Design Museum Boston STUDIO @ WIT returns to create an exhibit for this years IDSA conference in Boston, MA. Sam and Derek kicked off the project by introducing the team to some of the Award Winners that will be featured for the IDEA (International Design Excellence Award). The team has begun the 15-week project of creating an exhibit to showcase the Gold and Silver medal winners for the Award. Today the team brainstormed possible themes for the exhibit. The brainstorm began by with short presentation from Nick Dunleavy and Joe Bradford about how they attacked last years task of creating the “RETAIL” exhibit for the Prudential Center. We are all very eager to see the progress that is to come in the following weeks and the project develops.

    The students…

We’re well into 2012, the year marked as “Hong Kong Design Year” which consists of various design-related activities and promotions throughout the city, focusing on the theme “A City Driven By Design”. 

“2012 Hong Kong Design Year (HKDY) is a year long programme of signature events and celebration activities to propel the development of Hong Kong as a creative city.” Much inline with our goals here at Design Museum Boston to bring design to public awareness, Hong Kong promotes design as a way to enhance the competitiveness of business and improving quality of life. 

Coming June 25-29 is Knowledge of Design Week (KoDW), “with the…

According to their website, "EngineerVsDesigner is the dankest product design podcast on the block" and we would have to agree. Listen to Adam (an industrial designer) and Josh (an designer/engineer) interview Derek Cascio and Sam Aquillano, industrial designers/Co-Founders of Design Museum Boston. It's an interesting discussion on what we do, how we do it, and why we do it. There's also some great insight into how we work as both designers and entrepreneurs and how that equals success.

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At last night's Essential Threads: Linking Healthcare, Technology, and Design, DMB co-founder Sam and I listened to a few presentations by some entrepreneurs and businessmen involved in healthcare experience design. The event was hosted by Essential, a design consultancy here in Boston. What struck me was the importance of information design in all four men's projects. Much of the focus of companies like PatientsLikeMe and WellDoc has to do with disseminating information--whether it's educating patients about their disease or providing data about patients to…

It was a whirlwind few days for the Design Museum Boston team at this year's AD 20/21 show, which had EVERYTHING for sale from modern to contemporary fine art, photography, jewelry, vintage and contemporary studio furniture, decorative arts, sculpture, fine prints, drawings and more. It was like being a kid in a very expensive, one-of-a-kind candy store.

We wanted to let the DMB faithful know that we plan on entering the Retail exhibit in the Core77 Design Awards. Wish us luck, we're coming for that trophy!

For more information on the Core77 Design Awards click the link. http://www.core77designawards.com/2012/

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