This week we celebrate the first anniversary of the Autodesk Foundation. If you were at AU this past year, you may have learned a bit about them. They’ll be back again this year with even more to say about their mission: investing in people and organizations that use design to create a better world. The first foundation to focus investment exclusively on impact design, the Foundation supports those who use the principles and tools of design to solve social and environmental problems. READ MORE >

Looking for a little inspiration? Check out Mark Shapiro’s totally amazing class from AU 2014 and step into the world of stop-motion animation. Mark heads up marketing and brand management at LAIKA animation studio in Oregon, the brilliant minds behind the films Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls. In this hour-long class, Mark takes us inside the 2-and-a-half-year production of The Boxtrolls. READ MORE >

If your idea of a good Friday night involves a glass of wine and a new TED Talk, you’re going to love this. Designer, innovative problem-solver, and Autodesk Fellow Tom Wujec’s Ted Talk is now available on the TED website. In the talk, Tom shows us how a simple design exercise can reveal surprising insight into how we process information, and how we can harness the power of collective visualization to solve our biggest problems. The exercise? Drawing toast. You know how to make toast, right? Of course you do. Everyone does. But could you draw it? It’s not as simple as it sounds. What do you st... READ MORE >

At AU, we’re all about information. As you know, every year we gather the best of the best for AU to share the latest insights, inspirations, and know-how about everything Autodesk. And then, in case you couldn’t get to Vegas, we make these classes available here, online. (Did we mention that the classes online are totally free?) And now we’re taking things up another notch with Screencasts.  A Screencast is like a screenshot, but in video form. It’s a chance to take a ride-along with the person giving the presentation, and see click-by-click how experts get the most from Autodesk softwar... READ MORE >

If you were lucky enough to catch Alan Rick’s talk, “The Future of How Buildings Are Made: A Stimulant for Your Next Project,” part of the Building Innovation Forum at AU Las Vegas 2014, you already know about the incredibly inspiring and brilliant minds behind MASS Design Group. If you missed it, you can watch the full talk online. With this in mind, we were excited to see MASS Design featured on  Autodesk’s Line//Shape//Space blog. “MASS Design Builds With Beauty, Dignity, and Hope in Rwanda and Beyond”  is an uplifting read we think you’ll love.  READ MORE >