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HEINEKEN Sustainability Challenge: A Look at the STR Bottle
As you prepare your entries for the HEINEKEN Sustainability Challenge, we thought we'd take a moment to look at one of HEINEKEN's most recent innovations in packaging design: the STR Bottle....
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Salone Milan 2012: BURG at Ventura Lambrate
Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle is, by its own description, "one of Germany's most varied and interesting art schools. Situated at the meeting point between East and West, it has had to...
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Best of Holon Design Week: Johnathan Hopp's Local Souvenirs
Best of HDW takes a closer look at some of the most exciting projects featured in Design Museum Holon's "Designers Plus Ten" exhibition. The "Local Souvenirs" designed by Johnathan Hopp in...
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Nokia is seeking a Director, Concept & Design Team in Berlin, Germany
Director, Concept & Design Team NokiaBerlin, Germany Nokia's Location & Commerce Applications sub-unit is seking an experienced leader to manage the Concept and Design team, a...
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Logic over Lust: Remembering Butzi Porsche
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, better known as Butzi, passed away on April 5, 2012. While his death was widely reported, I feel that his real contributions to design were underreported. Butzi Porsche...
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The Difference between a Side Table and a Digital Camera
The IKEA Knäppa camera with a felicitous bit of product placement Our friends at Cool Hunting and PSFK have already let the camera out of the bag, so to speak (it literally came at the bottom of a...
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Eventually Everything / 2012 D-Crit Conference Preview: Q&A with Derrick Mead
In anticipation of the upcoming 2012 D-Crit Conference, "Eventually Everything," Core77 is pleased to have the opportunity to explore the breadth of SVA's design criticism MFA program through a series...
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Salone Milan 2012: Analogia #003, A Sketch of Home in 3D at Ventura Lambrate
Every day, we are surrounded by ideas brought to life. The chair we sit on, the sofa we lounge on, the computer we stare at all day. These are only a fraction of the objects that first took form in...
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Louisiana ID Students Put the "Cycling" in Recycling
A group of third-year industrial design students at the University of Louisiana Lafayette, led by professor Ben Bush, have developed a bicycle-based aluminum can crushing machine. Called the pRecycle...
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"This is a Program About Death and Product Design"
It's often tricky to extract design lessons from World War II. Documentaries on the subject can quickly veer into boys-and-their-toys adulations of how fast this plane was, how tough that tank was,...
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Non Sequitur: "Chicken Chair" by Sebastian Errazuriz
We bumped into the inimitable Sebastian Errázuriz on our very first excursion in Milan, some six hours after we'd landed at Malpensa, and he was as amiable as ever, noting that he would send a few...
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Best of Art Center Grad Show, Spring 2012: Scott Langer's graphic design
The sophistication of Scott Langer's graphic design work belies his age. At just 22-years-old he's a graduate of Art Center College of Design, a program that traditionally attracts older students and...
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A Secret and Illegal Design-Build: The HemLoft Treehouse
You go into design because you want to create things, and you go into industrial design to create things that will be mass-produced. And mass production, by definition, involves factories and...
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Amazing Visual Representation of Earth's Post-Industrial-Revolution Travel...
Infographics are a powerful tool for communicating vast sums of information, but a far more compelling way to express data is through the unnamed combination of number-crunching, cartography and...
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Calty Design Research is seeking an Experienced Car Designer (Interior or...
Experienced Car Designer (Interior or Exterior) Calty Design ResearchAnn Arbor, Michigan Calty Design Research, Toyota's North America design studio providing innovative concept and production design...
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Salone Milan 2012: RCA's Paradise for a Better Future
Celebrating it's 175th Anniversary, London's Royal College of Arts (RCA) staged the stellar show Paradise during Milan's annual design week. Over 90 students and recent graduates from the Design...
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Getting the Hang of Upcycling
As I noted in an earlier post about design student Stefania Nicolosi's "Benvenuto," bicycle accessories and clotheshangers are low-hanging fruit for young designers' end-of-term projects. Oliver...
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SVA's Interaction Design MFA Concepts for a Sustainable NYC, by Tom Harman...
Imagine how embedded sensors, personal digital technologies, and live data can be used to promote the goals of PlaNYC; Bloomberg's bold vision for a sustainable New York. This is exactly what fourteen...
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Automotive Interaction Design: Turning a Steering Wheel into a Feeling Wheel
From a design standpoint, how do you increase the information made available to the driver of a car? More and more cars are coming with built-in dashboard screens, but it's obvious that anything that...
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National Design Award Winner: Design That Matters
The Cooper-Hewitt announced the winners of the National Design Awards this morning. The NDA, which is in its 13th year, typically recognizes finalists in each category, but this year Cooper-Hewitt is...
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