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Mazda's new designed-by-committee concept car leaves me confused
In an unusual departure from industry practices, Autoblog was invited out to Milan to see Mazda's new Shinari concept car, rather than having to wait to see it at an auto show. Check it out: My initial...
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Full steam ahead for AutoCAD on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
You know you're doing alright when an old flame rekindles interest in your current property. I'm not talking about college girlfriends, I'm talking about the 18 year hiatus and recently announced...
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Product Review: The Ionator HOM chemical-free cleaning product is amazing
ActiveIon's Ionator HOM is a magic cleaning machine. Intended as a replacement for endless bottles of spray cleaner, the large, drill-gun-like device converts regular tap water into an ionized mist...
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Damascus Steel: Accidental nanotechnology circa 1100 A.D.!
I was reading this article on Top Ten Lost Technologies and came across an interesting tidbit about Damascus Steel, one of only two materials to make the list (the other being Roman Cement). Damascus...
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The Design Response to a Wash of Green: Whole Systems and Life Cycle...
The Keep Cup, a reusable cup for the takeaway espresso market. What a great idea: a 'green' product to make a difference, make one happy, and assist in performing the menial tasks that litter an...
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Dogs on Design: Surtees' Oversized Lap Dog
In this fifth post in our series, Dogs on Design, Raleigh Pop blogger Sarah F. Cox sat down with designer Michael Surtees, an interaction designer at Behavior. They talked about how humans behave on...
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Chris Milk and Arcade Fire create a new music experience
We've been hearing the moans and groans of the music industry for a while about its demise due to lack of interest in the physical music product. And some of us still love that physical experience of...
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Make Custom Electronic Goods Online: Ponoko and Sparkfun Team Up!
We're excited to hear that Ponoko, the popular, laser-cutter based, online fabrication system, is teaming up with SparkFun to offer electronic hardware as part of its catalog of materials, allowing...
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Space is Process: A Documentary about Olafur Eliasson
"When I make something, which maybe is a work of art, I want this to be in the world. I want it to be sincerely and honestly and responsibly in the world. I want it to have an impact somehow." We just...
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The Designers Accord Seattle Town Hall: September 23rd
Join the first Designers Accord Town Hall Meeting in Seattle, Washington! The meeting will take place on September 23rd at the School of Visual Concepts hosted by the AIGA Seattle chapter. The...
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"Politics Please, We're Social Designers," by Cameron Tonkinwise
On August 5th, the Parsons DESIS Lab (of which I am a member) opened an exhibition at the Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side of New York City. The exhibition, running until September 15th, is...
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Ars Electronica 2010 Kicks Off Tomorrow!
"There's no time left for warnings. We're in it up to our necks right now--in the climate crisis, Surveillance Society, the bankruptcy of the financial sector ... We've passed the points of no...
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Jack Zylkin throws his hat into the retro-tech ring with a typewriter-keyboard
On physical objects becoming less and less physically weighty: Nowadays if you drop your phone, it may not survive. The other day I caught a snippet of GoodFellas, the part where Robert Deniro uses a...
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Champagne bottles getting a subtle re-design
I once accidentally shot a girl I was trying to date in the head with a champagne cork. She was standing next to me as I opened the bottle; the cork slipped my grasp, shot straight up, hit the...
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Puma's new Mopion cargo bike
Danish industrial design firm KiBiSi and Danish bicycle manufacturer Biomega have teamed up with Puma to release the Mopion cargo bike, a sort of pickup-truck version of the Puma Boston bike: [The...
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Delft Design Guide posted online
The Delft University of Technology's Industrial Design Engineering department has posted their "Delft Design Guide" online, for free PDF download. The content in the guide is drawn largely from five of...
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Introducing: Sony's Open Planet Ideas
We're excited by the recent trend toward open-source design approaches, with Continuum's Open for Branding project, Betacup on the Jovoto platform, and the recent announcement of Open IDEO. So, we're...
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2010 Technology on the Set of 1960s Mad Men
Aside from some beautiful shots of the cast off-camera, Rolling Stone's coverage of Mad Men also caught some delightful moments capturing the contrast between life in 2010 and 1965. Enjoy. Don Draper...
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"It's Nice That" blog goes to print
As various print magazines like Gourmet scramble to reinvent themselves as Ipad apps, we are happy to see that some people still believe a physical printed product can be quite nice. A staple in our...
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Fuseproject is Seeking an Industrial Design Intern in San Francisco
Fuseproject Industrial Design InternSan Francisco, CA The intern's role within the product department is primarily to support all areas of design with specific tasks including; document layout and...
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