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100% Design Shanghai is a unique furniture and interiors international exhibition. It provides a total new, inspiring and interactive experience. The event will be held at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre from June 26 to 28. It is especially a great occasion for networking in Shanghai.
Asentio Design will also be part of the event and one [...]

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Have you ever used the nature as an inpiration for industrial design? Janine Benyus has something to say about ‘biomimetic design‘.

Benyus is the biologist-cum-evangelist who first defined its contours in her 1997 book, Biomimcry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. In it, she detailed how companies could study nonpolluting, energy-efficient manufacturing technologies that have evolved in [...]

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Advances in manufacturing technology and the global reach of the Internet have leveled the playing field in the product marketplace. It wasn’t long ago that time-to-market was two years, then 18 months, and then 12 months. Now, a competitor can knock off your “innovation” in six months or less. Many businesses understand that being “new” [...]

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I’ve been honestly amazed at most designers’ lack of knowledge about rapid manufacturing techniques; especially since the technology opens up so many possibilities for the future of the design profession. I read all this stuff about “Design Thinking” and how “business needs to listen to (industrial) designers”, yet I don’t see much reason for them [...]

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Member Gyoko from ProductDesignForums posted 3 interesting articles about design. Here are the intros:
The Final Frontier
The Role of the Design Research
The role of research in the creative process is to discover and guide the design implications of the real cultural phenomena. Therefore, researchers must have a sound working knowledge of the concepts and methods that [...]

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If you want to keep in shape with sketching or improve your sketching skills, then please feel free to participate in the sketch sessions that are being held here.
Current session is ‘bags’

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If you want to showcase and/or sell your design products, register at Designer pages.
As a supplier, you can upload your products and renderings, where thousands of topnotch designers and architects can find it.
You know what could be the consequences if someone decide to implement your product within his skyscraper project .
As a Designer you’ll [...]

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Starting from now I would like to highlight interesting topics that have been posted at ProductDesignForums , a discussion board that I have been taking care of since August 2004 with my friend Renze Rispens.
One of our members, csven, started an interesting thread about the predictions for the industrial design profession:
So where are the predictions [...]

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Currently I am reading ‘Universal Principles of Design’, which is an useful book containing 100 design principles that can be applied in several design issues. A lot of principles can be recognized from design theories learnt at a design school. So this book it is a good reference to check whether your design is well [...]

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One of my favorite design blogs is Design Sojourn, runned by Brian, an industrial designer from Singapore. You should definitely check his site for interesting and learnful articles about industrial design.

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