Barcelona Centre de Disseny

When I was in design school, one of the professors was telling the class about different production methods, and how imagination could be used to adapt those methods to create new, useful things. The example he gave us was with blow molding, which was used to create plastic bottles. He told us that in the 1960s, some industrial desig... [Veure +]

The deadline for applying to SVA's MFA in Products of Design program is just one month away on January 15th, so if you're interested in grad school, you'll want to give this a hard look. Chaired by Core77's Allan Chochinov, the program sits at "the sweet spot between design thinking and design making"—but it's courses go far beyond t... [Veure +]

Worried about leaving your pet home alone? Your pet suffers from separation anxiety and is overweight? Meet Varram. This smart robot equipped with artificial intelligence is created to keep your pets active, healthy and never alone. Varram settings are customizable especially for your pet through an intuitive app.View the full projec... [Veure +]

Engineers would say that you can't let us designers run unchecked, otherwise everything would be touchy-feely and impossible to make. I get that. But by the same token, when you leave the engineers in charge, you get super creepy machines like this:Look, I'm not denying the thing might be useful. They demonstrate it making the correc... [Veure +]

Disappointed by Congress? Forget those losers and check out the Library of Congress. Because these archive-happy nerds have millions of items in their collection from creative industries--"books, newspapers, manuscripts, prints and photos, maps, musical scores, films, sound recordings and more"--and have made tons of them available t... [Veure +]

American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has completed a house in Miami Beach, with a flat roof, glass walls and pilotis, all evocative of the region's modernist architecture. Read more [Veure +]

Charles Harrison, the industrial designer who revolutionised the View-Master toy and the plastic trash can, has passed away aged 87. Read more [Veure +]

For our review of 2018, design editor Augusta Pownall picks out 10 trends that highlight what's been going on in the design and tech world over the past year, from a focus on football and a move away from Milan, to the return of the humble poster. Read more [Veure +]

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has designed a light blue flag with a white footprint, to raise awareness about the importance of human rights. Read more [Veure +]

Pantone's Living Coral shade can't be a harbinger of positivity, says Michelle Ogundehin, when real coral reefs are being devastated by global warming. Read more [Veure +]

La segunda edición de Living Places – Premio Simon de Arquitectura se afianza como un certamen de referencia. En esta ocasión, los ganadores han sido una casa familiar de Lluís Alexandre Casanovas (España) y un centro cultural de Isaac Broid + Productora (México). El pasado mes de noviembre se dieron a conocer en Barcelona los ... [Veure +]

La exquisita fima de iluminación Wästberg mira al pasado y plantea un homenaje al fuego y a la luz natural con su nueva colección. Bautizada Holocene, lleva las firmas de Ilse Crawford, David Chipperfield, Jasper Morrison y John Pawson. Después de apenas una década de actividad, la compañía de iluminación Wästberg es una realidad rec... [Veure +]

Hasta el 23 de diciembre, no dejes de visitar la pop-up store de El Paracaidista en Madrid. El Paracaidista es un “concept store” ubicado en el corazón del madrileño barrio de Malasaña en el que se dan cita interesantes firmas emergentes del mundo de la moda, belleza decoración, gastronomía, lifestyle… Winter Stories Para estas navid... [Veure +]

Sprint final del año. Toca hacer balance. Así que vamos con lo más Top de Diariodesign. Empezando por el diseño. Un repaso a los mejores productos que nos ha dejado 2018. Vestirse de William Morris por H&M. La moda, gran protagonista en uno de los posts más leídos de este año. Y es que la […] La entrada Resumen de lo mejor ... [Veure +]

Colaboración y productividad se multiplican en estas oficinas inspiradas en el concepto de vecindario. La magia de Dropbox es que te permite trabajar en cualquier lugar, utilizando una interfaz casi invisible. Pero las oficinas físicas de la compañía no podían ser invisibles. Cuando Rapt Studio se hizo cargo del proyecto, se propuso ... [Veure +]