Welcome to the Party: ‘Socializing’ Design

Design discourse often strikes me as analogous to a family get together. It sets out well enough; optimistic with an undercurrent of reconciliation, but it can turn sour Design discourse often strikes me as analogous to a family get together. It sets... 

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MoMA’s New Digital Font Collection

Matthew Carter’s Walker MoMA has acquired 23 digital fonts for their Architecture and Design collection, a recognition of the ongoing power of typography and design in contemporary culture. This acquisition represents a new “branch in MoMA’s... 

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New Balance is Seeking a Designer in Lawrence, MA

Designer II New Balance Lawrence, MA As the Designer II, you will be responsible for designing projects from start to finish for your category. You will work closely with the product development and marketing teams while developing concepts for uppers... 

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Orbitz Worldwide is seeking a Designer in Washington, DC

Orbitz Worldwide/Away.com Designer Washington, DC We need a designer who brings a well-developed aesthetic and the usual tool kit: knowledge of typography, grid layouts, information hierarchy, interactive design, and a keen eye for the important details.... 

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Video interview with Chris Bangle, former BMW chief of design

Chris Bangle is one of the most controversial and polarizing automotive designers of our time. Already a successful designer, at the young age of 35 he accepted the top design job at BMW, where he implemented disruptive change for seventeen years as... 

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Announcing the Winners! 1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks

Our latest design challenge, Play-Doh Kicks , was not only one of the most fun, but also one of our biggest. We asked our readers to sculpt a rendition of their favorite kicks in play-doh as a mini tribute to shoe design (and our childhoods). Our... 

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Open for Branding Week 9: The Unveiling

The Design Museum Boston final brand identity is here! This project was all about designing communication to a broad, very differentiated, audience: to designers and the general public. The logotype communicates to a broad audience with purely typographic... 

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fuseproject is seeking a Graphic Designer in San Francisco

fuseproject Graphic Designer San Francisco, CA Candidates must possess outstanding design skills (logo/identity creation, layout, Photoshop, etc) and the desire to work on a wide range of projects in a creative and multi-disciplinary collaborative studio.... 

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Harnessing the Blind Spot

This post is part of the Inspiration series, made possible by Veer.com . For our last inspiration post, we talked about the power of randomness to shape the creative process, whether supplied by user error or by keeping the additional marks and line... 

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Open for Branding Week 2: Look Before You Leap

Continuum continues their series Open for Branding, where they are sharing, from start to finish, their latest branding project for the new, nomadic Design Museum Boston . They’re asking for your input, so don’t hesitate to leave your feedback... 

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