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Get Cooking for The Next Big Small Brand Contest

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Rooster Design of NYC kicks off their second annual "The Next Big Small Brand" contest today, with an eye out for go-getter artisanal food entrepreneurs who could use some branding help. Rooster donates marketing, branding and design services to one lucky food-trepreneur based on: taste, presentation, design opportunity, marketability, and uniqueness. Winners also get the benefit of a free month's worth of vendor space at the Brooklyn Flea, and three months of free PR services from First Press Public Relations. Kombucha Brooklyn (shown above) took the grand prize branding opportunity last year, chosen for founder Eric Childs' "fervor for kombucha's health benefits, his commitment to making a local product, and his vision for the future of his company."

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Exclusive US Preview of the Plumen at Hand-Eye Supply

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Core77's Hand-Eye Supply is happy to invite you to our first reception: the US debut of the Plumen Light Bulb, the world's first designer energy saving bulb. The story of the Plumen is one dear to our hearts here at Core77: it is one of innovation, sustainability, and good-old fashioned can-do making.

The Plumen 001 is the culmination of three year's of development effort by the small British firm Hulger. Known for their retro Skype phone handsets Hulger strives to soften technology with a poetic, human touch. In the Plumen they have employed recent advances in compact fluorescent lamps to enable a mass-market make-over of one of modern life's unappreciated workhorses. The resulting form is worthy of its predecessor's visual-icon status. Plumen's intertwined loops are reminiscent of the glowing filaments of early clear bulbs, adding a subtle retro aspect to a thoroughly contemporary design.

The lamps will be available in October exclusively for the UK and European markets. Though they work with any normal screw-in lamp fixture the bulbs require European voltages to operate properly. The Plumen bulbs at Hand-Eye Supply are pre-release and retrofitted to accept US electrical current.

Come join us for some elbow-rubbing, libations and fun; we'll be raffling off one of the bulbs at the end of the night!

The Plumen Bulb at Hand-Eye Supply
Thursday, September 23rd
Reception: 5:30pm - 8pm
23 NW 4th Avenue
Portland, Oregon (Map)

Questions? Please call: 503-575-9769 or email info[at]handeyesupply.com

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Alasdhair Willis Resigns as Chief Executive of Established & Sons

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Alasdhair Willis, Chief Executive of ambitious, fast-growing, design-career-kick-starting, British furniture manufacturer Established and Sons has resigned from his post.

According to Icon, Willis will continue his role at Adidas, where he is working on 2012 Olympics efforts, and grow Announcement, his own creative consultancy, which has just taken on David Beckham as a client.

We're curious what this will mean for the brand, though we suspect that Established and Sons will continue to grow and do great things, as this is not the first resignation the company has weathered, with the departure of two other founding members in the last two years.

Read more at Icon.

Image by Rob Hann for Icon Magazine.

Thanks, Craighton!

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Design talent from Nantes, France

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Yesterday I participated in the graduation jury of the L'École de design school in Nantes, France. Impressive in many respects, also because I happened to judge the student who got the highest grades of all.

Nicolas Cloarec is specialised in event interaction design and is a great experience prototyper. Here is a video of his BOBI graduation project, an interactive kit specifically thought up for festival-goers, helping them find their way around in a packed open-air music festival.

BOBI has two main functions: enabling the user to spot his/her buddies in the crowd, and adding up to the event's interactive outdoor design. The kit is comprised of an inflatable balloon, a luminescent device and a batch of interactive armbands.
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New building puts the "glass" in the Glasgow School of Art

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The Glasgow School of Art, which is centered around a Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building known as "the Mac," is getting a glassy, modern update. American architect Steven Holl, in collaboration with Glasgow-based JM Architects, has won a competition to design a new building for the GSA that will sit across from the Mac.

[Holl] said Mackintosh's design enabled natural light to enter his building, and the new building also has "driven voids of light", which means natural light will stream into the centre of the building as well as into the all-important studio space for students. The building, to be finished by 2013, will be coated in a skin of matt glass, giving it a translucent quality but one that will not be overly reflective, he said.

"Some of the modern glass buildings, they are too glassy, they have that ugly 'oil canning' effect on the glass, and this will not have that,"he said. He added: "We could not try to copy or imitate the Mackintosh building; that would be wrong, kitschy and almost disrespectful in some way. So what we have instead is a counterpart to that great building. Whereas the Mackintosh has a thick skin and thin bones, our building has a thin skin and thick bones. They are complementary."

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Jovoto is seeking an Intern and Creative Generalist in New York City

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Intern, Creative Generalist
jovoto

New York Ciy

jovoto is a unique creative community comprising over 12,000 creatives who reside in the near future and hope to change the way we produce creative work and collaborate globally. We are currently looking for someone to manage the existing community, engage Universities and Colleges, spread the word and assist with creative strategy and execution.

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Dynamics Inc.: Turning credit cards into microcomputers

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Imagine if your credit card itself had buttons on it and worked like a mini computer. That's the idea behind Pittsburgh-based Dynamics Inc.'s Card 2.0, a paper-thin computer embedded within a traditional credit card form.

