall ensure all goes well until such a point where you start collecting various accolades won during these events. Although some designers may focus their skill set on branding, web or motion graphics, etc.,

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Mary Ann Schicketanz Shares the Things She Finds Most Inspiring. Mary Ann has been a practicing architect for more than 30 years, creating a portfolio that features the Western United States as well as Europe, with a practice of sustainable building and design. Luca’s work is inspired by the Murano glassmaking industry.

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UX Collective

APRIL 24, 2022

This was probably the moment where the early majority of the design community embraced the concept of atomic design metaphor when Frost did a wonderful job of explaining how we derive atomic design through his association of chemistry particles. For industrial design, it was with the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The Drawing While Black directory provides a listing of animators, character designers, 3D designers and writers with details on their location, area of expertise and portfolio. Blacks Who Design. You can also join their Slack channel and nominate a designer you admire. Organization of Black Designers.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It’s not about copying others, of course, but it is about understanding common points of reference and the broader culture we all swim in, not to mention getting a blast of inspiration and new ideas along the way. To help you find all that, quickly and easily, we’ve brought together the best blogs around on art, design and creativity.

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Design Milk

MAY 19, 2023

An impressive portfolio of custom projects carries the style further, featuring a comfortably understated appeal. Ozemba and Hung have been able to combine their respective experiences in industrial design, manufacturing, and interiors and infuse it throughout every corner of In Common With. Photo: Nick Ozemba 2.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They constitute the technological, philosophical, formal, and aesthetic constructs of graphic design,” Heller and Vienne state in the introduction. “100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design” is an excellent source of inspiration and a record of the best graphic design examples from the past 100 years.

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Noupe

MARCH 6, 2024

To guide you through the labyrinth of trends, techniques, and innovations, we have listed some of the best web design blogs on the internet. From insightful articles to practical tutorials, these blogs are your gateway to the latest industry insights, expert advice, and creative inspiration.

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Shillington

APRIL 27, 2023

To help with this accessibility, Ragged Edge and Wise developed a bespoke typeface, Wise Sans, which incorporates letterforms inspired by different scripts from around the world. Read more about Houseplant Save these graphic design examples for inspiration. There’s no need to suffer from designer’s block again.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

She has designed affordable housing projects for Toronto Community Housing Corporation, affordable student housing at UBC, and prototypical housing for the northern Indigenous community of Fort Severn. She continues to work on the intensification of suburban neighbourhoods with affordable midrise housing.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2019

As Vice President of Design and Innovation at Teknion, Steve Verbeek is responsible for creating and evolving the strategic product design direction for all categories of Teknion’s comprehensive furniture portfolio worldwide. Its thoughtful and honest material choices result in something that exudes quality and inspires care.

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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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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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. In 2012 Barber Osgerby launched the strategy-based industrial design consultancy Map Project Office. JERRY VAN EYCK !melk’s

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Shillington

MAY 28, 2020

Featuring key voices from design, illustration and other disciplines from all over the world, creative podcasts are full of inspiration and advice, and it’s just generally lovely to hear people chatting about the things that matter to them personally. Design Life. Listen here. Creative Rebels. Listen here. Listen here.

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UX Collective

JUNE 1, 2023

While I acknowledge that process is just one of many levers needed to create the enabling conditions for good design, I hope this framework can be a useful tool to design leaders working to improve their teams' impact, efficiency, and happiness. In these industrial-era design disciplines, 100% of design happens pre-launch.

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SpeckyBoy

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It makes perfect sense: If you want to design a compelling website, find other sites out there that inspire you. This encompasses the tools we use and yes, the designs we implement. Especially so when looking through the projects within our own portfolios. The Web Designer Toolbox. Industrial Design.

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High on Design by Wix

JANUARY 21, 2021

Having a sharp online portfolio is a must for every designer. These days, a professional online presence is an absolute must for designers and creatives. An online portfolio with spot-on website design is the modern day version of a business card, a resume and a project showcase all in one. Gather inspiration.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Circus: Bouroullec Designs, at Philadelphia Museum of Art. Few designers boast a portfolio as prolific as that of the Bouroullec brothers. Check out our events listings for more inspiring lectures, exhibitions and workshops. Check out our events listings for more.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

How does Google approach the process of designing products in a way that hasn’t been widely adopted yet? So when we are designing, we actually see our products in the environment that they’ll live in. I think fundamentally we draw so much inspiration from the world around us. Now this year, we’re introducing wood.

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Inspiration Feed

APRIL 5, 2020

Design School. Two relatively ordinary words, but once put together take on a distinct meaning – a glorified institute subliminally pushing the notion that the combination of art and academia is the recipe for success. Let’s start off by stressing…

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Inspiration Feed

APRIL 5, 2020

Design School. Two relatively ordinary words, but once put together take on a distinct meaning – a glorified institute subliminally pushing the notion that the combination of art and academia is the recipe for success. Let’s start off by stressing…

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Draw inspiration from others. Study designs you admire and analyse what makes them effective. Let the work of talented designers motivate your creativity. Save designs, colour palettes , textures, fonts, and other visual elements that inspire you in an organised swipe file you can reference. Maintain a swipe file.

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Ucreative

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Even with the leeway given within a creative brief, designers are still answerable to technical specs and limits, general design principles, as well as culture-specific boundaries, regardless of whether or not they choose to follow them. While useful, degrees are far less important than experience and a developed portfolio.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Operating concurrently from two outposts in Oakland, California and Salt Lake City, Utah, design studio Enlisted has amassed an impressive portfolio of products and branding running the gamut from toothbrushes , wall storage systems , to home security systems.

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Shillington

APRIL 7, 2020

Minimalist graphic design is something that’s not going away anytime soon. Every day, we are inspired by our surroundings whether we realize it or not, and that’s especially true for those of us who are more creative-minded. One of the most influential artistic movements in the last century has been the minimalist movement.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 31, 2024

Origins and Evolution Interaction design as a recognised discipline emerged roughly 30 years ago as personal computing became more ubiquitous and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) began replacing command-line interfaces. Building diverse portfolios reveals mastery. What should an interaction design or UX-focused portfolio include?

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

1 Smoothy Lamp from Gantri When Brooklyn-based industrial designer Louis Filos a was first contemplating schemes for a new desk lamp for California lighting brand Gantr i he found inspiration from a rather unexpected source – soft serve cones being doled out from an ice cream truck.

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