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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is Looking for an Exhibition Designer in New...
Since 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been on a mission to "...collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and stimulate appreciation for and advance knowledge of works of art that collectively...
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Using Parkour As a Tool in Education and Social Development, Part 1
With additional reporting by Alex Pownall / Parkour GenerationFor those of you who conduct interviews with a voice recorder, you know that the transcription is typically a slow step. If you're lucky,...
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Super Designy Auditorium Seating: Lamm's Genya System
In our quest to uncover the designers behind AMC's new reclining seats, we did come across an unusual, oft-overlooked subgenre of furniture design: Auditorium and lecture hall seating. And in Europe at...
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Why? A Forked Lightning Connector for Your iOS Devices
Two, as logic and cliché suggest, is better than one. Hence, the Y-splitter, a not-quite-indispensable dongle that doubles any connection point. Long a tool for A/V-savvy folks, the 3.5mm (2F-1M)...
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Meet the Trusty, Tasteful Trusco Toolboxes
They've only just arrived but the Trusco Toolboxes have stored our hearts away. We searched high and low for these rare and glamorous tool keepers and they're finally here, just in time for summer...
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Oon Case You Missed It: OKUM's Pretty Power Cords
Instead of trying to make technology invisible, maybe it should just look better. Hidden in plain sight doesn't cut it for David Okum's Oon power cord. Okum has a background in both philosophy and...
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Designing for Disposal, Part 3: Recycling Stations
In my work as a professional organizer, I find that almost all of my clients are concerned about recycling, and I applaud them for this. But this means we need more than a single receptacle for trash....
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Penda's Fastener-Free, Re-usable Bamboo Structural System
Something you see a lot of in New York is workers assembling or disassembling a metal scaffold, but you almost never see them made out of new-looking pipes. The banged-up metal is a testament to how...
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Calling All 3D Modelers - Apple Wants Your Help Developing New Products in...
The Apple Industrial Design team is looking for all levels of CAD sculptor/Digital 3D modelers to create high quality CAD models used in the industrial design process and development of new products....
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Using Parkour As a Tool in Education and Social Development, Part 2
With additional reporting by Alex Pownall / Parkour GenerationIn part one of this two-part series, we introduced Natalia Ivanova, educator and founder of the Hal X parkour training center in...
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Six Ways to Get the Obstacle Course Experience
This week social media has been flooded with the following vid, featuring twentysomething athlete Kacy Catanzaro. On Monday night's episode of American Ninja Warrior, the gymnast from Jersey became the...
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Drawing a Foregone Conclusion: A Measured Defense of Airbnb's New Logo
Our initial report may have echoed Airbnb's hyperbolic enthusiasm about their new identity, and despite criticism that has metastasized in relevant corners of the web—an equal and opposite reaction, if...
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In the Details: Using 'Smart Replicas' to Make Fragile Museum Objects...
Walking through a vast museum filled with paintings and sculptures, you might be surprised learn that what you're seeing is, on average, only 2–4 percent of the museum's entire collection. The other...
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Started From the Stratosphere Now We're Here: Bonsai in Space
Gratingly early on the morning of July 15, artist Azuma Makoto meticulously prepared a lush floral display that would soon hurtle to pieces from around 90,000 feet above earth with Baumgartner-esque...
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This Week in Experimental Sculpture: Jolan Van der Wiel's Magnetic Clay &...
Like many designspotters, we first took note of Jólan Van der Wiel at the Transnatural exhibition in Milan in 2012, one of two exhibitions that included his "Gravity Stools" (we saw him in Ventura...
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Your Job is Nothing But Heavy Duty as a Design Researcher for Milwaukee Tools
Are you looking for a career with a growing company? Looking for a challenging and quick pace environment? Then look no further than this Design Researcher role for Milwaukee Tool in Brookfield, WI....
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Tools of Design Representation and Conceptual Design Practices, by James Self
Figure 1: Digital CAD used to communicate form and design aesthetic. All images Courtesy of Younghoon Hwang, UNIST, KoreaFrom thumbnail sketches to low fidelity models and prototypes to test rigs, CAD...
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4,000 Photos (and More) Hightlighting Hong Kong's Iconic Neon Sign Culture
Photo by Leung Ching HoThe bustling scenes of Hong Kong at night wouldn't be complete without the constant glow of its neon-lit streets. This is a sentiment that is not only experienced by those who...
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Putting the "..k.." in Viral Marketing
There's nothing I love more than cocky, clickbait-y, ham-fisted, virally-aimed campaigns and content-free content marketing. Well, it's my lucky day, because since last week the pablum hose has been...
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Flyn O'Brien's Minimalist Lathr Shaving Set
I hate shaving, and have always viewed it as a bothersome to-do item rather than a pleasurable manscaping ritual. To some extent this is probably because of the shaving objects I use. Gilette's Mach3...
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