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Why People Who Don't Know Anything About Industrial Design Think Smartphones...
I've tried to remain silent on this topic, but there are only so many times I can hear people's ridiculous ignorance of industrial design before I've gotta pipe up. The general, misguided statement I...
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A Walk in the (Pop-Up) Park: Softwalks Creates Social Spaces from Scaffolding
Reporting by Teshia TreuhaftNew Yorkers take their sidewalks seriously: With over 12,000 miles of sidewalk in the city, there is a lot to care about. So who wouldn't like the idea of making one of the...
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Norway's Culture of Firewood
A better boob tube?This past weekend some friends and I rented a cabin upstate. As we divided into tasks of food shopping, cooking, bloody-mary-making et cetera, I greedily snatched up the best task...
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Heat Things Up at Jetboil, Inc. in Manchester, New Hampshire
seeks Lead Prod. Design Eng.in Manchester, NHRemember the time you went camping and after that super long hike (not to mention the argument about whether or not your friend saw Bigfoot) you were SO...
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The Knee Defender: Industrial Design Gone Awry, or Just a Sign of Things to...
On my last flight out of JFK, I was in the final boarding group to be called. I observed the bulk of the passengers boarding before me all hewing to the current luggage trend: A roll-on bag topped with...
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Google's Project Glass Team Releases Demo Video, Seeks Buy-In Beta Testers
As Google's Project Glass moves closer to completion, they're making a two-pronged push to draw eyeballs, both figuratively and literally. For the former, they've released a video with actual footage...
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Redesigning Canada for the 21st Century
Americans can be a little hard on Canada. A rebranding for the benefit of the United States seems a little extreme, but it does seem difficult for the average American to discuss much about Canada...
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Follow-Up: Canon's Mixed Reality System Becomes Reality
We first reported on Canon noodling around with augmented reality, which they branded "Mixed Reality," back in '09. Their system had this clunky two-handed viewfinder:By last year they'd refined it...
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More Giant Globes: DeLorme's 41-Foot Eartha
"You make huge globes too? Wow, small world"We'd previously reported that Matt Binns of Giant Globes Inc. is the go-to guy if you need a big-ass scale model of Earth, but as it turns out, Binns isn't...
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BMW Design Chief Karim Habib Talks Shop
It seems like only yesterday that Chris Bangle stepped down as BMW's chief designer, but it's already been four years. Dutch designer Adrian van Hooydonk filled his shoes, until being promoted to the...
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Save The World, One Phone at a Time, with PureGear in Taiwan
wants an Industrial Designerin Neihu District, Taiwan Fragile iPhones without cases... Brand new Droids with no screen protectors... Beautiful and capable devices all around the world are trapped...
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Art Hack Day Returns to Brooklyn's 319 Scholes Next Weekend, February 28 -...
We're very happy to announce that Lindsay Howard and Igal Nassima of 319 Scholes are hosting the second annual Art Hack Day at the Brooklyn gallery space. Starting next Thursday, February 28, event...
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Production Methods: Spin Casting, a Low-Cost, Low-Run Alternative to...
Image via PTI PrototypeInjection molding is awesome. It's also freaking expensive, with high tooling costs that keep it out of reach for your average independent designer, craftsperson or hobbyist. For...
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Bring Your Fast Sketching Skillz to the Chain Drawings Game
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Playing Pictionary with a group of art students, or fellow designers, is what the Brits would call "terrific fun." (Your American correspondent can't describe...
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A BoConcept Benz, Anyone?
Here's a theoretically interesting pair of design bedfellows: Mercedes has partnered up with BoConcept on the SmartCar you see pictured here, which carries a title longer than the car itself: It's...
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Finding Love Gets More Interactive at Zoosk in San Francisco
wants an Interaction Designerin San Francisco, CA The game of finding love is evolving, so the technology that supports it needs to catch up! Zoosk improves the lives of its users by helping them find...
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Announcing A New Strategic Partnership Between Core77 & IDSA
It's not every day two organizations come together to create something even greater than the sum of their parts. It is with great excitement that we announce a strategic partnership between Core77 and...
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In the Hands of God: Do You Want to Live?
By Jan Chipchase, Mark Rolston and Cara SilverIn the coming week we'll be publishing posts by frog's researchers drawing on their experience of working for commercial and non-commercial clients in some...
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Countdown to Design Indaba 2013!
And we're live from Cape Town at Design Indaba this week covering the presentations, films, music and products that are making a difference not only in South Africa, but around the world. An impressive...
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Cool Materials/Production Method Video: Can a Glass Snowboard be Done?
I had one particularly severe design professor who hated materials swapping for the sake of materials swapping. For example if you brought in a design for something ordinarily made of leather but...
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