the idsa (industrial designers society of america) has a nice blog on things related to materials and processes.

austrian/croatian design collective numen/for use. creates products under the name for use, while interiors, exhibitions, public spaces, set design etc. are carried out under the name numen.

what are the ‘real’ primary colors? the red, yellow and blue of the conventional color wheel? or the printer’s yellow, magenta and cyan? or the primaries for mixing colored lights – red, green, and blue?

why are there 3 primary colors in the first place and not for example 7?

why do colors form a circle, when the spectrum does not?

these and a lot of other questions are discussed at http://www.huevaluechroma.com, a website by david briggs on the dimensions of color and light perception.

sometimes a bit heavy on the technical side of things. and it may leave you even more confused then before. but still a great read for anybody interested in more than the absolute basics of color theory.

swedish furniture company swedese.

as part of gizmodo ’79, frog design founder hartmut esslinger discusses his design work in the late 1970’s.

italian furniture and lighting company spHaus.

fellow pratt ID graduate yuki hirayama‘s master thesis explored product design for weelchair rugby players. inspired by the documentary ‘murderball’, she interviewed more than 60 people and developed a range of related products. ending up with a large collection of video footage, she decided to summarize her thesis via a movie.

danish furniture manufacturer hay, with the ambition to "encourage danish furniture design’s return  to the innovative greatness of the 1950s and 1960s but in a contemporary context".