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Announcing the Winners! 1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks
Our latest design challenge, Play-Doh Kicks, was not only one of the most fun, but also one of our biggest. We asked our readers to sculpt a rendition of their favorite kicks in play-doh as a mini...
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Vienna Design Week 2010 On-The-Go: The 7 Deadly Sins
To celebrate the release of Austrian based print magazine Kursiv's 2010 yearbook based on the Die 7 Todsunden (The 7 Deadly Sins) the well established Das Mobel furniture store in Vienna commissioned...
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Live from Hand-Eye Supply: Curiosity Club
Welcome to the first broadcast of Core77's Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club 5:30 to 6:30 pm PST (GMT+8) Our first speaker Mark Tieszen has spent 7 years as a professional Telemark skier. Mark's...
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Reax resuscitation device takes 3rd in Dyson Awards
Years ago I drove an ambulance, and on my very first call I'd done chest compressions on a guy who was unfortunately too far gone to be saved. Afterwards the seasoned EMTs told me that CPR is a real...
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Light-extruding tech now available in app form
One of our most-Tweeted posts was the recent "How to extrude light," which showed design consultancy Berg and Dentsu London's innovative use of an iPad and long-shutter photography to produce images...
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Vienna Design Week 2010: The Bulb Fiction Show
Klaus Engelhorn, curator of Bulb Fiction, tries on POLKA's 'Perlenlicht' prototype for size. In the Hernals neighborhood of Vienna, we visited the Bulb Fiction show at the KlausEngelhorn Depot....
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Helmut Palla's Take a Seat Show
The majority of the events and exhibitions on show here in Vienna during its design week are set in beautifully historic buildings that have been designed in the 19th or early 20th century by...
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UX Hong Kong 2011: Q&A with Daniel Szuc
UX Hong Kong 2011 is a new event organized by Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong of Apogee Hong Kong. Daniel describes the goals and context of the conference in our Q+A with him below. Registration and...
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The Selby X Confetti System
Todd Selby, of The Selby is in Your Place, has gotten around to shooting the studio of one of our favorite design teams: Confetti System, designers of pinatas, party garlands, and, yes, confetti. View...
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The EU's newly launched Innovation Union
With a completely over the top video (but hey, that's what it takes to make something go viral, no?), the European Commission has launched yesterday an ambitious initiative that aims to use public...
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Whipsaw-designed Pano Device (computerless computer) is smaller, greener, and...
The Pano Device is like a computer with nothing inside it. You plug your monitor, keyboard and mouse into the back, but it contains no CPU, no memory, and no software; all of that stuff resides on a...
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Philadelphia Designers Accord Town Hall Meeting: October 12th
The discussion about sustainability has been in full swing for quite awhile. How do we move past talk and towards action? Join together with designers throughout the city to develop and begin...
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Bookshelves are filled with books, and this blog's filled with bookshelves
Never mind apps, there really is a blog for everything. I just stumbled upon Bookshelf, a blog dedicated to interesting you-know-whats. Some of 'em you've seen before but many you haven't; and with...
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Matroshka: A system of space-saving furniture that never was
DANT DANT. I just experienced the design blogger's version of the opening scene from Law & Order: I was looking for something else and I stumbled upon a corpse. Matroshka is a design project from...
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Mark Braun and J&L Lobmeyr
Mark Braun, a designer based in Berlin, collaborated with J&L Lobmeyr as part of the Vienna Design Week's Passionswege - an initiative to bring emerging designers to work directly with local...
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Design Without Designers
I will always remember my first introduction to the power of good product design. I was newly arrived at Apple, still learning the ways of business, when I was visited by a member of Apple's Industrial...
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Silver Sugar Spoon by Studio Makkink & Bey
One example of the silver tableware sets originally sketched out in sugar Studio Makkink & Bey were asked by Vienna Design Week to create new work for an exhibition on table culture entitled...
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The desks of creatives
In a Design Observer article entitled "Massimo Vignelli's Desk," design critic Alice Twemlow references both a Guardian photo series of writer's workspaces and Imaginary Forces' The Desk, a short film...
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Learn a thing or two at Autodesk's free online Sustainability Workshop
Autodesk's Sustainability Workshop is a free online site with short videos to educate viewers on the environmental impacts of design. Right now they've got a section up for Intro to Whole Systems...
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Cut & Paste San Francisco Tonight
If you are in the bay area today, then bring your skills down to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St, for Cut & Paste, SF edition! Compete live against other talented creatives in...
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