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Design for social good (or humanitarian design, if you prefer) is creeping up all around us, and Hong Kong is no different. I had the opportunity to spend some time with designers Hung Lam (left in the photograph) and Eddy Yu (right in the photograph). A few years ago they started…

Posting a quick update from Hong Kong! It's been a year already since the last…

Having re-launched The Ellis Boston Antiques Show in 2011, the show's producers, Tony Fusco and Robert Four, are pleased to announce the second annual show October 18-21, 2012 at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for The Arts.   The show will feature 40 exhibitors of the highest quality, drawn from both past Ellis exhibitors as well as many new additions.  The show opens with a Gala Preview on Thursday, October 18 to benefit Ellis Memorial, Boston's first settlement house.  Located in…

It’s been a while since our last update and a LOT has happened! First and most importantly, we’ve made our Kickstarter goal! And in just 15 days at that! So far we’ve raised $5,401 dollars and the number keeps rising with two days to go. We couldn’t have done it without our supporters (that means YOU!)…

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Back in March, the students @ WIT who put on the exhibit…

This week at Design Museum Boston's summer studio at WIT, the students presented their progress to the professors, as well as a local professional who is the vice-chair for the IDSA's Boston conference. Jordan Nollman stopped by to see the classes progress as well as assist with the process thus…

International Poster Gallery (IPG) proudly presents Postermania!: Handpicked Summer Favorites, a show and sale of original vintage posters chosen by the gallery’s knowledgeable staff.  The term “Postermania” was originally coined during the Belle Epoque and refers to the poster fever that swept Paris during the 1890s.  Fittingly, the gallery’s 19th annual summer exhibition features a diverse selection of posters by subject, genre and period, each selected by IPG staff members to reflect…

After Several weeks of development we have settled on a final logo. It is not often that a design team has two concepts that are both so strong it is a struggle to choose one. Needless to say we are all very happy with our final decision and now have a beautiful logo to represent our exhibition as a whole.…

This past week was KoDW in Hong Kong, a 5-day conference with this year's theme of "Designing Change for Better Living". The conference took place at…

Underway this week is the 5-day Knowledge of Design Week conference  (June 25-29) presented by the Hong Kong Design Centre. This year's theme is "Designing…

This week at WIT, the DMB studio class really kicked into high gear. All of the teams have been progressing by leaps and bounds as deadlines approach fast and get left in the dust as we progress to our final goal of giving the IDSA/IDEA an exhibition they'll never forget. This week saw the…

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   This week, in the collaboration with the Design Museum Boston team the students at WIT got a chance to visit an ongoing exhibit, "Getting There" as well as making a lot of headway in producing their own. The class has been working hard on specific workflows to help lay the fundamental…

      After a beautiful Memorial Day weekend, the team regrouped to present what exhibit each person had visited and what they had taken from it to bring to our project. Exhibits featured at the Museum of Fine Arts, MIT Museum, Boston Science Museum and RISD Museums were shown featuring very well…

                 The project officially kicked off this week as the students split up into several different teams that focus on different tasks involved in creating an exhibit, such as exhibit content, graphic design, fund raising and site scouting. Everyone around the studio is very excited about the…

      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…

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)…

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…

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 …