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Engineering Toy To Empower Girls
This week saw the emergence of the first International UN Day of the Girl Child, which is intended to promote the empowerment of young girls around the world. One obvious way to do this is to...
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Now Open: The Library At The Public Theater by Rockwell Group
Images by Noah Fecks If you've seen a performance at The Public Theater in the last year and been ushered across the torn up lobby floor, tiptoed over rocky wooden boards lining hallways lit by...
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The Stormtroopers of Anarchy?
I thought for sure this was a joke, but it appears to be real: A company called UD Replicas is selling a protective motorcycle suit modeled after a Star Wars Stormtrooper's armor. Made from leather...
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Beijing Design Week 2012: Paper Instinct, Zines and Indie Press at The...
Although 'zines have been a popular format for artists, writers and provocateurs since the '70s, in China, an independent arts press is a relatively new phenomenon. Welcoming visitors at The Factory...
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Sayan Chanda: Wear And Tear Is The New Stitch and Sew
Within this world of rapid prototyping and sleek renderings the notion of something being created to evoke deterioration, or a worn look, seems a bit nostalgic. Every product seems to be sporting a...
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Yohji Yamamoto Closes as Holon Fashion Week Begins
Yohji Yamamoto in the Courtyard of the Design Museum Holon Following our trip to Tel Aviv to cover Holon Design Week earlier this year, Design Museum Holon (DMH) mounted Yohji Yamamoto's first solo...
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NOOK by Barnes & Noble is seeking a Senior Product Designer in Palo Alto,...
Senior Product Designer NOOK by Barnes & NoblePalo Alto, California The Nook Digital Education team is seeking a Sr. Product Designer to join their growing design team to work on best-in-class,...
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Microsoft's Experimental "Digits" Wrist-Worn Gestural Input Device
As a designer, you've gotta love the Wild West period of a new technology, where everybody's still figuring out the form factor with brazen experimentation. Cell phones, particularly the ones out of...
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DesignPhiladelphia 2012: POPUP Place Festival Kick-Off
This past week, in a 10,000 square-foot salvage warehouse, DesignPhiladelphia hosted an evening of design exhibitions, fashion showcases, and outdoor revelry to kick off the eighth year of this...
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Eye Candy From the Past: The Detroit News Archivist
This is Esther, this is Gladys, and they will bust a cap in your ass To see a series of interesting, completely random objects from the past, look no further than the Detroit News Archivist. This...
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Portland Mini Maker Faire 2012: Roundup of Our Favorite Projects
We had a blast at Portland's inaugural Mini Maker Faire at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Like the bigger events in Detroit, the Bay Area and the coming world Maker Faire in NY, the Mini...
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Building a Bottle Brick at GlassLab, A Case Study by Tim Dubitsky
GlassLab provides designers with rare access to explore concepts in glass. In public "design performances" or private workshops, designers and glassmakers collaborate, rapidly prototyping design...
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Drawing With Molten Glass & Fire: The Pyrographs of Etsuko Ichikawa
Man this is trippy. In the beautiful facility you see pictured above, Seattle-based artist Etsuko Ichikawa draws using molten glass and fire. It's one of those things where words doesn't do her...
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Beijing Design Week 2012: Henny van Nistelrooy's Craft & Industry
Extract Daybed, Woolen Textiles from Bute Recent Beijing transplant Henny van Nistelrooy presented a selection of his textile work at this year's Beijing Design Week. Exploring the intersection of...
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Nathan Day's Rainbow Side Table, Jewelry Boxes, and a Bit About Jarrah Wood
I had to wrack my brain to remember "Rock-a-Stack," the name of the Fisher-Price toy some of us had as children. Designer Nathan Day's Rainbow Side Table recalls that object's classic form, but...
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Shroom, Public Outdoor Lights for Norwegian Cities, by Ralston & Bau
After working with elderly people in a Norwegian village, Birgitta Ralston and Alexandre Bau of Ralston & Bau, wanted to create an outdoor lighting system specifically for Nordic cities, which are...
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Volvo is seeking a Chief Designer in Goteborg, Sweden
Chief Designer VolvoGoteborg, Sweden Volvo GTT Product Design in Gothenburg is looking for two Chief Designers for Volvo Construction Equipment. The Construction Product Design department is based in...
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Design Extravaganza 2012 Recap by Adrian Taylor
Alan Cooper, Jon Kolko and Joe Stewart in Conversation Design Extravaganza, presented by AC4D (Austin Center for Design), packed twelve extraordinary speakers into two mind-expanding days. The intimate...
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Auto Design Fail: Ford's Experimental "Wrist-Twist" Steering Wheel(s) from 1965
We all know the value of bringing in an outsider to shake things up creatively, just as we know that there are spectacularly talented engineers who are well-capable of doing industrial design, even...
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Tonight at the Curiosity Club: "Whole Hog Butchery" with Rob Roy the Butcher...
Join us Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club in lovely downtown Portland, Oregon as Rob Roy, the Butcher and Charcutier at Nostrana breaks down a hog from nose to tail to trotters. Tuesday,...
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