opening on friday july 9th at the yerba buena center for the arts in san francisco, TechnoCRAFT explores the changing boundaries between designer and consumer. curated by yves behar, it investigates the current trend of open design around the six subthemes of crowdsourcing, platforms, blueprints, hacks, incompletes, and modules.

included in the show is my shaded lamp, part of the un-readymades series, my own exploration in the area of design democracy and personalization in 2007.

some additional info can be found at dexigner.

vitra’s online design magazine features an article on egon bräuning, a toolmaker and trained mechanical engineer, who for decades was in charge of the furniture companies product development section.

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.

nathan shedroff, who i mentioned before on this blog, has made available a ’series of free syllabi and teaching materials to help instructors teach students key topics for the future’. these seem to be based on his popular books design is the problem, experience design 1.1 and making meaning, and are released under a creative common license.

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aimed at architects, building developers, interior designers and designers as well as end users interested in design, stylepark acts ‘as curator and intermediary for the best contemporary design’. it provides a large database on products, designers, manufacturers, and materials.

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.

a web site dedicated to constant updates and reviews of new (and sometimes old) design books. areas covered include 2d, 3d, interactive, motion, photography, research, and business.

a list of nearly 50 books related to design thinking.