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What Would Jesus Design? (A Stair-Climbing Handtruck?)
Following yesterday's post on the spherical drive system, my fellow Pratt ID alumnus Jay G. wrote in with where those omniwheels may have come from. An Australian company called Rotacaster produces...
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Video Sells it: Folditure's Crazy Fold-Flat Leaf Chair
At what point are you willing to sacrifice aesthetics for functionality? It's a question all of us need to answer for ourselves, as that intersection point between pure desire and pure need is too...
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London Design Festival 2012:Oh No, Not Another Chair-fest
Large sections of the British design industry will wearily greet the onset of London Design Festival today. The first LDF in 2003 felt like a coming of age, as London celebrated our profession with a...
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September News: Apple v Samsung and the Future of Design + A Look at...
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Vote Today! HP + Project Runway Bag Design Competition
This post is sponsored by the sleek, stylish, lightweight HP Spectre XT Ultrabookâ„¢, inspired by Intel. Vote for your favorite bag design! Phase One of HP Ultrabook's Bag Design Competition is over and...
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Clever Use of Trapezoids to Save Materials, and What the Heck are These Solar...
A few blocks east of Core77 headquarters, they're setting up the annual Feast of San Gennaro. Aside from the standard carnival and food booths, one block of Mulberry Street is being used to set up...
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Quirky x Fab.com: iPhone 5 Accessory 24-Hour Design-a-Thon
A secure loop that doubles as a charging cable. We all know that it takes more than 24-hours to create a fully realized product, but in what might be the world's fastest product launch, Quirky teamed...
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Sitcom Comestibles Immortalized in Rinee Shah's 'Seinfood' Posters
For anyone who was old enough to understand irony in the 90's, Seinfeld was one of those cultural touchstones that has arguably jumped the shark: the infamous Kramer print wasn't quite as ubiquitous...
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Wheelchairs Now Going Where None Have Gone Before
Your average car is designed to drive on a paved road, and your average wheelchair is designed to roll across smooth surfaces. But just as 4x4 manufacturers design vehicles for alternate terrains, a...
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Axor's Starck Organic Collection
This week Axor unveiled their latest line of faucets, the Starck Organic collection. Designed by you-know-who, the curvy, branch-like forms were nature inspired and include faucets for sinks, tubs and...
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LEDs May Be Signage of the Future, but Neon's Still Alive and Well
If asked to name a long-lasting light source, you'd probably name LEDs. But as artist and fabricator David Ablon reminds us, you can find functioning neon signage that is eighty years old and still...
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Flotspotting: "Ocean's Edge" Table by Tyson Atwell
Earlier this year, we saw Tyson Atwell's work in Milan, as one of the nine RISD Furniture Design students in "Transformations" at Ventura Lambrate. At a total of 75 lbs—the steel skeleton surrounded...
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Wanna Make Your Own iPhone 5 Case? CAD and STL Files Available
This morning we passed the mob scene at the Apple Store SoHo, where hundreds are already queued up to buy the iPhone 5. Chances are none of them yet have a MakerBot Replicator 2, but for those of you...
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Whoa-- Design Renderings Banned on Kickstarter!
[Ed. Note: Updated on 9/24] No longer allowed! Up above is Scott Wilson's rendering for the LunaTik, which we consider iconic because it kickstarted Kickstarter for an entire generation of industrial...
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The Velocipede Strikes Back: The Bicymple Is a Real Thing
A few weeks ago, I idly wondered whether the FLIZ concept bike was a solution looking for a problem: the slick homage to the draisine struck me as the sort of oddball prototype that surely has some...
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Design Recommendations to the European Commission
The role of European design should be enhanced on the global stage, and top expertise in design should be supported. Cooperation between strong design competencies, companies and the public sector...
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James Perse is seeking an Architecture Manager in Los Angeles, California
Architecture Manager James PerseLos Angeles, California The Architecture Manager reports to the Director of Real Estate. Working hand-in-hand with the Director of Real Estate, the Architecture Manager...
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Why User-Centered Design is Not Enough, by John Wood
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci via Wikimedia Commons Utopia or Oblivion? Buckminster Fuller framed this question in his 1993 book of the same name, warning that mankind's prospects would go...
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Here's a Switch: Designed in Brooklyn, Made in Brooklyn, Exported to China
The Times brings us the story of Watermark Designs, a Brooklyn-based company illuminating the path to success for future American design and production ventures. The relatively small (45 employee)...
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London Design Festival 2012: The Crystal Bulb Shop by Lee Broom
Up-and-coming London-based design star Lee Broom has been joining in the LDF12 festivities this week with a beautifully crafted pop-up shop in Shoreditch, taking his charming handcut crystal pendant...
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