Book, Design
Phaidon announces the new Phaidon Design Classics iPad Edition
“Phaidon recently announced the launch of a groundbreaking new application for the Apple iPad. The Phaidon Design Classics iPad Edition is an astonishingly ambitious resource, offering everything you need to know about 1,000 of the world’s best mass-produced objects designed from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to today. The application is now available on the App Store for download at a special introductory price of $19.99.”
“This authoritative and meticulously researched collection charts the story of product design over the past 200 years. It was years in the making and was compiled via rigorous selection process by an international panel of design-world insiders, including architects, critics, curators, product designers, auctioneers, and historians.”
Book
Washington Ballet / Wonderland
Washington DC-based design firm Design Army and photographer Cade Martin team up with the artists of The washington Ballet to create Wonderland, a book that re-envisions TwB’s landmark productions in mystical places throughout Washington, DC. Jake from Design Army tells us, “We only printed 2000 copies for sale to the public and look to raise over $100,000 for the ballet.”
Book, Design
Design and Design
Marc Praquin informed us about a nice book he has actively been working on with his design team. The 730 designs awarded each year are published for free in the design and design book of the year released every January. He says, “Our goal has not changed (despite the pressure of a few brands…): to give the worldwide community of designers a powerfull tool to promote themselves!”
The Design and Design adventure is a success that goes on :
-a non-profit project unsponsored and totally independent,
-all year round, free subscriptions and free submissions, no dead lines,
-each day an homepage entirely dedicated to two new designers,
-two separate communities of designers reunified for the first time,
-a unique platform of expression, a great tool for inspiration,
-fresh news, premium ads and selected links (new features)
Dirty Mouse // Food for Designers’ Dirty Mice
Dirty Mouse is an inspirational design blog, updated several times a day. Dirty Mouse aims to provide designers' mice with enough visual food from the worlds of graphic design, web design, illustration, photography, interior and product design in order to get their creative juices flowing.