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BMW is seeking a Senior Visual Interaction Designer in Newbury Park, CA

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Senior Designer, Visual Interaction
BMW Group DesignworksUSA

Newbury Park, CA

DesignworksUSA depends upon the skill and excellence of our team members to drive the future. We are seeking a Senior Visual Interaction Designer to work on a wide range of screen-based interface and interaction-design projects for categories including vehicles, multi-touch devices, consumer devices, and the web. The designer should have a broad-range visual portfolio including UI projects; enjoy working on a diversity of projects; be self-motivated; and most importantly, love great design like we do. This is a hands-on role.

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London Design Festival 2010: No More Secrets...

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Top: Design Against The Clock, and Established and Sons event where designers work in public. Pictured are printing panels used by Richard Woods in his temporary workshop. Bottom: Future participants who will also Design against the Clock for Established & Sons.

There is a lot of sharing this year at LDF, it feels as though the 'mystery' of design, (and whether the mystery should exist) is being investigated and interrogated: personal agendas and manifestos are laid open for public debate, (Anti-Design Festival), special processes and techniques are shared with any passer-by (Design Against the Clock), and new collections are taken off their gallery pedestals to very public, very everyday environments (The Established and Sons Public House).

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Stranded: A Zine About the Eyjafjallajokull Experience

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Remember when many of us were all stuck in Milan together last April when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in Iceland? Our Coretoonist fueledbycoffee illustrated it and now, five months later, a group of the formerly stranded have compiled a publication of all their experiences while stuck—"true stories and amazing visuals, including volcano cocktails from around the world, the thoughts of a famous vulcanologist, a horror story set inside the ash cloud, 54 journalists in a 16-hour race to catch a boat, a chance encounter with a cute Parisian waiter, a playlist for abandoned airports, and much more." A bit belated, perhaps, but also as fresh as yesterday.

Stranded was designed by Matt McArthur, Edinburgh native once stuck in NYC. The 88-page, perfect-bound zine is available from MagCloud for $18.95—all proceeds benefit the International Rescue Committee "to help people stranded in a more permanent way."

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How to make a Redbox: Flextronics keeps U.S. manufacturing competitive with lean, innovative techniques

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While Netflix is moving towards streaming, the other big U.S. rental movie player, Redbox, still uses physical discs. And those discs need kiosks in the tens of thousands, dotting supermarkets and Wal-Marts across the country, which in turn requires a massive amount of manufacturing.

Rather than shift production of the kiosks overseas, Redbox manufacturer Flextronics has incorporated "Six Sigma Lean manufacturing techniques" into their North Carolina plant to keep costs down. Beyond the Japanese-style quality control methods we'll get to in a second, the other tricks and shortcuts of the system are quite interesting. For example, each Redbox is made by a team, and at the start of each unit's production, a team member is dispatched to the parts warehouse--the "supermarket"--with a "shopping cart" (both shown above). They then load the cart up with every single part and screw they'll need for a single machine, no more, no less, and bring that back to the team.

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Industrial-strength water filtration: The next step in kitchen design overkill?

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As kitchen trends have skewed towards industrial-strength appliances, with soccer moms reaching into Sub-Zero 'fridges, will it also dip into laboratory-level water filtration systems? If so, UK-based manufacturer Elga may have a market beyond science geeks.

Elga's Purelab Flex water filtration system ain't exactly a Brita pitcher; it spits out 2 liters a minute of water in various degrees of filtration, with precision dispensing indicating by an LED readout and even USB data capture that records water quality. The entire system is a lot bigger than it looks (see bottom-right photo) and it's probably more than most consumers need...but that's exactly what I said about Sub-Zero 'fridges when they started making their way into suburban kitchens.

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Building a better pizza box

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Julius Caesar once ruled the world's most powerful empire, but these days his chief legacy is that he's got a salad named after him. It's kind of messed up, if you think about it--a Cobb Salad is at least as popular, and I don't even know who the hell Cobb is.

Another ancient empire legacy food is pizza, which was reportedly invented in Ancient Greece (an assertion that can get you punched in the face in parts of Brooklyn). In America, the effects of pizza are pernicious: In addition to contributing to bulging waistlines, pizza is a high-waste food. Every pizza place I know delivers the pie in a cardboard box and throws in a stack of paper plates.

