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With Flipsters, Aussie ID'er and law student hit success in just one year
Barely a year old, the Australian company Flipsters is wildly successful and has but a single product: Folding flip-flop shoes for women. Australian law student Ben Lipschitz and industrial designer...
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Call for Entries: Building the Internet of Things
The newly established IDAT, the Institute of Design, Art and Technology of Barcelona, has begun a new series of interaction design competitions, beginning with the theme "Building the Internet of...
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Working Title: Makeshift Solutions become Casual Furniture
Drahtbank, top, and Kleiderstiele, bottom. Berlin-based Johanna Dehio has released a series of furniture based on makeshift solutions, playing up our tendency to stack, lean and perch in a series of...
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SCAD is seeking a Chair of Motion Media Design in Savannah, Georgia
Chair of Motion Media DesignSavannah College of Art and DesignSavannah, GA Qualified candidates will have a terminal degree in art and design, or undergraduate degree with extensive, recognized...
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CoreToon: Five Ways that the Beer-Coffee Crossover Will Revolutionize Starbucks
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The World's Smallest Hydroponic System Produces Bite-Sized Plants
We aren't sure what exactly it is about miniaturization that makes it so fascinating— probably something slightly depressing about the psychology of cuteness and a human need to feel that we have...
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An Illustrated Guide to Building an Emergency Tarp Shelter
TYTHEdesign is working on a one-page, illustrated, ikea-esque guide to the construction of emergency shelters with sticks, string, stones and tarps. According to Tythe, because disaster response is,...
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Why Design Now? Solving Global Challenges Conference Videos Now Online!
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum has graciously posted videos of all the public sessions of the conference to YouTube. If you missed our live broadcast, or have just been waiting to rewatch...
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Design Academy Students Awarded Unconventional Pig-Head Trophies Instead of...
Every year, the Design Academy in Eindhoven commissions a designer to create a special trophy for the graduating students. We didn't want you to miss this year's version, simply a 3-D printed pig head...
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8 House: Bike to the Top of BIG's Newest Mixed-Use Building
The just completed 8 House, probably named for its bow-tie shape, is the newest and final addition to Bjarke Ingels Group's trilogy of housing projects with developer Hopfner Partners. The building,...
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OMFG, Run! - Run Right to Hand-Eye Supply for Great Coverall Deals, That Is!
Who does noted design firm OMFGCO turn to for its Coverall and Safety Glass needs? Why, Core77's Hand-Eye Supply of course. At the recent AIGA Designspeaks event they wore their DIY, Can-Do attitude...
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Oakley is seeking a Design Engineer in Foothill Ranch, California
Design EngineerOakleyFoothill Ranch, CA Have you led cross functional product teams from "blue sky" concepts through production? Questioned existing design guidelines and defied engineering...
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Invisible Bike Helmet Inflates Before Impact
Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin's Hövding bicycle helmet blew our minds this morning—it works like an airbag, inflating immediately before impact from a shawl-like collar worn around the neck. The name...
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Life Edited: Graham Hill's Competition to Live With Less
Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger and a true believer that less is more, invites you to submit designs to Life Edited, a design competition for a 420sf apartment that embodies this philosophy and...
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Studiotalk.tv - Open Planet Ideas
In case you missed yesterday's livestream broadcast interview at studiotalk.tv with Ben Moore (Sony) and Dax Lovegrove (WWF), you can watch it here via YouTube. Watch to learn more about the evolutions...
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Dominic Wilcox completes his 30-Day Speed Creating Challenge
Pencil Shelf Last month Core77 mentioned that London-based Dominic Wilcox began his Speed Creating project where he would create something every day for 30 days as part of the Anti-Design Festival...
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The Value of Empty Spaces: Thomas Kong's Zero Project
With the support of the Jaap Bakema Fellowship, Thomas Kong, Director of the Ungraduate Architecture and Interior Architecture Programs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has been...
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Core77 Interviews Mischer'Traxler
mischer'traxler with their Relumine prototype lamp for Bulb Fiction, top, and their Till You Stop automated cake icing machine in action, pictured bottom. Photo credit: kollectiv fischka The Vienna...
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HP needs to Alt-Tab-Delete. What would (and wouldn't) Apple do?
Here's a depressing illustration of a product philosophy encapsulated in a completely extraneous design feature. This is Engadget showing a pull-out tab on HP's forthcoming Slate tablet computer, a...
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The merits of personal garbage compression embodied in the Smash Can
Finding good roommates is hard, because most people have domestic idiosyncrasies that a) they're unaware of and b) they can't shake. I've had roommates that turned the kitchen garbage can into a game...
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