BMW is seeking a Senior Visual Interaction Designer in Newbury Park, CA
Senior Designer, Visual Interaction BMW Group DesignworksUSANewbury Park, CA DesignworksUSA depends upon the skill and excellence of our team members to drive the future. We are seeking a Senior...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival 2010: No More Secrets...
Top: Design Against The Clock, and Established and Sons event where designers work in public. Pictured are printing panels used by Richard Woods in his temporary workshop. Bottom: Future participants...
View ArticleStranded: A Zine About the Eyjafjallajokull Experience
Remember when many of us were all stuck in Milan together last April when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in Iceland? Our Coretoonist fueledbycoffee illustrated it and now, five months later, a group of the...
View ArticleHow to make a Redbox: Flextronics keeps U.S. manufacturing competitive with...
While Netflix is moving towards streaming, the other big U.S. rental movie player, Redbox, still uses physical discs. And those discs need kiosks in the tens of thousands, dotting supermarkets and...
View ArticleIndustrial-strength water filtration: The next step in kitchen design overkill?
As kitchen trends have skewed towards industrial-strength appliances, with soccer moms reaching into Sub-Zero 'fridges, will it also dip into laboratory-level water filtration systems? If so, UK-based...
View ArticleBuilding a better pizza box
Julius Caesar once ruled the world's most powerful empire, but these days his chief legacy is that he's got a salad named after him. It's kind of messed up, if you think about it--a Cobb Salad is at...
View ArticleExclusive US Preview of the Plumen at Hand-Eye Supply Tomorrow Night
If you're in Portland, Oregon tomorrow night, make sure you stop by Core77's Hand-Eye Supply for a peek at the first Plumen 001 bulbs in the US. We'll be raffling off one of the bulbs at the end of...
View ArticleWhy does package design so rarely allow us to get to the last drop?
I can extract the absolute last molecule of toothpaste from a spent tube. It's a stupid life skill borne from poverty on my part and bad package design on the manufacturer's part. But I wonder how...
View ArticleBlood, Sweat and Tears in "Make Me" at Moss
It's not apparent from its rough-hewn facade, but "Make Me," recently opened at Moss in New York, has a romantic bent. The romance lies in a classic juxtaposition: a tough exterior combined with a...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival 2010 On-The-Go: Patricia Urquiola
Dwelling lab by Patricia Urquiola and Giulio Ridolfo, at the Tramshed on Rivington Street. Also see furniture by Another Country and balancing light by Tom Foulton . Opened to the public tonight....
View ArticleI Saloni Brings Milan to New York
I Saloni will turn fifty in April 2011, and celebrations kick-off with a series of Italian design-focused events and programs in New York this December. I Saloni, or the Salone Internazionale del...
View ArticleForthcoming Fuseproject-designed VUE watch
I didn't even know what a "watch safe" was until a few minutes ago, but yeah, for the ultra-rich there's a subcategory of safes designed just to hold precious timepieces. However, Issey Miyake's...
View ArticleCoway's air purifiers: Better looking, easier to clean
The plastic grille that commonly covers air conditioners and purifiers is a terrible design. Each little opening in the grills attracts dust like nobody's business, and cleaning between the individual...
View ArticleGrohe's Hope Flows campaign helps fight breast cancer
If you're in the market for a kitchen sink faucet, check out Grohe's Ladylux line, which feature pull-out/pull-down heads--and come with a worthy cause. Grohe's Hope Flows campaign donates $25 for...
View ArticleNot so fast, Ombrae
We first mentioned Ombrae back in 2008; it's a manufacturing process by Quin Media Arts & Sciences Inc. that uses software to translate images into "optical tiles," raised and angled pixels, that...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival 2010: Visiting The Visitor, Okay Studio's Newest...
The Visitor is a collective show of works by Okay Studio and their friends. Okay Studio, based in East London, is made up of 12 friends (who met while studying at the Royal College of Art 6 years ago)...
View ArticleEd Swan's Mark Makers Table
Ed Swan developed the Mark Makers table for The Visitor, an exhibition by Okay Studio that we wrote about earlier today. The table is coated in several layers of color, revealed when 'visitors' sand...
View ArticlePicnic'10 begins in Amsterdam
A design proposal from a speaker at this year's Picnic festival. Synthetic E.chromi bacteria changes colour when it detects disease in your poo. The Picnic Festival is now on at the WesterGasfabriek...
View ArticleShare Your Good Ideas
Creativity doesn't really fit within a billable hours, 9-5 workday model. But as designers, applying creativity in practical ways, we're constantly tinkering with this conundrum, trying to find the...
View ArticleOpen for Branding Week 8: The Process Continues
As you've seen over the course of these posts, design is a process—and a constantly evolving one at that. We have spent the past couple of weeks combing through feedback from Design Museum Boston, a...
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