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Ancient, cassette-tape-using digital camera
I always thought Sony's Digital Mavica digital camera from 1997, the one that took floppy disks, was the first digital camera; turns out I was off by almost 20 years. Check out this fossil: (more...)
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Kraft Foods is seeking an Associate Director of Design in Tarrytown, NY
Kraft Foods Associate Director of DesignTarrytown, NY Elevate and leverage the full power of Design as a critical growth and business driver by integrating Design into the business, developing...
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Hand-Eye Supply: Hansen Tacker T-35 (Free USA Shipping for One Week Only)
There's a lot to love about the Hansen Tacker, the all-steel operating mechanism can handle a serious beating, it's light enough to use with one hand, and the positive trip-hammer action ensures...
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MIT's 2010 Top Young Innovators under 35
Chris Rivest and SunPrint, a low-cost fabrication method for producing solar cells. Today, MIT's Technology Review magazine reveals their 2010 list of the world's top innovators under the age of 35....
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Lunapads or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Discomfort
There's been a lot of talk about innovation, maybe, maybe too much talk. While no one tells us it's easy, the fifth column cheerleaders, pundits, and bloggers do their utmost to make it sound fun. But...
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Marian Bantjes, Wallpaper*, and Dazzle Camouflage
Designer Marian Bantjes was recently commissioned by Wallpaper* Magazine to design the graphics for a Laser Sailboat for their upcoming exhibition at the Salon del Mobile in Milan later this year. The...
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Why Great Ideas Can Fail
Designers are proud of their ability to innovate, to think outside the box, to develop creative, powerful ideas for their clients. Sometimes these ideas win design prizes. However, the rate at which...
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Apple preparing to take huge production method leap forward with "the most...
Apple's "special event" scheduled for next week (and probably heralding the arrival of a new iPod Touch) is intended to excite consumers, but it is yesterday's Apple news that's sure to capture the...
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UX Week 2010: First Impressions
Guest post by Russell Maschmeyer. Adaptive Path's UX Week 2010 kicked off Tuesday at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, and it couldn't have been a better day for it; the first...
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The works of Jay Brett, Hollywood ID'er
RISD-educated Jay Brett's got a pretty kick-ass job: Industrial designer for Hollywood, building prototypes for superheroes. Brett recently worked on the prototype build of a jet (in two versions,...
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Baseball cap carriers. There is now officially a bag for everything
Regular watchers of Entourage may remember the episode beginning with the birthday of Turtle, the Imelda Marcos of sneakers, which gave viewers a glimpse of his insane shoe closet and wall-length hat...
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Variations on Normal: An exhibition of work by Dominic Wilcox
Analogue Books, a bookshop and gallery in Edinburgh, is hosting an exhibition of works by Dominic Wilcox, maybe most well known for his War bowl made of melted green army men, but also a prolific...
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Felicia Ferrone: On Space
For the second installment of Chicago's newest design venue, the event-based Volume Gallery will show a new, limited-edition collection by Felicia Ferrone, entitled On Space.. The project examines the...
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CC14: Crafty Danish Designers
Making us Americans jealous yet again with their incredible government funding, Danish Crafts, a prime example of the kind of support Denmark bestows upon its designers, will roll out the new Crafts...
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Why the layout of American cafes sucks (and why it may be about to change)
I like coffee, but I despise cafes. At least what we Americans have come to call cafes. I respect the coffee bar, or espresso bar, as it's done in Italy. There coffee is not some fatuous beverage to...
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David Rowland, designer of the 40/4 chair, passes away
Whether for fame, fortune or function, any industrial designer would be lucky to have one, just one, project in an entire lifetime that hits the big time--I'm talking MoMa, millions sold and magazine...
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Core-Toon: Lifecycle Planning for Designers
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GE is seeking a Director of Design in Louisville, Kentucky
GE Appliances & Lighting Director of DesignLouisville, KY This executive level position will lead the vision for the overall creative process and elevate the design profile of the GE Brand....
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In-car computing for the luxury set
Something I've seen a lot of on my nocturnal Manhattan dogwalks: Idling ambulances and parked Lincoln Town Cars with the drivers in them, heads always inclined downwards at the same angle, eyes open,...
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Siren Elise Wilhelmsen wins Time to Design 2010 with her knitting clock
2010's Time to Design Award was presented to Norweigan Siren Elise Wilhelmsen for her project Developing Time—Time Developing, a clock that knits 48 meshes per day, and produces one two meter long...
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