Rich Reloaded 2011: Artistic Café-Bar-Restaurant by Ismini Karali

Conceptual interior designer Ismini Karali and her team launched the design of the Rich Reloaded 2011 café-bar-restaurant recently at Glyfada, Athens, Greece. The new project focus on art, optical illusions through different shapes and the love of reading books. Continue

The Extrusion Competition: Go from a 2D Sketch to a 3D Model

The Designated Sketcher has set up a competition where they are asking you to showcase your transition from a two dimensional sketch to a three dimensional model. Continue

For Any Creative Who Has an Interest in Seoul: Public Design Competition

The theme for the Seoul Public Design competition is design that offers pleasure and convenience for users. Continue

Experiencing the City: An opportunity to Think About the Present Condition of Urban Spaces

SUN.LAB 2011 will gather the production of Italian and foreign designers who are capable to create experimental scenarios, brand new concepts, and projects not yet in production. Continue

Spark Concept Award: For Work That is in the Idea or Proposal Stage

If your favorite work is in the idea or proposal stage, the Spark Concept Awards might be a fun competition for you. It includes architectural proposals, concept automobiles and design student work. Continue

BIG’s New Project: Hedonistic Sustainability – The Idea that Sustainability is not a Burden

BIG will be working with a Waste-to-Energy Plant project for the clients Amagerforbraending after winning first prize in an international competition by an unanimous judge panel. Continue

Discover Your own Creative Process: How to Gain Many Ideas

These are methods and principles that will help you gain ideas. Be patient with the list, you might find that some in particular work for your learning style. So go through them all! Continue

Stairscraper: Focusing on Individual Needs in a Collective Whole

Nabito’s ongoing project, the Stairscraper, will be built in Abu Dhabi, EAU, as it is the 2010 project winner of the Total Housing Competition. Below you will find the idea and description of their winning concept. Continue

How to Make Your Design into a Work of Art

When the conversation, on what the difference is between art and design, is brought up, the discussion usually tends to get quite heated and passionate, especially if the group consists of fervent designers... Continue

Valuable Perspectives on How to Gain New Ideas for Product Development

Why is it that we go blank when we demand new ideas. Being an effective idea generator doesn't always mean that it is automatic... we have to put ourselves into a specific process, a creative process. Continue

How to Seize Opportunities in Today’s Tough Design Industry

At economic times like these, it is prominently difficult to come accross good work opportunities within the massive design industry, mainly because of the widely crowded group of newly graduated designers (especially industrial designers) who most take on jobs for quite low payment simply to get their foot inside the game. Continue

This is ArtBACKUP’s Lifestyle Design

T3CID (Those Three Crazy Italian Designers) is a new design company who have submitted their Art BACKUP. Their product idea came from wanting to crop an image with the help of multiple CDs. Continue

These are the Design Tactics Studio LOOP Use to Create More Space

A family in Chiba, Japan, wanted a spacious house in a narrow urban area. By studying the local zoning and planning laws of the site: Studio LOOP came up with the idea of structuring an eleven-meter high residence with an irregular pitched roof for the family. Continue

The Push of Demand

What makes a Creative great isn't the ability of good craftsmanship alone (a misfortune for many of today's designers), but the skill to create a new idea inside of your prospect's mind. Manipulating as that might sound, it's not. Why? ... 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

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

Discover 9 Great Ways to Create a Marketing Strategy

To make a marketing plan more effective, a strategy consists of a series of tactics. While marketing strategies differs in dependence of an individual business’s situation: the main goal with a marketing strategy is to identify and communicate the benefits of your offering to your target user. Continue