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WET® is seeking a Designer in Sun Valley, CA

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Designer
WET®

Sun Valley, CA

WET® is the leader in creating environments and experiences worldwide through the primary medium of water and in the development of innovative design and technology. WET® specializes in water feature development for architecture, landscape and urban design. They are seeking a designer in the field of Architecture who will be responsible for all design aspects of assigned projects including concept design, schematic design, monitoring of project implementation to ensure proper execution of the design, and on-site choreography of the water features.

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Vacu Vin's PopSome: Like Tupperware with a pop-up spout

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We like to see designers really exploring the properties of the materials they use in their product designs, and Netherlands-based Vacu Vin has put silicone to good use with their PopSome Candy & Nut Dispenser. A cleverly-designed lid forms an airtight and watertight seal with a protrusion in the bundt-pan-like bowl; pull on the lid's "upper lip" and it pops up into a spout. Check it out:

The PopSome was awarded a 2010 Good Industrial Design Award (not to be confused with the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization's Good Design Award; this one is conferred by a Dutch organization called Designlink).

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Asus' seriously unusual laptop design is for someone with a big-ass lap

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The name of Asus' media center laptop is as unwieldy as the actual machine: The NX90JQ-A1 is a 9.4-pound beast with Bang & Olufsen speakers that stick out of the side like ears.

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The screen is an absurdly huge 18.4 inches, widescreen of course, and the highly reflective polished aluminum surface is cool to look at--but probably shouldn't be touched or used in environments with overhead lighting, which only knocks out 99% of potential users.

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Two other interesting design features: 1) See those little black rectangles to either side of the keyboard? Those are dual touchpads that work in tandem, i.e. you can be "mousing" with the left one while button-clicking with the right one. 2) Having speakers mounted on the screen, while unwieldy, actually fires the sound towards your own ears, unlike the keyboard-mounted speakers of most laptops, which shoot the sound straight up.

If you're interested in learning more, PC Mag has a review of the NX90JQ-A1 (will you Marketing guys please give this a better name?) here.

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Herman Miller updates an Eames classic

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Herman Miller's Select line has recently reinterpreted the Hang-It-All, the iconic coat rack by Charles and Ray Eames. The Eameses originally designed the Hang-It-All in 1953 for children's rooms, with brightly-painted maple spheres for the knobs; the welded wire frame was produced using mass production techniques they'd perfected while working on their wire table and chair legs.

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The update renders the HIA modern with solid walnut balls and a powder-coated black frame. The 14 knobs total mean one unit should be enough for the average singleton or couple's entryway hanging needs, but for a cooler visual effect, families or offices that have the wall space can gang up a bunch of 'em in a row.

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28 years later, World's First Laptop still looks freaking cool; Bill Moggridge's machine is the Blade Runner of the computer world

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That's the GRiD Compass, the first clamshell computer anyone had ever seen, designed by Bill Moggridge for his very first California client, GRiD Systems. Before anyone had coined the phrase "laptop" or figured out what one should look like, Moggridge worked it out.

[GRiD CEO John] Ellenby's idea was to create a computer with an electronic display that would be small enough to carry around, but powerful enough to complete work tasks away from the office. Moggridge began to visualise a design for this device in order to help people understand what the product would look like and to convince venture capitalists and potential employees of its viability and appeal.

...The impact of the Compass Computer in the world of computing is obvious: it was the world's first laptop. Its geometry, layout and clamshell mechanism have been imitated time and again on all manner of portable computing and communications devices. Many of Moggridge's ideas for the physical design of the Compass Computer were unique at the time, but have since become commonplace: the flat electroluminescent graphic display, the low profile keyboard and the die-cast magnesium enclosure, for example.

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Nearly three decades later, Moggridge has been awarded the UK Design Council's 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize, which "honours British designers who have most influenced and shaped daily lives."

(By the by, the topmost photo is the very first GRiD Compass computer, from 1982; the second photo is version 2.0, from 1984.)

You can download an MP3 of Moggridge being interviewed by Design Observer's Debbie Millman here.

