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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creativity is the ability to find solutions to problems differently and with added value. Creativity is thinking about perception, its using thought as a tool to be more fluid and flexible. The purpose of creativity is to change or to flow with change. Creativity is therefore heretic, it's disruptive, it changes assumptions, it kicks in doors, it faces fear and it destroys conformity. Continue

Brainstorming is used when you're searching for ideas and discovering possibilities that may be found in problems. The most common brainstorming exercise is to simply write down your ideas on a sheet of paper. Though, this may be an effective approach, you might like to change technique and find certain exercises that fit your personal learning path. Continue

People can easily take your idea and copy your strategic positioning if you let them. Now, if your strategy is well performed in action, it'll be much more difficult to copy your concept. Continue

Rejecting ideas is a common thing as they might seem a bit too scary or just simply weird. This is perfectly normal and sometimes some ideas are too random and for the best to be left alone. However, at times when you're rejecting every idea that crosses your mind, or that is presented to you, stop for a second and take a minute to step back and look at the idea. Continue

Extreme Housing by Singapore-based LOOK Architects Pte Ltd. Extreme housing call for extreme design strategies and ecological sensitive solutions. It can be learnt from Nature which is intrinsically vital for species survival. Continue

There are immense opportunities out there that are just waiting for you. Lets say that you have an idea that you believe in, although it might be slightly risky as the concept is somewhat "weird". Are you still ready to go for it? Continue