Heading south from Atlantic, both Court and Smith Streets are lined with local designers' boutiques.
Yet in Dublin, some artisans and clothing designers are seizing the downturn as an opportunity for rebirth.
Design Forum Finland promotes the work of Finnish designers and runs a shop that hosts their work.
Another must-see is Bow, launched in 2010 by Irish designers Wendy Crawford, Margaret O'Rourke and Eilis Boyle.
Lately, designers have been getting their due as leaders of the product development process.
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Designers question the structure of institutions and apply multiple skill-sets to derive solutions to complex problems.
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Although some elite designers in large organizations are specialists, for the most part, designers are generalists.
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Designers see the rooms as a blank canvas and a break from demanding clients.
This could encourage into the house development business smaller, more unusual designers who might design differently.
"We viewed them as designers from the get-go, " says Tomoko Ogura, the store's senior fashion director.
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He added that he had shown his prototype to Apple designers around that time.
Her Ebay connections put her in touch with some of the country's top videogame designers.
For power users--say graphic designers or design engineers--the productivity gains could be even greater.
"Being involved with the designers' show house really gave it curb appeal, " he says.
Now the company is adding new designers to attract fashion conscious consumers on a budget.
Automakers are designers, manufacturers and wholesalers that remain largely invisible to the car buyers, he said.
The involvement of game designers is a source of controversy both in and outside the school.
This time however, instead of flowers, the designers used a coral print as a starting point.
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So he volunteered the place to a charity as a show house for designers.
The collection of entrepreneurs, designers, and developers is spawning really interesting consumer facing companies, like SoundCloud.
The Form 1 achieves professional quality resolution at a price individual designers and engineers can afford.
Designers say the historical look of the new boutiques is warmer than the modernist form.
My patients in New York had been artists, designers, writers, medical researchers, community activists.
But do retailers and designers measure the success of these collaborations purely on sales results?
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With this turnabout, many designers began converting Flash-based websites (especially ad-supported ones) to HTML5.
Geeks, designers, entrepreneurs, scientists, global activists -- viewed one way, they couldn't have been more different.
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Despite that sobering lesson, some companies are still trying to make stars out of their designers.
Designers can use computers to draw, but Mr. Kane prefers to start with pencil and paper.
Acoustics is about geometry, says David Keirle, chairman of KSS sports architects and designers.
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