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Beijing Design Week 2013: Dashing through Dashilar - First Impressions
While the 751 D.Park (D is for Design) abides by the tried-and-true quasi-industrial gallery crawl and Caochangdi is a purpose-built artist village, Dashilar is arguably the heart and soul of Beijing...
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The Sky is Not the Limit, It's Just the View When You Work at Reebok
wants a Sr. Footwear Designerin Canton, MassachusettsReebok was the first company to transcend the lines between fitness and fashion. Today, this core spirit of Reebok is celebrated in the global range...
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What Happens When You Combine Hi-Tech Scanning and Printing with 3D Printing?...
Tim Zaman is doing a PhD in "photothermal tomography" (hi-tech imaging, to nutshell it) at Delft, presumably because his background in biorobotics and mechanical engineering was not challenging enough....
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Muscle Car Mash-Up, Yea or Nay?
Can you guess what this is?Okay, classic American car lovers, time for a little quiz. We've purposely blurred the photos below, now tell us what you see:Easy one, right? '69 Mustang Fastback?Clearly a...
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Shapeways Adds Brass & Gold to Their Materials Mix
When you think about digitally fabricating metal, you probably picture steel powder or something unusual like Alumide, which is nylon laced with aluminum dust. But now Shapeways has added a...
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Limited Edition 1980s Shark Spirit Poster Reissue - Now Available from Core77
Get it here: Core77 '80s Reissue Shark Poster - Only $11.00! Limited Edition, Limited Time!The word "epic" has never been more epitomized than in Core77's brand new reissue of this '80s poster for...
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European Commission's action plan on design-driven innovation
In order to fully exploit the design's potential to boost innovation, growth and job creation, the European Commission presented this week an action plan to promote the use of design in innovation....
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Evernote's Digital/Analog Bridge and the Death of Skeuomorphism
Image via evernote.com.At first glance, it seems natural: when designing notepad software, why not design it to look like a notepad? A voice recorder app should look like a microphone, right?...
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The 'Internet of Toys': Toymail Connects Kids to Their Loved Ones
From the app-based Nickster to the electronic building blocks of Littlebits, toys are making leaps and bounds in cool factor. Launched this morning on Kickstarter, Toymail is the latest and greatest...
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Introducing the Design Authority Summit, Reporting Live from London Tomorrow,...
Have we reached Peak Design? Plotted on Gartner's hype cycle, the design industry's ascendance from relative obscurity to C-suite sweetheart may be said to have slipped over a peak of inflated...
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Announcing the Hand-Eye Supply Workshop Contest at Instructables
Hand-Eye Supply is excited to announce that we've partnered with Instructables to create a contest encouraging open source inclined makers to create a workshop-based DIY tutorial. As if the joy of...
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Ryosuke Fukusada's 'Chameleon Ceramics' Make Bubble Wrap More than just an...
Photos by Yusuke TatsumiIt's not every day that bubble wrap's noise-begging bubbles take center stage in design—you'd more likely see it protecting another design in a box. But Fukusada good Yu's...
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Upwell Design's IKEA Hack is as Well-Designed as the Product They're...
Testing a new product's intrigue is tough. As a designer, every one of your products is a masterpiece for one reason or another and it's hard to get a true take on whether or not it will sell. Upwell...
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Jules Vreeswijk and Joost Waltjen's TOOaPICNIC Series of Hybrid Furniture
From Netherlands-based designers Jules Vreeswijk and Joost Waltjen come the wonderfully bizarre TOOaPICNIC series of furniture pieces, which seem like the three-way love child of diner booths, picnic...
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Design Packaging and Graphics for a Very Playful Brand in City of Industry,...
Playhut is committed to producing innovative toys, allowing kids to play in an imaginative and educational way. With a variety of branded twist and fold tents and tunnels for boys and girls, Playhut...
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Luminous Talks: Harnessing the Uncertainty of Light
Reporting by Chris Beatty; photography by Jessica Miller unless otherwise notedLast Friday at Parsons the New School for Design, Derek Porter, Director of the School's Lighting Design Program, and...
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Skip the Sipping and Inhale Your Tea at the 'Breathable Tea Room'
Photos via NOTCOTIt's not like tea-drinkers choose tea for its immediacy or anything, but to push the "right here, right now" agenda even further, there's now a tea you can inhale instead of sip....
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New, Massive Solar Power Plant Goes Online in Japan
Japan was once colloquially known as the Land of the Rising Sun, and it can't be only environmentalists hoping that a country with such a moniker would take solar power to heart. Following the...
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What's Cooking on Kickstarter? Mike Whitehead's CNC-Milled Cast-Iron Skillet
As an industrial designer, which would you rather do: Design brand new objects and interfaces that have never existed before, or design improvements into existing objects? Both have their challenges,...
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MIT's Dynamic Shape Display is Like a Sandbox in California that You Can...
Those of you who've seen The Wolverine, remember that crazy self-adjusting gurney thing that Master Yashida was lying on? That might not be as far off a piece of technology as you'd think. A team of...
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