New Technology: 3D Printed Architecture

Frank Gerhy's New Project: The Tower of Aries in the South of France

The architect Frank Gerhy continues to push the bounderies of innovative structures.

Ther passing of VirgilAbolh

Virgil Abloh was born in Rockford, Ill., on Sept. 30, 1980, to Nee and Eunice Abloh, Ghanaian immigrants, and grew up immersed in skate culture and hip-hop.

NYTimes Article:Barrier Breaking Designer...

The Future of Housing - Cover Inc.

The problem of homelessness and unaffordable housing makes it a ripe time for a new approach to housing in th 21 century.

Cover Website

Black in Design 2021: "Black Matter," Designing for Black Queer Pleasure, Joy, and Intimacy

Video Series:BBC The Genius of Design 1 to 5

Developing a Design Concept Idea

Future of Work

The Making of an Architect - The Architecture Studio Documentary

The design studio culture in training Architects, does it have value and if so does it hold for the 21st century?

Don Norman on Design Education in the 21st Century

How to prepare designers for work of today, design education needs to change says Don Norman.

Video: Bruce Mau Presents 24 Principles of Design

Bruce Mau considers the potential of design to change the future.

The Designs of Past Cultures

The objects of unrecognized cultures that have not been included in the cannons of Design history. If one would consider the Benin Kingdom many books should be rewritten.

A documentary series The Tribal Eye. David Attenbough present hidden truths of early societies.

David Adjaye 2021 WORLD BEST ARCHITECT (ROYAL GOLD MEDAL)

"Decolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures | A talk by Arturo Escobar" (2019)

Link to Lecture and Panel Discussion Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a Research Associate with the Culture, Memory, and Nation group at Universidad del Valle, Cali. His main interests are political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of development, social movements, and technoscience. Over the past twenty-five years, he has worked closely with several Afro-Colombian social movements, particular the Process of Black Communities (PCN). Book: Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)

Video: A Chair is More Than a Chair

A new exhibition examines a school renowned for its influence on art and design and the mid-century modern look.

Graphic Design: Introduction to What is it?

The Profession of Industrial Design is Changing

How systems thinking and specialization is helping product designers.

Fashion Design:

LINK: MARTIN MARGIELA - AN ODE TO ANTI-FASHION'S FOUNDING FATHER Martin Margiela is a Belgian fashion designer and the founder of French fashion house Maison Margiela. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1979, a year before the avant-garde fashion collective the Antwerp Six.

Article: The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture

Link to NY Times Article

Architect: June Grant in Her Own Words

Link: blink-lab architecture One of few licensed black female architects in America.

An Influential Artist and His Art - Jean Michel Basquiat

A Handmade (Bespoke) Automobile

The Future of Buildings: What Google Buildings Point To…

BlackSpace, a collective of architects, designers, artists, and urban planners

Article: Meet the Black design collective reimagining how cities get built

Dr. MLK Memorial Designer - Derly McKissack

McKissack & McKissack led a design-build joint venture to construct the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, which commemorates the memory and spirit of the civil rights leader. The MLK Memorial Foundation selected McKissack as the architect of record for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Firm: McKissach McKissack In 2000, the judges selected ROMA Design Group’s plan for a stone with Dr. King’s image emerging from a mountain. The plan’s theme referenced a line from King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech: “With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.” The final design includes a massive carved mountain with a slice pulled out of it, symbolizing the “Stone of Hope” being hewn from the “Mountain of Despair.”

Mid-Century Modern Architecture - The Case Study House

Lesson: Logo Design

Lesson: Layout Design

Product Design is....

Video: STATE OF MIND: THE INTERSECTION OF DESIGN AND MENTAL HEALTH

Personal wellness impacts designers and the work they produce.

Video: A journey through the history of Braun Design

International Style and Mid Century Modern

Modern architecture embodied progressive ideas and sought to address housing shortages of the time.

Design Research and Prototyping in Practice

The process of innovation and product development includes user research and product interation. The video below shows how user research can improve product solutions:

NYtimes Article: Is this the future of Mask

The Future of Design Education

The challenges of redesigning how design education prepares students to become professional designers is being undertaken by one of the best known design researcher/philosophers Donald Norman. "The vast majority of college design programs still focus on the surface appearance of artifacts, despite declining employment in this type of practice. These conditions triggered this initiative to rethink design education for the 21st century." The Future of Design Education

Concept: A Ring that Allows Individuals to Protect Their Privacy in Public Places

 This concept is a extension of a proposal I design in design school, but address direct the current challenge of privacy and not communication as was my project. Very cool!

Privacy Ring

Product Design: Kitchen Aid Mixer

 A product that has maintained its value and increase in status over decades. An symbol of home, comfort and family.

New Logo: General Motors Questionable Update

Hmmm! The electrification of GM's product line follows the introduction of a new logo. see link to CES Keynote presentation: GM Keynote

Article: General Motors New Logo

 

A New Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Logo

For most organization's updating a logo is a very serious undertaking, which was certainly the case for the CIA. See the link below on a what some think.

Article: The CIA New Logo