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Igor Chak's Vintage-Videogame-Based Furniture Designs
L.A.-based industrial designer Igor Chak, who has one of the more fascinating bios I've read in a while, has a passion for vintage videogames. You probably remember 16bitghost's custom furniture...
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How Super Sunglasses Are Made
For those of you who aren't hip to the streetwear scene, "SUPER" is Retrosuperfuture's flagship line of sunglasses. Milan-based brothers David and Simon Beckerman launched the company in 2007, a new...
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Flatpacking: "Kurk," a Cork Desk Lamp by Craig Foster
In this special "flatpacking" edition of Flotspotting, we're pleased to present designer Craig Foster's "Kurk," a desk lamp "that requires no screws or glues to assemble."Focusing on the life cycle of...
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Philips is seeking a Research Consultant in Monroeville, Pennsylvania
Consultant, People ResearchPhilipsMonroeville, Pennsylvania Philips Design is seeking a Research Consultant to inform and create surprising and relevant scenarios/themes/concepts that explore...
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Core77 Design Awards 2012: FABLAB Education Program, Professional Runner up...
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What Shipping Containers Have in Common with Cobblestones. Plus Falcon...
As we've discussed here before, trading ships used to leave American east coast cities loaded up with goods and bound for Europe. They'd return loaded up with cobblestones--cheap, heavy, easily...
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Need Your CG Expertise: Is This Vid Real or Fake?
This video has recently been making the blog rounds, and is purportedly underwater footage, shot with a GoPro in a custom rig, of a school of dolphins trailing a boat. And people seem to love it: The...
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DIY Designs of Retractable Wheels for Tool Bases
This ought to be a standard ID school problem presented to first-year students: You've got a heavy, bulky piece of machinery that needs to rest on a stable base. But from time to time you need to move...
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A More Virtuous Vise
The traditional bench-mounted vise, protruding as it does from the worksurface, is always in the way when you're not using it. And over time they can start to sag, which gets annoying. (The ones we...
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Core77 Design Awards 2012: Fountain of Life, Student Runner-Up for Equipment
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Charge Bikes x EADS: 3D Printing Titanium Parts for a Bicycle Frame
3D printing has been heading into uncharted territory of late, what with a recent recent, as-yet-unresolved IP debate. Yet while the DIY/consumer-oriented 3D printers are typically designed to extrude...
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Venice Architecture Biennale Preview: Spontaneous Interventions at the U.S....
Imagination Playground, Rockwell Group / Photo Christ Amaral, courtesy Rockwell Group Like the Olympics, scores of countries come out to play at the annual International Venice Architecture Biennale,...
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Newell Rubbermaid is seeking a Sr. Industrial Designer in Huntersville, North...
Sr. Industrial Designer Newell RubbermaidHuntersville, North Carolina Newell Rubbermaid is looking to expand its design team with a passionate and energetic Senior Industrial Designer who can work...
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Shortlisted: Nick Ross's Bioharvester Entry for the James Dyson Award
In an idealistic version of ID, you'd never set out to design "a pair of headphones;" you'd aim to design "a way people can hear their music, hands-free, while performing a variety of activities." In...
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The Design of Design Patents: What Every Designer Should Know About...
*The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of his firm or its clients. The mere mention of design patents in the title of this article has...
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Functional Furniture: f(x) Chair by Richard Clarkson
We've (flot)spotted some of NZ-based Richard Clarkson's work before and we're always curious to see what he's working on. His latest project, the f(x) Chair, has more in common with his more cerebral...
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"Paper Engineer" Matthew Shlian
Success after failure is always more interesting than success after success. Hearing that artist Matthew Shlian failed Algebra in high school is astonishing once you see his work, as it's clear the...
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Ingenious Design of the 18th Century Roubo Workbench Sees Modern-Day...
In the 1700s, a French craftsman named Andre Jacob Roubo took the time to record his vast woodworking knowledge, presumably for the benefit of future generations. His resultant work, L'Art du...
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Turn Your Smartphone into a Personal Environmental Monitor with Lapka
Next month Lapka Electronics is set to release Lapka, its much anticipated new environmental monitoring device and app for the iPhone. Once you download the free app you can plug in one of four...
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The Minimalist, Swipe-able Mutewatch
Mutewatch is a minimalist wristwatch with an interesting UI: You swipe to access various features, though there's no iPhone-like animation that smoothly tracks the swiping. It's the type of thing that...
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