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Fast Co. interviews Astro Studios on the design of the Boxee

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If I told you you had to design a two-sided remote control, how would you deal with the problem of accidentally pressing buttons on the bottom while you're trying to interact with the buttons on top? My first instinct would be to spec out an internal gyro so that the device knows which side is up, and negates the down-facing buttons; but Astro Studios, the firm behind the Boxee and its two-sided remote, solved it through "simple physical design":

One side is very simplified and pure with play and pause buttons and a four-way navigation pad. We placed those controls in the center of the remote, which keeps your hands away from those buttons when you're using the QWERTY side, which you hold like a phone when you're text-messaging. It took a couple mockups to dial in the right proportions, but it's actually quite comfortable -- the physical design itself is what keeps your hands away from the areas you don't want to use.

You can read more about the design of the Boxee, including Astro's interesting decision to waive initial fees in exchange for Boxee equity, at Fast Company's interview with Astro.

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Fiskars' Cuts+More has so many different sneaky little functions, it's almost like it was designed in prison

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If I could've had just one pair of scissors back in my design school days, when we all needed to work with a great variety of materials in a single day, it would've been these Fiskars' Cuts+More Scissors.

In addition to your basic scissoring function, there are cutouts for wire, twine, and even rope:

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The sheath has a packing-tape cutter on the bottom edge, and on-board sharpening slots to hone the scissor edges:

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A bottle-opening notch will open beers (or what looks to be bottled Windex in the photo) so you can take the edge off before class:

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Finally, you can detach one half of the scissors and the other half now becomes a titanium shank. (The company literature refers to it as a knife, but I know a shank when I see one.) Perfect for post-crit score-settling; ask your mouthy classmate if he wants to tell you that "your chair design doesn't seem like a good representation of dialectical materialism at all" to your face.

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Design Compendium is seeking a designer in Brooklyn, NY

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Project Manager / Visual Merchandiser / Designer
Design Compendium

Brooklyn, NY

We are a multidisciplinary design/build firm located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, specializing in custom fabrication, production, and installation for the hospitality, retail, and high-end commercial markets.

The candidate will use their design/industrial design knowledge to assess projects with a strong focus on the design, aesthetic elements, and manufacturing process. Key responsibilities include client interfacing, scheduling, quality control, budget development and cost control, adhering to aggressive deadlines, and interacting with multiple vendors.

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"Relics" by Cody Hamilton: Classical Grecian 80's Retro

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Back in August, as you may recall, many an aesthete's fantasies were shattered by the news that Grecian statues, the beacons of elegance and sophistication that we so love and cherish, were in fact, originally, quite a romp of multicoloured kitsch (on Core77 here).

Talented Texan photographer Cody Hamilton, inspired by this finding, has created a deliciously anachronistic collection entitled "Relics" in which a whole host of 80's retro classics ranging from the Atari to the VHS tape—objects of perhaps the most gaudy of artistic eras—are given a minimalistic coat of marble white.

He might well be on to something with that monochrome Rubik's cube.

More "Relics" and a lot of impressive work on Cody's homepage.

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Designers Accord NYC Town Hall: Reflections and Photographs

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nyc-da-collage-1.jpgWritten by Nepal Asatthawasi
Images by Natalia Argüello and Colleen Rae Smiley

The theme of the Designers Accord Town Hall on October 28th, 2010 - organized by interactive design studio More Than Us and design entrepreneurship non-profit NYDesigns and held in the gallery space of the former in Long Island City, NY - centered around "Designs + Sustainability + Profitability." The speakers were given a pretty wide berth on what they could address between those lines. Moderator Neil Chambers, a green building expert, Treehugger blogger and author of the forthcoming book Urban Green: The Future of Architecture, captured it best in stating that "Green issues, design issues, money issues and their intersections are going to give us a good idea of what business will look like in the future."

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A belt for the handy

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Here's a pretty interesting way to always have certain essential tools on hand: Technical apparel company 686 Enterprises offers this tool belt, which isn't meant to hang tools from, but contains its own.

