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Boolean Taxidermy: Beautiful Rendering for the Sake of Beautiful Rendering

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New media studio Zeitguised released these renderings a few days ago, dubbing them Boolean Taxidermy. Apparently, they showcase a method called Kontaktschmelze, described as follows by the studio:

Kontaktschmelze (contact fusion) is the first work using our concept of the 'boolean camera'. To make use of 3d cg space in a uniquely digital way, space is not cut by a projection of a plane onto a 2d screen anymore: instead, we 'look' through the cutting shape of a 3d object to realise the shape of another."
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Form Us With Love's Match votive and Unfold pendant

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I'm soooo digging the Match votive candleholders designed by Stockholm-based Form Us With Love, which features a slit running down the side you you can insert a match to light the thing without having to invert it and light upwards, an act that in my klutzy fingers usually ends with dripping, burning hot wax.

I came across FUWL while checking out another of their neat projects, the convenient-to-ship Unfold pendant lamp, made from silicone rubber.

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Both the Match and the Unfold are in production by Danish company Muuto.

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Hulger launches The Plumen 001: The World's First Designer Low-Energy Light Bulb

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Almost three years ago to the day, I was at the Designersblock exhibition in London's East End covering the Design Festival for Core when I clocked Nicholas Roope navigating his way through the crowded room with a step ladder to casually install a last minute prototype of the very first Plumen Bulb. After several more prototypes and iterations, it's great to see Hulger's Plumen Light Bulb launch today!

At first take, this might seem like a radical departure from the retro inspired mobile and skype handsets Hulger launched in 2005, but the Plumen bulb embodies the same playful subversive spirit, it's just a little more grown up and serious in nature.

The handsets were never seen as a long term proposition, they knew the novelty factor alone meant it had a life span but saw great potential in applying this approach to other product categories. The concept of using Hulger as platform was always a notion, even back in 2006 when they ran a workshop at St Martins for the final year Industrial Design students called Hulgerisation. Students were challenged to go beyond the social, economical and technological drivers that push product development and ask how can a product not only be made more useable, but also more enjoyable.

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Rahim Bhimani's stinky-shoe solving Ultraviolet Sports Pack

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Whenever I see clips of a bold female newscaster doing post-game interviews in a male pro athlete locker room and maintaining her professional composure, I always think that she's probably not struck by the men walking around in various states of undress; she's probably reeling from the unfamiliar smell.

Not sure why sweaty guys smell so bad, but we do, can't help it. Industrial designer Rahim Bhimani's entry in the James Dyson Awards is aimed at this problem: His Ultraviolet Sports Pack is a bag containing two ultraviolet wands that the user inserts into their kicks to burn off that funky odor.

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Microsoft vid of User Experience ID'er discussing new mouse

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In a very Apple-like move, Microsoft has posted a video of Young Kim, the industrial designer behind their new Arc Mouse, talking about the design process. Apple vs. Microsoft aside, we're pleased to see any giant corporation discussing elements of industrial design that the public doesn't typically get to see--prototyping, modelmaking, ergonomic considerations, et cetera--and we hope that yet more competitors will jump on this particular bandwagon.









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Ito Morabito's kick-ass designs for furniture and, well, every category of industrial design under the sun

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I could do without the excessive jump-cutting, but this video of Ito Morabito's Ora-Gami chair definitely has its moments:

ORA ITO from MTC CORP on Vimeo.

Produced under French designer Morabito's Ora-Ito brand, the Ora-Gami keeps good company; we love the Ora-Ito Ayrton (below), a bed inspired by the F1 driver, and there are tons of other eye-catching pieces of furniture, bottles, lighting designs, consumer products, and more in Ora-Ito's crazy thick portfolio. It's a Friday, so steal a few hours to browse and check it all out here. You won't be sorry.

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Fashion's Night Out: Celebrating "Slow" in Brooklyn tonight

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Our good friends over at Ecouterre are teaming with the Textile Arts Center to bring Fashion's Night Out to Brooklyn! The theme of the night is slow fashion: fashion that takes a bit longer to design, construct, or find but creates outfits just as stylish and fashionable as high-fashion. There's a detailed schedule here.

6 - 7pm
"Hack Sustainable Fashion" workshop

7 - 8:30pm
Ecouterre eco-fashion panel and Q&A moderated by Jill Fehrenbacher, with panelists Greta Eagan (FashionMeGreen), Caroline Priebe (Uluru), Sarah Scaturro (Cooper-Hewitt Museum), Titania Inglis, Shabd Simon-Alexander, Margarita Mileva (M2 Jewelry), and Laura "London" Shirreff (Waste Not Want Not)

8:30 - 11pm
Shopping hours with local designers (reMade USA, Wiksten, Shabd, Titania Inglis, and M2 Jewelry), free DIY workshops, food, drinks, live DJ

Textile Arts Center
505 Carroll St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215

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Never-produced 1963 Pininfarina Corvette is so beautiful it makes me want to cry

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I hate the new Corvettes. They remind me of a formerly attractive movie star that's just gone to seed, all bloated and tacky, a shade of their former self. If a car design could die of a drug overdose in a seedy motel off the strip, the new Corvette would do it.

