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We are thrilled to announce that Design Observer, one of the most esteemed design communities on the web, has partnered with Coroflot to launch their new Design Observer Job Board. Design Observer provides a global readership with outstanding design discourse, criticism, provocation, and, well...observations on design and the creative industries, and we are proud to welcome them into our network.
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We wanted to spread the word that last night, Coroflot topped 75,000 portfolios. Thank you to all the members out there who make the site a thriving place for creative work.
Be sure to reserve you seat for this amazing event. Core77 presents a half-day panel discussion that will provoke and delight: Design, Wit & the Creative Act. Moderated by the supersensational Ze Frank, and featuring an all-star panel of Paul Budnitz, Steven Heller, Kelly Dobson and Tobias Wong, the event will take place on Friday, November 9th, a the Art Directors Club in NYC. Here's the pitch:
Business and design leaders are increasingly aware that some of the most successful goods and services are those that elicit emotion. Trading in this spectrum poses some unique challenges to the designer, however, since the creative process of generating this kind of work presumes a shared set of cultural experiences and some deft leaps of faith, especially when it comes to humor.How do designers employ wit, irony—even subversion—in the service of making a connection with their audience, and how can they replicate these connections across a body of work? Are there limits to commercializing this kind of design, or are we seeing new opportunities for the provocateur in an ever-commoditized world? What is the role of the brand in this context, and to what degree does a sly exchange between designer and user create a new kind of brand experience?
This panel will discuss ways of leveraging the droll parts of the emotional spectrum to provide impactful products and experiences to users. Did we say users? We meant people. Smiling ones.
Cocktail reception afterwards, and hey, it's a Friday afternoon--great way to end the week.
All info and tickets at the site: http://www.core77.com/offsite/
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Designers of all stripes will be dancing in the streets after they download and read the new Coroflot PDF magazine. Issue #3 focuses on Shoe Design, and it's full of incredible work from Coroflot members, a provocative essay by Molly Purnell, and a killer, KILLER! interview with Michael DiTullo and Richard Kuchinsky--two leaders in the field, moderated by Jesse Huffman. Beautifully art directed by Andrea Paustenbaugh, download it free-and-easy right here right now. A taste from the interview, from Mike D:
At Converse, we are starting to use 3d more and more, especially to develop forms in the midsole and outsole, explore new traction and cushioning systems, and better refine designs for production. Still, it is my personal feeling that a large portion of the exploratory process will still be 2d. I think this is important with any product type that is emotionally expressive--such as automotive design or fashion. A few years ago I had the pleasure of spending an hour with Chuck Pelly at an IDSA conference. The founder of Design Works, BMW's California studio, Pelly explained to me how his team pioneered working straight in 3d and within 5 years he had a team of designers that had lost sense of scale and expression, that created designs they new how to model instead of designs that challenged the industry. After making a sizable investment, they reversed course, and switched the studio back to 2d exploration and hand-cut models for design studies. I think staying in touch with the art of design is very important. Great design is about balance, from inspiration to implementation.
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