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London Design Festival 2012: Celebrating 50 years of Arne Jacobson's Oxford...
It seems like everybody's got their own anniversaries to celebrate during this landmark 10th London Design Festival. The Fritz Hansen Store, smack dab in the centre of town, is inviting festival...
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Digging Digsmed's Functional Danish Modern Wooden Circles
Digsmed was the name of a tableware manufacturer from Denmark, and lately I've stumbled across a rash of their items manufactured in the 1960s. Sold by secondhanders on Etsy, eBay and elsewhere...
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A Better World By Design Conference Preview
Since 2008, A Better World by Design (BWxD) has brought scientists, designers, CEOs and students from around the world to Providence, RI to discuss how design and design thinking can work to make the...
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Instant: The Story of Polaroid
Photograph by Fritz Goro for LIFE "Marketing is something you do if your product is no good. Instead, you have to show something to people that they had no idea that they wanted but that is...
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Waste Not, Want Not: Freyda Sewell Tests the Limits of British Wool at Design...
Akin to MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program, which awards a young or fledgling architecture firm with modest funding to build a summer pavilion in the courtyard at PS1, Design Museum London's...
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DRC 2012: October 9-10 at IIT Chicago, Register Today!
How is design research the new frontier to the adjacent possible? DRC 2012 will look beyond the scope of modern design research to consider the emerging impact of diverse disciplines on the practice....
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Art + Design = Tobias Wong, by Todd Falkowsky
Photography courtesy of Rebecca Blissett Tobias Wong was a star in New York City, but he always remained close to his family, friends and his roots in Canada and especially Vancouver, where I had moved...
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Google's "Underwater Street View" and the SVII Camera That Gets Them There
With a mission to "deliver a more complete picture of the Earth," as William Van Lancker put it back in January, Google Maps has turned to mapping what's below sea level. This week they pulled the...
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Ford Continues Push into Greener Materials
Racing towards a greener future? Forest product company Weyerhaeuser is one of the largest in the world, managing over 20 million acres of woodlands with sustainable practices (like planting more than...
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Objects I Use: Japanese Train Pass Holder as a Wallet Substitute
As industrial designers, we're probably pickier than most about the objects we own. We become conscious of badly-placed buttons, poor ergonomics and shoddy construction in ways the average consumer...
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is seeking a Graphic Designer in San...
Graphic Designer Yerba Buena Center for the ArtsSan Francisco, California The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is seeking a Graphic Designer who will play a key role in communicating YBCA's mission,...
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Vienna Design Week 2012: Passionswege, Mathias Hahn x Staud's Preserves
For one of the Passionswege projects of Vienna Design Week, London-based designer Mathias Hahn was assigned to work with Staud's, a Viennese producer of fine vegetable and fruit preserves. In order to...
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The Decline of the Car? Part 2: These Youngsters Ain't Interested
Within the broad range of professions that an industrial design education can lead to, automotive design is something like neurosurgery is to med students: Prestigious, aspirational, even glamorous....
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Bell & Ross Watch Design Development by Baptise Mathieu
Bell & Ross Diving Bell Watch Concept Sketch Smartphones have settled into a permanent residence in our hands and our pockets. Watches similarly, have historically held a well-established place on...
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Walter Tschinkel's Aluminum Casts of Ant Colonies Reveals Insect Architecture
Portrait by Mark Wallheiser This is pretty freaking amazing, and gives new meaning to the term "sacrifical casting." Retiree Walter R. Tschinkel is an entomologist and former professor of Biological...
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Global Design Forum Misses the Mark
Reporting by Richard Eisermann, Co-Founder of Prospect The inaugural Global Design Forum, held on 18 September in London, was billed as "one day to set the global agenda for design." It fell well short...
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Book Review> Going Public: Public Architecture, Urbanism and Interventions
Tverrfjellhytta - Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion, by Snohetta in Hjerkinn, Norway, 2011 Urbanism—the omnipresent buzz word that encompasses every aspect of our lives affected by the space...
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Umbra is seeking a Prototype Shop Supervisor in Toronto, Canada
Prototype Shop Supervisor UmbraToronto, Canada Umbra is seeking a Prototype Shop Supervisor to work with Industrial Designers in preparation of models and prototypes of 3D objects. He or she will...
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Unknown Fields Division from Roswell to Burning Man
As the yellow XR-21 Bluebird school bus traverses across the desert terrain slowly reaching our final destination at Black Rock City in Nevada I catch up as best I can with my fellow passengers. A...
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LED LightDrive Turns the Table Lamp Upside Down
As seen below, the shape of your average, basic, stationary table lamp hews closely to the "form follows function" ID maxim. Ideally you'd want the light bulb floating in space at a certain height...
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