Denon celebrates 100th birthday with new line of products

August 23, 2010, 6:32 am

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High-end audio equipment manufacturer Denon is celebrating their 100th Anniversary this year. To commemorate a century in business they're releasing a special Anniversary Series line of products, like this chunky direct-drive DP-A100 turntable, which combines modern styling with a retro, almost Mid-Century Modern look.

As DJs know, direct-drive turntables (as opposed to belt-driven) can suffer from the motor transmitting vibrations to the record; Denon gets around this by applying a dampening silicon rubber treatment to the underside of the diecast aluminum platter.

Check out the rest of their Anniversary Series here.

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SCAD's two-for-one creative conferences in October

August 23, 2010, 8:06 am

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Killing two birds with one stone, the design way: In October the Savannah College of Art and Design will be hosting two conferences at once, studiously arranging the schedules "so that attendees from either event can attend keynote speeches from the other conference without paying extra cost and without having to miss anything from their own conference."

The first event, quite fittingly, is the 2ND Annual Collaborative Innovative Networks (COINs) Conference, which "[brings] together a multi-disciplinary, international group of practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration." The second event is Design Ethos, a four-day conference on the future of design education.

"This once-in-a-lifetime intersection of the world's most noted forward-thinking designers will foster an extraordinary sharing of knowledge and ideas," says SCAD Graphic Design chair John Waters. "We expect the energy in the room to be virtually combustible."

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Haberdasherylondon is seeking an Industrial Designer in London

August 23, 2010, 8:42 am

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Haberdasherylondon
Industrial Designer
London, UK

Haberdasherylondon is a next-level art and design consultancy looking for a lead industrial designer. Haberdasherylondon produces a wide variety of works from short-run and one off products and technical artworks to digital interaction development and art direction. As a small company Haberdasherylondon is looking for a skilled, well-rounded candidate with a minimum of 3 years professional experience as an Industrial or Product Designer and a track record of made objects, products or artworks with technical skill and attention to detail.

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Steven Heller on the Mona Lisa

August 23, 2010, 8:56 am

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New magazine Design Bureau posted a mini-Q&A with one of our favorite design experts, Steven Heller, on the old and new with a nd to Rick Meyerowitz's 1971 piece Mona Gorilla, pictured above.

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Picnic 2010: Redesign the World

August 23, 2010, 9:37 am

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Picnic 2010 is coming up fast, happening in Amsterdam from the 22 through the 24th of September. The festival, now six years in the running, brings together creative and business leaders to work together on finding innovative answers to some of the world's biggest questions. This year, the theme is "Redesign the World," excerpted above. The theme is subdivided into sections that examine design's relationship to developments in biology, media, urban planning, design itself and business.

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Stefan Sagmeister at the Levi's Workshops

August 23, 2010, 10:03 am

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This summer, Levi's kicked off a new initative to open a series of production shops, starting with a community print studio in San Francisco's Mission District. There, they taught classes on letterpress machinery, screenprinting, and setting type, in an effort to encourage community members to get together and make things.

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Big Ad Gig Deadline Extended 'til Midnight!

August 23, 2010, 11:06 am

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Attention Coroflot job seekers:

Our friends at The Big Ad Gig alerted us that they have extended the deadline to their creative ad agency competition until midnight tonight. It's a career opportunity of a lifetime with five winners getting their shot at a thirty day paid freelance gig at the following notable agencies:
Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, Ogilvy, TBWA, and New Co. (Ty Montague's new shop.)

You've got a few more hours to assemble your 60 second YouTube video submission, portfolio, and resume submission for a chance to win.

Visit The Big Ad Gig for complete details, and pencil us in for lunch when you land that sweet new job.

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Emily Rothschild's Medical Glassware

August 23, 2010, 12:38 pm

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New York-based designer and Pratt graduate Emily Rothschild is interested in making the ritual of medication both more convenient and more beautiful. Her carafe and glass set, called Medical Glassware, wraps the ritual of taking pills into the familiar bedside carafe, replacing clunky plastic containers and cassettes. By integrating pills into the bottom of the cup, medication comes out of the medicine cabinet and into central domestic space, no longer hidden.

