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

EASTERN Design Office’s New Creative Project: The Keyhole House

EASTERN design office has once again accomplished a creative architecture based on a simple concept. This time they have designed a house that symbolizes a key. Continue

Animal Architecture Awards: How can a Greater Understanding of Biotic and Ecological Relationships Reshape Cities

Animal Architecture are looking for projects that engage in the lives, minds and behaviors of species: insects, birds, mammals, fish and microorganisms. Continue

The Generative Space Award: Improve Health & Health Care with Design

The Generative Space Award recognizes break-through designs that improve health and healthcare. Your mission for the competition is to clearly demonstrate the integration of the physical and social environments to make your community "a Place to Flourish". Continue

International Competition: the 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards

International competition showcases projects that give old buildings new life and reduce their environmental footprint. Continue

Get into Action: 77 Thoughts on Motivation

You have a fire inside you, a frictional energy, read these thoughts, think about them and let them propel you into action.
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Open Call for Design Ideas: Life at the Speed of Rail

Life at the Speed of Rail is an open call for design ideas that envision the cultural, environmental, and economic impact of a new rail network in the United States. Continue

International Architectural Design Competition: d3 Natural Systems 2011

This competition is about the exploration of natural systems from the microscopic to the universal unearths vast design potential for overlaying cultural, ecological, and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies. Continue

International E-Waste Design Competition: Explore Ways to Reuse E-Waste

Students have the opportunity to showcase their ideas for recycling and reducing e-waste during the International E-Waste Design Competition. Continue

Open Ideas International Competition: Redesign the Pushkinsky Cinema

Here's the chance to redesign the facade of the Pushkinsky cinema in a new international competition, with a winning price of € 10 000. Continue

Here is MET Studio’s Exciting Design Approach for a Science Exploration Centre

Award-winning master planners and exhibition designers at MET Studio have been commissioned to create three galleries for China’s new Ningbo Science Exploration Centre, due to open in Spring 2012. Their colorful concept images are here! Continue

Announcing BIG’s Completion of Denmark’s Largest Private Development

BIG finishes Denmark's largest private development ever undertaken. The construction of the 8 House project in Copenhagen has come to an end, allowing people to bike all the way from the street up to its 10th level penthouses alongside terraced gardens. Continue

Discover How OFL Architects will Take on the Exciting Silk Road Project

The Silk Road Map International Competition, organizered by New Italian Blood has reached it's completion and the winners are OFL architecture who will be constructing the 2000 sqm Silk Road Line. 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 Designer’s Story

When entering a designer's site, we most often click on the "Profile" page. It's in our nature to be curious on who the creator of a certain design is. And, how this person has evolved his/her vivid imagination into the world. Hence, a designer's story becomes a crucial part when exposing one's work. 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

Here is 3XN’s Winning Concept for Their Landmark Project in Sweden

In a recent competition, for the Swedish clients at Svea Fastigheter, these known design companies took part: 3XN, BIG, Wingårdhs and Tham & Videgård. Continue

This is How 3XN Has Positioned a New Savings Bank in Denmark

Strategy does not solely require a different way of thinking but an entirely different approach to life. The Middelfart Savings Bank is characterized by a dramatic roof scape, which will be putting the Danish town on the island of Fyn on the architectural map and simultaneously provide a new public space for local citizens. Continue

How to Give Your Product a Longer Life

If you want to create a product that won't be beaten by a competitor the first day it's launched: the safest way to success is to make a creative strategy with an understanding of the challenges and changes that occur during a product’s lifespan. Here is a list that should be established on just about every project. Continue

10 things Morihei Ueshiba can Teach You about Creative Strategy

Morihei Ueshiba (December 14, 1883–April 26, 1969) was known for studyng several martial arts. His expertise in this field made him found his own art: namely Aikido. Aikido was developed as a fusion of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Explore what we can learn from this creative strategist! 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

Substop: Question Your Perception of Time

"An average person spends 2.6 minutes per hour / 62 minutes per day / 5 years of life waiting for things." - these are the opening words of the synopsis for this 1-minute short film. Written and directed by the Bosnian / Vietnamese duo Denis Leo Hegic and Thuan Te. Continue