“as far as i was concerned, it never was a feud; detroit simply had no use for my ideas as long as the public wanted large cars with all their accessories, which detroit could sell, inducing higher price tags.

and businessmen rarely express appreciation for ideas that may lower their income. in point of fact, they wouldn’t have; while detroit was building gaz guzzlers, the germans and japanese, with their more modest cars, ran away with the world market.”

- raymond loewy, industrial design, 1979

fabbersmarket.com is a b2b marketplace and network connecting designers, engineers and manufacturers. besides a quotes management tool to source products and services, it aims to use several social media tools to allow member to market themselves.

run by monica khemsurov and jill singer, former editors of i.d. magazine, sight unseen is a new website aiming to provide an intimate and behind-the-scenes look at design, art, fashion, food, photography and other creative disciplines.

designdroplets has a useful article on the basics of portfolio creation, from planning over creation to actual face to face presentation.

stacey is an alternative to indexhibit, an application used by many artists and designers for creating portfolio sites.

it is a php application, with no database setup or installation files. content is managed by creating folders and editing text files.

nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

– calvin coolidge

via swissmiss

kickstarter is a funding platform for creatives. more focused on the crowd-funding part but still related to the crowd-sourcing ideas of quirky, moq7, and joy de vivre that i mentioned earlier.

a new website from the people at behance, the99percent.com provides articles, tips & interviews as well as video & events "to help push ideas forward".

the concept behind the site: "as creatives, we don’t need more ideas. what we need is better follow-through."

the idea behind the name: thomas edison’s famous quote that genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.

includes several interesting (but a bit too short) industrial design related articles.