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The dual prongs have flathead and Philips-head screwdriver tips, the buckle operates as a bottle opener, and the metal loop has three different sizes of socket heads cut into them.

You can remove the tools without taking the belt off, though you will of course have to unfasten it. At first I thought that would be a problem since your pants would sag, but now I realize it's the perfect excuse to display Plumber's Crack while you bend over to fix whatever needs fixing.

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Construction innovations: MEM's plug-and-play elevator system

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In a bid to reduce expensive construction downtime--specifically, the delays required in submitting elevator design and engineering plans for safety approvals and inspections, and the back-and-forth this can entail--a company named Modular Elevator Manufacturing makes pre-fab elevators integrated into their own shafts that show up on-site on the back of a truck. Installation of a MEM system, which can go up to seven stories, typically takes less than a day.

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The pre-built elevator systems are pre-inspected and approved, so it's more like a plug-and-play component than, say, building a cinderblock hoistway from scratch and filling it with gear. Another neat feature of a MEM is that it can be retrofitted inside a building, provided you've got the space inside, or added to the outside of a building (with a Reverse Entrance option if you want to go from ground-floor sidewalk to second-floor interior).

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Making Globes

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Because you love how stuff is made and the planet Earth.

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Typography-lover Sighn's "What Wood You Say" project

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He definitely has patience. Check out these wood pieces by Chicago-based artist Sighn:

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A member of the Multi Polar Projects art collective, Sighn has a passion for both typography and wood, and he's now embarked on "What Wood You Say," a project where he sells your words back to you in wooden form; which is to say, you send him a 50-character-minimum phrase, and he carves it out for you in basswood at five bucks per character. It's all part of his larger ITSOK project:

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[Sighn's] life's focus is on a potentially impossible feat, a hand cut 'limited' edition of 1 million. A John Henry vs. The Machine type quest. The end result of this 50 year venture will result in a piece entitled: one million times it's ok.

Check out some of the WWYS samples on his Flickr.

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DesigNYC: Last Call for Submissions TODAY!

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Today is the deadline to submit your project ideas and design service forms for DesigNYC, an organization connecting non-profits with pro bono design services.

To learn more, read the coverage we provided on DesigNYC's amazing first year effort.

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Artem Zigert's "Mechanical Perspective" chair

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Remember the good old days, when you'd sit for hours at your drawing board, losing yourself in a sea of converging lines, wide-eyed with satisfaction as a third dimension sprung from the 2D page?

Kazakhstani designer Artem Zigert clearly does, having seemingly found the inspiration for this sculptural chair concept in the humble perspective line drawing.

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Well-designed gun storage cabinet is an awesome rotating carousel of death

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I myself don't own a gun, partly because it's illegal in New York City and mostly because I drink too much for it to be a good idea; but I still find gun safe inventor Bruce Pendleton relatable when he says, in the traditional ID spirit, "I couldn't find [what I was looking for], so I built it." What he was looking for and built was a better gun storage safe: High-contrast interior, user-customizable racks, LED lights and an almost absurd storage capacity--it looks like this one case will hold more guns than they used in the entire Civil War.

Check out the promotional vid, which starts off with the best opening line ever:


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Cooper Open Studio: Social Media for Social Good

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img_dragonfly_effect.png If you're in San Francisco next Wednesday (Nov 17th), be sure to drop by acclaimed strategy and design firm Cooper, as they host an open studio event with Jennifer Aaker, co-author of The Dragonfly Effect, and social media innovator Robert Chatwani. Join them as they discuss the values of leveraging social media to effect social change, and find out how as designers we can stop missing these opportunities in our work.

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"Oyster" chair by Kawamura Ganjavian

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You might have come across Madrid based studio Kawamura Ganjavian before with their weird and wonderful experiments with objects to amplify the sense (on Core77 here) or their recent "Binpan".

Studio KG's newest creation is a lovely foldable felted seat that is intended to bring a touch of cosiness to sleek, contemporary furniture. When folded up the Oyster acts as neat little cushion only to tranform into a very snug "private shelter" when unfurled.


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