OMC Industrial Design Studios by OMC Interior Design Blog | Modern Furniture | Home Decor » Top 25 Interior Design & Furniture Blogs We scoured the web looking for the best interior design and furniture blogs, and below is what we found. From large multi-writer blogs like Moco Loco to more personal fare like Gaile Guevara, the below 25 blogs (plus 5 honorable mentions) are the cream of the design crop. 1. Design Sponge This style website is the cream of the crop – using a gentle and creative presentation, Design Sponge serves up multiple posts every day about home design, new and innovative products and tips on home living in a modern world. 2. For a frequently updated online magazine dedicated to everything modern, give Moco Loco a visit. 3. With the tagline “Saving the world, one room at a time,” Apartment Therapy makes it very clear that it has big dreams for its readers. 4. InHabitat is a design website with a mission — to bring together design solutions that are cutting-edge, high-tech, innovative and green. 5. Just as its name implies, this website takes traditional Ikea furniture and redesigns it. 6. 7. 8.
Thoughtful Acts | Design with Intent Above & below: ‘Push’ Table by Jennifer Hing. Jane Fulton Suri‘s wonderful Thoughtless Acts? chronicles, visually, “those intuitive ways we adapt, exploit, and react to things in our environment; things we do without really thinking” – effectively, examples of valid affordances perceived by users, which were not designed intentionally. Observing how people actually ‘make use’ of/hack the products, systems and environments around them – emergent user behaviour – and extracting lessons and ideas which can then be applied developing new and improved products, is a cornerstone of IDEO’s human factors strategy, and it seems to have been very successful. It’s an intelligent way of designing. So I was excited to see, at New Designers last week, some inspired projects based around exactly this kind of thinking. Clearing the table is a simple task made complicated by the search for an alternative surface to temporarily relocate anything removed. Above & below: My Table by Tiina Hakala
Retail Design Blog Yindesign's Blog My goals for this quarter As I didn’t have so much sketch training before, it is very necessary to take design communication class in Cincinnati. 1-Improve my sketch skill was my goal I gave to myself before I came here. 2-Redesign my portfolio in order to apply an awesome Co-Op. 3-Choosing a studio project, which in an area I have never tried before. 4-Learning design method they use here in DAAP 5-Explore the difference of American design and European design. 6-Try to learn more about American culture, also improving my English. 7-Learn Alia if I have time! Review. Review 1-It was the best decision I made in DAAP, taking Mike Roller’s class, I learned a lot in his Des communication Class, not only sketching skills, but also how to find my best way of communicate my design work. 2-My portfolio looks much better than before, and here in DAAP, I realize portfolio should be updated all the time. 5- Ok,American style! But that’s not enough! American design at least is not perfectionist.