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Test Your Patent Knowledge: Measuring Creativity in Design
Do you remember seeing Philippe Stark's Louis Ghost chair for the first time? Maybe you were struck by how its form is eerily highlighted by its translucent materials; the chair is a stunning...
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The University of Illinois at Chicago is seeking a Industrial Design Faculty...
Industrial Design Faculty University of Illinois at ChicagoChicago, IllinoisThe UIC School of Design seeks faculty members engaged in active creative practice with a commitment to design education and...
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Medical Design Excellence Awards Now Seeking Submissions
Not positive, but I think this machine is designed to turn one leg pinkMore than a few industrial designers (including your correspondent) have had to pay the bills by designing something we're, ah,...
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The Bubble Chandelier: From the Streets of Brooklyn to the Lofts (also...
When Shaun Kasperbauer submitted his project "Bubble Chandelier" earlier this week, the bulbous yet unmistakably upcycled form, "originally inspired by the cell-like shape of soap bubbles," caught my...
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Flotspotting: Earbuds and More by Maxence Derremaux
After he completed his Masters degree at the Institut Supérieur de Design in his home country, Maxence Derremaux left France for San Francisco, which he describes as "the intersection of art and...
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Eton's Hand-Cranked BoostTurbine 2000 Charging Device
Until Ideso's PowerPac goes into production, I'm on the lookout for a human-powered charging device, inefficiency be damned. Next time I'm caught unprepared in a blackout I'd like to be able to charge...
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Furniture with Secret Compartments, Part 1
Good gosh. Where most people see bookcases as a handy place to store tomes, the anonymous gentleman behind Q-Line Design sees prime hidden storage space for assault rifles, handguns, knives and...
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Red Bull Presents the Kluge: A Human-Powered Rube Goldberg Machine
Images via Red BullWe certainly couldn't pass this one up: Red Bull continues to put its deep pockets to good use with their latest viral endeavor, the Red Bull Kluge. Its name, of course, refers to a...
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How the Heck Does This Work? Julien Vidame's Convention-Defying Extendable Table
If this works as advertised, it will be quite the design coup. France-based designer Julien Vidame has posted a link for his Extendable Table, which amazingly doubles its length (and halves its...
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Telefonica Digital PDI is seeking a User Experience Designer in Madrid, Spain
User Experience DesignerTelefonica Digital PDIMadrid, SpainTelefonica Digital PDI is seeking highly motivated and talented people to join their User Experience and Research team. Designers and...
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The Lesson of the Parasite
The other night, I caught myself riveted to one of those blocks of cable programing one stumbles upon with increasing frequency: back-to-back episodes of some show you've never heard of. On this...
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How to Make it in America: The Flip n'Grip Is the World's Funnest Wallet
There have been at least a couple ultra-popular wallets on Kickstarter lately, typically variations on ad hoc solutions dressed up in premium materials. In fact, the crowdfunded wallet category has...
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Learn Then Earn: Coroflot's Design Salary Guide Now Available Year-Round,...
You asked and we've delivered: for the past few months, we've been hard at work on an updated edition of our annual salary survey. Each fall for the past 11 years, we have collected and reported on...
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Furniture with Secret Compartments, Part 2: Ready to Make Your Own?
images via Designed & MadeFor your average industrial designer, it's not enough to know that furniture with built-in secret compartments exist: We want to know how these things are built. Sometimes...
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Joshua Harker: Using Kickstarter to Celebrate "the Third Industrial Revolution"
Following his "#1 most-funded sculpture project in Kickstarter history," Chicago-based multicreative Joshua Harker's on the crowdfunding site once again. Expressing his signature blend of art and...
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Tonight at the Curiosity Club: "From Sci-Fi to Salem: The History, Science,...
Join us tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club in lovely downtown Portland, Oregon as Chana De Wolf of Cryonics NW dispels myths and disseminates facts about life extension through...
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Scott Henderson: From Slat Chair to Aluminum Octopus to Superyacht Design
One of the wonderful things about industrial design as a profession, versus your design school classmates' other majors, is its sheer breadth. For example illustrators are typically locked in to...
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Teague is seeking an Industrial Design Manager / Aviation in Seattle, Washington
Industrial Design Manager / Aviation TeagueSeattle, WashingtonTeague is seeking an Industrial Design Manager who will be responsible for managing a dynamic, highly motivated and multidisciplinary team...
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Who's Smoking and Who's Voting: Pratt's Stats, via the Prattler
Although yesterday saw the launch of the Design Salary Guide, we were also interested to hear that Pratt's student-designed, -managed and -organized magazine the "Prattler" recently did a survey on the...
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Tokyo Getting World's First 3D-Printing Photo Booth
In the 1870s you needed to be a big shot to have your portrait taken, and in the 1970s you needed to star in something made by 20th Century Fox to have an action figure of yourself. But here in 2012,...
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