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New Design Interactions Research Website
Happy Life by James Auger, RCA tutor. The Design Interactions program at the Royal College of Art, led by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, has launched a brand new research site, collecting projects...
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Platonic Fashion by Amila Hrustic
Sarajevo-based designer Amila Hrustic based her latest collection of clothing on the platonic solids, producing a set of delicate handmade dresses, each one exploring the cube, tetrahedron,...
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Design Criminals at the MAKVienna
Top, mischer'traxler's Automated Cake Decorator and bottom, one of its finished cakes. Photo: mischer'traxler Curated by Sam Jacob, British architect, designer and director of FAT, the Design...
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Designers-In-Residence: Rooted Design for Routed Living
In simplest terms, Rooted Design for Routed Living is a design-build project, where designers-in-residence developed, prototyped and built new furniture for their residency programs, to be used for...
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Philips Invites You to Design the Next Ironing Steam Generator
For its 2010 design competition, Philips is inviting you to design the next steam generating iron. The goal is to come up with something innovative, geared to 2015, that represents Phlips' brand...
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Video: Yves Behar and Jack Schreur on the Sayl Chair
Last week we ran an entry on the debut of Herman Miller's new Sayl Chair; this week we were able to get some video time with Yves Behar and Jack Schreur, HM's VP of Seating, as they discussed the...
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VW Group design chief Walter de'Silva designs Leica M9 Titanium
Walter de'Silva has influenced the design of many Alfa Romeos, Seats, Audis and now, as head of design for the entire Volkswagen Group, is responsible for the design direction of everything from...
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Announcing the New AZ Awards for Design Excellence
Though the submission period does not officially begin until January 1st, this may be something to start thinking about, especially if you're missing I.D.'s Annual Design Review. This year, Azure is...
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Replenish: A "disruptive" spray bottle that's better for the environment
We like seeing the recycling problem being attacked on multiple fronts. For example, single-use spray bottles are recyclable, yet for various reasons only 7% of recyclable plastic actually makes it...
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Core77's Hand-Eye Curiosity Club - Tonight in Portland, Ore.
Tonight Core77 welcomes Blake Van Roekel of Keuken and Art+Palate Supper Club fame to our bi-weekly creative speaker series: The Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club. Blake will be presenting "The...
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Completely circular kitchen knife, nay or yea?
[image credit: Norman Copenhagen] I don't know enough about cooking ergonomics to know if this is the way to go, but LucidiPevere Studio's Chop mincing knife is certainly neat to look at. A subtle...
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1.99 Real Housing: Public Housing and Open Innovation
Architecture for Humanity Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Village of Igaraà in Brazil have just launched 1.99 Real Housing: Communities + Designers, an open platform competition...
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How they shot the Star Wars opening crawl
For all these years I never really knew how they shot the text crawls that opened each Star Wars picture, but I never imagined it was something this low-tech: A camera hanging from a track, shooting a...
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Core77 Gallery: Valencia Design Week
Earlier this month, Core77 correspondent Sam Dunne landed in Spain for Valencia Disseny Week, a program of exhibitions, events, studio visits, and more, anchored by the Habitat Valencia trade fair....
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X-RAY: Tokujin Yoshioka's Transparent Cell Phone
Tokujin Yoshioka (so prolific we can barely keep up) has designed the X-RAY phone for handset manufacturer KDDI's designer label iida. Like those see-through phones from childhood, but better, because...
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Could Your Gaming Device Solve an Environmental Problem?
This Thursday (Oct 21st) Kate Bellingham of the BBC hosts a live chat with Open Planet Ideas program participants Dax Lovegrove (World Wildlife Fund) and Ben Moore (Sony) to discuss how you can get...
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Streaming Live from Hand-Eye Supply!
Blake Van Roekel: Keuken "The Intellectual Palette; Design in the Kitchen" Blake Van Roekel is the owner of Keuken and a co-founder of the successful and popular Art+Palate Supper Club. Her menus are...
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Wright Auctions find: 1960 Door to Door Salesman Model of Buckminster Fuller...
Before the internet, we had catalogs mailed to our door to entice us to buy things from home. Prior to that we had salesmen walking on foot, going from door to door, schlepping everything from the...
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Weird and kind of cool: Nooka's packaging that you eat out of
In a bid to ensure their packaging is not thrown away, watch manufacturer Nooka has partnered with design brand SiliconeZone to produce a rather unusual product: Packaging that you save and use to eat...
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Braille bracelet wins People's Design Award
Surprisingly, only 10% of blind people are Braille literate; but among blind people holding down jobs, 90% of them can read and write Braille. In other words, Braille literacy is clearly the way to go...
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