Product Designer: Naoto Fukasawa

Naoto Fukasawa Website

Is Kanye West a Designer?

As human beings we all have the potential to be a "designer", that being said the creative impluse in in each of us can be released and thus through are intention to change or reshape our environment we too can be called a designer.

Contemporary Design Educators/Professionals Discuss Their Experiences

The University & College Designers Association (UCDA)Website

Industrial Designer: Builds His Own Brand

After a tour of working with a variety of footwear teams Salehe Bembury moves to establish his own signature product line. Fast Company Article: Why Everyone...Wants to Work with Salehe Bembury

Architecture: Designed with Humanity in Mind

There are many new projects that are demonstrating a recognition for the possibility of buildings to leverage the soft power of values. NYTimes Article: Can Architecture Build Values?

Video: 60 Minutes, The MASS model of community-focused architecture

Graphic Designers: Discovering the Past

Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton, a graphic designer and educator has brought to light designers not recognized for their contributions. Video: The History of Black Women in Graphic Design

Video: History of Technological Development

An overview of the history of technology and its impact in the evolution of society and the potential of artificial intellegence.

Fashion Design: Issey Miyake

Mr. Miyake known as much for the mock turtleneck sweater that was central to Steve Jobs uniform of Levis jeans and New Balance sneakers, as his innovations in fabic designs. This Japanese designer was the first foreigh designer to show at Paris Fashion Week in 1974. NYTimew Article: Isseye Miyake GQ Article FastCompany Article Isseye Multi-Faceted Legacy

Product Design: Chukudu A Scooter made in Congo (Africa)

Documentary Film: Mau

Bruce Mau, a graphic designer who has avoided celebrity and cricitism has his career and ideas memorialized in film. NYTimes Article: A Designer Puts Life on the Drawing Boards

A Book About Design for Children

Jason Mayden has pen a book for the littles ones that can be enjoyed by all.

Article: This Kids Book...

Design at Apple - The Next Chapter

The departure of Joh Ive marked the transition of Apple's design leadership established under it's founder Steve Jobs.

NYTimes Articale: Why Jony Ive Left Apple Article: Design Team Shaping Apple's Future From the outset, Apple’s aesthetic ethos set it apart. Arguably, the company has done more to democratise the understanding and perception of design, both in its physical manifestation and as a way of guiding and shaping behaviours.

deem - A Design Journal

Conceived as a project exploring design as social practice, Deem's first issue, Designing For Dignity, reads like a manifesto on the future through the lenses of empathy, collective consciousness, and collaboration.

deem - the journal

An Artist of the Time - Basquiat

During the last quarter of the 20th century an artist who expressed the psyhic trauma of the time in the most direct, unique and possibly the compelling way did it through cast off materials, basic visual techinques and minimum language to great impact. NYTimes Article: How to Look at Basquist

Automotive Design During the Electric Age

There are new freedoms car designer can explore as the combustion engine give way to batteries as the power source. NYTimes Article: EV's offer a Blank Canvas

A Design Problem: Clothing Being Dump into Africa by the Tons

The OR Foundation

Video: What is Design History?

Product Design that Imagines a New Path for Music - STEM Player

Article: Ye’s Stem Player paves the way for music’s alternate future

Frank Gehry Interview 2022 CBS News

The founder of one the world's top architectural firms talks to CBS news about his family business and his legacy.

Fashion Design: Street Wear Continues to find Influence

A First Look at Nigo’s Kenzo

Article:GQ magazine

Designer: Samuel Ross the Heir to Virgil Abolh Legacy?

Samuel Ross Associates Website

Technology comes to the Retail Store

Prior to the pandemic customers had moved to online shopping has grown connstistantly causing causing retailers and big malls to shrink if not shut their doors. Amazon is now poise to explore bring a new level of digital experience to the physcal store.

Amozon's plan for a physical Store

Virgil Abloh's Break Through As a Designer was the CD Cover Art for Yeezus

Conversations with Designer: Kevin Bethune

Article: What Nike taught me...

The American Architect - Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright: America's Greatest Architect

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.”