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New from the Designers Accord: Education Toolkit

August 23, 2010, 1:31 pm

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We're thrilled to announce that an amazing resource for design eduction just went live: Integrating sustainability into design education: The Toolkit.

You'll recall that last October, over 100 design educators and enthusiasts from around the world convened in San Francisco for The Designers Accord Global Summit on Sustainability & Education, two days of discussion, workshops, presentations, and planning around the topic of design education and sustainability. It was a very rich and intense experience, and now there's a new companion site, designed by Scott Stowell with support from the Adobe Foundation and Autodesk.

At edutoolkit.designersaccord.org, you'll find published explorations around the big questions we addressed, mindsets needed to assimilate new perspectives, and examples of classroom discussion topics, exercises, and term projects.

The site is "more than a record of the Summit discussion," notes Valerie Casey, founder of the Designers Accord. "It's a strong statement about the future of design education. We hope the site will be a living library. Site users can add examples of their own discussions, exercises, and projects, as well as adding feedback, comments, and illustrations to enrich or improve other posted examples."

Please check out the site, add your own examples and comments, and share with your education posse, students, administrators, and colleagues.

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1 Hour Design Challenge Highlights: Play-Doh Kicks

August 23, 2010, 3:59 pm

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Vibram 5Finger KSO by Kershaw

We're excited to see so many entries rolling into to our newest 1 Hour Design Challenge, Play-Doh Kicks, where we ask you to recreate or reinterpret your favorite pair of shoes in play-doh, in one hour or less. The deadline was recently extended to September 25th, so you've got time to enter your play-doh model and vye for the grand prize, a spot in the December issue of Sneaker Freaker, a copy of Copy by Kueng Caputo, and a $100 gift certificate to the new Core77 store, Hand Eye Supply.

We love the wide range of shoes represented, and the models are downright charming, from moon shoes to classics sneaks to pink pumps. Today, we've picked four highlights to inspire you to hurry up an enter your own rendition here.

Russell and Bromley's Strand Shoe in blue, by eboniface1

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Bad news--medication we take goes through our bodies and enters environment and other animals. Can wetlands help?

August 24, 2010, 6:50 am

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Nowadays more people than ever seem to be on meds, which makes the following fact just so, so gross: Apparently when we take medication like mood stabilizers and beta-blockers, a fraction of it goes into our body, and the rest goes right through us into the toilet. Said medication then evades the normal wastewater filtration processes, and the resultant sewage goes out into the world. And then "even small amounts of these compounds can significantly affect the health of animals and ecosystems.... Unabsorbed hormones from birth-control pills and other drugs can make their way into rivers, where they can alter the reproductive patterns of fish."

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Apple's desktop-to-touchscreen patent presents some industrial design challenges

August 24, 2010, 8:02 am

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When I'm typing, I can't physically touch my screen without leaning forward. Not exactly a layout conducive to touchscreen interfaces.

If you were wondering how touchscreens could be ergonomically integrated into desktop machines, check out these patent drawings (filed by Apple in Europe and dug up by fansite Patently Apple) that show one possible design for a future iMac that could switch between keyboard and touchscreen modes.

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Craig Skaggs' fun footwear designs for kids

August 24, 2010, 8:05 am

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Coming hot on the heels (pun intended) of our One-hour Play-Doh Kicks design challenge: From Sponge-Bob slippers to Transformers kicks to Batman sandals, designer/illustrator Craig Skaggs has got the goods when it comes to fun footwear for kids.

