25 August 2010 - A new intellectual property right that properly protects pre-patent concepts and propositions created by industrial designers and other professional originators would stimulate open innovation on a truly massive scale, says Maxine J Horn, CEO at British Design Innovation.

17 August 2010 - Increasingly integrated with vehicle electronics, braking and steering controls are the most significant active safety systems in today's vehicles, and they prevent injuries and property damage everywhere in the world.

6 July 2010 - Tata Elxsi, the Design arm of the Tata Group, elaborates on the importance of design and its influence in the future of Indian design on an international scale. The effort would involve overcoming from three key barriers: financial, managerial and technological.

7 June 2010 - Vitra celebrates 50 years of the creation of the Panton chair, the iconic, single-piece plastic chair by Verner Panton. Through the decades since its inception, the chair had gone through various manufacturing materials, as moulding technology became cheaper and the materials more sustainable.

2 June 2010 - A completely new perspective for looking at design and business is now provided by the book "Design Value - A Strategy for Business Success", written by Dr. Peter Zec and Professor Burkhard Jacob.

6 April 2010 - This article, by Dr. Hyun-Kyung Lee and Dr. Mark Breitenberg, focuses on current examples of project or design-based learning at the secondary school level in the context of the increasing importance of creativity and innovative thinking in the twenty first century.

22 March 2010 - According to Stephen P. Anderson, good design research is more than looking at products - it examines people, activities and the context of those activities. His services include design research, product experience strategy, information architecture, user interface & interaction design, visual communications and information graphics.

16 March 2010 - The aim of this paper is to stimulate discussion among Icsid Members, and the wider design community, on the topic of environmental design. The core purpose is to develop an environmental design policy aimed at reducing the environmental impact of manufactured products through better design practices.

17 February, 2010 - This article aims to highlight why design research is becoming more and 
more important to business growth, discussing the importance of design research frameworks in delivering 
success and concludes by giving an insight of how KIDP activities are trying to encourage design research 
activities. 


Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of construction equipment, decided to seize the initiative by giving its heavy-duty industrial tractors - its biggest product line - an eco-friendly makeover, involving its customers every step of the way.