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Your UX Skills Can Empower Everyone On The Planet to Use Less Energy
Opower's mission is to empower everyone on the planet to use less energy, and they do it by designing products that nudge people to change their behavior. With your incredible UX skills, you'll write...
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Cool Japan Fund Aims to Export Cool, Previously Japanese-Market-Only Stuff
A buddy of mine recently returned from his annual trip to Japan, lacing our female friends with omiyage (souvenirs) that are difficult or impossible to find in the 'States: Green Tea Kit Kat bars,...
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'Lucid Stead,' Phillip K. Smith III's Suh-Weet Mirrored Desert Cabin
With dual degrees from RISD in both Fine Arts and Architecture, Phillip K. Smith has a good grasp of both expression and structure. Along with technical acumen in lighting design, these skills served...
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Sebastian Errazuriz Talks '12 Shoes for 12 Lovers' (and the Response He's...
Photos via Sebastian Errazuriz StudioSebastian Errazuriz has no fear of sharing his thoughts and beliefs, whether they're translated through bike lane performance art or other shocking surfaces. To put...
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Forget Resumes, Jens Lennartsson Sends Action Figures of Himself to Potential...
The things that people do to snag a job are nuts. Standing out among the unemployed and enthusiastic is becoming pretty tough... especially when you have people like photographer Jens Lennartsson...
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Revitalizing the Old Paint on a 1958 Porsche Speedster
Paint restoration is a painstaking and challenging skill to master. But it can also be hugely satisfying. One of the more challenging tasks is restoring the paint on an old car.I never thought I'd be...
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Reinvent Yourself! Be Inspired! Join Uniplan as a Senior Event 3D Designer
For over 20 years, Uniplan has been providing refreshing live communication solutions. They develop ideas, campaigns, communications and innovations for international events and exhibition projects....
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Grant Thompson's Insane 'Solar Scorcher'
Today is Thanksgiving here in the U.S., when we all give thanks that the heavens have provided us with the Kardashians, a bitterly bifurcated government and wildly diverging views on firearms. We...
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Wesley Souza's Syringe-Based Hydraulic Excavator Model
If only there were, for every kid glued to an XBox, another kid like Wesley Souza. After observing how an escavadeira (excavator) works, the Brazilian teen replicated the hydraulic mechanisms using...
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A Swashbuckling History Project
"Was an African or Arab or a Portuguese shipwreck implicated? Marooned Indonesian sailors? Had Aborigines traveled to Kilwa in days of old?" The Past Masters dig the truth.I'm not trying to start...
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LEMs' Luggage-Friendly, Rollable Boots
As I mentioned in this post on travel methodologies, I never travel with anything larger than a rolling carry-on. So if I'm flying someplace that has inclement weather and I think I might need to bring...
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Zappos Turns Baggage Claim Carousel Into Wheel of Fortune
How do you take two things most people don't like—airline travel and advertising—and combine them into a pleasing experience? That was the task online retailer Zappos set for Mullen, and the Boston ad...
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Computer-Generated Design: Zhang Zhoujie's Digital Vessel Gives New Meaning...
In the context of design, fabrication is essentially a fancy term for making, and insofar as the term is refers to the process of producing a physical thing, the word transcends its alternate meaning:...
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Design Heavy-Duty, Highest Quality Tools with Milwaukee Electronic Tool...
Industrial designers who work for Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. work on a product line that includes more than 500 tools and over 3,500 accessories. These are the heavy-duty, high quality, portable...
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Afterschool Podcast with Don Lehman - Episode 13: Next Generation Gaming...
Hosted by Don Lehman, Core77's podcast series is designed for all those times you're sketching, working in the shop, or just looking for inspiration from inspiring people. We'll have conversations with...
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What Gains 50,000 Pounds in 15 Minutes?
[image via JBT AeroTech]Your correspondent managed to travel via subway this Thanksgiving, avoiding the car-clogged roads, the train-jammed tracks and most importantly, the airplane-choked skies. But...
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Amazon's Delivery-by-Drone Looks Freaking Amazing. Will It Happen?
Last night on the American news program 60 Minutes, Amazon skipper Jeff Bezos unveiled the company's plans to have packages delivered not by strapping UPS men, but by autonomous drones that it is...
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'Woof to Wash' Puts Support Dogs on Laundry Duty
Dogs may be man's best friend, but UK laundry company JTM Serviceis helping them creep into that "one pet fits all" territory. They've created a bark activated washing machine, making it possible for...
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NYC's Female Leathersmiths, Part 1: Kika NY
Hailing from the Netherlands, Sabine Spanjer was an interaction designer. Fellow Dutchwoman Kika Vliegenthart earned a Bachelors in Economics. So naturally the two found themselves starting up a...
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And Now, an 8-Bit Super Mario Version of the New York City Subway Map
Like most everyone who was born after, say, the mid-70's, we're big fans of Super Mario—see figs. 1, 2, 3—so we're definitely digging Robert Bacon's "Super Mario New York City Subway" Map. As Andy Cush...
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