The proposed applications of the technology are pretty cool: A user could carry only one card, instead of the several many of us now carry, and input which of the user's accounts to draw from before swiping it. Another of Dynamics' features, called Hidden, is that the card would not have all of its numbers printed on the front, but instead would require the user to input a PIN code to essentially turn the card on.

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RunPhones: Great functionality, not-so-great aesthetics

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It's not a great look, especially with that tacky tag on the front, but if you're a runner whose headphones are always popping out when you tackle those library steps, perhaps RunPhones are for you. It's such a simple idea for a product--basically just a sweatband combined with earbuds--and comes in two versions, Winter (made from fleece) and Summer (made from Polartec mesh). Pop the headphones out and it's washable.

You may have heard of SleepPhones, and yep, this is essentially the same product with a different name.

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Aftermarket designers seem to love undoing Apple's minimalism

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It's weird that we have a kind of push-pull thing going on in the product design world today, particularly with gadgets, where a manufacturer renders something minimal, then aftermarket guys bulk it up.

Apple products are often the targets here. Four examples:

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Plain is Best: ROLU's series of OSB and Plywood Chairs

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ROLU, rosenlof/lucas, ro/lu, the cryptic but compelling landscape and furniture design firm of many websites, debuted a series of plain, very plain, OSB and plywood chairs at Art in General in NYC last night, inspired by the ideas of Enzo Mari, Donald Judd, Gerrit Reitveld, Scott Burton, and Rudolf Schindler.

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Brown & RISD's A Better World by Design: Oct. 1-3, 2010

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RISD and Brown students are gearing up for the third year of A Better World by Design, a three-day internationally acclaimed conference to take place October 1-3, 2010. A global community of innovative thinkers, professionals and students will converge in Providence, RI to discuss design's role as an integrative application for world improvement. Core77 had the opportunity to cover this unique event in its first two years, 2008 and 2009.

At A Better World by Design leaders in the fields of sustainable architecture, design, engineering, and economics will collaborate with MBA candidates, students from myriad disciplines, academics, and local politicians.

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Women Push the Urban Cycling Trend

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Public Bike's M3

We can't get enough of bike stuff. We love bicycles as a beautiful, nimble and eco-friendly form of transportation, and we love all the gear that we can drool over too. We've written about accessories, concepts, vintage bikes, bike lanes, and...tons more. And yes, we even made our very own two-wheeled stallion. Bike culture has really come into its own in the past few years, and it's becoming part of our larger culture as well. So we were intrigued to see a recent article by San Francisco bike company Public's founder, Rob Forbes (who also founded Design Within Reach), all about how women cyclists are helping to push bicycle commuting into the mainstream. (Those of you around for ICFF this year may recall, Public debuted their line of Dutch-inspired city bikes off-site at Partners and Spade.)

Forbes notes that 80 percent of riders in the US are male, but he believes that stylish and casual women commuters are "leading the urban bike trend." And: "Women are opening bike stores around the country, manage and staff hip bicycle cafes, and design innovative and stylish cycling clothes and accessories." Providing some coincidental back-up to Forbes' statement, Design Sponge went bike crazy this week, posting an interview with Adeline Adeline bike shop owner Julie Hirschfield, a round-up of cool lady bike gear, and some gorgeous vintage-inspired cycles. It shows how bike culture is informing style, and vice-versa, whether you are a speedy fixed-gear enthusiast, a rugged mountain biker, or a lady looking for a smooth and cool ride to work.

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Dominic Wilcox's 30 Objects in 30 Days

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Bread Light.

We love prolific designers and London-based Dominic Wilcox is nothing but. His nonstop blog, Variations on Normal, is a faithful record of this, documenting not only design work but also hundreds of daily sketches for sarcastic, wishful, dreamy, or funny objects that might be (but aren't) seen in the world. Until recently, the sketches dominated the blog, but for the past two weeks, Wilcox has been working only in three dimensions, in a project that he has labeled "Speed Creating." Every day for 30 days, he'll make something, and dcument it for the Anti-Design Festival's Mistakes and Manifestos Events. It's day 18, and he's posted a wonderful reflection on Sight Unseen on his experience so far.

We love this so much and wish more designers would develop this habit of mind—what's so striking is that the funny one-liners we're accustomed to seeing from Wilcox have become real and moved into the world, taking on all sorts of unexpected material dimension. For example, it's one thing to draw a lampshade made from bread, and an entirely other thing to make one, as Wilcox did on Day 5.

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Design Fancy: Thomas Ruby

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Thomas Ruby was an Industrial Designer/Paticle Spectrologist from Captiva Island in Florida. He was born in 1941 and spent his early years collecting shells and other objects that washed up to the shore (mostly lighters and sandals). He went to Youngsworth college in Tampa for Particle physics and later got a Masters in Industrial Design at the famous Heller Group Institute in Rhode Island.

