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 Icsid Celebrates Sir Misha Black's Contribution to Design IndustryIn celebration of the 100th birthday of Sir Misha Black (1910-1977), Icsid honours his contribution to the industrial design industry.Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sir Misha came to England when he was two years old. He began designing posters at the age of 17, having had little formal training in design. In 1928, he designed the stand for the Rio Tinto Company at the Seville Exhibition in Spain. On hi... more |
 Blink: The First Smart, Interactive, Iconic EV Chargers and NetworkECOtality unveiled its flagship electric vehicle charging stations: Blink.The first truly smart chargers to hit the market, the Blink Level 2 charging stations will be available in two models-one, an in-home residential wall-mount unit and the second, a commercial stand-alone charger. They are designed to be the centerpiece of the rich EV charging infrastructure system that will pave the way to long-ter... more |
 Amplify: Creative and Sustainable Lifestyles in the Lower East SideThe New School announced Amplify: Creative and Sustainable Lifestyles in the Lower East Side, an exhibition of sustainable community design, including innovative neighborhood gardening initiatives, in New York City's Lower East Side.Amplify proposes a dialogue within the local community about creating a sustainable future. The exhibition is the culmination of the first year of Amplifying Creative Commun... more |
 Design is How It Works: How the Smartest Companies Turn Products Into IconsThere's a new race in business to embrace "design thinking." Yet most executives have no clue what to make of the recent buzz about design.It's rarely the subject of business retreats. It's not easily measurable. To many, design is simply a crapshoot. Drawing on interviews with top executives such as Virgin's Richard Branson and Nike's Mark Parker, Jay Greene illuminates the methods of companies... more |
 Lifestyle Illustration of the 60sThe 1960s was an optimistic era of unprecedented change, and its heady zeitgeist was captured in the amazing range of artwork that adorned the magazines of the time.Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s is a colossal survey of magazine artwork from the Swinging Sixties. It not only provides revelatory insight into the extraordinary artistic talents of the illustrators featured--such as Austin Briggs, Lynn Buckham, Antonio Lopez and Coby Whi... more |
 Starchitects: Visionary Architects of the Twenty-first CenturyStarchitects: Visionary Architects of the Twenty-first Century offers a complete and detailed catalog of some of the world's most brilliant architects working today, including designers such as Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry and firms such as Morphosis and Future Systems.Featuring biographies and studio information as well as detailed plants, drawings, and photographs of each building, this book is a must-have comp... more |
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