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oPhone: Because Nothing Says 'Thinking of You' More Than a Personalized Scent...
As if we don't have enough meal sharing on social media as it is. It seems that you can't go more than five seconds on Instagram without scrolling upon some carefully composed food porn, whether it's a...
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Updating the Portfolio: Artist Renders His Own Childhood Sketches
If design school served you well, the sketches you were cranking out senior year should've been a damn sight better than your freshman scribbles. As your skills continue to develop, is there anything...
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Breaking In: Product Design - Amina Horozic on Interviewing Over 100...
Published at the beginning of the summer—just in time for freshly minted design grads to take note but relevant for just about any designer these days—Breaking In: Product Design (Tuk Tuk Press, 2014)...
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Spirulina Stations: Superfood Solution to Expensive, Super Food
A backgrounder for those of you who don't live in Berkeley: Spirulina is a superfood. A superfood, for those who aren't obsessed with nutritional fads, is a food that is off-the-charts rich in...
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Eric Brunt's Flux Snowshoes Transform With Each Step
I love seeing this kind of nuts-and-bolts industrial design. Seattle-based designer Eric Brunt observed that what makes snowshoes work is their increased surface area, which enables the wearer to...
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How to Improve the Audio Quality of Vinyl Records with Wood Glue
One of the first things you learn in the ID shop at design school: Wood glue is for joining wood, welding is great for joining metal, acetone is the thing for fusing plastics together. But when you...
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Gothscreenshots: The Blog That Brought You the Most Depressing Digital Error...
The fact that Soug Wen uses that adorable little shrugging smiley in her tagline for Gothscreenshots might be my favorite thing of the month—the actual apparel collection coming in as a close second....
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How to Hide a Forbidden Image in Plain Sight: Anamorphic Cylinders
Charles Edward Stuart, colloquially referred to as Bonnie Prince Charlie, fomented the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in an effort to seize the British throne. Charlie's Scottish troops were defeated in...
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Native Shoes is Looking For a Footwear Designer and Developer in Vancouver,...
If you haven't heard of Native Shoes yet, these kicks are made from foam-injection molded-EVA, and combine the best of evolving technology and great design. Along with a unique, low-emission...
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More Anamorphosis: Bernard Pras' Amazing 3D Trompe L'Oeils
I hate to write this, but "You'll never believe what happens next!"Speaking of anamorphosis, check out French artist Bernard Pras' nutty room-sized sculpture below. Pras practices the cylinder-free...
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Why Should Facebook Have All The Fun? Try the DIY Mood Manipulator
Regardless of whether you're in the Invasion of Mypace camp, or the Well That's How Business Works camp, Facebook has been playing games with your heart. As we all now ought to know, Facebook has...
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Last Night on Kimmel, Tomorrow at Comic-Con: A Walking 14-Foot Monster,...
Every once in a while, a star shows up on Jimmy Kimmel Live and you find that their mother is sitting in the audience. On the show last night something similar happened, albeit with an unusual guest—a...
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The Summer House You've Always Wanted, Built Right Into Your Winter Home
You've gotta love a house that comes with instructions. The newest project from Iranian design group nextoffice scales up the the space-saving technique behind the Murphy bed and enhances it with a bit...
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If Researchers are Right, This Rock Will Make Solar Power Cheaper than Coal
In 2007, a student at the University of Tokyo brought a lump of a grey, sparkly mineral to his professor Tsutomu Miyasaka, with the hope that this material might have potential to make cheap and...
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The 'Coolest' Cooler Kickstarter Has Ever Seen
If you could combine a cooler with another product, what would it be? A built-in ice crushing blender, a USB charging station, a waterproof bluetooth speaker, or a hidden cutting board? How about all...
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Parenting Can Be Tough, But You and Skip Hop Can Make Bags That Make It Easier
Are you passionate about designing functional, fashion-forward bags that improve the lives of those who own them? Are you a quick-thinking, creatively driven, multi-tasking team player who loves...
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Fusing Design and Entrepreneurship on a Global Scale: Chinese Agency...
Oscar Zhao & Yves Béhar: "You had me at nihao."Late yesterday afternoon, we learned that Beijing's BlueFocus Communication Group will be taking a majority stake in fuseproject, Yves Béhar's design...
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Introducing the Pinup 2014 Winners: 3D-Printed Masks, Communal Living...
We've written about Morpholio's powerful app-based design tools in the past (here and here), but you might not know that they also foster design students through an annual competition called Pinup....
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The Transformation of an Idea into Mass Success: Don't Miss the RKS...
How often during a year, or perhaps a month, do you find yourself frustrated or underwhelmed by a tool, system or product you use regularly? Better yet, how often during those moments do you think to...
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Hombre_Mcsteez's Brilliant Aug(De)Mented Reality Animation Technique
Using sheets of acetate, some markers and his phone's built-in camera, the artist known as Hombre_Mcsteez creates brilliant animations that overlay his drawings onto the environment. Mcsteez, a.k.a....
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