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Get Cooking for The Next Big Small Brand Contest
Rooster Design of NYC kicks off their second annual "The Next Big Small Brand" contest today, with an eye out for go-getter artisanal food entrepreneurs who could use some branding help. Rooster...
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Exclusive US Preview of the Plumen at Hand-Eye Supply
Core77's Hand-Eye Supply is happy to invite you to our first reception: the US debut of the Plumen Light Bulb, the world's first designer energy saving bulb. The story of the Plumen is one dear to our...
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Alasdhair Willis Resigns as Chief Executive of Established & Sons
Alasdhair Willis, Chief Executive of ambitious, fast-growing, design-career-kick-starting, British furniture manufacturer Established and Sons has resigned from his post. According to Icon, Willis...
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Design talent from Nantes, France
Yesterday I participated in the graduation jury of the L'École de design school in Nantes, France. Impressive in many respects, also because I happened to judge the student who got the highest grades...
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New building puts the "glass" in the Glasgow School of Art
The Glasgow School of Art, which is centered around a Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building known as "the Mac," is getting a glassy, modern update. American architect Steven Holl, in...
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Jovoto is seeking an Intern and Creative Generalist in New York City
Intern, Creative Generalist jovotoNew York Ciy jovoto is a unique creative community comprising over 12,000 creatives who reside in the near future and hope to change the way we produce creative work...
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Dynamics Inc.: Turning credit cards into microcomputers
Imagine if your credit card itself had buttons on it and worked like a mini computer. That's the idea behind Pittsburgh-based Dynamics Inc.'s Card 2.0, a paper-thin computer embedded within a...
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RunPhones: Great functionality, not-so-great aesthetics
It's not a great look, especially with that tacky tag on the front, but if you're a runner whose headphones are always popping out when you tackle those library steps, perhaps RunPhones are for you....
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Aftermarket designers seem to love undoing Apple's minimalism
It's weird that we have a kind of push-pull thing going on in the product design world today, particularly with gadgets, where a manufacturer renders something minimal, then aftermarket guys bulk it...
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Plain is Best: ROLU's series of OSB and Plywood Chairs
ROLU, rosenlof/lucas, ro/lu, the cryptic but compelling landscape and furniture design firm of many websites, debuted a series of plain, very plain, OSB and plywood chairs at Art in General in NYC...
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Brown & RISD's A Better World by Design: Oct. 1-3, 2010
RISD and Brown students are gearing up for the third year of A Better World by Design, a three-day internationally acclaimed conference to take place October 1-3, 2010. A global community of...
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Women Push the Urban Cycling Trend
Public Bike's M3 We can't get enough of bike stuff. We love bicycles as a beautiful, nimble and eco-friendly form of transportation, and we love all the gear that we can drool over too. We've written...
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Core-Toon: Home Security Innovations for Modern Living
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Dominic Wilcox's 30 Objects in 30 Days
Bread Light. We love prolific designers and London-based Dominic Wilcox is nothing but. His nonstop blog, Variations on Normal, is a faithful record of this, documenting not only design work but also...
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Design Fancy: Thomas Ruby
Thomas Ruby was an Industrial Designer/Paticle Spectrologist from Captiva Island in Florida. He was born in 1941 and spent his early years collecting shells and other objects that washed up to the...
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Weekend Reading: Catching up on the Vignellis
We don't know if there's more to come (could there possibly?!), but you can use the weekend to catch up on all your reading from the past week's incredible extravaganza on Design Observer celebrating...
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1 Week Left! 1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks
We're 63 entries strong on this month's 1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks, but we want to see more! You've got one week left to submit a recreation of your favorite shoes in Play-Doh and enter...
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is seeking a Photography Intern in New York...
Photography Intern Martha Stewart Living OmnimediaNew York, NY Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is currently seeking an intern for the photography department. This will be an opportunity to experience...
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London Design Festival 2010: Welcome to London Town!
Correspondent Shai Akram will be sending us live updates of the London Design Festival 2010, which kicked off this past weekend. She describes the lay of the land in her introductory post below. Keep...
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The Art of Doing Stuff: Karen Bertelson's impressive (and cheap) DIY firepit
As DIY projects go, building a portable firepit sounds complicated and maybe even dangerous; but as Karen Bertelson, Canadian TV host and founder of The Art of Doing Stuff demonstrates, it's not only...
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