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Atari 1200 & A300 Vintage Concept Sketches
Those of you that know me even casually know I savor a fine set of vintage concept sketches the way a sommelier might a rare bottle of Chateau Lafitte. So you can imagine my excitement when a...
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Huge is seeking an Art Director in Brooklyn, NY
Art Director HugeNew York, NY HUGE Art Directors report to the Creative Director and work alongside the Client Services, User Experience, and Technology Teams. They are responsible for developing...
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London Design Festival 2010 On-The-Go: Raw Edges' New Bench
The last day of the London Design Festival is grey and rainy, but Raw Edges' Plaid Bench brings some cheery colour to Spitalfields Market. London Design Festival On-The-Go posts are sent to Core77 via...
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Disaster relief design & engineering: Rescue Wizard wins Red Dot
While a lot of industrial design projects start from client briefs of the "Design us a sexier coffeemaker" variety, there are also those projects that start from the discovery of a new material....
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London Design Festival 2010: The Pink World of Ineke Hans
The Aram Gallery for new and experimental design hosts the first solo show of Dutch designer Ineke Hans, entitled 'Mind sets'. The collection of objects and artifacts chart a journey through a...
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Electrolux Design Lab 2010 winners announced
The results are in for this year's Electrolux Design Lab competition, and before we get to the winner, here's a quick vid recapping the finalists to refresh your memory: And the winner is...(more...)
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Arman Emami's improved paper clip design
I remember Henry Petroski's The Evolution of Useful Things book from my design school days, and the paper clip on the cover being touted as a more or less perfect product design. The humble clip...
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A Bluetooth headset that records video
As a design blogger, you become an expert (or so I falsely thought) at glancing at a photo and being able to tell if it's a real product or a rendered concept. So I initially dismissed the Looxcie,...
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London Design Festival 2010: Designs for Hand Luggage Dimensions at Norweigan...
Keel Seat by Oscar Narud The Norwegian Prototypes show on Leonard Street shows work from a cross section of contributors, ranging from students to established practitioners. The 14 designers were...
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Hand-Eye Supply: Plumen 001 Exhibition Opening Photos
Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Plumen 001 launch at Hand-Eye Supply in Portland last Thursday, and congratulations to Dara who won herself a specially converted Plumen for the US. The...
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RCA Launch 'First Hand' Design Products Collection
Mark Owens Avatar Suit is one of the selected products from the RCA Design Products Collection The Design Products Masters course at The Royal College of Art in London has recently launched its first...
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Valencia Design Week 2010: Connecting the Dots Exhibition
First day at the Valencia Design Week 2010 today. First on the list was "Uniendo Puntos"—meaning "Connecting the Dots"—an exhibition intended to showcase craft and design talent from across the...
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MoreGood's Opensource D-I Y Unique Poster Service
Amy Ricketts from MoreGood, a design collaboration based in London, has recently launched a free open source graphic design 'service' called D-I Y that allows users to generate unique design solutions...
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Boats, Barns, Bulbs: American Designer Brendan Ravenhill
We took a little time today to explore Brendan Ravenhill's portfolio of works, after receiving photos of his Bare Light, a delicate, richly detailed version of the classic hanging light bulb. In...
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Caterpillar is seeking a Design Engineer in Peoria, IL
Design Engineer CaterpillarPeoria, IL The individual will be responsible for concept, design, and development activities for the non-metallic trim elements (e.g., headliners, floor mat,...
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Robotic window cleaner, but I want a shower-bot
As an avid iRobot Scooba and Dirt Dog user, what I really want to see them invent is a robot that sticks to slick surfaces and cleans my shower. A robot version of Scrubbing Bubbles. I thought this...
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Segway OWNER (not Kamen) who passed away invented a system for stopping...
Amid yesterday's frenetic and often badly-worded Tweeting, you could be forgiven for thinking that Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, had died. In fact British businessman James Heselden, who owned...
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Service Design Network Conference: October 29th, Cambridge, MA
On October 29th, leading practitioners in service design will convene in Cambridge, Massachusetts for an intense and insightful one-day conference on the fast-growing discipline. Hosted by the Service...
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Sweet (and freaking expensive) design solutions to dead cabinet corners
I'm getting ready to put some new base cabinets in my space, and since every square inch counts, I'm tormented by what I'm going to do with the dead corner. You know, that unfortunate box of space...
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An escalator that gets its swerve on
The escalator was invented over a hundred years ago (in the late 1800s, believe it or not) and since then they've always gone in a straight line; but now, thanks to Jack Levy, an aesthetic upgrade has...
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