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GIFs that explain basic mechanisms

August 24, 2010, 8:56 am

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This is so freakin' rad: The World of Technology blog has posted a series of GIFs showing how common mechanical mechanisms work. I'm in awe of whatever genius developed the Maltese Cross mechanism, which turns smooth circular motion into segmented second-hand motion for clocks:

I have no idea what a Constant Velocity Joint really does, but I can't stop staring at it:

Then there's the crazy bi-level elevator that loads shells and gunpowder, separately, into enormous battleship guns:

And for the first time, I finally understand how a sewing machine works (though admittedly this one took me the longest to grasp):

If anyone out there is qualified and so inclined, we're begging, begging you to produce a series of GIFs that show industrial design production methods. I think something simple that showed stamping, blow molding, vacuum forming, et cetera, would go a long way.

via kottke

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Open for Branding Week 5: Concepts Presentation

August 24, 2010, 11:39 am

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Continuum continues their series Open for Branding, where they are sharing, from start to finish, their latest branding project for the new, nomadic Design Museum Boston. They're asking for your input, so don't hesitate to leave your feedback in the survey, linked below.

This week, we presented initial concepts to Sam and Derek of Design Museum Boston.

Now, we want you to weigh in.

Let us know which concepts best illustrate the Design Museum Boston brand and mission to educate, unite, and demonstrate. Keep in mind that these are broad strokes that will be refined and further developed. You may like an attribute of one or like the idea of what it's doing but think it needs further development. That's okay. In fact, that's great and exactly the feedback we're looking for.

See the prior posts from this series:

Open for Branding Week 4: The Calm Before the Storm
Open for Branding Week 3: Exploring the Possibilities
Open for Branding Week 2: Look Before You Leap
Open For Branding Week 1: Continuum's transparent design project for Design Museum Boston

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350 Rough Rider Wheelchairs delivered to Haiti

August 24, 2010, 12:50 pm

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With help from The Walkabout Foundation, Whirlwind Wheelchair International, who have been designing tough, durable wheelchairs built and used in developing countries since 1979, have delivered 350 Rough Rider chairs to Haiti with another 600 on the way. Easily repaired and built at low cost, the chairs help those injured in the quake live full lives in their communities by ensuring they can navigate them—the Rough Rider is a mountain bike of a wheelchair, helping people clear obstacles like piles of debris, unpaved streets, rocks, and mud.

Watch the video above for footage of its arrival in Haiti (and a demo of it on rough terrain).

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This Friday: The last Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt of the season

August 25, 2010, 8:14 am

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If you're in NYC this week, be sure to check out this season's final Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt on Friday, August 27th. Cocktails and light fare will be served in "New York City's largest private garden, Jazz trio Ed Fuqua Group will provide the soundtrack, and you'll be able to take in the National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?

More info here.
See you Friday!

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Travel expert Doug Dyment and former parachute riggers Red Oxx collaborate, Part 1: Carry-on bag designs

August 25, 2010, 8:32 am

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Doug Dyment is a travel and packing expert who runs OneBag.com, a website dedicated to promoting "The Art and Science of Traveling Light." Dyment's site is not so much a blog, but more a "reference guide that is forever being revised," loaded up with frequent-traveler tips on what to pack, how to pack it, and what to pack it in.

On that latter note, Montana-based luggage company Red Oxx (which started out rigging military parachutes) realized Dyment's experience was a good source of potential design knowledge. The resultant collaboration has yielded two carry-on bags, the business-traveler-targeted Air Boss and Sky Train models.

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Travel expert Doug Dyment and former parachute riggers Red Oxx collaborate, Part 2: Nifty "bundle-wrapping" packing diagram

August 25, 2010, 8:51 am

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Aside from collaborating on bag designs, travel expert Doug Dyment and luggage company Red Oxx also produced this helpful diagram on how to efficiently "bundle-wrap" your luggage, turning your clothes into a shirts-and-pants lozenge with a creamy socks-and-underwear center.

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For better or worse, designer fragrance package designs always get to push the envelope

August 25, 2010, 9:10 am

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I freelanced in the structural package design department of a conservative consumer products company for years, and learned that if you want to have fun with bottles, you'd better move over to designer fragrances. The three bottles here (spotted on Uncrate, linked below) may or may not be "successful" designs, but they're a damn sight more exciting than vessels made to hold fabric softener and focus-grouped into the ground.

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