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Saturday, October 25, 2025

African Designers Discussion:

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  This morning I enjoyed the discussion on African Design by Africans. There will be many more to follow as these talented thinkers and doer...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

The Case Study House Documentary

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  https://youtu.be/ky05ypJ74XI?si=jBX1OKNFa6Bnbbhg

BMW Cars have a MASSIVE Design Problem... What Now?

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https://youtu.be/4LZR1uxIUlA?si=iEyKInHS3QPzQP2x https://youtu.be/0qxKXg6wbLc?si=Q6EXa25T_P0AMDP9

Air Jordan Sneakers Celebrate 40years

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  Air Jordan

Flying Taxis Take off in Africa

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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Article: The Twilight of the Smartphone

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A rticle: The Twilight of the Smartphone

Industrial Design: Improving Personal Mobility Walkers

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 A stylist and functional improvement to a device that can aid the quality of life of an aging or injuried population. Zeal Inc. ‘Our missio...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Designer: Maximilian Missoni Moves from Polestar to BMW

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BMWs Design Team The designer of one of the most attractive sedans on the road today has been recruited to lead design at BMW. Missoni was b...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Book:Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

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Using Abloh’s surprising path to the top of the luxury establishment, Givhan unfolds the larger story of how the cloistered, exclusive fashi...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Footwear Designer: Jeff Staples

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Sunday, December 29, 2024

Bahuas Douumentary: 100 Years Later

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This is documentary that presents the history of the Bauhaus within the context of the birth of modernism and is concise and informative.
Saturday, December 28, 2024

The King of Tech: Who is Peter Thiel?

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At the dawning of a new and by all accounts a significant technological revolution led by a handful of digital oligarchs one stands out as a...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

AI: The Revolution is Here…Are We Ready?

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 The former Google CEO is optimistic that America will best China in the race to control the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Sunday, December 08, 2024

AI: Designer Sees Aiding Industrail Designers Go from Dwarings to 3D Products

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Designer Jordan Taylor talks about what being a founder of an AI company supporting the development of physical products.
Friday, November 29, 2024

Maya Lin: Architecture and Art

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Maya Lin most recognizable work the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC cartopolit her to early success as a designer of memorials. Now, s...
Monday, November 18, 2024

AI: Information is not Truth - A Discussion about the History of Networks

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 A sobering conversation on the furute with AI.
Friday, October 04, 2024

Exhibition: CHARACTERS: Type in Action at the Museum of Design (Atlanta)

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The power of typography is demonstrated in an exhibition using the stories of historical figures to communicate and impower. The Museum of D...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

An American Architect- A Conversation with Frank Llyold Wright

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The architect Frank Lloyd Wright discuss the being off his career, the definition of Organic and Skyscrapers. .
Monday, September 23, 2024

The Magazine like the Album Continues to Morph - What are They Now?

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           The magazine much like the album, held a special place in culture especially for communication through imagery, often note by gra...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

The Eames House: A Tour of a Modernist Icon

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Book: Here/Where the Black Designers Are - Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller

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This long-awaited book documents the history of the question she has been asking for decades: “Where are the Black designers?” along with re...
Saturday, September 07, 2024

Fashion Design: 25 Influential Postwar Men’s Wear Collections

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 The history of fashion is considered in this NYTimes article: 25 Most Influential Men’s Wear Collections Vide
Saturday, August 17, 2024

The Origin of: Form Follows Function

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The evolution of the classic line: Form Follows Function, its definition has changed over time embodying the evolving ethos of the professio...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Book: Barcode by Jordan Frith (Author)

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Barcodes bridged the gap between physical objects and digital databases and paved the way for the contemporary Internet of Things, the idea ...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Fashion Designer: Takkahiro Miyashita

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 Rarely do I cover fashion design topics but the video below is informative on many levels to share here. The YouTube channel The Casual i...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Digital Technology: A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg - AI Era

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 A leader in the digital era, Mark Zuckerberg, talks at length about how he see the future of AI.
Thursday, July 04, 2024

The Legacy of Virgil Abloh

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Virgil Abloh defined design of the new century. Born in 1980 and died in 2019 his life and designs embodied the language of the digital gene...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Book: The World History of Design - Victor Magolin

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The latest entry to my design library is the two volume series entitled the World History of Design. This thoughtful look at design historic...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Chair_One

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This die cast aluminum chair was designed as stackable outdoor seat by Konstantinos Grcic in 2003. Born in 1965 in Munich, Konstantin Grcic ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Norman Teague: Designer and Educator in Chicago

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The design community in Chicago is vibrant and active in bringing cultural ideas into reality. Norman Teague is building on the histories of...
Friday, June 14, 2024

World Expo 2025 - Osaka Japan

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The first World Fair was in 1851 when Great Britain invited the world to witness the innovations of the Industrial Revolution. This marked a...
Saturday, June 08, 2024

Swiss Design - It’s Origin and History

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 How Swiss designs embraced the principles of modernism at the time the world was reshaped by World War II. A scientific approach, Clarity, ...

The Evolution of the Washing Machine - Japan

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Domestic appliances have made life so much more convenient by removing so of the drudgery from routine task, none more then laundry. The his...
Sunday, June 02, 2024

Architecture: The Musuem of the Future

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This is a striking structure and raises a few questions: Who designed it? What is it? And Where is it?
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype: C. Gordon Bell

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  C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer designs for Digital Equipment Corporation fueled the emergence of the minicomputer i...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

The Origin of the Leatherman

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Saturday, May 18, 2024

It’s Time to Replace the Mop and Bucket Method of Floor Cleaning

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Dyson comes to the rescue, with the introduction of its wet floor cleaner.  Just as I was thinking that why must I use a bucket and mop to c...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Ease of Use is Good Design

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As product become more complex the designer must work to achieve simplicity in the user experience, failure to do so often results in users ...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Product Design and Business Development in age of the Internet

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The ease to which a product can be brought to market is significantly easier than ever... What happens when the digital content creator part...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

How Design Can Be Used as Proganda

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The power of design to shape perceptions and behavior, let us be mindful of the ability to create beautiful outcomes.  
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Product Designer: Yinka Ilori

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A British-Nigerian  multi-disciplinary artist and designer whose bold visual language draws on his British-Nigerian heritage. Article: Yinka...
Sunday, January 07, 2024

Contemporary Artist Jean Michael Basquit Explained

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James Dyson: The Story of dyson

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Friday, December 29, 2023

Fashion Design in Africa - Growing and Diverse

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 The growing influence of the creative in fashion design on the continent of Africa is reflective of new generation using social media tools...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Architecture:Jeanne Gang on why flow matters

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Arguably the most accomplished female architect of the 21st century, Jeanne Gang and her Chicago based firm Studio Gang are getting noticed ...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Logo Design: NASA

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The  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) insignia  has three main official designs, although the one with stylized red curv...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

The Transistor the foundation of the Third Industrial Revolution

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  The first transistor created at Bell Labs in 1956, securing a Nobel Prize for their research. The first generation of computers depended u...

The First African Tech Company to be Sold on Wall St.

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 The opportunity of providing design solutions across the continent of Africa is enormous, but how to execute will be the question many will...
Friday, September 22, 2023

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The introduction of the first shoe from  JEMS a  Black-owned shoe factory based in the United States. Interview with Dr. D’Wayne Edwards ...
Friday, September 01, 2023

Architect: (Diebedo) Francis Kéré

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The 2022 Pritzker Prize Award winner for the work created to improve life in his home village of XXX in Burkina Faso in Western Africa. ...