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Non-ID'ers Doing ID: Video Game Developers Design a Better Packing Peanut Funnel
This is both a cautionary and inspirational tale of realizing a good idea for a product.Patrick and Dallas are two Miami-based videogame developers that ship their own products. That being the case,...
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Furniture with Secret Compartments, Part 3: Must-See French Mechanical Desks...
Here's another two fascinating pieces of secret-compartment-havin' furniture, these ones built way before Autodesk and even power tools. Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley was a Parisian ebeniste, a...
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Rob Walker Presents 'As Real As It Gets' at Apex Art
We're excited to check out our friend Rob Walker's latest endeavor, an exhibition at non-profit NYC gallery Apex Art. As Real As It Gets is an 'exploration of "imaginary brands and fictional products,'...
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Kata Bags' Revolver Camera Bag Functions Like a Gun Chamber
Kata Bags creates "lightweight protective carrying solutions for photo and video equipment," and given that the two founders are ex-Israeli-military guys, it's no surprise that one of their new bags...
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How Much Longer Until We're Standing on Airplanes?
The Wright Brothers had a dream that one day, man would fly. Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has a dream too, which is that one day we'll fly standing up.In 2010 he proposed the solution you see above,...
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Studio Mercury is seeking a Web Developer in Brooklyn, New York
Web Developer Studio MercuryBrooklyn, New YorkStudio Mercury, a New York based multimedia design firm, is looking to fill a full-time web development position in their Brooklyn office. The ideal...
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The Future of 3D Printing: Mere Misnomer or Something More?
A couple weeks ago, I was curious to read yet another article about the much-heralded 3D printer revolution, "Crystal Ball Gazing: Amazon and 3D Printing." Only later did I realize that my skepticism...
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Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubeman Was Spawned By Australian...
Woke up this morning and this video had a million more hits than it did yesterday, so I had to find out more. Just a few days ago, a gent from Brisbane named Ray Liehm posted this:Liehm was a bystander...
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L.A. Auto Show Design Challenge: Auto Industry's Top Designers Envision Cop...
Nothing crushes the exhilirating experience of driving a fast car quicker than hearing that siren, then glancing up to see flashing red and blue lights steadily getting larger in your rearview mirror....
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IDSA Catalyst Case Study Program Needs Your Design Success Stories
As a design freelancer, you can be pretty divorced from the effects of your work. I've done many a project where after e-mailing in the files, I never heard again about that object or knew if it even...
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How to Flip Four 5,000-Pound Modules Using a Trailer (a/k/a Texas Truckers'...
That there is a John Deere 7760 Cotton Picker, which harvests the stuff your T-shirt is made out of and wraps it up in fat, cylindrical modules comprised of several bales.Here's an introductory look,...
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Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences
Today's global financial and social crises demand innovation not only in public services, but within the whole bureaucratic, administrative system of public governance. In order to respond effectively...
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Surrealist Ceramics: Exquisite Cups by Chloe Lee Carson
I bet André Breton himself could not have foreseen the 'consequences' of inventing Exquisite Corpse: four score and seven years after he popularized the collective writing/drawing game, designer Chloe...
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Motorola Mobility is seeking a Principal User Experience Researcher in...
Principal User Experience Researcher Motorola MobilitySunnyvale, CaliforniaMotorola Mobility is seeking a Principal User Experience Researcher to join their group of leaders and listeners, scientists...
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All Chips On the Table: The Bicycle Art and Design of Garrett Chow -...
Wish I could make it out to Cali for this one: Rapha San Francisco Cycling Club is pleased to present All Chips On the Table: The Bicycle Art and Design of Garrett Chow, an exhibition featuring Chow's...
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Castor Upcycles Materials That Have Taken a Beating
Toronto-based design group Castor gets called a lot of names, especially sustainable—that S word whose egregious misuse irks us so. Not that Castor isn't sustainable, there are just so many better ways...
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Balls, Foam & Fortunes, Part 1: How a Certain Stolen Toy Design is Related to...
At the risk of getting in trouble, I'm going to tell this story because I think any industrial designer would be interested to hear it.The brilliant and prolific Bruce Hannah, a former IDSA Designer of...
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Balls, Foam & Fortunes, Part 2: For Developing Nations, a New Kind of Soccer...
Tim Jahnigen is a multicreative, Dean-Kamen-like inventor who has created "systems and technologies with patents pending in a diverse range of industries, from construction and banking to science and...
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Kenya-Hara-Curated "Architecture for Dogs" Projects
Designer Kenya Hara of Muji and Haptic fame, among other things, has curated a collection of small-scale, DIY architecture projects created by the likes of Konstantin Grcic, Shigeru Ban and others. And...
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A Guggenheim-esque Rotunda Grows in the Bavarian Forest
The Bavarian Forest National Park recently built a towering, egg-shaped vantage point called the Tree Top Walk, a 150 foot high open air lookout built around three massive fir trees each measuring 125...
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