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A Brief History of Cars Doing Barrel Rolls in Mid-Air (There Have Been Many)
Video is circulating of a rather unusual car stunt pulled in Mexico last week. To promote the grueling SCORE-International Baja 1000 racing event, a stuntman known as Adrian "Wildman" Cenni did...
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Announcing Microsoft's Surface in the Classroom Accessory Design Challenge
We're proud to be a partner in Microsoft's newly launched Surface Classroom Design Challenge. Our very own Allan Chochinov will be serving on the judging panel.Microsoft is calling all designers to...
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By Not Taking Human Electricity Usage Into Account, We've Been Facing Solar...
Go West, young man [whose job it is to install solar panels]As we neared graduating time at art school in Brooklyn, we students began dividing into two camps: Stayers and Leavers, with the former ready...
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Packaging for the Win: Dartstrip Lets You Display Your Wall Art and Look Good...
You never realize how hard it is to hang something until you actually have to do it. Getting your photo/art/mirror/whatever straight is tough enough, but finding a hanging system that doesn't take away...
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Non-Pneumatic Tires Finally Hit the Commercial Sector. Will Polaris Roll Over...
Ever since we saw Resilient Technologies' Non-Pneumatic Tires being tested out on Humvees, we wondered if it would ever trickle down to the civilian sector. Well, it has. Off-road vehicle manufacturer...
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Cineastas Gives Us an Insider Look at the Life and Work of Murray Carter, the...
Portland-based video production company Cineastas completely nails it when it comes to giving us in-depth "documentaries" on makers of all trades in just a couple of minutes. Previously, we've shared...
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Josh Woolliscroft Turns Boring BIC Pencils Into Works of 'Nonconformity'
Josh Woolliscroft, artist and corporate prankster, created a whimsical series of custom writing utensils from boring HB BIC pencils. After shaving down, cutting into and sharpening his purchases, he...
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Push the Boundaries of Design with The North Face as a Senior Designer
At The North Face, designers push the boundaries of innovation with product design and development of premier apparel, equipment and footwear to enable and inspire athletes and enthusiasts to Never...
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Study Reveals the Look and Size of a Product Design Affects Consumers'...
Trash is a big problem for the environment. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. is the worst (or best, depending on how you look at it) in the world for producing garbage, throwing away two billion tons annually....
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A New Line of Bamboo Bike Accessories for Ghana's Yonso Project, by Mathieu...
By Mathieu Turpault, Director of Design, BresslergroupLast summer, we got to live vicariously through a group of Integrated Product Design students at the University of Pennsylvania who traveled to...
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Why Do Americans Love Trucks?
The U.S. is presently one of the world's largest manufacturers, and consumers, of automobiles. What percentage of Detroit's profits, would you guess, comes from trucks as opposed to passenger cars? The...
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We Are What We Do. Ralph Baer, Father of Video Game Consoles, Still Inventing...
Before XBox, before Playstation, before Sega, even before Atari, there was the Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first game console. It was the work of Ralph Baer, an inventor who developed it in 1966 for...
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Breaking News: Jony Ive, Marc Newson & Bono Somewhere in the Vicinity of...
Well, here's an unexpected scoop from our own Don Lehman, who just documented what is likely the most surreal scene we'll see this month: Jony Ive, Marc Newson and Bono piling into a custom Fiat...
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'Creating the Cosmos' Makes Breeding an Entirely New Solar System as Easy as...
Would you believe that the photo above was made with a sheet of glass, milk, food coloring, a bit of water and dust particles? I didn't either, but I speak the truth. Joey Shanks, the guy behind the...
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13 Designers Create Chairs That Definitely Weren't Painted in the 'The Last...
Photos by Max Falsetta Spina"The Last Supper" is arguably more well-known for the speculation surrounding it than anything else. Nevertheless, it's an important piece of art history that sparks...
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Call for Entries: Biennale Interieur Awards 2014
With just less than a year to go until their next event, the Belgian Biennale Interieur—a celebration of design and creative culture known for its relatively small size but uncompromising curation—is...
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Design Packaging with a Leading Creative Force in the Industry; Cornerstone...
Award-winning packaging/branding consultancy is looking to add a senior packaging designer to its growing New York office. As a senior designer, you will work as a part of a team working on projects...
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Cyclists Beware: A Truck's Blind Spot Changes. Watch This Video to Understand...
In earlier days I drove an ambulance, and had to qualify for it by performing a litany of predetermined driving feats. Doing backwards figure-8's around lampposts in a parking lot and backing it into a...
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Two Aspiring Designers Will Go Head-to-Head at the Hatch Live Finals This...
Photos by Priscilla de CastroAfter three weekends, six matches and 12 designs—all created in less than 90 minutes—we're ready for our Hatch Live Design Competition Final. Hatch Live concludes this...
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A Vending Machine for the Art Lover on a Budget and/or the Go
The "Weird Faces Vending Machine" doesn't muck around with commentary on the nature of the work of art, commodification of "culture," or unpacking the universal human condition. This small installation...
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