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Match the auto design brand with the spin-off coffeemaker
Sure it's a little silly, but auto design powerhouses Lamborghini, BMW, Bugatti and Ferrari have all produced their own designs for espresso machines. Wait! Before you click that link above to see the...
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Jan Chipchase on Mobile Money
Here's a nice little tidbit from Frog Design, outlining a talk Jan Chipchase delivered to the US State Department about mobile money. The talk is part of a series of discussions entitled Tech@State,...
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London's Olympics needs a torch design, quickly
Here's an interesting design brief: Design a relatively small-run (8,000-unit) handheld device capable of sustaining an open flame in wind and the UK's typically inclement weather. Oh yeah, and it...
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A look at the rainbow-shaped PiCycle hybrid bike
I'm not crazy about their product photographer, but I like the ballsy form factor of the PiCycle electric-hybrid bike. You could say the zero-emission cycle, which runs from three to five grand, has...
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New 1 Hour Design Challenge! Theme: Play-Doh Kicks
This month, we're celebrating shoe designers all over the world with our latest 1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks. To get you loosened up for fall, when we all go into overdrive again, this...
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Core77 Gallery: Maker Faire Detroit
This past weekend, the Maker Faire came to Detroit for the first time! Mike Doyle brings us the best of Motor City's fabulous creations in this gallery, including the Life-size Mousetrap, hot-rodded...
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Mitigating Mitigation: Hierarchy, Communication and Success, by Fernd Van...
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Photo: orvalrochefort. In his recent book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell introduced me to the idea of Mitigated Speech a linguistic term describing deferential...
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The Core77 Store: Hand-Eye Supply is Now Open Online!
Core77's Hand-Eye SupplyA Vocational Haberdashery and Supply Store for Creative Activities www.handeyesupply.com Open 24 Hours-a-Day Online! Open 12-6 pm, Monday - Saturday at 23 NW 4th Avenue...
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Service Design Network Conference 2010: Connecting the Dots
The Service Design Network (SDN)—perhaps the biggest promoter of their growing discipline in Europe, headed by Service Design ambassador Birgit Mager—are building on the successes of last year's...
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This Just Inbox: In these lamps, the socket is the bulb
Clever design by Düsseldorf designer Daniel Michel, commenting on the gradual disappearance of the light bulb (at least as we know it). In these lamps, the light pours right out of the socket, which...
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This is insane! A subway-bus hybrid that goes over traffic, not around it
The Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co. of China has a proposal situated somewhere between Superstudio and Plug-In City: An elevated megabus/subway hybrid that slides over the traffic instead...
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Olympic designer Omer Arbel continues racking up awards
Vancouver-based architect and designer Omer Arbel, who runs an eponymous design office, is having a hell of a year. His designs for the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics medals, which featured artwork by...
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Finalists chosen for Levi's Care to Air Design Challenge
Six finalists have been chosen in Levi Strauss' Care to Air Design Challenge, which seeks clever and eco-friendly ways to dry clothes. The competition was formed after "a lifecycle assessment of a pair...
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Nadeem Haidary's MSA Bypass Shuttle
Chances are slim you'll be able to, but see if you can guess what this is: That's a patent-pending design called the MSA Bypass Shuttle, designed by Nadeem Haidary, that would allow construction...
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Does design advice stay fresh? Video of IDEO's lectures from dot-com boom era
Most will agree that good design is timeless; but how about good design advice, or does that get dated? You can be the judge now that Stanford University in partnership with Academic Earth have...
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The Ideal (Junior) Industrial Designer by Michael Roller
It's always about this time of year that the news is suddenly full of unemployment horror stories; debt-laden graduates scrambling to find even a whiff of an opening to the world of work, in an...
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Philips is seeking a Senior Designer in Singapore
Senior Designer/Consultant (Interaction Design) PhilipsSingapore This incumbent will develop design ideas from basic concepts through to fully worked out design solutions. Works with a high level of...
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How compostable are those Whole Foods deli containers, after all?
Inhabitat's posted the 2nd installment of their great new series Packaging the Future, exploring a sustainable future for packaging design. This time, they test the compostability of a whole foods...
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Starting Out: Nelly Ben Hayoun, Designer/Performer
Starting Out is a series about designers who have recently struck out on their own. More than a string of studio visits, the series profiles talented, risk-taking professionals all around the world. We...
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Industrial designer Martha Davis DIY's her career into shoe design
I suppose you could say it about a lot of fields, but to me, industrial design is problem-solving. And the education involved--at least the one I had, which combined theory, a good amount of hands-on...
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