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Fabulous FaBrickation Options
To broaden your newly Google-supported Lego fantasies, check out this tool to take designs from your computer into the real world. The recent project out of the Hasso Plattner Institute offers a fun...
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Blair Buttke's Ultra-Realistic Metal Microphone Series Leaves Little to the...
"Teen Idol"Blair Buttke, a freelance graphic designer at Philosophy, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ, has graced us with a series of microphone renderings worthy of a double-take. Each design has its own name,...
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Karim Rashid on Democratic Design, Addition Through Subtraction, and Building...
This is the latest installment of our Core77 Questionnaire. Previously, we talked to Moritz Waldemeyer.Name:Karim RashidOccupation: I am a designer—industrial design, interiors, architecture, graphics,...
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Heather Hansen's Body-Created Drawings
For over a decade I taught martial arts, and one of the hardest things is communicating to a novice how to correctly move a particular body part through 3D space. What I always dreamt of was to cover...
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Brett Kern and Justin Rothshank's Dinosaur Ceramics: The Perfect Mix of...
Inflatable animals are great—if you don't mind inhaling the vaguely carcinogenic whiff of freshly processed plastic as you re-inflate your chosen shape five minutes. These ceramic dinosaur sculptures...
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Yukino Ohmura's Dot-Drawn Nighttime Cityscapes
In the You Really Can Draw With Anything Department, we've seen Red Hong draw with coffee cup stains, and Takayo Kiyota draw with sushi; now we've caught wind of Tokyo-based artist Yukino Ohmura, whose...
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What Do You Get When Mix LEGO and Baking Powder? Vesa Lehtimaki's Snow-Ridden...
"Last Ship to Rendezvous Point"When it comes to designs involving LEGO, we're pretty serious. From a prosthetic leg made from the infamous building blocks to hardware design, we can't pass up a chance...
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Google Wants to Change the Way People Learn, and They Want You On Their Team
Learn10x is a new startup within Google Marketing, a small team with a simple and audacious moonshot: to change the way people learn. Their current mission is to create a learning platform to help...
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A Fleeting (and Possibly Contentious) Thought on Squarespace Logo
Seeing as web trends are even more capricious than the weather patterns we've been experiencing here in NYC, the backlash to Squarespace Logo has tapered off by now, but seeing as it launched just two...
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HBO Gets NYC Apartments Right: Laura Ballinger Gardner's Killer, Fictional...
From Seinfeld to Friends, from Rhoda to The Odd Couple, NYC apartments are always depicetd on television as being ridiculously huge. Of course that's a far cry from reality, but at least one show has...
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Crowdfunding Pushes Sea Architect's Exploration Platform Over the Top, So It...
That's the SeaOrbiter, a 200-foot tall floating platform for aquatic exploration, and construction on it is due to begin this spring. It is the brainchild and passion project of a French ocean explorer...
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The Next Thing In Gaming: No Video
Here's a few key innovations in the massive and ever-growing video game industry. The blockbuster studios have laid down the hardware, but it's the smaller indie joints that are ditching the TV screen...
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Cool Tower: The Living's 'Hy-Fi,' a Nearly-Carbon-Neutral Bio-Brick...
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 are pleased to announce the winner of this year's Young Architects Program (YAP), an annual call for proposals for a temporary outdoor installation for the...
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Amos Chapple's Photographs of the Coldest Town on Earth
Globetrotting photographer Amos Chapple has shot in sixty countries, eventually working his way up to be named Cathay Pacific's Travel Photographer of the Year for '09. More recently, New Zealand...
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What Do You Get When You Mix LEGO and Baking Powder? Vesa Lehtimaki's...
"Last Ship to Rendezvous Point"When it comes to designs involving LEGO, we're pretty serious. From a prosthetic leg made from the infamous building blocks to hardware design, we can't pass up a chance...
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Join the Miscreants and Corporate Robots at JVST as a Junior UX Designer in...
JVST Inc, founded in 2008, is a full-service digital advertising and design agency based in San Francisco specializing in innovative and high-impact creative work tailored to inject brands into the...
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NY NOW Winter 2014 Photo Round-up!
'Toto Wooden Dolls' by Artek. The villagers, called Martta, Kerttu, Aaro and Eemil, are made by turning wood and finished with painting by hand.The 'Toto Wooden Dolls' were designed by Kaj Franck in...
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If You Give NYC the Winter Olympics...
...They'll build the coolest urban park you've ever seen. The city may have lost the bid for the Summer 2012 Olympic games, but that didn't stop anyone from showing off just how cool the winter games...
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Making the Most of Wall Space: Bulletin Boards and So Much More
Are you designing an office for someone who needs a good way to hang drawings or documents on the walls—for reference while working on a project, or just to keep frequently used papers readily...
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'Sneckdowns': Can Snow Patterns Help Us Design Better Urban Roads?
Yesterday it snowed in NYC, and as always happens, today you can see which parts of the street have been plowed and driven through and which parts are still snowbanks. And recently a movement has begun...
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