DESIGNING LINKS & BLOGGERS

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Websites of the Month:

ExpoTENtial is a multi-dimensional platform/festival curated by Laetitia Wolff/futureflair that seeks to foster NY design communityʼs engagement with the city by investigating ideas for a slower, smarter, livelier, healthier urban experience. The labs focus on a selection of complex, pressing and sustainability-related challenges (food systems, climate change, transportation, energy efficiency, recycling, information overload, etc), using the city as a context for design and design as a specific point of view.
 

"competitionline is Germany’s leading platform for architecture and competitions and brings clients and architects successfully together every day. With competitionline, private, commercial and public clients can advertise planning services for free and find the right architect for their projects.

Architects present their projects and competition successes on the website, thereby demonstrating their planning skills. A paid membership offers architects additional proposals / tenders and advanced display options for increasing their job opportunities. The database includes more than 21,000 architecture and planning firms with over 48,000 projects. Comfortable search functions help clients in the selection of architects, judges and consultancy firms." Sounds useful. And you'll find Spark there, too!

Design that Makes a Difference
The Pratt Design Incubator was launched in 2002 to provide a place for design companies to launch and grow their sustainable businesses. The Pratt Design Incubator is a part of the Center for Sustainable Design Studies at Pratt Institute. Our mission is to create impact through sustainable business incubation. Our vision is a world built on sustainable business practice.


Juan Shaban writes a nice design blog about Creative Strategy: "DUDYE, the Creative Warrior, was born out of an interest in design, and moreover after studying the principles of exceptional strategists such as Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexander the Great and contemporary business strategists, such as Peter Drucker, Jack Trout and Michael Porter."

 
Here's a sampling of some other recent Sparks:

Yanko Design has a big student audience in the industrial design world, good job boards and relevant content. We like it!

Design Applause, heightening awareness of design-driven objects: http://designapplause.com/

Curve Magazine: www.curve.com.au

DEXIGNER: www.dexigner.com

ArchPaper:

www.archpaper.com

Archinect: www.archinect.com

DesignSingapore Website:

www.designsingapore.com

Barcelona Centre de Disseny: http://www.bcd.es/

Cadalyst: http: //www.cadalyst.com/management/tips-amp-tools-weekly-vol-15-no-33-13464

Peich Asian Enterprises: http://www.pae-designtalent.com/

Graphic Competitions: www.graphicccompetitions.com


Shopping Fever? Quench Those Fever Dreams Here

Here’s a few popular shopping websites for design fans without wheels. Let your digitals do the walking:

apartmenttherapy.com
artek.fi
avaliving.com
bodieandfou.com
bouf.com
deeplymadlyliving.com
dezeen.com
detnk.com
twentytwentyone.com
scp.co.uk
mattermatters.com
conran.com
designwithinreach.com
donnawilson.com
mydeco.com
roderickvosshop.nl
skitsch.it
theo-theo.com

Blogs, Tweets, Linkedin and YOU
What's this all about? It's communication with you about design. Simple. We hope you'll reciprocate. Please read, enjoy, interact, comment and make this thing your thing. Design is your passion, so let's hear about it! For example, check out the new Spark Design Group at Linked In and join the dialog. We already have hundreds of top designers and friends of design on board. Of course there's no charge to join and all types of designers--and people who just love great design--are welcome. We hope this will be the beginning of a vibrant and fun participatory community. We're looking for great news posts (if you spot an interesting item, you can post a link or comment on someone else's.), job listings and discussions about the big issues facing design and our lives. Come on, make it happen!

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Link & Blogger Index

Favorite Design & Innovation Blogs?
These are just a few of our favorite reads from the blogosphere. Please send us your own suggestions. Rules? Be selective--help steer group-members to helpful resources. No spam, no resumes/portfolios, no stores--just great design and innovation insight. Best!

Editor Delphine, Designer Kit--for the Corporate Design Foundation: @Issue's new blog! http://www.atissuejournal.com/
Armin Vit's witty blog: http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/
ArchNewsNow--Kristen Richards' work of the art: www.archnewsnow.com
Archinect: www.archinect.com
Death By Architecture: Mario Cipresso's great resource-treasure chest of design competitions--gotta love em! http://www.deathbyarchitecture.com
Design observed, by Bierut, Helfund, Drenttel, et al:http://www.designobserver.com
Emotional Branding, by the brand guru, Marc Gobe: http://emotionalbranding.com/
Latin Design-- http://design-se.blogspot.com/
cosmit.it The one & only-- Milan Salone Internazionale del Mobile
designcollector.ru/ is a vigorous design site from Russia. Great bearish fun!
From New York-- The International Contemporary Furniture Fair:icff.com
From Austria: http://www.an-architecture.com/
Your Daily Dose: http://archidose.blogspot.com/
Cameron Sinclair--http://www.cameronsinclair.com/index.php?q=node/49
Innovation For Good: http://collectiveinvention.wordpress.com/
One if by Land: http://movementbureau.blogs.com/projects/
Two if by Sea: http://www.akvo.org/blog/

AND CHECK OUT ALL OUR THE LINKS AFTER THE BREAK: