From Problem Solving to Market

How do you get from problem solving to a product? To get some inspiration on how it can be done, here are eight Creatives who share the creating process of one of their works. Continue

Entering Design Competitions? Contest Jury Members Share Insights about Design

When entering a design competition, what things should you think about? And, what makes "good design"? To give you ideas and insights on how to think about design today, here are experienced contest jury members who share how they think about the definition of good design. Continue

Art Directors Club Announcing the 2011 Hall of Fame Laureates

The Art Directors Club, yesterday announced the latest group of laureates into the prestigious ADC Hall of Fame. An exhibition of work by these latest laureates will also be on display and open to the public free of charge at the ADC Gallery. Continue

Discover How Designer Ismini Karali Works with Projects

Ismini Karali, the founder of her own interior design studio, Ismini Karali Design, started her firm 18 years ago, after studies in business administration. Continue

Giancarlo Zema on How the Future of Architecture will Change Our Living into a “Floating Experience”

Architect Giancarlo Zema shares his vision on how the future’s design will evolve and why we are approaching a “floating experience”. In this interview with Zema, he shares his ideas and explains what his field, semi-submerged architecture, is all about. Continue

Paolo Cappello Shares his Ideas on Design Through Creative Process

Designer Paolo Cappello, talks here about the creative process he goes through when designing his products, and also shares how he knows that a design is ready to hit the market. Continue

Great Advice on Establishing Your Own Online Design Shop from Melanie Adams

This is an interview with Melanie, where she shares valuable information on how to stay alive in the competitive interior design field. Continue

Now, George Papadopoulos on How Important Strategy is for Your Design Firm

Architect George Papadopoulos, the former of Skinotechniki, talks about what it takes to run a design firm and what an exceptionally important part strategy plays. Continue

How Architect Marcio Kogan Settled Studio mk27′s Mission

Marcio Kogan, establisher of Studio mk27, is a straightforward architect who, with many years of experience, refers you to the reality of being in the industry. Kogan talks about how he saw a lack of quality in Brazilian dwellings and so determined to take the manner in his own hands and created his own strategy. Continue

Advice on Managing Your Own Studio: Adam Robinson

When you've just made up your mind to open up a new studio and niche it on sustainable products, there's a lot of steps to follow. Get some great insights on how it works, follow the design director of Plus Minus Design: Adam Robinson, as he shares the beginning, vision and development of the Sustainable Strategists' studio. Continue

Damien Urvoy: Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Industrial Designer?

Being an industrial designer isn't always the easiest profession, you need to understand engineering and complete that with a creative artistic knowledge. Follow industrial designer Damien Urvoy's story on how he interacts and transforms design into the world. Continue

François Mangeol Reveals the Life of a Designer

Designer François Mangeol lives and works in Saint-Étienne, France. Learn from Mangeol the meetings and exchanges a designer goes through and the responsibilities one must take. Continue

Why the Words “As If” Work like Magic: Thomas Wiscombe

Get lessons about hard work from the founder of EMERGENT, Thomas Wiscombe. Wiscombe and his team focuses on architectural experimentation which is dedicated to transferring logics, science, technology, and computation into architecture. Continue

Secrets of a Commercial Photographer, Break Your Expectations: Kazuha Matsumoto

As a commercial photographer, Kazuha Matsumoto, describes that he seizes the value of peoples’ everyday lives by seeing “love, relationships, connections and interactions with human beings…” Continue

Act Now and Make Your Vision Come True: Ayako Takagi

Uamou is a life story made by Ayako Takagi. This little creature has from being a child’s imagination developed into multiple figures and prints that are sold and exhibited around the globe. Find out how Takagi began her Uamou vision and how she made it grow into what it is today. Continue

Advice on How To Define Society in Architecture: Minsuk Cho

Minsuk Cho advice about how to handle architecture and in which ways you can look at society and transform it into your own field of profession. Continue

Keep Going Regardless of Failure: Hisakazu Shimizu

Hisakazu Shimizu is a Japanese designer who during this interview with DUDYE explained why he became a designer and how he evolved in design, as he obtained a deeper understanding of the profession. Continue

Think and Dream New Ideas: Yukiko Nezu

Architect, Yukiko Nezu started her first design company called URBANBERRY DESIGN after her graduation. The name explains that small scale projects are like berries and that she puts seeds in urban contexts which will grow in the future. Continue

The Process of Creating: Tetsutaro Nakabayashi

Tokyo based, Tetsutaro Nakabayashi, is a design director and a product designer. In 1988 Nakabayashi graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, and until 1997, he belonged to the Product Design Division of Masayuki Kurokawa Architect & Associates. Continue

The Power of One Shot: Hirano Aichi

Hirano Aichi was inspired to become a photographer at the age of twenty, when he snapped a shot with his father's camera of a Shinto shrine. To him the scenery looked more realistic in the finder shone than it did in reality. Continue

Hironao Tsuboi’s evolving Perception of Design

Growing up as a child, designer Hironao Tsuboi, explains that he always had a curiosity devoted to discovering the unknown, in particular the mysterious circumstances of the world. Continue

Catching daily life: Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Influential photographer, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, has been interested in photography since his second year in high school, as he began taking photographs of his trips. Continue

Discover New Ideas for Projects: Tomoko Murata

Tomoko Murata was born 1973, in Osaka, Japan. She was impressed by history and the possibilities that are involved in architectural space. Therefore, early in life, she began to study architecure by visiting old and contemporary buildings. Continue

A World of Possibilities: Madoka Sato

When the Italian Post-Modern Design was born in the middle of the 1980s, Tokyo born designer Madoka Sato, saw how design could be experienced and explored in many different ways. Continue