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February 6, 2013

Make Something Yourself

Because almost everything is done on computers these days, especially in the design world, many designers seem to have forgotten the pleasures and satisfactions of low-tech solutions.

Topic: Professional Development

February 5, 2013

Nontraditional Portfolios

How do you define a nontraditional portfolio? The most distinguishing feature is often an unusual exterior—a record box, film can, or vintage suitcase.

Topic: Professional Development

February 4, 2013

Natural Nurser Baby Bottle

Baby bottles have come a long way since the leather-teated cow horn feeders of the middle ages, and the Natural Nurser Baby Bottle takes them a little further.

Topic: Product Design

February 1, 2013

PUZZLE PIECES

Not every packaging design project is for a retail product: "I was asked by the creative team of Larry Frey and Stacy Wall of Wieden+Kennedy to help create the make-believe history of Black Star Beer, a new product launch they were handling.

Topic: Packaging

January 31, 2013

Be a trendspotter and setter

"I love to stay on top of what other creatives are doing in my field.

Topic: Profiles

January 30, 2013

Creative Briefs Are Strategic Tools

Computer scientists have a saying, "Garbage in, garbage out.

Topic: Professional Development

January 29, 2013

Leave Something Out

There is power in empty spaces, in what is left unsaid, unknown, unsigned.

Topic: Professional Development

January 28, 2013

Rubik's Cube

Few puzzles have managed to combine the formidable difficulty (just over forty-three quintillion possible combinations) with the prima facie simplicity (one solution no more than twenty-five rotations away from any given configuration) of Rubik's Cube, which may explain why it has become one of the best-selling toys of all time.

Topic: Product Design

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