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The Auto Industry Invades CES
The BMW i3 [Ed. Note: We spoke to Head of Design Adrian van Hooydonk on the occasion of the launch]It was just a few short years ago that Audi showed up to CES with a small booth highlighting their...
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True I.D. Stories #17: Why 'Spinal Tap's' 11 is More Like 3.5
This is our first non-anonymous True I.D. Story.As a musician and sound engineer, Stephen Ambrose spent the '70s touring the world with hard rock acts. This led him to invent the world's first in-ear...
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You Don't Have to Be a Smoker to Appreciate SmokeBox
Hyper-metallic cases and gaudy lighters are taking over smoking accessories. What were once carefully created pieces of functional art are now truck stop novelties and pass-me-downs. Not that we're...
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Production Methods: CNC Wire Machines Can Cut Crazy Shapes Out of Stone
After reading our entry on multi-bladed jigsaws, Art Director and Coroflotter Juan Cano tipped us off to a similar machine, this one used to cut stone. By swapping out jigsaw blades for diamond-crusted...
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History Repeats Itself: Uber-Luddites Attack Hacks
If you think these guys are scary, just imagineif they all knew how to sew French cuffsIn 1829, a French tailor named Barthelemy Thimonnier invented the first French sewing machine. It was primitive,...
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Calling All ENTHUSIASTIC Industrial Design Students! HP Has an Internship For...
HP is looking for an ENTHUSIASTIC individual to join their commercial notebook and tablet design studio. This candidate must demonstrate portfolio examples showing an understanding of design process,...
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Forum Frenzy: Real Designers Ship
Early in my career I was introduced to the phrase "real designers ship," which I took to mean "until you get something in production, you don't know nothing kid." To a point, it is correct. The actual...
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Getting Hired: For a Job in Philips's Healthcare Division, Show Empathy, Be...
Philips's Ambient Experience electrophysiology lab helps patients relax and staff work more efficiently.This is the third post in our Getting Hired interview series. Yesterday, we talked to the global...
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Your Verse: Apple's Latest iPad Air Ad Is a Remix of Walt Whitman via Dead...
Image via AppleThis past weekend saw the debut of Apple's latest TV ad, "Your Verse Anthem," a kind of creative use-case montage set to a Robin Williams voiceover from Dead Poets Society. Specifically,...
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Grassroots Digital Fabrication, Literally
The number of things that can be 3D printed is overwhelming—from casts, interactive toys and auto shift knobs, the options are mostly useful and sometimes just plain fun. Meanwhile, researchers...
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Saddleback Leather's David Munson Shows You How to Knock Off His Designs
In the '90s, David Munson was working as a volunteer English teacher in Mexico when he caught the bag bug. While searching for the perfect leather bag, he realized it didn't exist, and set out to...
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The World's Best Dish Washer
Bet you would've loved these over the holidays. Much better than paper dishes and yet with the same convenience: No washing! That's right, self-cleaning tableware. The prototype is the work of the...
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Production Methods: An Articulated Bandsaw!
A bandsaw is the go-to shop fixture if you're cutting an intricate shape out of wood. But there's a size limit as to what you can get up onto the bed and maneuver with your hands, in a manner that's...
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Join Matter and Contribute to Thoughtful and Well Informed Creative Design in...
Matter is a product innovation consultancy that specializes in thoughtful and well informed creative design. They use research, consumer insights, business understanding and instinct to beautifully...
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Identity Crisis: Black+Decker = Bleccher?
Hear that dull whine in the background, the noise that sounds something like your neighbor using an impact driver down the hall? Close—its actually the reaction to the new logo for Black & Decker...
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Getting Hired: To Score a Job at DesignworksUSA, Edit Your Portfolio, Carry a...
Designworks USA provided engineering and design expertise for the 2014 U.S. Olympic bobsledThis is the fourth post in our Getting Hired series. Yesterday, we talked to the chief design officer for...
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Look No Further For Your Next Book: Designers & Books Have 99 Must-Reads From...
In proper book review fashion, Designers & Books have given us enough 2013 design copy to last us years in their end of the year round-up. According to the site, their list consists of 47...
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Passagen 2014 (Interior Design Week Koeln): t.a.t. new talents
A new venue has earned a place on the map of Passagen 2014, Cologne's annual Interior Design Week that runs concurrently with imm cologne with close to 200 exhibitions throughout the city. Set in a...
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Sony's Gorgeous, Floor-Borne Short-Throw Projector Channels Classic Braun Design
If you've got the bucks, an HD projector is a cool alternative to a television. It's about as unobtrusive as it gets, turning any white wall into a screen larger than the biggest LED or plasma screen...
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Design by Nature: How (and Why) Worm Secretion is Making an Appearance in...
Thanks to this little guy, scientists are finding more efficient ways to stitch people upDesign's role in medical discoveries is always an exciting topic of conversation, from design experiments like...
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