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London Design Festival 2010 Preview: Three New Design Districts
Ah, the wonderful dilemma with design festivals: too much to do, too little time. The London Design Festival is making that problem even worse, announcing that it's sweep of the city is broadening...
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Honda R&D is seeking an Automotive Designer in Torrance, CA
Honda R&D Automotive DesignerTorrance, CA You will work independently on the development of original designs or adaptations requiring very specialized design skills and abilities. The Designer...
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Make-Me: The Emergence of Butch-Craft in Contemporary Design
Oscar Magnus Narud's Keel collection: tables in rough wood and iron. Running from September 15th through November 14th, Make-Me is an upcoming exhibition at Moss that brings together a set of artists...
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Best Ikea Hack Ever: Starting a Fire
Helmut Smit is our new favorite artist/designer, even if FLAMMA was the only project he'd ever done (it isn't, by the way, and they are all stellar). This brilliant Ikea Hack "harks back to one of...
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Ars Electronica 2010: CyberArts And Live Performances
Several signs are needed to guide all visitors towards the main entrance of the Tabakfabrik Linz, a former tobacco processing plant which is the main event area for this year's Ars Electronica...
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Ars Electronica 2010: One Fine Day With People And Robots
YOU ARE HERE is one of the most important signs at this year's Ars Electronica Festival. The former tobacco factory is a great event venue but due to the big amount of spaces, stairways and events...
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D-Build's online Marketplace is like Etsy, but with reclaimed materials
Check out the Marketplace at D-Build.org, a sort of Etsy for designers and consumers interested in reclaimed materials. In the Products section they sell finished products like Arbor & Taylor's...
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Jeffrey Stephenson's Mid-Century Madness computer design now complete!
Thanks to both Jeffrey Stephenson and you, our Core77 readership! Back in July we posted some shots-in-progress of Stephenson's Mid-Century Modern PC tower design, seeking your input on some of his...
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Jail cell Q: "What are you in for?" A: "I built a monster in Brooklyn."
[photo credit: Evan R. Wexler] Of all the possible reasons a pair of Brits visiting NYC could get arrested, illegally building a huge, mythical wooden bird-monster overlooking a Brooklyn street has...
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Ars Electronica 2010: Meet ASIMO In Deep Space
The Ars Electronica Center is the second main location of Ars Electronica 2010. This so called "Museum of the Future" can't be missed due to its striking architecture. The center along the Donau river...
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LaCie's fantastic variety of flash drives, from tough to tiny
From coins to keys to gewgaws, we dig LaCie's multiple takes on the flash drive for their sheer variety of forms and amount of thought they've put into the devices. The coins in particular make the...
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For inventors, a free ID FAQ
UK-based Industrial Design Consultancy "regularly [fields] calls from inventors bristling with new inventions and ideas." And no matter how diverse the inventions are, there's a commonality to getting...
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Track bike, circa 1870, and more on BC 150 exhibit
Track bike aficionados, feast your eyes on the ultimate Fixie. Made from wood and iron, this front-drive bike from 1870 weighed a ton and probably provided a ride marginally more comfortable than...
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Dean Kamen's Lego League sponsors "Body Forward Challenge" for kids
Dean Kamen, Lego, children, and biomedical engineering are not an intuitive mix of elements, but they're all part of the FIRST Lego League Body Forward Challenge. Inventor Kamen's FIRST (For...
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The mother lode of industrial design tutorial videos!
UK-based designer Jared Thompson has taken the time to exhaustively go through YouTube and compile a list of ID videos ranging from SolidWorks and AutoCAD tutorials to Photoshop rendering demos and RP...
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Donald Judd/Double Rainbow Mash Up: When was the Last Time Art Made You Feel...
We're sure there is a giant overlap between the 14 million people that have seen Yosemite Bear's Double Rainbow Video and Donald Judd fans worldwide. If you're included in this set, you'll appreciate...
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Harnessing the Blind Spot
This post is part of the Inspiration series, made possible by Veer.com. For our last inspiration post, we talked about the power of randomness to shape the creative process, whether supplied by user...
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Lobby-For-The-Time-Being: Vito Acconci's Fabric-like Corian Installation
Dupont has a history of working with artist's and designers to find new ways to extend the materials they produce, like Corian. This time they work with artist-cum-architect Vito Acconci, who's built...
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The Designmatters Concentration at Art Center College of Design: Q&A With...
Design students Ramon Coronado (Graphic Design) and Diane Jie Wei (Product Design) interview a family in the Campamento San José outside Santiago, Chile, as part of field research for the Safe Agua...
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A Day at the Museum: Kicker Studio's Inaugural Device Design Day Conference
If design and technology conferences were cities, which cities would they be? We might imagine South by Southwest Interactive to be a sprawling and disjointed metropolis that has developed...
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