It’s way too late to get into words–I’ll leave you all with the links.
Graphic Design/Branding
Learning by Helping by Carolina Vázquez García
An agency and academy that creates and teaches how to create social, environmental and sustainable innovation projects in a fresh, fun and joyful way.
Technology/Tools
Cold Production: Creating Concrete Components Using Formworks Made of Ice
By Architecture and Digital Fabrication students at ETH Zuric
Downpour
The best way to make games on your phone. Collage together photos, drawings and text, and then connect them into an interactive story.
Industrial Design
Bose Designs New Way to Attach “Open” Earbuds
They “cuff,” rather than plug
How Keurig finally made a coffee pod with no plastic
Keurig’s CEO launched an in-house startup to create a new coffee system designed to put the K-Cups out of business
Work
90% of designers are unhirable?
Or why your cookie-cutter portfolio doesn’t cut it and how to fix it
Spine by Dan Mall
A story of when I walked away from a good project
Portfolio Presentations & Design Work
Over the years, there’s been a clear trend in the portfolio presentations I see: much more focus on doing “work” vs. “design work.”
Architecture
This Perth Family Home Paves The Way For ‘True Net Zero’ Design
Architect Matt Delroy-Carr (of MDC Architects) designed his own family home as an experiment, hoping to test and evaluate the best ways to reduce carbon in a typical build
Web Design/UX/UI
Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product
Today’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is often about building a better version of an idea, not validating a novel one. It’s not good enough to be first with an idea.
Sometimes, a Button Just Wants to Look Like a Button
Modern design languages offer a lot of flexibility with their focus on fundamentals like typography, white space and simplistic icons. But sometimes, using an old school real world metaphor adds a lot of delight to an experience.
Random
Reasons to Create for No Reason
When I create purely for the joy of it, not expecting payment, something weird happens