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Making Waves: Could Ultrahaptics Give Virtual Reality the Feels of Three...
The latest scientific discovery kicking up a storm in the tech world (or at least on its blogs) is news coming out of the UK that researchers at the University of Bristol are claiming to have developed...
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The Round Expanding Table to End All Round Expanding Tables: The Fletcher...
As cool as its design is, the central drawback to the Jupe table is that the leaves must be stored separately. In this video of a Jupe reproduction, at 0:28 to 0:36 you can see they've got the leaves...
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Hand Eye Holiday Hits: Shine Toolbox by Trusco
The Shine Case is the newest home for cool tools from Trusco! They feature tough formed steel construction, collapsible handle, lockable clasp, and a sneaky disco paint job. The perfect size for a...
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How Retailers Get Order from Chaos: Plan-O-Grams
Consider how broad industrial design is as a field: Maybe you designed the product that sits on a store shelf. Maybe you designed the box that the product sits in. Or heck, maybe you designed the...
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The 3 Most Vital Things To Know About Social Design from Robert Fabricant
As part of a new interview series on the Autodesk Foundation's new blog, ImpactDesignHub.org, Allan Chochinov, Editor at Large of Core77 and Chair of the MFA Products of Design program at SVA discusses...
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Hanger Design, Beyond the Basics
Having the right hangers is critical for ensuring well-maintained clothes. In most cases, normal good-quality wood or plastic hangers will work fine—but sometimes a different type of hanger can be...
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This Holiday Season, Stop Embarrassing Yourself with Your Lame Gift-Wrapping...
I have to be honest—I wasn't going to say anything to you, but now I feel I must. It's not that your gift-giving skills are bad—I know that you've faithfully perused both our 2014 Gift Guide and the...
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Builder Selling DIY Plans to a Fletcher-Capstan-Style Table: What Say You?
The Fletcher Capstan table, like the Jupe table before it, has undoubtedly been copied in garages and workshops around the world. And while it's unlikely that anyone can duplicate David Fletcher's...
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A Case Study for Design/Relief: Creating a Community HUB in Red Hook
Photo by Anke StohlmannBy Laetitia Wolff, Design/Relief Program DirectorHow can graphic design positively transform communities and the practice of design? The New York chapter of AIGA launched...
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Pizza Hut's 'Subconscious Menu': Mindless Consumption Hits Astonishing New Low
Just look at those vacant expressions—if only there was an easier waySomething's definitely been cooking in the R&D department at Pizza Hut this year. In a market showing trends to polarization—the...
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Design Process Revealed: Aaron Draplin Walks You Through a Logo Design
I greatly enjoyed Barry Berkus' "How to Think Like an Architect" videos, and have been searching in vain for an industrial design counterpart. To have a creative designer walk you through, in plain...
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In the Details: Chi and Chi's Astronomy-Inspired Tableware Collection
For centuries, scientists, thinkers, makers and—of course—designers have looked up to the sky and stars for inspiration. From satellite imagery on silk scarves to the movie Interstellar, some great...
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Say It Ain't So: Miyazaki Animates His Final Frame!
Earlier we showed you a movie Hayao Miyazaki never made, and here we can show you a piece of one that he did. The last piece, in fact, of the last movie he'll ever make, by most accounts; though the...
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Design Wearable Powered Orthotics Constructed Entirely from Fabric with OtherLab
Otherlab are mischievous scientists, practical dreamers, working on making the world the way it needs to be. Asking: "Wouldn't it be cool if..." is an excellent place to start for this team. They have...
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Pasta Making Machines' Mesmerizing Extrusions
It's a clinical way of looking at it, but that's what pasta is: A bunch of extrusions. The same production method used to make aluminum cooling fins, vinyl threshold inserts and rubber hosing is also...
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'Designing Innovation': Fortifying Customer Relationships with Brands by...
On December 10th, we braved some less than appealing weather to gather at the historical Cooper Union for an exploration of design progress and innovation. This was the fourth edition of the Designing...
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Dash Cam Footage Captures a Surprising Crash
As we've discussed before, dashboard cams have become a crucial safety feature for Russian motorists. But they've also become something else: A series of distributing hit-making machines that capture...
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More Round Expanding Tables: An Unreleased, Experimental David Fletcher Design
Have you ever been in the middle of a design project, when a totally different way of solving the problem occurs to you? Doesn't this always seem to happen to you towards the end, when you're already...
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DIY Leaf-Blower-Powered Hovercraft, Now with Skateboard Form Factor
Years ago William J. Beaty released a paper called "Ultra-Simple Hovercraft: A DIY Science Fair Project." In it Beaty, a research engineer at the University of Washington, laid out the plans for...
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Work On Campaigns for Clients Like PepsiCo and ABC as a Squareone Intern in...
squareone approaches design as an elaborate process of research, conception, aesthetics and initial engineering. Their key activities focus on the design of consumer and investment goods. They are...
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