Design Page

“The capacity to design is in innumerable ways at the core of our existence as a species. No other creatures on the planet have the same capacity. It enables us to construct our habitat in unique ways, without which we would be unable to distinguish civilization from nature. Design matters because, together with language, it is a defining characteristic of what it is to be human, which puts it on a level far beyond the trivial.”

John Heskett, Toothpicks and Logos, Design in Everyday life

Design Institutes

The Sandberg Institute, affiliated with the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, is named after Willem Sandberg, former director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

• http://www.sandberg.nl/

RCA Design Products

• http://www.designproducts.rca.ac.uk/

Design that Matters (DTM), launched at MIT in 2001, is building a worldwide system that enables the citizen sector, university students, and businesses to jointly innovate for social change.

• http://www.designthatmatters.org/

• http://www.frontdesign.se/
• http://www.citizen-citizen.com/
• http://www.droogdesign.nl/

favourite designers...

Dutch designer, Simon Heijdens

• http://www.simonheijdens.com

Joris Laarman

• http://www.jorislaarman.com/

Carl Clerkin

• http://www.carlclerkin.co.uk/

Hannes Koch and Florian Ortkrass

• http://random-international.squarespace.com/

Design shops

• http://www.frozenfountain.nl/

Design Resources

design & emotion

• http://www.designandemotion.com/

Interaction design

Rory Hamiltons new website- everything he knows...

• http://everythingiknow.co.uk/

• http://hehe.org.free.fr/picturepage/index.html EHE was founded by Helen Evans (United Kingdom, 1972) & Heiko Hansen (Germany 1970) as a platform for art, design and research practice investigating ways to fuse electronic media with the physical environment.

-- RachelWingfield - 13 Dec 2005
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