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Made in the UK: Inside the Brompton Factory
We mentioned British folding bike manufacturer Brompton in yesterday's Tools & Kits entry, but as we haven't given them much ink since 2005, it's time for a little love. Brompton's a company...
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ROCCAT Studios is seeking an Industrial Designer in Hamburg, Germany
Industrial Designer ROCCAT StudiosHamburg, Germany ROCCAT, one of the leading designers of high quality and innovative products for keen computer gamers, is seeking an experienced industrial designer....
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In the Studio with Garrison Architects
At first glance it might seem like Jim Garrison is New York's poster boy for modular housing. Amongst the most recent projects his eponymous firm has completed are the Net Zero for the 99% house, a...
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SLIP keeps your Pantone chips tidy
As any designer knows, Pantone chips are a small but very important tool of the trade. They're so small, in fact, that they often get lost or are mistakenly thrown away. Seriously, what are you...
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Forum Frenzy: QR Codes on Business Cards
QR code business card by Meadowlark Creative In Korea, the Internet is everywhere. I had the privilege of living and working in Korea for a month this past summer and constantly found myself with...
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SVA/BBC Design Film Festival
Wondered about the history of the Levi's 501? Where did the idea for the Barcelona chair come from? New York City's School of Visual Arts MFA program is presenting its first documentary film festival...
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New Site Offers a Community for Packaging Enthusiasts
iStockPack offers a clear preview format so users can see the finished product and the vector file. I love stock databases. They're the best marriage of sharing culture with graphic design, and they're...
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VSTR and Partners & Spade's Nomadic Pack
During a European backpacking trip, my friend's cheap rucksack burst open on a Barcelona train platform. With our train departing in fifteen, he sprinted to a nearby department store to replace it...
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Kickstart a Trip to Hell: Brendt Barbur's "The Commentator" to Revisit...
Bicycle Film Festival founder Brendt Barbur wants to go to hell: not literally, of course, but to the notoriously cobbled roads that define the storied Paris-Roubaix, a cycling race that is considered...
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Skyscraper Design Competition Yields Brilliant, Outside-the-Box Results
There goes the neighborhood Architecture magazine eVolo has announced the finalists and winners of their 2012 Skyscraper Design Competition, and even those that didn't make the top three are well worth...
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This Mobile Ice Hut is Cold in More Ways than One
I'm guessing an igloo-building Inuit would call it cheating, but Norwegian architecture studio Gartnerfuglen has designed an interesting take on locally-sourced building materials for an Arctic-ready...
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With Dollar Shave Club, Safety Razor Business Model Finally Takes a Hit
The hand plane used by woodworkers for generations has a blade placed at an angle between two flat pieces, enabling it to cleanly trim the surface of wood without gouging it. In the 1700s a clever...
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Cooper is seeking a Visual Design Director in San Francisco, California
Visual Design Director CooperSan Francisco, California Cooper is seeking a Visual Design Director who will be responsible for assisting in the mentoring and development of the visual design staff....
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Photos from the RISD ID Senior Show 2012
Text by Carly Ayres, photos by Callil Capuozzo. As the 2012 academic year draws to a close at the Rhode Island School of Design, seniors from every department have been organizing and putting on shows...
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COMMON Pitch South Africa: EarthBagBuild, Construction for Jobs and Housing
Think of the possibilities of a world where social entrepreneurs are funded by venture capitalists. For the people behind COMMON, this is the world that they have made a reality with their series of...
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Manhattan Carves a New Subway, Part 1: Jake Dobson's Underground Photo Essay
So new, the rats haven't even moved in yet Urban landscape photographer Jake Dobson had a cool assignment: To snap pictures while walking from Manhattan's 34th Street and 11th Avenue to 42nd Street and...
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Manhattan Carves a New Subway, Part 1: Jake Dobkin's Underground Photo Essay
So new, the rats haven't even moved in yet Urban landscape photographer Jake Dobkin had a cool gig: to snap pictures while walking from Manhattan's 34th Street and 11th Avenue to 42nd Street and 8th...
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More Handsome and Handy Bike Tools: Lezyne's "Engineered Design"
Following our entry mentioning Birzman's purty bike tools, reader Frank turned us on to Lezyne, a bicycle accessories company that's just celebrated their 5th birthday last week. Lezyne's products are...
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Paul Menand's Integrated Take on Stacking Chairs
The common wisdom with stacking chairs is that each one should be identical. Place one atop another, and the stack grows. But Strasbourg, France-based designer Paul Menand's take is a bit more...
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Made by Hands: Yet Another Beautiful Manufacturing Video
It gets a bit literal Like many of our faithful readers, Australian designer and sometime filmmaker Björn Rust noticed the trend of production/fabrication/manufacturing videos and saw fit to share his...
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