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Exclusive US Preview of the Plumen at Hand-Eye Supply Tomorrow Night

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If you're in Portland, Oregon tomorrow night, make sure you stop by Core77's Hand-Eye Supply for a peek at the first Plumen 001 bulbs in the US. 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
Exhibition Opening: 5:30 – 8pm
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR, 97209

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Why does package design so rarely allow us to get to the last drop?

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I can extract the absolute last molecule of toothpaste from a spent tube. It's a stupid life skill borne from poverty on my part and bad package design on the manufacturer's part. But I wonder how many gallons of toothpaste, shampoo, liquid soap, etc. go into the garbage, a few drops at a time, because people can't or won't bother to extract the last bits.

When I used to work in restaurants, we used the ridiculous $100 Ketchup Collector contraption shown up top to get the last bit of ketchup out of their glass bottles. Even the plastic squeeze bottles have not made this product obsolete.

Finally I have come across a package design that would enable you to get at the absolute last drop of something!

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Intended for peanut butter (but obviously good for a variety of products), design engineer Sherwood Forlee's Easy PB&J Jar concept proposes dual lids, and I covet it intensely. I'm not familiar enough with glass manufacturing techniques to know how much more difficult this would be to make; any experts care to sound off in the comments?

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Blood, Sweat and Tears in "Make Me" at Moss

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It's not apparent from its rough-hewn facade, but "Make Me," recently opened at Moss in New York, has a romantic bent. The romance lies in a classic juxtaposition: a tough exterior combined with a sensitive core (think the lumberjack who is a gourmet chef; an ironworker with a PhD in philosophy). These kind of hard-shell with gooey-center contrasts are all over "Make Me." We let the description speak for itself in our announcement, but a reminder: "a cerebral-yet-virile narrative applied to rough work crafted in wood, iron, steel, marble, rust, paint, boiled leather, clay, baked agricultural waste, plant-life, gypsum drywall, and blood, sweat, and tears."

Those last three elements are the keys to this show: a human made this stuff, by hand, and with consideration. Blood, sweat, and tears run through each piece: in process, materials, function, and concept. These elements are evident in the visible shiny gold screws fastening rough planks of Douglas Fir in Peter Marigold's Man Made series, as well as in the charred wood negative providing support for its blown glass bowl in Jakub Berdych's Landscape Series, and they are possibly most apparent in Oscar Magnus Narud's remaining pencil marks created in the making of his Keel Collection of furniture.

Many of the designers created these objects using accessible and traditional craft techniques, and a few even went medieval. The works are not pretty or delicate or austere. They are a little messy and not immediately beautiful, but they are made by hand using simple and classic materials, with complex consideration put into them by their creators. They look rough at the outset, and upon further examination, reveal finesse.

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London Design Festival 2010 On-The-Go: Patricia Urquiola

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Dwelling lab by Patricia Urquiola and Giulio Ridolfo, at the Tramshed on Rivington Street. Also see furniture by Another Country and balancing light by Tom Foulton . Opened to the public tonight.

London Design Festival On-The-Go posts are sent to Core77 via MMS by Shai Akram. For more, follow us on twitter.

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I Saloni Brings Milan to New York

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I Saloni will turn fifty in April 2011, and celebrations kick-off with a series of Italian design-focused events and programs in New York this December. I Saloni, or the Salone Internazionale del Mobile was originally established in 1961 as "a platform for the discovery and promotion of Italian design." The celebrations in New York aim to promote the same, starting with the most visible offering of Italian design: furniture showrooms. Artemide, B & B Italia, Kartell, etc. will host an "Italian Christmas" with special events (tba) from November 29th through January 8th.

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Forthcoming Fuseproject-designed VUE watch

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I didn't even know what a "watch safe" was until a few minutes ago, but yeah, for the ultra-rich there's a subcategory of safes designed just to hold precious timepieces.

However, Issey Miyake's Fuseproject-designed VUE watch, soon to be launched, eschews the safe by neatly hiding it within its very packaging--in the form of a tear-off notepad. ("Note to self: Cancel watch safe order.")

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Coway's air purifiers: Better looking, easier to clean

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The plastic grille that commonly covers air conditioners and purifiers is a terrible design. Each little opening in the grills attracts dust like nobody's business, and cleaning between the individual vanes is a huge pain involving lots of sneezing and swearing, not to mention you'll go through a stack of folded-up Swiffers.

