Essentially whats on this page is stuff thats useful. So check it out and expand your mind.

Websites:

Concept Salad – into cars? Concept salad is “a site aimed to showcase and promote student and professional car design concepts, as well as to be a valuable source of information for car design students and professionals around the world.”

Core77 – if you are interested in Industrial Design and don’t know Core77 then get out of your cave more often. A North American creation its the Premier industrial design supersite with almost everything on it. They also have a great blog.

Sidelong – “Sidelong a magazine about design that is not a design magazine. The magazine is about designs, designers and design issues such as emerging designer’s work, cross-disciplinary work, design methodologies plus the critique and satire of design.”

IDAsia – “IDAsia.org is a collective and network that represents the best multi-disciplinary Industrial Design talents in Asia. Our main focus is to foster, promote and incubate the best and brightest in the Asian design scene.”

car design news – “Car Design News is the leading online magazine for automotive design industry professionals, transportation design students and design enthusiasts worldwide.”

DesignBoom – ” is the leading independent publication for key contemporary issues and the
critique of all aspects of design, especially those topics which enrich the
dialogue between design, creative professionals, industry and society.

Coroflot – “Coroflot is a career and community site for creative professionals. Coroflot hosts individual creative portfolios and a database of job and project openings.”

Blogs

Creative Seeds – By the coroflot team. This blog is “dedicated to creative work: How-to’s on finding design work and creative recruiting, advice on what leading designers are looking for, and showcases of great work from Coroflot portfolios.

Design Sojourn – an always interesting read. Insights into industrial design or as he puts it “teach[ing] you how to do good design and create clever products.”

The Design Files – Run by Lucy, who works as a props buyer / set dresser in the film and TV industry in Melbourne, Australia. She collects and shares all the creative people/places and products that inspire her

metacool – run by Diego Rodriguez from IDEO, metacool is his “thoughts on the art & science of bringing cool stuff to life”

Innovation Playground – run by Idris Mootee, its all about “business strategy, experience design and disruptive technologies.”

NotCot – “a visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusement”.

Podcasts & Videos

Videos & Podcasts Power House Museum – various videos and podcasts of interesting lectures and events from the Power House Museum in Sydney

Books

Design Sketching – Produced by 24 students at the Umeå Institute of Design, it is a sketch technique book that is a highly regarded resource for designers, students and Universities throughout the world.

Get a Design Job – A FREE online book you can download. Its all about how to land that ultimate design job. Its produced by RitaSue Siegel and the IDSA.

DVD’s/Videos

The Gnomon Workshop – They sell a whole heap of DVD tutorials on everything from Photoshop to Maya.

Journals

Design Management Review – Put out by the Design Management Institute it “is devoted to articles and case studies exploring how design – in products, communication, and environments – is an essential resource, a component of every organization that can be effectively managed to make important contributions to the bottom line and to long-term success.”

Mags

Curve – Curve is an exclusive design magazine for professional industrial designers and manufacturers developing products. Published quarterly, Curve features the latest design projects and innovations in design and manufacturing.

Groups

The Hive - “The Hive is networking for entrepreneurs. We get together to share advice, talk and hang out. Membership is free and easy, and everyone’s invited. If you have an idea and want to launch a venture or are already in business then make sure you come along”

Organisations

The Design Management Institute (DMI) - The DMI “is an international nonprofit organization that seeks to heighten awareness of design as an essential part of business strategy.”

International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) – ICSID “is a global not-for-profit organisation that promotes better design around the world.”

Melbourne Universities offering Industrial Design

want to know where to take an Industrial Design course in Melbourne? Check out the universities below.

RMIT – “One of the oldest programs in the world, dating in its present version from the 1950s but in an earlier form from the 1880s, the Industrial Design Program at RMIT is unique in that it preserves much of what has been good in the design profession in the past century, while providing opportunity for both the critique and inclusion of the many developments in Industrial Design research and practice in the current global context.”

Swinburne – Swinburne Industrial Design is “a three-year degree with an optional fourth-year for Honours.”

Monash – “The course offers a program of education in the discipline and professional practice of industrial design. It is intended for students who wish to seek professional or executive employment in the field of industrial design and related areas of design or industry and commerce.