In contrast, this ill-fated Pininfarina-styled Corvette from the '60s is so beautiful it makes me want to weep. It's a long story, but the short of it is that GM made some Corvette bodies available to Pininfarina back in 1963, and the Rondine concept, as it came to be known, was unveiled at the Paris Motor Show that year. And everyone...hated it. By 1964 the plug was pulled and the concept never saw production.

You can read the full depressing tale at Corvette Fever, see more beautiful photos of the car at Ultimate Car Page, and read about a 2008 auction where a Pininfarina-Museum-housed version sold for $1.76 mil at Autoblog.

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ATOMdesign is seeking an Industrial Designer in Phoenix, AZ

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ATOMdesign
Industrial Designer

Phoenix, AZ

This dynamic individual will possess the ability to deliver the "WOW" through inspiring creative solutions while contributing to all facets of the development cycle from concept through manufacturing. One must be a pure creative genius and team player that can work within a multifaceted group that pushes the boundaries into greatness. Ability to work within a fast paced environment with project management experience is an added bonus. If you live and breath design while searching for intellectual challenges that fuel the foundation of your creative core than this opportunity should resonate with you.

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Open for Branding Week 7: Presenting the Designs!

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We've taken the initial concepts we presented two weeks ago, chosen the three strongest, and refined them into designs. You'll notice that many of them look dramatically different from the original concept. There's a reason for that.

With this project, for the sake of transparency, we shared 12 initial concepts. They were broad strokes, big ideas. Normally, we wouldn't publicly share so many rough ideas. But in the spirit of sharing our internal process, we put it out there for you to weigh in. Our internal process involves going wide and narrowing from there. And we've learned a lot from publicly showing each step. Multiple voices and perspectives have enriched the project. Thanks for taking part and helping to shape the direction of our work.

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International Conference on Design and Emotion

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The Institute of Design at IIT and the Design and Emotion Society will host the 7th International Conference on Design and Emotion October 4-7 at the Spertus Institute in Chicago. The conference is aimed at delving into where design crosses with technological, social, cultural and economic change, and how human emotion is involved in it all. Participants can geek out on themes like Consumer Behavior & Emotion, Relationships & Patterns, Interaction & Usability, and Semantic Interpretations. Keynote speakers include Jeroen van Erp, Co-Founder and Creative director of Fabrique design agency, and Cynthia Breazeal, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Science, MIT Media Lab, whose keynote title, "Socio-Emotional Design of Personal Robots" sounds particularly enticing for some of us design nerds.

Registration and more information here.

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China Leads Clean Energy Manufacturing, but Skirts International Rules

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The New York Times recently published On Clean Energy, China Skirts Rules, a story dissecting China's international lead in clean energy manufacturing, pointing out that while they are leading, they are also skirting trade rules established by the World Trade Organization by subsidizing their exporters. If these subsidies are not removed by the Chinese government, there may be retaliation from other countries, through the implementation of steep tarriffs.

Below, an excerpt from the NYT's article describing some of these subsidies:

A visit to one of Changsha's newest success stories offers an example of the government's methods. Hunan Sunzone Optoelectronics, a two-year-old company, makes solar panels and ships close to 95 percent of them to Europe. Now it is opening sales offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles in preparation for a push into the American market next February.

To help Sunzone, the municipal government transferred to the company 22 acres of valuable urban land close to downtown at a bargain-basement price. That reduced the company's costs and greatly increased its worth and attractiveness to investors.

Meanwhile, a state bank is preparing to lend to the company at a low interest rate, and the provincial government is sweetening the deal by reimbursing the company for most of the interest payments, to help Sunzone double its production capacity.
Heavily subsidized land and loans for an exporter like Sunzone are the rule, not the exception, for clean energy businesses in Changsha and across China, Chinese executives said in interviews over the last three months.

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Humanscale Faces in the Wild 2010 Preview: Scott Henderson's Megatera

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Now a ten year tradition, the Humanscale Faces in the Wild charity event invites artists and designers to submit a depiction of any non-domesticated animal, auctioned off to benefit the World Wildlife Fund. Increasingly more design focused as the bar keeps getting raised, this year's contributors include Marcel Wanders, Yves Behar, Scott Wilson, and Scott Henderson, among others.