I'm digging the very different design of Coway's 1008 and 1009 air purifiers, which abandons the ugly grill in favor of a long slot. The smooth housing and the slot itself look easy to de-dust, I'm guessing one pass of a Swiffer'll do it.

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For the technical details of Coway's internal filtration process, click here.

via appliancist

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Grohe's Hope Flows campaign helps fight breast cancer

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If you're in the market for a kitchen sink faucet, check out Grohe's Ladylux line, which feature pull-out/pull-down heads--and come with a worthy cause. Grohe's Hope Flows campaign donates $25 for every Ladylux faucet sold to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which turns that $25 in 30 minutes of research.

"Everyone at Grohe has been affected by breast cancer in one way or another," said Jeff Ackerberg, president of Grohe America. "We have many survivors in our immediate and extended corporate family and a deep commitment to finding a cure for this terrible disease. We look forward to working with our employees, trade partners and consumers to raise much-needed funds to support the valuable research being done by BCRF."

Learn more about it here.

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Not so fast, Ombrae

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We first mentioned Ombrae back in 2008; it's a manufacturing process by Quin Media Arts & Sciences Inc. that uses software to translate images into "optical tiles," raised and angled pixels, that can be machined into metal to create wicked pixelated displays.

We recently looked into Ombrae again to see if there'd been any developments, and unfortunately uptake looks slow. However, we did find this cool video--check out how the image changes depending on where the light is:


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London Design Festival 2010: Visiting The Visitor, Okay Studio's Newest Exhibition

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The Visitor is a collective show of works by Okay Studio and their friends. Okay Studio, based in East London, is made up of 12 friends (who met while studying at the Royal College of Art 6 years ago) nationalities include Spanish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Israeli and British. Only one member is actually from London and this observation, coupled with the statistic that 95% of people living in the city are not from London, prompted Andrew Haythornthwaite (Okay Studio) and Roger Arquer (a Friend) to propose a group exhibition exploring the concept of 'visiting' through objects. Haythornthwaite explains in his own words below:

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Ed Swan's Mark Makers Table

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Ed Swan developed the Mark Makers table for The Visitor, an exhibition by Okay Studio that we wrote about earlier today. The table is coated in several layers of color, revealed when 'visitors' sand away bits of the surface. The table is starting to get really interesting, as you can see up top. Below, watch Ed make the very first mark, before the opening of the show. A few more shots of mark making in process after the jump.

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Picnic'10 begins in Amsterdam

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A design proposal from a speaker at this year's Picnic festival. Synthetic E.chromi bacteria changes colour when it detects disease in your poo.

The Picnic Festival is now on at the WesterGasfabriek bringing together creative and business leaders to work together on finding innovative answers to some of the worlds biggest questions.

Running till 24th September, this year's Picnic theme 'Redesign The World' focuses on four distinct areas: Life, City, Design and Media with speakers from a range of backgrounds including Matt Stinchcomb of Etsy.com, Charles Leadbeater and Adam Greenfield.

One particularly interesting event of the program will be The Reconnaissance Session Masterclass as part of the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award. This Pecha Kucha style event, run by the WAAG Society, is offering a 25,000Euro award to stimulate emerging designers and artists within the bio-arts in the Netherlands to develop and realise new projects.

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Share Your Good Ideas

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Creativity doesn't really fit within a billable hours, 9-5 workday model. But as designers, applying creativity in practical ways, we're constantly tinkering with this conundrum, trying to find the best ways to fit inspiration into efficient and productive structures. One of these structures is working within team-based conditions, a model that many design agencies have jumped on.

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new book Where Good Ideas Come From, and his nice animated preview video (definitely related to this other nice animated video), examine the circumstances that surround good ideas, and his conclusions support these team settings. In the video, Johnson cites connection and community as the keys to cultivating and propelling good ideas forward.

The book, set to be released on October 5th, sounds like it has some other juicy bits too, including a chronology of the key human inventions and innovations from 1400 to today.

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Open for Branding Week 8: The Process Continues

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As you've seen over the course of these posts, design is a process—and a constantly evolving one at that. We have spent the past couple of weeks combing through feedback from Design Museum Boston, a general audience, and from all of you. Thank you all. You've been an integral part of helping us determine the next part of the process.

So where are we now?

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