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Hermitage Museum Chosen for Dutch Design Spatial Award
The renovated Hermitage Museum by Hans van Heeswijk Architects, top and the interior exhibition layout by Merkx + Girod, pictured bottom. Photo credit: Luuk Kramer The Dutch Design Awards competition...
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Buro North's Tree-Like Wayfinding Signage Receives AGDA Award
Buro North's wayfinding project at Falls Creek, Australia. Photo Credits: Daniel Columbo A great wayfinding project from Australian-based multi-disciplinary design practice Büro North has recently...
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Electrolux's Vacs from the Sea: Made from Plastic Debris Harvested from the...
In June of this year, we wrote about Vac from the Sea, an initiative by Electrolux to raise awareness of the huge amount of plastic waste in the oceans by deploying teams to collect some of it and...
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Dutch Design Week 2010: Eat, drink, design: Fresh cuisine and the work of 28...
Guest post by Twan Hofman. Images by Lisa Klappe. At the premiere night of Eat, Drink, Design, a pop-up expo restaurant organized by designers Annemoon Geurts and Koen Rijnbeek (Moon/en/Co) in...
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Canadian electric car made from hemp biocomposites to significantly reduce...
One of the reasons cars cost what they do is because they're made with a lot of stamped steel and aluminum, and those materials, not to mention the tooling they require, ain't cheap. So Canadian...
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Join cutlery is a puzzle for the geometrically inclined
It's amusing to see cutlery that comes with instructions. Konstantin Slawinski's Join, designed by Carsten Schelling, Sven Rudolph and Ralph Webermann, is a cutlery set inspired by a Japanese toy made...
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Fun results of Mini's center rail design comp
Mini drew a lot of interesting concepts for their design competition launched back in March, which sought to draw ideas for things to place on the center rail that runs the length of the Countryman's...
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Bangkok International Gift Fair: Design Excellence Award 2010
The Bangkok International Gift and Homeware Fair has wrapped up earlier this week, and we took a glance at what the self declared "Soul and Style of the Orient" had on show. If that title evokes...
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Alternative Apparel is seeking an Art Director in Los Angeles
Art DirectorAlternative ApparelLos Angeles, California Alternative Apparel is looking for a talented Art Director to join their Los Angeles staff. This position reports to the Creative Director. The...
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Can Sony stave off touchscreen gaming with their PlayStation Phone?
I had counted Sony down, but I guess I can't quite count 'em out: Engadget reports the once-dominant electronics giant is soon to release a PlayStation Phone, which, if successful, ought to help them...
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Sourcing Wozniak's photochemically-etched steel business cards
After spotting Steve Wozniak's bad-ass "I could cut steak with this thing" metal business card on Cult of Mac, I believe I managed to track down the company that makes them. Judging by the background...
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Working Better in 3D? The New Axsotic Spheric Mouse
We just caught wind of a new kind of 3D-Interface Controller, the Axsotic 3D Spherical Mouse, which allows a user to rotate objects in modelspace as though you were holding them, while drawing and...
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Video visualization of a new type of traffic-improving intersection
When I used to have a car in Manhattan I considered myself an expert at navigating the traffic sprawl, as I knew the city like the back of my hand and could usually work my little five-speed VW to the...
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The Open Source Digest: Bringing the Web Back into Print
Lately, we've been trying to find ways off the screen, back into the physical world of things and interactions, so we were pretty jazzed to come across The Open Source Digest this morning, a low...
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This Just Inbox: Rogier Martens' Bottle Cabinets
The Zollverein Bottle-Cabinets is a quick and clever little reuse project made by Rogier Martens for the Gast Gastgeber-Store pop-up installation in Essen, Germany earlier this fall. The shelving...
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Starting Out: Alice Wang, Interaction and Product Designer
Starting Out is a series about designers who have recently struck out on their own. More than a string of studio visits, the articles profile talented, risk-taking professionals all around the world....
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IDSA announces Case Studies winners, press hack doesn't know what "IDSA"...
Such ignominy. A press release heralding the IDSA's Catalyst Case Studies winners lists the IDSA's full title, in the freaking headline, as the "International Design Society of America." Industrial...
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Orbitz Worldwide is seeking a Designer in Washington, DC
Orbitz Worldwide/Away.comDesignerWashington, DC We need a designer who brings a well-developed aesthetic and the usual tool kit: knowledge of typography, grid layouts, information hierarchy,...
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Video of VW Design Chief Walter de'Silva sketching new Jetta
After seeing the new 2011 Jetta commercial above (by creative agency Red Urban and production company 1stAveMachine), where a car covered in design sketches blows away to reveal the new body, we were...
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Graham Hill's "Life Edited" challenge opens at Jovoto
Life Edited, the movement and challenge to reduce our environmental impact while simplifying our lives at home, has officially launched its challenge at Jovoto, the creative collaboration platform. To...
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