By the time that he graduated in 1967, he already held 14 patents. This caught a lot of attention and in 1968 he was able to start his own company. He called it "Rubyjock". His first invention caused a huge stir in his native Florida, the only state the device was approved in. It was called a TuneDrink. With all of the flavor synthesizers that we have now, it should go without explaining, but the TuneDrink worked by combining sound waves with certain molecules to produce alcoholic drinks.

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Weekend Reading: Catching up on the Vignellis

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We don't know if there's more to come (could there possibly?!), but you can use the weekend to catch up on all your reading from the past week's incredible extravaganza on Design Observer celebrating Lella and Massimo Vignelli on the occasion of the opening of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies up at RIT. Here's the intro to the first post:

If— as Mark Twain once wrote—the Creator made Italy from designs by Michaelangelo, then who made the rest of the world?

Lella and Massimo Vignelli may not have made it, but they sure as hell designed a lot of it.

From typography to textiles, furniture to flatware, there is little that has not been touched by Lella and Massimo Vignelli. Brightly colored stackable mugs. Elegant printed materials for so many institutions. Books and magazines, tables and environments, jewelry, logos, posters, toys, maps. Think everything old is new again? You might be right. In the Vignelli galaxy, black is the new black.


And here are the features:

Lella and Massimo Vignelli: A Celebration, by the Editors
Lella and Massimo Vignelli: The 1982 AIGA Medal, by AIGA
Interview with Massimo Vignelli, by Debbie Millman
Lella Vignelli, by Michael Bierut
The Black Rule, by Lorraine Wild
John Madere: Massimo Vignelli
Mr. Vignelli's Map, by Michael Bierut
Vignelli's Herald (or Heralding Vignelli), by Steven Heller
Massimo Vignelli vs. Ed Benguiat (Sort Of), Annotated by Julie Lasky
Massimo Vignelli's Desk, by Alice Twemlow
Dot Zero, by Michael Bierut
The Kindness of Strangers, by Jessica Helfand
Massimo Vignelli: Oppositions, Skyline and the Institute, Gallery: Kim Fðrster
Heller on Heller, by Steven Heller

Whew! And finally, yesterday's interview with Debbie Millman:
Massimo Vignelli, Audio Design Matters 2009-2011


[UPDATE: Wait, there's more!:

Looking Back, Thinking Forward: A Narrative of the Vignellis, by Jan Conradi
Design is One—Lella and Massimo Vignelli
, video by Kathy Brew and Richard Guerra

Design Observer is on fire!]


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1 Week Left! 1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks

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We're 63 entries strong on this month's 1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks, but we want to see more! You've got one week left to submit a recreation of your favorite shoes in Play-Doh and enter the running for the grand prize: a $100 dollar gift certificate to Core77's new Hand Eye Supply Store, being published in Sneaker Freaker's December issue, a lifetime subscription to the magazine, and a copy of Kueng Caputo's book Copy. Remember, you must complete your model in 60 minutes or less.

We're posting a few of our faves here to inspire you, but enter the competition forum to browse all submissions, review the guidelines and add your own. Deadline: September 25th.

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Puma Ferrari SL Tech, recreated by buryat

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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is seeking a Photography Intern in New York City

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Photography Intern
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

New York, NY

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is currently seeking an intern for the photography department. This will be an opportunity to experience and learn all about the photography department's role in an editorial environment. The photography intern will assist in the planning and execution of shoots, maintaining of equipment, and will assist various team members. The ideal interns can commit to 20-30 hours per week from September through December in our West Chelsea office.

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London Design Festival 2010: Welcome to London Town!

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Correspondent Shai Akram will be sending us live updates of the London Design Festival 2010, which kicked off this past weekend. She describes the lay of the land in her introductory post below. Keep up with all London Design Festival posts here or check in at our growing photo gallery.

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Prepping for a day of exploring the London Design Festival.

London is a city of many parts, any resident will tell you that independent, grimy East is a world away from its polished West-side sister. The festival embraces these differences and amplifies them further with the creation of distinct districts within each area.

Alongside the long standing amalgamated shows like Tent, the East is further broken down into stand-alone segments—the Shoreditch Triangle sees shows from emerging designers who have set up their studios and workshops in the surrounding areas, while just around the corner, Redchurch Street hosts the very first anarchist Anti-Design Festival (more on this later).

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The Art of Doing Stuff: Karen Bertelson's impressive (and cheap) DIY firepit

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As DIY projects go, building a portable firepit sounds complicated and maybe even dangerous; but as Karen Bertelson, Canadian TV host and founder of The Art of Doing Stuff demonstrates, it's not only safe and relatively easy, but inexpensive.

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Inveterate DIY'er Bertelson, working off of a design by her sister, used a cheap metal planter, panes of glass from inexpensive diploma holders, a canister of gel fuel, rocks, metal mesh, and silicone for a total cost of $25. In addition to the cost we were also impressed by the ad hoc way she put the thing together, eschewing fancy clamps and the like. Check out the full tutorial here.

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