All I can say is AMAZING!!!

Unusual lamp design using smart materials

Smart materials are being used more and more be designers to provided innovative and fun solutions to design problems. This is a lighting design project which uses shape memory alloy in its construction.

Packaging Design

Excellent packaging design blog. Click on the image to visit.

Graphic Design Blog

Interesting design blog about all aspects of Graphic Design.

Dirty Mouse

Click on the logo to visit this persons design blog, check out the categories on the right hand side for specific searches, excellent resource for students of all aspects of design.

Designspotter.com

Design Spotter is an excellent source for inspiration, if you're finding it difficult to come up with ideas this is a good place to go. Click on the products button to see thousands of concepts in a wide range of categories. Click on the logo to visit the site.

Interesting desk design

Found this rather interesting convertible desk/chair on Product Design Forums.

Intersting links for Graphic Products

Found these two sites yesterday, they will give you inspiration when planning your colour schemes and colour palettes - click on the images to visit the sites.

Some cool ideas spotted on the web

Folding commuter bike concept, this is only a computer model I suspect in reality it would be rather difficult to make work. It is an interesting concept none the less.

Free software to download

This is a free image manipulation software, it looks like it has some good features, I haven't had time to experiment with it but it looks quite useful. I will post more at a later date. Click on the logo to visit the downlaod site for PAINT.NET.

IDSketching

Haven't posted for a while, but here is an excellent site I found aimed at Industrial Design students, there are some excellent tutorials and sketching excercises. They also have a Facebook group