Doing Designer, When Everyone&#39;s a Designer
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Fashion Wire Daily - Over the course of the past year, American fashion has seen an explosion of high-low fashion collaborations, with a multitude of pairings between designers and mass merchants such as Target, Uniqlo and Gap.
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Everyone wants a piece of the sky. At any cost! Newcomers will call you up to give you a career report, and never mind if the report is half even fully made-up.
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Black sweater or no, some architects find they can channel their idealism into real-world projects.
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The traditional pattern shakes its fussy image as designers give it a new look
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Nature is pretty good at solving engineering problems, so designers are increasingly turning to biomimetics to improve their products and ideas. By Rowan Hooper.
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A sculptor, an architect, a photographer and a writer were involved. Collisions may have been inevitable.
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Ushering in a new term of sorts today is this new article from Nick Lo on the Zend Developer Zone talking about the Zend Framework and the "New Hybrid Designer":   While a good sense of aesthetics is important, it does not in itself directly equate to a well designed product. This is particularly true with web design, as a recent Web 2.0 Expo session entitled "The New Hybrid Designer" put it; "modern web design requires the coding savviness of a developer coupled with the aesthetics and user awareness of a designer".   The idea behind the article is to propose a simple setup of the Zend Framework that developers can use as the powerful system that it is and the designers can get into and understand how to use (things like building forms and templating the site). He touches on a few topics including the MVC pattern the Framework follows, security in the application and the "pretty URLs" that it allows.
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IT IS hard to think of two designers more different in their work, taste and general sensibilities than Tommy Hilfiger and Karl Lagerfeld.
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The Lab judging panel will be busy this weekend picking a winner in the speak-to-the-Prime-Designer contest. (You can still enter today.) As they toil tirelessly, let us ponder this designerâs ethics, and whether it&#8217;s better to live in simulated joy or be really miserable. The posthuman Prime Designer may not care much what our puny [...].
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It&#8217;s been a long time that people have been asking me to make a tee shirt with nothing BUT the PvP logo on it. And for some reason I&#8217;ve resisted the idea for a long time despite the demand. Kris and I were discussing it the other day and we both agreed it feels a [...]
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Anytime a designer examines American culture, right down to the red, white and blue bunting stripes, interests me. Much of Thom Browneâs spring 2008 collection will seem preposterous to people. And if this is your first glimpse at his small-sized silhouette, I can only imagine that you think the fashion world indeed a strange place. [...].
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Four top tips I was talking with a fellow IT professional recently who was saying that you should "program simply" but "design with complexity". I do understand the point that he was trying to make - that is, during the design stage take into account the problems in your domain so that these have been worked out as much as possible before the coding starts.â¦
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Good software designers get out of their bodies and become users of software. Because ultimately you don't design software to express yourself, you design it to be useful. The point of news, as with software, is to be useful to the person using it. Sorry, it's not about employing editors. Scott Rosenberg, a writer and editor of news can be forgiven for seeing it from his own point of view, but we users of news don't share that point of view. To me, as a software designer, it's no surprise that there are lots of ways to view news. That there used to be one main way to do it is also not a surprise, there were technical limits, that aren't there anymore.  The skill of laying out a paper presentation of the day's news on a big sheet of paper is now an obsolete craft. The only reason we needed people to do that in the past was that was the only way to get written news to massive numbers of users of written news. Now that computer monitors are cheap, and we have little computers that can get us news that fits in our pocket, we can try out lots of ways of arranging it, and maybe we'll even discover something new.
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How many labels should a single fashion  designer take on? In the case of Karl Lagerfeld, the answer is:  as many as possible.
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Fashion Wire Daily - The great poets, Shelley, Yeats or Goethe, would have loved Tuesday night&#39;s Prada collection, which used fashion as a vehicle to comment on our generation&#39;s obsession with the virtual, and not real, world.
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American designers are having their moment in the spotlight at New York Fashion Week and, in the process, they're building a bigger base of fans.
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This week you'll learn about solid software design practices, many of them borrowed from working with Windows applications. The result is the development of a Web based drawing package. By Guyon Roche. 0802