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Brand New IDEO: What We Learned and What's Next
IDEO just completed 24 hours of prototyping in public from Tokyo to San Francisco. We've effectively pulled a global all-nighter. It's left me with the hollow feeling one has after last call, followed...
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Bradley Hart's Protective Portraits
Okay, does anyone want to guess how artist Bradley Hart made these portraits? Any clue what those pixels are, arranged in that neat hexagonal pattern you've clearly seen before? Even if you puzzle out...
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RCA's Gabriele Meldaikyte Reimagines Digital Gestures as Analog (Mechanical)...
A couple months ago, I posted about "Curious Rituals," a research project by a team of designers at the Art Center College of Design, which I discovered on Hyperallergic. In his post, editor Kyle...
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Brian P. Way's 'Lean Truck' Workshop on Wheels
Remember Ron Paulk's Mobile Super Workshop? The Washington-based builder crammed a highly functional production shop into the back of a box truck, exhibiting the kind of clever design thinking that...
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'Haus' to Make It in America: Grand Opening of Seattle's Makerhaus Design &...
Just in time for spring, the previously-announcedMakerhaus has opened its doors to the Seattle maker community. The 10,000 square foot facility for makers offers a comprehensive selection of essential...
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The Soccket Play-Powered Portable Generator Gives New Meaning to 'Kick-Starting'
Fun fact: the term "kick-start" comes from vintage motorcycles, for which the rider had to kick a ratcheting lever in order to start the engine. According to Wikipedia, "Kick start mechanisms were...
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F+W Media Joins Coroflot Design Network
This week we're happy to welcome F+W Media back into the Coroflot Design Employment Network. We launched our newest partner job board a few days ago, servicing both the HOW and Print Magazine web...
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Walker Art Center's Long-Running Design Fellowship Now Includes New Media;...
wants a Design & New Media Fellowin Minneapolis, MinnesotaThis year marks a shift in the scope of Walker Art Center's long-running Design Fellowship, which has been expanded to include New Media....
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Recap of the iPensole Online Footwear Design Class
By Michael WilliamsI opened the email to read "Congratulations", informing me I had been accepted as one of the students in the first online Pensole class. To say I was thrilled is an understatement—I...
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Is It Possible to Peg an Industrial Designer's Quality of Life?
What promises to be a fascinating discussion about life as an industrial designer is currently taking root on the Core77 Boards. The original poster, presumably a student on the verge of making a...
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A Production Methods Mystery (Involving a Time-Traveling Hollywood Actor)
Here's a production methods mystery, albeit one we think will soon be solved by one of you.On the Discussion Boards, a Core77 reader asked how a hot water bottle is made. A couple of votes came in for...
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Selections from Hand-Eye Supply's Spring Quarterly 2013
Last Thursday we debuted our Spring Quarterly 2013 Catalog for Hand-Eye Supply, featuring tools and workwear we've selected for their fine use in Spring landscaping and gardening excursions. Starring...
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The RoboReel: An Intelligently-Designed Motorized Extension Cord System
The otherwise-useless skill I've picked up from working in a photography studio: Untangling and elbow-winding a kinked extension cord. It's a pain in the neck to do, but after each and every shoot I...
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Remarkably Retro: A Vintage Visual Archive Filled With Desotos, Discos and...
A Dallas-based vintage enthusiast named David (no last name available) runs Remarkably Retro, a Tumblr page loaded up with images of vintage products, advertisements and photographs. And it isn't just...
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What's in a Name? Advice for Companies Expanding to China
Note: The Latin script versions of Chinese names contained in this article are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to be accurate Pinyin (the official Latin script version of Chinese...
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Help shape the future of Microsoft Surface as a Model Maker in Redmond
wants a Model Maker & Prototyperin RedmondDo you love making appearance models and working prototypes? The Surface team at Microsoft is looking for a model maker / prototyper to join their team and...
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When We Built Things Solidly
Photo by ElectroSparkAs we saw in Chevy's old-vs.-new crash test, older doesn't always mean safer, depending on the variables in a car crash; but looking at photos like the one above, it's hard to deny...
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Sketches by Jack Ashcraft
Recently, I did a Google search for the Saab Sonnett III to post an image into the Core77 discussion boards (we were discussing V4 engines). On Google's image search, I noticed a really well-done...
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Awesome Auto Artwork by Jack Ashcraft
Recently, I did a Google search for the Saab Sonnett III to post an image into the Core77 discussion boards (we were discussing V4 engines). On Google's image search, I noticed a really well-done...
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Ken Krout's How-To Video on DIY Injection Molding
When American manufacturing jobs move overseas, the factory workers and machines don't go with them. Which means there are now a lot of very powerful machines popping up on eBay and Craigslist, for far...
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