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Sony Open Planet Ideas: Into Concepting
The Sony Open Planet Ideas Challenge wrapped up the first project stage, "Inspiration," a week ago, with 335 suggested environmental issues to tackle. After culling through the inspirations, the next...
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Fitbit is seeking Senior Designers in San Francisco, CA
Senior DesignersFitbitSan Francisco, CA Fitbit is a San Francisco startup that makes a tiny fitness tracking device that connects to a personal health management website. We place a lot of emphasis on...
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Jose de la O's Dramatic Anti-Fly Device Repels Insects with Light
According to Netherlands-based designer José de la O, the proprietors of outdoor taco kiosks in Mexico use an ingenious form of pesticide based on light; a plastic bag full of water hangs from the...
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Markus Huttary's shoot-your-own-postcards concept
I have friends who still send postcards when traveling overseas, an anomaly in an era when you can snap a cell phone shot and MMS it anywhere in the world. As quaint as the act is, there's something...
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Phenomenon: Tokujin Yoshioka's Tile System for Mutina
Tokujin Yoshioka has produced a new tile system for Italian ceramics manufacturer Mutina. The Phenomenon collection comprises of "snow," "honey-comb," and "rain," each based on the irregular textures...
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GD Awards: Dell's 24 laptops + mothership, Sony's minimalist-monolith TV
Dell's Experience Design Group took home a 2010 Good Design Award for their Latitude 2100 series, a system of notebooks aimed at the educational (K-12) market. The ruggedized laptops dock and charge up...
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For a cheap ten-dollar product with a lousy ad budget, the Trunk Organizer is...
Yes the video quality here can be described as "totally ass" and the music is ridiculous, but you have to be impressed at the sheer variety of shapes these guys were able to come up with using what is...
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Studio Olgoj Chorchoj Go Back to Their Childhood
Studio Olgoj Chorchoj's Back to the Childhood giant dining table installation. Studio Olgoj Chorchoj were commissioned to create a new piece of work for the Liechtenstein's Museum's exhibition,...
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Design IS Thinking
A few months back, on this forum, Don Norman wrote a great piece that drew back the curtain on the ever-expanding blur that is design thinking. Norman's piece eloquently articulated a number of...
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Reflections on PICNIC 2010: What Are You Bringing?
'Guest post by Dave Malouf. PICNIC 2010 was the 5th incarnation of this now staple Amsterdam event. They call it a festival so people don't think they are supposed to come and sit on their butts for...
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Abie Abdillah's rattan furniture designs
Jakarta-based designer Abie Abdillah is well familiar with rattan, partly because he's from a country that produces 70% of the world's supply and partly because he's worked as a local designer. For...
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Dario Jandrijic's KLEXL lets your kids go Sistine Chapel on the walls
Before there was "Shit My Dad Says" there was "Shit My Kids Ruined." More than a few parents have discovered that a few minutes of divided attention is all it takes for their tyke to blaze a graffiti...
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Smart Design and Ford: Reducing Glance Time on the Ford Smart Gauge
Here's an interesting video tidbit from Smart Design, describing a portion of their development process for the Ford SmartGauge, an LCD based instrument panel for their hybrid cars. Concerned that an...
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IDEO's Designs On Birth
Designs On&mdash is a printed series put out by IDEO, with new design concepts by IDEO's designers that "aim to raise awareness about a particular issue or topic." The book was started in 2007 in...
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SolTech Energy integrates solar, beautifully
Nothing says "afterthought" like a rectangle of solar panels slapped onto the roof of a house with no visual relationship with the rest of the structure. Swedish company SolTech Energy brings solar in...
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DesigNYC: Call for Round Two Submissions
DesigNYC, a one-year-old organization that matches nonprofit/community design needs with pro bono designers, has just opened its call for their second round of project submissions from nonprofits,...
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Watch the The Feast 2010 Conference Live Tomorrow!
The Feast 2010 has sold out for the third year in a row. Thankfully, they'll be livestreaming the entire thing here, from 9am-5pm. Head over to their website to look over their list of...
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The IDSA's Catalyst program seeks tales of design (and makes last year's...
Do you or your organization have a great design story to tell? The IDSA's Catalyst Case Study Program, initiated by RKS Design's Ravi Sawhney, seeks tales of design success, change, and influence....
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A look at how better design can improve schools' performance
We learn design in schools, but sadly, the layout of most regular schools is not informed by design. Kind of a stretch but it reminds me of how barbers can't cut their own hair. In an article in...
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Shape Changing is Real: Blob Motility by the Wakita Lab
A friend of ours loves to joke that the future will have no hard edges; experience will be defined in pastel-colored gels, foams and mists that deliver your voicemail and bring you milk. Probably to...
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