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LAST CALL: Win $10K in the HP + Project Runway Design Contest
This post is sponsored by the sleek, stylish, lightweight HP Spectre XT Ultrabook™, inspired by Intel. Design a bag that is just as stylish! Don't miss out on this opportunity to win $10,000 and an HP...
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Creating a Killer Product: Just What Is It About the BUG-A-SALT?
With nearly half a million dollars in funding and just under five days to go, Lorenzo Maggiore's BUG-A-SALT is on track to be IndieGoGo's most lucrative campaign ever. It's been making gizmo / gadget...
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Roadbooks, Part 3: Rigged for Motorcycles
Roadbooks are what cyclists use to access their version of pacenotes. These are low-tech devices operating on one of the oldest paper technologies around: The scroll. There are too many different...
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3M's LED Design Lighting: Light as AIR and FLEXible
Two new lighting products were recently introduced by 3M Architectural Markets, the company's interior products division, embodying their ongoing commitment to develop LED and OLED lighting solutions....
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3D Printing Plastic Fisher-Price Records
Many of us born in the '70s grew up with these Fisher-Price Record Players, which used plastic discs to play music-box-sounding analog music. I was surprised to see they had recently been...
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And Now, a Real, Live E-Book: Waldek Wegrzyn's "Elektrobiblioteka," after El...
For his diploma project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Polish designer Waldek Wegrzyn has created "Elektrobiblioteka," a bibliomorphic (yes I just made that up) interface for a digital...
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Calty Design Research is seeking an Interior Car Designer in Newport Beach,...
Interior Car Designer Calty Design ResearchNewport Beach, California Calty Design Research, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, is seeking an exceptionally creative interior car designer for...
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Roadbooks, Part 4: The Wrist-Mounted Original
That there is the Plus Fours Routefinder, the precursor to the roadbook and an interesting (if ultimately failed) example of pre-ID industrial design. Invented in the UK, the wrist-mounted device...
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Flotspotting: "E-Clips" Action Camera Concept by Christopher Terella
Industrial designer Christopher Terella's "E-Clips" action camera dates back to 2010, but with the continued growth of the category—led by the popular GoPro—it might make a strong contender today. The...
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Wood for Your Wrist
It's been a minute since we last looked at a few wooden accessories, but I can only imagine that we'll continue to see everyday objects reconceived by designers who reject the sterile (if not...
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How the Shapes of Drinking Glasses Can Unexpectedly Affect Usage
Aside from anomalies like Tigere Chiriga's Floating Mug, I don't see a lot of design focus on the shape of glassware as it pertains to function. But here are a couple of ways in which the actual form...
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Sneakily-Designed Camera Lens Lets You Capture Subjects Unawares
I used to know a guy who did street photography and caught amazingly intimate shots of total strangers. I always asked him "How the hell did you capture that?" as I couldn't believe how close he got...
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Manfacturing in Public: Hit + Run Crew's Awesome Portable T-Shirt Printing...
Hit + Run Crew is the name of an L.A.-based print shop with a novel way of doing business: They do their manufacturing in public. Founders Brandy Flower and Mike Crivello have designed and built a...
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We Will Miss You Bill Moggridge
The design world lost one of its greats yesterday. Bill Moggridge, Director of the Cooper-Hewitt, inventor of the first laptop, co-founder of IDEO, and dear friend to designers, students, advocates...
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Apple's New iPhone--and the End of iPod Nano Watches?
Yesterday Apple announced the iPhone 5, and as we industrial designers appreciate—and have even come to expect—the attendant video treated us to brief, tantalizing glimpses inside a manufacturing...
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HEINEKEN Ideas Brewery Challenge: Reinvent the Draught Beer Experience
Just a reminder! You only have two more weeks to participate in HEINEKEN's challenge to Reinvent the Draught Beer Experience! With their focus on innovation, HEINEKEN is asking you to help them design...
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Unknown Fields Division Does Burning Man: Walking Pod, Mechanical Beest Vehicle
Meet Scott, a commercial welder who by day runs his own sheet metal fabricating business in Sacramento with 3 other colleagues, and by night, he constructs metal geodesic dome mutant vehicles and pod...
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BALTZ Works is seeking a Design Intern: Graphics, Food & Experience in New...
Design Intern: Graphics, Food & Experience BALTZ WorksNew York, New York BALTZ Works, the multidisciplinary studio of Emilie Baltz, specializes in food and experience design, creating work that...
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LAST CALL: SparkAwards 2012!
Do you believe in better living through better design? The Spark community was founded on the principal that great design can help us get to a better world—better lives, better health, better water,...
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Forum Frenzy: Public Library (in Adelaide) Offering Free 3D Printing Resources
Not to be bested by their Oceanic neighbors, Australia now boasts a community digital fabrication shop of its own. Core77 forum member sanjy009 recently posted a news item about the Innovation Lab at...
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