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Conduit. Coalescence. Conflictollaboration: Considering the "Co" in...
Images, courtesy of Robynn Butler, are from a co-design initiative with Savannah High School students and SCAD Sustainable Design students, piloting frog's Community Action Toolkit. For more...
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Jack Shepard, Portland ID Student, Creates Addition to Art Institute's...
We don't often think of undergraduate industrial design students as being able to influence their schools' curricula, but Jack Shepard is not your average student. First off, Shepard was a Sergeant and...
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The Design Crowd is Cheering: NYCxDesign coming in May
The wait is over: The City of New York recently announced the first annual full-fledged New York design celebration from May 10–21, 2013. NYCxDesign (pronounced New York by Design) will be a citywide...
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International Home + Housewares Show 2013: Winners of the 20th Annual Student...
This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Student Design Competition at the International Home + Housewares Show, and the winners put forth as strong a showing as ever as the competition enters its...
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Creating Boards the Old-School Way: By Rocking a Froe
[image via Peter Follansbee][image via Lost Art Press]Did you ever wonder how craftspeople used to split thick wood into boards, prior to the invention of bandsaws and sawmills? They performed riving...
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Lee Jinha's 'What You Click is What You Wear' Take on Augmented Reality
When we last looked in on interaction designer Jinha Lee, he was developing the See-Through 3D Desktop for the Microsoft Applied Sciences Group. Last week Lee, who's pursuing a doctorate at MIT Media...
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Winbloks: Pre-Cast Modular Concrete Window Frames
Winblok is a South African construction innovation by inventor Al Stratford, former president of the South African Institute of Architects. Intended to be used in buildings constructed with masonry,...
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Darts, Dogs and 3D Artistry at Aniden Interactive in Austin, Texas
wants a 3D Artistin Austin, Texas How does this sound for great gig?Exercise every facet of your passion for 3D artistry, from modeling and texture creation, to lighting and animation.Work with cool...
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Core77 Design Awards 2013: Less Than Three Days to Go...
It's almost here. The deadline to submit your awe-inspiring, judge-wowing, boast-worthy work to the 2013 Core77 Design Awards is this Friday, March 15th, at 8PM Eastern Time.For those of you who...
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From Concept to $500K: The Story of the Lumio Lamp, by Max Gunawan
Text and Images by Max GunawanLumio is a lamp that unfolds from a book. Simply open the cover to turn it on, the further you open the cover the brighter it gets. Sounds very simple, yet the design...
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International Home + Housewares Show 2013: Coffee Paraphernalia
As usual, there was a glut of coffee-related products at this year's International Home + Housewares Show: we were interested to see that Bodum joined Keurig (to name a few) in the "Wired + Well"...
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Peter Schjeldahl Lecture Excerpt on Why "Good Artists Tend to Be Bad Students"
Of all the design lectures we've sat through, either as part of our schools' curricula or in postgraduate events, the most interesting ones are where you can't quite decide if the speaker is crazy or...
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Dyson Designs a Hand-Drying Sink Faucet
Well, now we know where some of the motors being made in Dyson's new factory will be going: into sink taps! Dyson has designed a sink faucet that integrates their Airblade technology, blowing 28 liters...
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International Home + Housewares Show 2013: Cleaning Robots for Your Gutters...
The advent of the robot age has been a long time coming, but the machines are slowly but surely starting to infiltrate our homes in the guise of mobile household appliances (JK...?). Although both of...
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Urban Design Solutions for Protecting Pedestrians: Stockholm's Self-De-Icing...
In the quest to protect pedestrians from those mainstays of morning radio, Traffic and Weather, urban planners worldwide use a host of design solutions.Tokyo likes elevated walkways at crossings, since...
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Urban Design Solutions for Protecting Pedestrians: Sweden's Self-De-Icing...
In the quest to protect pedestrians from those mainstays of morning radio, Traffic and Weather, urban planners worldwide use a host of design solutions.Tokyo likes elevated walkways at crossings, since...
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With Stratflex, Flatpack Furniture Goes Curvy
A newer design technology in the Wintec Innovation fold (see our post on their Winbloks) is their Stratflex system. It's essentially flatpack furniture with a twist, or rather, a bend: Plywood is...
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Apply Your IxD and UX Skills at eHealth in San Francisco
wants an Interaction Designerin San Francisco, CA Getting health insurance isn't always a cake walk. That's why eHealth is all about making the process of getting insured easier and more accessible for...
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Core77 Design Awards 2013: Try Harder-- Deadline Extended to March 26!
We've all done it—putting something off with the best intentions until that gentle, non-confrontational deadline you were ignoring is suddenly in your face, tapping your shoulder and demanding, "What...
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Case Study: HydroPack, Hydration for a World in Need by Farrell Calabrese
With additional editorial support from Nathan Jones, Keith Lampi, Gaylon White, Jos de WitNatural disasters can happen anywhere with little or no warning. When they do, they threaten community water...
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