Welcome to the website of Matt Decker, an Industrial Design student at Virginia Tech. Below is my blog hosted by tumblr.; it includes posts by myself as well as an RSS feed from core77's design blog. Feel free to visit as often as you like.
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Book Review: Change by Design, by Tim Brown
About halfway through Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation, Tim Brown repeats Tom Peter’s much cited comment that “the MFA is the new…
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SEE Bulletin on design and future EU innovation policy
SEE is a network of eleven European partners sharing knowledge and experience on how design can be integrated into regional and national policies to boost innovation, entrepreneurship,…
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MAD architects shows China and Taiwan can cooperate on architecture, in a mountainous way
While China has a reputation for farming big architectural projects out to the Western world of design, Beijing-based “design collaboration” MAD is a more-or-less homegrown firm that does…
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Moleskine myDetour San Francisco closes on October 1st
Moleskine myDetour is an international project that encourages creative thinkers to sketch, write and draw in their Moleskines, sharing their creations with other enthusiasts around the…
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Martí Guixé: Respect Cheap Furniture
German gallery Helmrinderknecht has just opened Chairs&Fireworks, a solo show of Catalan designer Martí Guixé, exhibiting three new chairs from his ongoing ‘statement chairs” cycle,…
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Recycled Farm Machinery
Handmade in Pennsylvania by Ben and Kate Gatski from old farm machinery. This couple has a great sense of humor and they are filled with passion for their art and for honoring the… -
There's no such thing as British design
Justin McGuirk reports in the Guardian that the London Design festival proves that the best design breaks down international borders - that’s what makes the city’s cultural scene unique.
But…
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Rug Made Out of Shoelaces. Kinda Awesome.
The shoelace rug is a “happenstantial multiple” (we love that) created by Nate Silverstein and Andrea Paustenbaugh. It moves beneath your feat, creating an ever-changing sculpture…
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Tiffany Threadgould: Trash Talk in The New York Times
There’s a great profile of Core-fave Tiffany Threadgould in tomorrow’s Consumed column by Rob Walker in The New York Times Magazine. Here’s a little scrap:
At some point there would seem to…
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Rich Brilliant Willing for Urban Outfitters
Rich Brilliant Willing is Theo Richardson, Charles Brill and Alex Williams—a trio of New York based designers that create environments, furniture and product designs that “riff on…