Scott Henderson sent us a sneak peak of his submission, Megatera, depicting a Humpback Whale diving below the surface in the deep ocean. The whale was machined into a 16" tall block of solid acrylic in both postive and negative volumes. This gives the illusion of the whale as a single piece, as both volumes connect seamlessly at the waterline. Henderson has been a long time contributor to the event, and talked with us about the ideas behind this year's choice of Megaptera novaeangliae, humpback whale:

I love this event because it's awesome to be able to use your skills to help the environment, especially this year, as we have seen incredible damage being done to marine life, which is why I chose the diving whale form. Man only sees the whale's tail from his perspective above the water, and can't appreciate the colossal size of these mammals hidden below the waves. The heavy block of acrylic was a perfect way to show that.
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Gestalten Fall New Releases

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Gestalten is one of our favorite design publishers, consistently releasing big, glossy, and captivating tomes, whether monographs or collections of provocative and inspiring themes. They are at it again with their new fall line-up, another set of books that would fit so well on our own bookshelves at home. Included on our wishlist:

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220°C Virus Monobloc: The Infamous Chair, edited by Arnd Friedrichs and Kerstin Finger, including text by Alice Rawsthorn. The book is an in-depth look at the Monobloc chair, the immediately recognizable stackable plastic chair found internationally wherever cheap, durable outdoor seating is required. Documented are works by Philippe Starck, Jerszy Seymour, Maarten Baas, and Konstantin Grcic, who have all used the chair as a starting point for work, whether in a positive or facetious light.

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Gestalten New Fall Releases

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Gestalten is one of our favorite design publishers, consistently releasing big, glossy, and captivating tomes, whether monographs or collections of provocative and inspiring themes. They are at it again with their new fall line-up, another set of books that would fit so well on our own bookshelves at home. Included on our wishlist:

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220°C Virus Monobloc: The Infamous Chair, edited by Arnd Friedrichs and Kerstin Finger, including text by Alice Rawsthorn. The book is an in-depth look at the Monobloc chair, the immediately recognizable stackable plastic chair found internationally wherever cheap, durable outdoor seating is required. Documented are works by Philippe Starck, Jerszy Seymour, Maarten Baas, and Konstantin Grcic, who have all used the chair as a starting point for work, whether in a positive or facetious light.

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Core-toon: Design-Thinking Tattoos

Cool concept work by the bio-less Vil Tsimenzin

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Boston-based designer Vil Tsimenzin brings 30-plus years of experience to his concept work, which ranges from more beautiful versions of things you've seen before, like motorcycles and watches, to radical new machines from his imagination, like the land-clearing vehicle below.

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Tsimenzin himself is a bit on the mysterious side--his resume reads like a haiku--but his work is laid bare for all to see on Coroflot.

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Eames Rockers Go Graphic in Herman Miller Contest

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Herman Miller recently launched one of the easiest contests to enter we've ever seen, with some pretty good loot. Eames Hang-it-All coat hooks, Yves Behar's Leaf Light, and an Embody chair can all be won if you and a bunch of other people just enter a little info. on the "Design for You" site. If enough people sign up, the prizes are doled out.

The "Design for You" grand prizes are custom Eames Rockers (which serve as a pretty nice canvas), hand-painted by graphic artists Josh Cochran, Philip Lumbang, Mark Giglio (design seen above), Chris Lee and Andrew Holder. Grand Prize winners are announced in December, and hopefully one of you will get rockin'.


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Giving Microsoft ID some props

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Microsoft has been keeping their ID department busy; in addition to shooting a vid of their new Arc Mouse, they've just cranked out the new LifeCam Studio, an HD webcam with an absurdly high resolution of 1080p.

I often lambaste Microsoft because I've never had a good experience with their UI, but I've gotta give their ID guys credit for not copying Apple's aesthetics, as many companies do, but instead trying to do their own thing. The LifeCam Studio's design recalls elements of high-end professional SLR and movie cameras and boasts a clean aesthetic--except for the logo plastered across the thing not once but twice, undoubtedly a bit of unwelcome input from Marketing.

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Luca Schieppati's velocipedal epicycloid stationary bike is a mouthful and an eyeful

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In 2005 Italian designer Luca Schiepppati created the Ciclo, above, a modern update to the velocipede-style bicycle that used a hubless "epicycloid" transmission system. A company called the Lamiflex Group subsequently tapped Schieppati to design a stationary version and they're now manufacturing the Ciclotte, below.

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Ciclotte breaks with the designs of gym equipment that have always emphasized the functional as- pects, to address a target market of progressive, dynamic users that appreciate both physical and aesthetic lines. The concept of the Ciclotte was created from the need to introduce a design into everyday living, which could be a real expression of contemporary living where work and relaxation, exercise and entertainment share a single dimension, within fluid spaces where all objects can interact with one another.

Alas, such beauty doesn't come cheap--the Ciclotte rings in at a bank-busting ten large!

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