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C77 Design Daily, Day Two: Bearers of Good News
We're halfway through our four-day run for the C77 Design Daily and it seems like people are diggin' it. There's plenty of content within those pages and the weather happens to be absolutely perfect...
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Fast Production Tips by Izzy Swan, Part 1: How a Piece of Leather Can...
As we saw in Accidental Designer's True I.D. Story, production work can be one of the biggest challenges faced by an independent furniture designer/builder. Never mind the months you spent getting your...
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TRMTAB: How Buckminster Fuller and One Company's Leather Waste Inspired Two...
It's easy to make a good-looking tech accessory. But creating something that has the looks, a semi-secret—yet intuitive—functionality, turns waste scraps into something beautifully functional and whose...
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NY Design Week 2014: This Is the Good Shift - Umbra Shift at ICFF
It's always a treat when older design houses launch specialty lines. Half the time; they produce things only the most dedicated Skymall shopper could love and we get to gloat, and the other half, they...
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Fast Production Tips by Izzy Swan, Part 2: How He Produces His Pallet Pal...
Izzy Swan has much in common with Ron Paulk: Both guys know their way around a shop and ran their own businesses, neither guy went to D-school yet both design things that lots of other people want to...
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NY Design Week 2014: Moving Mountains & Making a Name
By Ali MorrisAs in recent years, the line 'designed and made in Brooklyn' was perhaps one of the most common quips at NYCxDesign 2014, and long may it continue, especially when the work being produced...
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Designing for Wine Storage
Living not far from some of California's best wineries, I have a number of clients who have bottles of wine to store. Some have just a few bottles, while some have quite a collection. And they all need...
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In the Studio with Marjan van Aubel & James Shaw
Predicting the future of design may be a grandiose (if not altogether futile) conceit, but we're always interested to see practical visions as to what it might hold. While big data and wearables remain...
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Get to Know the Sign Painters Behind the Art We Overlook Every Day,...
If you liked our write-up on the artists behind the gold-gilded pub mirrors we ran a while back, you'll want to tune into this. While we typically take signage for granted, whether it promises the...
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NY Design Week 2014: Ladies & Gentlemen Studio Debut Lights to Look Out for...
Ladies & Gentlemen Studio knows how to play with their shapes. Tucked into a dim upper corner of Sight Unseen OFFSITE, their booth was a highlight of the bright show. Their booth was cosy and...
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YOW! Volkswagen Unveils Bad-Ass Videogame-Inspired Concept Car
A couple of weeks ago this video made the rounds, showing two young VW designers enjoying some Gran Turismo before their boss walks in on them:It was subsequently announced that next month, all of you...
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Ron Paulk's Mobile Woodshop is For Sale!
We previously covered Ron Paulk's Mobile Woodshop in depth, interviewing him in a two-part series. Well, there's fresh news of the Mobile Woodshop: It's for sale!(more...)
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Secretly Snap Your Selfies (and More) with this Necklace-Turned-Spy-Camera
There are enough quirky "found thing" necklaces out there for this one to pass as nothing more than a piece of jewelry ironically moonlighting as a camera—which is exactly what Brooklyn-based designer...
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In the Details: Knauf and Brown's Floor Coaster, a Playful Cross Between a...
Left: Knauf and Brown's Floor Coaster. Right: early prototypes of the rolling tableDie-hard auto enthusiasts swear by manual transmissions, not only for the gas mileage but also for the sensation of...
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How to Keep Beer Cold, Outside, with No Electricity: The eCool
Beer was reportedly invented sometime around 5,000 B.C. So it's shocking to think that refrigeration wasn't invented until the 19th Century. Because that means that the majority of man drank warm beer...
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Hungarian Builders Bust the Record for World's Tallest LEGO Tower
Just this past week, a team of schoolchildren and workmen in Hungary, Budapest have given us an update to a question we've all wondered at some point in our lives: How tall could you possibly stack a...
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Google's Self-Driving Agenda
By Ben ValentineAfter enjoying a short vacation, I finally read Google's post unveiling their brand new self-driving car prototype. I was surprised by just how disappointingly adorable the...
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SpaceX Unveils the Dragon V2: Space Taxi to the Stars
This guy.The world's freshest space taxi has been unveiled! ...And it looks like a Japanese cartoon mascot. Last week, SpaceX live streamed the curtain drop, and space dorks (including yours truly)...
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Hand-Eye Supply Wants to Give You Good Stuff! Enter the All Geared Up Photo...
For Hand-Eye Supply's Summer Quarterly we're spotlighting those of you who have helped make us...us! Enter the All Geared Up Photo Contest by submitting a photo of you with your favorite HES gear, and...
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The Internal Honeycombs That Make Tabletops Rigid, Lightweight and Cheap
Back in '09 we showed you an Ultimate Factories clip of an IKEA factory revealing what's inside their lightweight tabletops. That clip has since been rendered unembeddable, so we'll grab the new code...
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