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Watch Over Jimmy DiResta's Shoulder as He Makes a Tool Bag
For those of us that don't work on the factory floor, it's rare to see an object get made in its entirety, from start to finish. But here NYC-based designer Jimmy DiResta—you'll remember him from Dirty...
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Potential UI Gamechanger: Minuum Linear Keyboard
We've seen plenty of variations on the now-canonical input device known as a keyboard, from touchscreen interfaces and, um, exterfaces to a tactile surface treatment (currently available on...
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Making Straight Lines and Flat Surfaces: Hard for Man, Easy for Nature
What do you think was the first absolutely straight line that a caveman ever saw? I'm guessing it was a shaft of sunlight poking through a cloud. Or maybe the horizon line on a large body of water,...
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Design Indaba 2013: Ben Terrett and Willy Wong Talk Designing for Government
Is it possible to make a government services site useful for citizens seeking information? Ben Terrett, Head of Design at the Government Digital Service, not only thinks it's possible, but believes it...
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Take Flight with Radio Flyer in Chicago, Illinois
wants a Sr. Industrial Designerin Chicago, IL Can you live by the Little Red Rule? Radio Flyer is seeking an outstanding Senior Designer with 5 to 10 years of experience in toy and/or consumer product...
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Skillshare: Got an Art/Design Class You Want to Take... or Teach?
Choosing courses in design school was occasionally agonizing: Do I take Transportation or Furniture Design? Why the heck are they on the same day? but after you graduate, you realize what a luxury it...
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Holy Cow: Christian von Koenigsegg Invents "Free Valve" Engine That Requires...
Why won't the internal combustion engine die? To oversimplify the issue, it's partly because of its incumbency and partly because it's very good at what it does. Environmentalists hate it because it's...
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Christian von Koenigsegg's Camshaft-Free, 'Free Valve' Engine: Smaller, More...
Why won't the internal combustion engine die? To oversimplify the issue, it's partly because of its incumbency and partly because it's very good at what it does. Environmentalists hate it because it's...
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SVA Masters Workshop in Rome this summer!
From May 26th through June 9th, SVA will once again be running its Masters Workshop in Italy. You can check out last year's blog, projects, and videos, and learn more about the program at the site. To...
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Flotspotting: Joe Warren's Quad Micro Bar
Joe Warren's QMB, or Quad Micro Bar, is nifty way to seat four in a temporary setting. Washington-based industrial designer Warren observed that "bars and chairs are cumbersome, space-consuming...
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Cube Sensors: Design to Improve (or Blame) Your Indoor Environment
It's starting to seem inevitable that we will end up on the bandwagon that is self-tracking, whether we like it or not. While most of the recent tech-enhanced products seem to focus on logging fitness...
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Here's 52 Issues of a 19th-Century British Craft Magazine, Courtesy of a...
Want to build a wheeled, revolving bookcase designed in 1890? Yeah you doTools for Working Wood is the name of a Brooklyn-based company that sells, well, guess. And in addition to their retail arm,...
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A Beautiful Bicycle Made of Wood, Wheels and All
Remember the Thonet bicycle concept, and how we weren't sure if the seat-tube-less design would be possible to execute in steambent wood? Seeing as there's still no word on whether it will become a...
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Brand New IDEO: Opening Remarks by Michael Hendrix
A couple of years ago, Core77's Dave Seliger dug up History of the IDEO logo, in a post by Scott Underwood, former IDEO jack-of-all-trades. Scott's post shows a clear evolution from version one to...
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Design Products That Last a Lifetime in Sausalito, California
wants a Sr. Design Managerin Sausalito, California Heath's designs, new and old, are know for their bauhaus roots - driven by their materials and simplicity in form. Their goal is to design products...
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A Database of 120 Different 3D Printers, With Prices & Stats
You've heard of MakerBot, Cubify and Solidoodle. And if someone finds out you're into ID and asks "Hey, what do one of those 3D printers go for?" you can spit out a ballpark figure, and maybe some...
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Brand New IDEO: Tokyo Gets Inspired By Robots, Cherry Blossoms, and Bento Boxes
Times are local to location.7:35 a.m. - The IDEO Tokyo Team (Sungene Ryang, Davide Agnelli, Mike Peng, Kenichi Nonomura, Seisho Sumida, Evin Dempsey, Mai Yamada, Yoo Kyoung Noh) begins to slowly...
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Using French Cleats For a Wall-Mounted Tool Organization System
The simple French Cleat technique is a clever way to hang things on a wall, whether permanently (as with a cabinet) or temporarily (as with rearrangeable modules you can easily pull on or off). Here...
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Brand New IDEO: Singapore Hacks Origami, Experiments with 3D
On Monday, IDEO Singapore started the day with Skype cameras on and speakers turned up loud, ready for the Global Make-a-Thon baton passed from the Tokyo studio.Our friends in Tokyo had spent the...
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Live Drone and Prosper: Promoting Star Trek via Quadrocopter
While debate rages in the U.S. over drone surveillance of its citizens, drones were pressed into service over London on Saturday for a less contentious purpose: To promote the upcoming Star Trek movie....
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