Design Stories

Design Stories

Design Stories featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Blackout

Custom77 has been designing original guitars since 2008. The Blackout is a mix of retro/vintage and futuristic concept, inspired by 50's american cars. The body shape really fits to the musician body and gives a feeling of confort. It's equipped with handwounded pickups and the highest hardware available. Terry Burrows, biggest selling guitar writers in the world, is "in love with Custom77 designs" and will introduce their work in the next "1001 guitars you must play before you die".

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Onebip one-click mobile payment solution

Onebip one click payment service provides users with the easiest and most intuitive way of paying for their goods and services via the browser or inside an application on their mobile device. The service automatically recognizes the user’s mobile number and charges the purchase to their mobile bill in just one click. Onebip uses an encrypted identification process to immediately recognize the user’s phone number, which provides a secure and automatic authentication, so that the payment process only takes one click. There’s no need for passwords and PIN numbers or other methods.

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Beertone

Beertone is the first Beer Reference Guide based on the different beer colors, presented in a glass form fan. For the first edition we collected information from 202 different swiss beers, travelling around the country, from East to West, from North to South. The whole process took a lot of time and a detailed logistic to get done but the result of these two passions together make us very proud and further editions are already planned. Cheers!

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Design Milk

Design Milk is an online magazine dedicated to modern design that covers a broad range of areas including architecture, home furnishings, art, technology, and fashion. Our highly curated and hand-picked designs and our original features, such as our weekly designer interviews, product process articles, and creative regular postings attract millions of readers from around the world. Design Milk is the only global online magazine to offer the absolute best in modern and innovative design in a large variety of categories intermixed with inspiring original content.

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A TRANSFORMATION FORMULA

With the task of building a dream that would become the seed of change in people’s hearts, we came up with a four-element approach: defining a department’s identity (where we synthesized their Balance Score Card to 5 attitudes represented by visual icons which assembled a transformation formula), designing the culture, training change agents and creating a communications campaign system that would keep the new culture in people’s minds everyday.

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Ampfly

Our design is a protective smartphone case that amplifies the sound output of a mobile device. It delivers up to three times volume amplification and uses absolutely no electronics or batteries to function. This case is made to improve media sharing amongst friends and listening to music on the phone. It can be used whenever and wherever needed, even in noisy places. The volume increase and sound quality outperform any comparable amplifiers by far. Besides functionality, the case’s attractive design and high-grade material make it a quality product. It is designed and manufactured in the UK.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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