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Happy Holidays from Coroflot: A Modern Krampus for the Modern World
Happy Holidays from our family to yours. Coroflot member Jeremiah Berkheimer posted this gem and we thought it was a great way to celebrate our diverse and often hilarious creative community. When...
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Why Was the Candy Cane Designed to Have a Bend In It?
Why does that ubiquitous Christmastime candy, the candy cane, have a bend in it? Here are three possible reasons:1. Form Follows FunctionAs an industrial designer, I always assumed the bend in a candy...
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Production Methods: How Handmade Candy Canes are Produced
We designers are supposed to be familiar with production methods, and I enjoy guessing how various items that I'm unfamiliar with are produced. But whenever it comes to things like mass-produced candy,...
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Production Methods: How Machine-Made Candy Canes are Produced
The procedures used in the handmade candy canes from the last entry were foreign to me. So here's a way to make candy canes that will appeal more to industrial designers, employing all of the big-ass...
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2014 Year in Review: Helping You Get Organized for 2015
Getting organized is the second most popular New Year's resolution, right after losing weight. While having the right products is only one part of making that happen, those products can certainly help....
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Jaguar's Specialty Bike-Hauling Cars, Part 1
Christmas doesn't come in July, and Sir Dave Brailsford is the Principal of Team Sky, a British cycle-based venture that does their racing on two wheels. So why was Jaguar handing him a set of new car...
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Jaguar's Specialty Bike-Hauling Cars, Part 2
That snazzy F-Type isn't the only bicycle racing support car that Jaguar provides for Britain's Team Sky, and you've probably noted that it only carries two bikes and two spares. For the heavy lifting...
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Workshop Tip: Planer on a Turntable?
I was just digging through videos for the Scrap Bin Wood Challenge, whereby participants try to make something useful out of their cut-offs, when this shop trick caught my eye. Woodworker Patrick...
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2014 Year in Review: Food and Drink
2014 began with a bang for all things food and drink as London based food (mad)scientists Bompas and Parr saw in the New Year with Charlie and the Chocolate factory-esque edible fireworks raining down...
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SmartPipe: Long Overdue Connected-Home/Quantified-Self Start-Up Satire
Purveyors of web-based procrastination-enablers Adult Swim have been treating online audiences to a series of ingenious infomercial parodies in recent months—from feature-creeping Broomshakalaka to the...
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SVA Student's Object-Sensitive Infinity Mirror Table
For her "Making Studio" course at SVA's Products of Design program, designer Louise-Anne van 't Riet came up with a neat side table that encourages you to be neat. Called Infinitum, it's an...
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2014 Year in Review: Game of Drones
Ten years ago, "drones" referred to Dilbert-like office workers, not quadrotors. But as they explode in popularity--or just explode, when in the gunsights of Johnny Dronehunter (see below)--there's...
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A Dry-Erase Board That Transmits Notes to Your Phone
On the one hand, taking notes during a meeting or lecture is crucial for later reference. On the other hand, the act of writing distracts us from listening and interacting. