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CES 2013: A Note to Exhibit Designers: Here's How to Make Your Display Stand Out (If You've Got the Bucks!)

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For exhibit designers, it's tough to cut across the visual clutter clogging the floor at monster events like CES. Eventgoers' peripheral vision is basically rendered useless, as colors, shapes, text, and screens all scream for their attention.

However, whatever firm Audi hired to handle their exhibit design found an effective way to stand out. They erected a large rectilinear tunnel, paneled entirely with white plexi covering what appear to be daylight-rated bulbs. After all the visual junk you've waded through to get there, Audi's area looks so clean, so pure and so awesome that your feet automatically start taking you towards this visual oasis.

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Inside there were no adornments, signage, built-ins or displays; just a few letters on the floor denoting the two cars they were showing off, the RS5 and R-18 E-Tron Quattro racecar.

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I realize not everyone's got the scratch to pull this off, nor has just two objects they're trying to display, but this was the one exhibit design out of the entire scrum that really had a remarkable design.

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Morpholio Trace now with Automotive and Jewelry Design Templates

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When Morpholio Projects released their Trace app for iPad at the end of September, the architectural community was abuzz with the possibilities that a digital version of trace paper would afford the profession. The app allowed users to instantly draw on top of imported images or background templates, layering comments or ideas to generate immediate, intelligent sketches that are easy to circulate.

Developed by architects, Trace allows users to trace over images in order to offer feedback or convey information quickly and graphically. Additionally, the app easily connects to an online community through their Eye Time function allowing a global community of users to provide feedback on work shared in public arenas: Crit, Pinup and Community.

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Today, Trace announced the release of Automotive Design and Jewelry Design templates for their growing base of users. Working with Brett Stoltz, Industrial Design Transportation Track student from the University of Cincinnati, on the automotive templates and Liz Ricketts, co-founder of design education organization (the)OR, for the jewelry design templates, Morpholio Projects hopes to enhance the interative process for product designers. In conversation with Core77, Ciara Seymour, Morpholio UX Director, tell us, "The inherently iterative process of design lies central to the ability to reimagine within known constraints. These templates begin to provide students with a variety of basic and advanced perspective views as a foundation from which to begin designing."

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CES 2013: Moneual's Touchscreen Cafe Table

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The rumors were true, and we finally got to see the touchscreen cafe table produced by Korean manufacturer Moneual. It's officially called the Touch Table PC MTT300, and there's a little more to it than sticking a tablet on a table.

First off, the invisible stuff: It's an Intel/Windows 7/Android/Nvidia-powered affair, and features two hidden speakers, though the model hired to flog the table couldn't say what the audio was meant to accomplish—perhaps feedback for button touches? As for the visible, the screen has a resolution of 1920 x 1080. The demo models we saw all had the menu taking up the entire screen and oriented just one way; will it be split up and oriented for two people, or even four? Or must the menu be swipe-rotated towards each person who wants to order? Again, the rep didn't know. (I'm starting to get frustrated with this aspect of CES).

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As for the physical design, the side of the table features two USB ports, a mic jack and a headphone jack. They're located underneath the table, presumably to avoid spills that run over the edges, and their presence is indicated by icons:

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Not the legs the table comes with

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CES 2013: Nixon's Forthcoming Modernist-Yet-Rugged Bluetooth Speaker and Earbud Cable Wrap

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Skate- and surf-inspired accessories company Nixon has a couple of upcoming products on display: A ruggedized Bluetooth speaker "that's truly go-anywhere" and a cool silicone cable wrap for their earbud speakers.

The water-resistant silicone-skinned speaker, with its Rams-like design, is pretty chunky and substantial; it's a bit larger than a brick. It's also made to be tough. "You won't have to worry about dropping this thing or banging it around," said the rep. He then tossed the thing up in the air and let it hit the floor with a thud. While it was still on the ground, he proceeded to step and stand on it. After he picked it back up, the dust wiped off of the silicone cleanly.

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Volume and playback buttons are up top, molded into the silicone; on the sides are the power button and ports for USB and audio input, covered by water-resistant seals.

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The cable wrap's a neat little affair, with a central compartment that you pop the buds into; then you just wind the rest of the cable around the slit in the perimeter.

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The guys at Nixon are saying both will be ready to go early this year.

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CES 2013: In Win's Heavy-Duty PC Cases

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Still not seeing much on the form-follows-function tip here on the CES floor, but we're trying. The last thing that jumped out at us were these rather extreme, specialty PC tower bodies made by a company called In Win.

Machine running hot? Their H-Frame is a series of aluminum cooling fins:

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ASUSTeK Computer Inc. is seeking an Industrial Designer in Neihu District, Taiwan

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Industrial Designer
ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Neihu District, Taiwan

ASUS is seeking an industrial designer who is extremely refined in aesthetics, both in mind and in hand, and skilled at hand sketching/prototyping, 2D & 3D modeling/rendering, and image post-production. The ideal candidate is empathetic to user values and needs, capable of working under high pressure, self-disciplined and well organized. The designer should be a team player who can build on each other's ideas and is passionate to make a difference in a large corporation

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Core77 Design Awards 2013: Introducing Our First Round of Jury Captains

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With the EARLYBIRD Deadline only 3 weeks away, we are excited to unveil this year's Core77 Design Awards Jury Captains! Although these individuals need no introduction, we are honored and thrilled to have them lead the charge for this year's design awards program!

Enter your project by JANUARY 31st and receive 20% off for the Earlybird Deadline!

The Core77 Design Awards proudly offers 17 progressive categories honoring the richness of the design profession and its practitioners. From Consumer Products to DIY, Service Design to Writing & Commentary, the Core77 Design Awards provides designers, researchers and writers a unique opportunity to communicate the intent, rigor and passion behind their efforts. We also offer 15 designated student sections within our 17 categories. And with globally distributed jury teams, the individuals who will be considering your work are expert practitioners in the field.

Today we're announcing jury captains from FIVE of our categories. Stay tuned in the next weeks as we share our full Jury Captain lineup! Without further ado:

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INTERIORS & EXHIBITIONS
Judging location:Mexico City, Mexico

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» Andrés Mier Y Teran, Jury Captain
Principal at Grupo MYT

Andrés Mier Y Teran is Founder and Principal at MYT Diseño, an architecture, design and construction firm based both in New York and Mexico City. MYT Diseño started off as a design and build firm in Mexico City, but has evolved to encapsulate almost all aspects of design in a project. From sketching a new concept to it's final construction, as well as identity, marketing, graphic and industrial design, the firm now is able to create a holistic design experience. Some of the most notable works by the firm in Mexico include the concept for Soumaya Museum interiors, The Monument to the Mexican Revolution, La Imperial and Moshi Moshi. And in New York, Taka Taka, Antojeria La Popular, Vive la Crepe restaurants and Stella Filante store.

Mier Y Teran studied Interior Architecture at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, furniture design in Copenhagen and Architecture in UNAM, in Mexico City. He worked in Tokyo and in Paris with Philippe Starck before earning a Masters Degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2008. Andrés has been frequently published, was awarded the gold medal for a five-year trajectory in Interior Architecture by the Mexican National Association of Interior Design in 2006, and more recently the 2011 Prix Met Penninghen for his Professional Trajectory 2001-2011 by ESAG in France.

INTERACTION
Judging location:London, United Kingdom

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» Anab Jain, Jury Co-Captain
Director at Superflux

Anab is a Director at Superflux and founded the studio in 2009. Leading the Consultancy's client partnerships whilst balancing the Lab's self-initiated conceptual projects, she hopes to realize the studio's vision as a new kind of design practice, responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. She has led interaction design projects for clients such as such as Microsoft Research, Sony, Nokia and the Prince's Foundation. Originally from India and educated at the National Institute of Design, Anab gained her MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has been honored as a TED Fellow and has won awards from Apple Computers Inc., UNESCO and ICSID. She has presented her work at the MoMA New York, National Museum of China and London Design Festival, amongst others. She lectures at various design schools around the world and has presented at conferences such as LIFT, PICNIC, Playful, SIGGRAPH and FuturEverything.

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» John Ardern, Jury Co-Captain
Director at Superflux

Jon is Director and Lead Creative Technologist at Superflux. He gained an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in 2006, with a distinction for his dissertation on 'Emergence' and its role in design. Jon leads the creative and technological development of projects at Superflux. In this role, he has worked with a diverse range of clients such as Sony, Snibbe Interactive, Demotix and the Government of UAE, whilst experimenting with new technologies such as augmented reality, prosthetic vision and synthetic biology in the studio's Lab. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA New York and V&A London, and has won prizes from UNESCO and New York's Social Design Network. He has lectured at the Architectural Association London, MAD Faculty Genk, Belgium and Kitchen Budapest Hungary.

SERVICE
Judging location:Milan, Italy

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» Ezio Manzini, Jury Co-Captain
Coordinator at DESIS Network (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability)

For more than two decades, Ezio has been working in the field of design for sustainability. Most recently, his interests have focused on social innovation and he started, and coordinates DESIS, which is an international network on design for social innovation and sustainability.

Throughout his professional life, he has been at the Politecnico di Milano. Parallel to this, he collaborated with several international schools. Currently, he is Honorary Guest Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, Jiangnan University in Wuxi, COPPE-UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Professor at Parsons, the New School for Design in New York.

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» Anna Meroni, Jury Co-Captain
Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano

Anna Meroni is an Architect with a Ph.D in Design. She is also the Coordinator of the POLIMI-DESIS Lab (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) in the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano. Assistant Professor in Service and Strategic Design at the School of Design, she is part of the board and faculty of the Master of Product Service System Design, Co-Director of the Master in Strategic Design and Director of the Master in Social and Collaborative Housing. In her role as a visiting professor in universities worldwide, she has more than a decade of experience as investigator in research projects. Her focus is design for sustainability, with emphasis on design activism for social innovation.

EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
Judging location:Århus, Denmark

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» Simon Kavanagh, Jury Captain
KP International Development & Education Design at Kaospilots

Born in Dublin, Simon Kavanagh received his B.A. in Art and Design Education (a joint degree which incorporates three years of Visual Communication) at 21. For the next six years, Simon worked as a Creative Director in an Irish Multimedia company, Interact. It was during these years that he designed, programmed or managed approximately 600 multimedia titles in the business, educational, IT, online-Gaming, leisure and banking sectors for such clients as Oracle, Microsoft, Chase, Reuters, Esat (02), and Masterfoods and set up divisions in NYC and Paris. He then became a consultant in R&D for Windmill Lane Studios in the areas of Interactive Television, Content Management systems and online gaming before moving to Paris to further his studies in digital media and art. He re-embarked on the educational path in Shanghai where he lectured a British degree in new media, design and culture for three years, until he sought and found the most experiential and leadership education in the world, Kaospilots. He continues to explore alternative approaches to education and pedagogy with the long term goal of transferring this knowledge back into art and design education.

STRATEGY & RESEARCH
Judging location:San Francisco, United States

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» Susana Rodríguez de Tembleque, Jury Captain
Executive Creative Director at SYPartners

Susana Rodríguez de Tembleque is responsible for the originality and creativity of SYPartners' work; setting the overall creative vision for the firm and leading her team of multidisciplinary designers to conceptualize and bring to life transformative strategies, stories and ideas. She also plays an active role in the work itself—helping the Gap reimagine its store environment and customer experience, assisting GE with cultivating a culture of innovation, and working with IBM to design the award-winning THINK exhibit. Susana is also a member of the board of directors on AIGA and was recognized by GDUSA as one of 25 "People to Watch in 2012."

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CES 2013: LG Unveils Curved Flatscreen OLED TV

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Like rival Samsung, LG also caused a stir with their new TV offering, seen above. (I apologize for the crappy photos, but it was a real jostle-fest.) The EA9800 series is freaking curved, providing truly equidistant viewing to the corners, assuming you're sitting dead-center. The OLED display can also support 3D, which is why the second image looks janky; it looked a lot more impressive through the glasses.

Honestly this seems more a demonstration of manufacturing might than a design innovation that consumers will enjoy, but time and the market will tell. Samsung reportedly announced their own curved televisions just moments before LG, and I like to see this kind of competition--it means sooner or later one of them will be driven to produce a breakthrough the other cannot match, and assuming their designers are clued in, we'll hopefully see something a bit more profound.

In the meantime, I think the curved screen technology would actually best be targeted to art directors, 3D modelers and video editors, people who spend their lives in front of a screen manipulating images, and typically from a fixed position.

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Interaction Awards 2013: People's Choice Award Open for Voting

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In anticipation of the upcoming IxDA Conference taking place January 27-31 in Toronto, the Interaction Awards has opened up this year's shortlist of 75 projects to the voting public! Now you can weigh in on the Interaction Awards' People's Choice award.

Vote for your favorite interaction design project and on January 29th, see how your vote stacks up to this year's jury choices. Last year's People's Choice award went to Interaction Cubes by Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/Museu da Vida, from Brazil, who also earned an award for best in category, Engaging.

You don't have to be an IxDA member in order to vote but you will have to register or login through a third-party sign-in (for example Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn). Visit the gallery, cast your vote and stay tuned for the full announcement for this year's Interaction Awards winners!

If you'll be in attendance in Toronto, come say hello to us! We'll be covering the conference and hosting the Coroflot Portfolio Review!

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CES 2013: The Massage Is the Medium

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We're seeing so many objects here where the form has nothing to do with the function, as a designer it's almost... offensive. So it was almost refreshing to run across this weird massage products section, where things need to be shaped in such a way as to interact with the human body. The area was hard to miss, because there were quietly moaning people apparently being eaten by chairs (like this one by Infinity):

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Then across from him, we saw this dude:

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Guy on the right is getting his eyeballs massaged, in addition to the top of his head. A company called Breo USA (ironically, a Chinese company based in Canada) makes a ton of different portable battery-powered massagers targeted towards different areas of the body, and he's wearing their iDream 3 Eye & Head Massager.

Breo's Mini Body Massagers are designed with different shapes at the business end, depending on where they're meant to contact.

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CES 2013: Speakers of the Thin or Artsy Variety

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Folks, something strange about this exhibition: All these speakers everywhere and I've only heard "Gangnam Style" once. It came blaring from a booth labeled Exelway, and I expected to see some big-ass speakers, but was surprised to see the sound coming out of these two impossibly thin bars (marked in the photo with hot pink tape):

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No word on how the technology works, but even the bass was pretty decent, and the system is sub-woofer free. Another thing I appreciated is that they didn't beat their heads against the wall coming up with a name: The product is apparently called the Slim Speaker.

Meanwhile, a Chinese company called In2uit has moved in an adjacent direction, going thin and flat. Their Audio Art series of speakers are wireless and just about paper thin:

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AirPano's Amazing Aerial Panoramas

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The Internet is abuzz over a photograph of New York's Central Park, for which Sergey Semonov received first prize in the amateur category of the Epson International Photographic Pano Awards. It turns out that he's been honing his craft with group of fellow photo enthusiasts for several years now: AirPano is a noncommercial enterprise that hopes to share the wonders of the world (literally, at times) through the art of high resolution aerial panoramas. The eight team members—who have backgrounds in everything from civil engineering to medical cybernetics—travel the world, shooting major cities, landmarks and other sites of interest, usually from a helicopter (but, as they note, "at times we use light jets, dirigibles, hot air balloons and radio-controlled helicopters").

Full screen or nothin':

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The AirPano website features "over 700 panoramas showing over 120 amazing locations of all continents including Antarctic and the North Pole"; panoramas from some 50 other locations are in the works. The large-ish files take a while to load—I've only had time to enjoy just a few of them so far—so let's just say it's a good way to kill time if it's a slow day at work. If you're short on bandwidth, you can peruse their gallery of intensely lush stills. The Escher-esque shot below was several years in the making.

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Another pano after the jump—they have sound on autoplay so heads up:

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Bangkok's Design Houses: Studio Aeroplane, FiF House, OpenDream and Sync

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Over the month I spent in Bangkok, I visited three design studios and a fledgling co-working space. All of them were in houses. In New York City, where I have spent my entire creative career, design studios are in spaces...big spaces, long spaces, industrial spaces, tight spaces...but spaces. Office spaces. You make them what you want, but they are fairly raw and often impersonal. Going to a place of design creativity and having it be a home feels very different.

I had been in Bangkok a week and a half, recovering from a month in Myanmar, when I finally met up with some Thai designers. I met Orn from Studio Aeroplane through mutual Facebook friends. Would I be interested in coming to their favorite Isan food stand? They would have to meet me at the subway station and take me the rest of the way...there was no way to really describe the location, tucked under the highway, a block or so from the main road. I've added an edited screengrab in case you're in the area and find yourself hungry.

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And would I mind if she invited some other friends of hers, also designers? No. No...I would not mind at all.

Soon I found myself at a table, staring face to face with a well-grilled snakehead fish, his mouth crammed with lemon grass, my mouth crammed with snakehead fish. Around the rickety table were my new Thai design friends. We shared a wonderful meal and plenty of talk about design and the global economy. Over the next weeks, I would visit some of their studios, visit their student reviews and tour their national design center. This was just the beginning.

Later that week I visited Studio Aeroplane. Like many smaller studios, there are a small number of principals and they scale up with freelancers. The principals, Orn and Saranont, are both Thai natives, who met in New York City. Orn grew up in New Zealand. We got connected because she went to my alma mater, Pratt and it is a small world, after all. Orn worked in New York City for several years in Interior Design before deciding to return to her roots with her boyfriend Saranont, who grew up in Bangkok and stayed for his design undergraduate degree. Saranont went to ITP at NYU and worked at Antenna design. It was slightly surreal to be sitting at a down-and-dirty food stall in the backstreets of Bangkok with two designers with such pedigrees. I was thrilled to get invited to their studio...after a few months of traveling I was starved for creative and intellectual company.

Since I'm from New York I'll describe my trip there in New York City equivalents...although there is really no New York equivalent to the experience of getting to their studio. Imagine taking a sparkling above ground subway to Union Square, except that Union Square is somehow on the East River. There I met up with Orn and Saronont and took a tiny boat across the river to the Bangkok equivalent of Queens, getting off on a tiny dock onto the back patio of a new high-rise development, with a pool, nice outdoor furniture and a huge parking lot. The boat is just for people who live in their building. The boatman knows your face. If I wasn't with Orn or Saranont I would have been turned away.

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The studio is more than a studio...it's a one bedroom on a high floor, overlooking the city and the river. They can sleep there and sometimes do. The rest of the apartment is filled with books and two computers, the walls filled with printouts of interiors they are working on, and posters from past shows. The colors, the textures, the computer programs, all of it felt like apple pie from my mother's kitchen...comforting, invigorating, familiar. It felt like home in the sense of a familiar feel—it was a design studio, like all other design studios. And it was an actual home. While they didn't live there, they basically lived there. As you can see from their facebook feed, Studio Aeroplane's work is world-class.

The interfaces and spaces they've designed are clean and classic...which has worked against them from time to time. It seems that their clean aesthetic isn't always accepted, as there is a desire to clutter them up or dumb them down...all in the name of making things easier to "get" for average Thai person. I have engaged in similar conversations here in the States. Saranont and I had a good rant about de-skilling people through over-design and the dangers of removing any opportunity for discovery.

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Mercedes-Benz is seeking a User Interface Designer, Automotive UI Design in Palo Alto, California

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User Interface Designer, Automotive UI Design
Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.

Palo Alto, California

Want to shape the future of the next generation of Mercedes-Benz UI Designs?

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. is seeking highly creative, visionary and passionate Junior and Mid User Interface Designers to join their design team. Designers will drive the process of turning ideas into visualizations by creating visually appealing screens and animations for ongoing and new Mercedes-Benz apps, following, adapting and refining Mercedes-Benz visual style guides and digital icon library.

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60 Minutes Segment with David Kelley Raises Design Thinking Debate (Again)

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Earlier this week, we were interested to hear responses to the question "Why Do You Post on the Discussion Boards?"; as the week draws to a close, we have a good example of why: a link to a recent 60 Minutes segment with David Kelley of IDEO has once again raised questions about "design thinking." Ray Jepson offers a fair assessment of the piece (spoiler alert): "I thought the whole piece was too much, 'this guy knew Steve Jobs.' A little too fluff, but always good to see ID in the news."

In any case, I recommend watching the 12-minute video in full before heading over to the discussion:

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Hand-Eye Supply Post-Holidays Gift Guide Sale - 25% Off!

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We at Hand-Eye Supply want to thank you for a wonderful holiday season and we wish you a happy and constructive and productive! To kick off the New Year we've made our Gift Guide Collection25% off for the month of January! A stellar special on our curated collection of covetable curios for designers, makers and those who love them! Just use the promo code "JANUARY77" at check out!

Thanks again for a smashing 2012 and we hope you have an excellent 2013!

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January News: Design Trends to Watch in 2013, Core77 2013 Design Awards Open for Entries

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Core77 sends a monthly newsletter with our favorite news stories, job listings, Coroflot portfolios and Discussion Forum topics of the Month! Subscribe Today!

As usual, the end of the year marked an opportunity to revisit some of the most popular stories from 2012. We saw fit to identify several trends this time around, with measured predictions about the future of everything from crowdfunding to digital fabrication in the new year.

In the meantime, we invite you to check out some of our recent articles: Cameron Tonkinwise's takeaway lessons from the Design Ethos Do-ference, the latest installment of Bruce Tharp's series on product licensing and an ongoing discussion board thread on Women in Industrial Design.

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And at risk of overpromoting the third edition of our Design Awards, we're dedicating the first month of the new year to spreading the word. We'll have more jury announcements and news over the next couple of weeks, but we're encouraging hopefuls to register now to receive a limited edition Core77 Design Awards poster designed by New York City-based firm Zut Alors!, and enter before January 31st to receive a 20% discount!

Flotspotting

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» Check out our full
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CES 2013: Nexiom's Power Slate Gets Some Help from Coroflot

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On the crowded CES floor a company called Nexiom caught our eye, and as it turns out, we had caught theirs: "Ah, Core77!" exclaimed the rep, spotting our badge. "We recruited our designers off of Coroflot." Hong-Kong-based Nexiom had spent years developing an interesting little technology, and hired some of you Coroflotters (you know who you are) to integrate it into a consumer-friendly product design.

We'll start with what Nexiom developed, a super-flat battery they're calling the Power Slate.

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They're ridiculously thin, about the same thickness as a USB connection.

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CES 2013: Nexiom's Awesome AMPT Smart Charging Bag

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Once Nexiom had refined their wicked Power Slate ultra-slim battery, they needed some industrial designers to refine the product it would be a part of. After a successful Coroflot search that product is now ready: The AMPT Smart Bag is a sort of messenger bag/backpack hybrid capable of charging many gadgets at once.

The vertically-oriented, sleekly profiled bag can take a laptop in one side...

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...and tablets, phones, cables, and smaller gadgets on the other side.

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Inner sleeves take Power Slates to provide charging functionality, and the larger 1300 model has enough juice to get your laptop from zero to full.

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CES 2013: Cubify's New CubeX 3D Printer Wins Best Emerging Tech Award

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3D Systems seemed to be the only 3D printing company out in force at CES, perhaps because it was at last years' that they debuted their Cube 3D Printer.

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This year they pulled the sheets off of not one, but two machines: Their updated Cube 2, a faster and more accurate update to the original, and their larger CubeX, which can print "basketball size" (10.75" x 10.75" x 9.5") in both ABS and PLA.

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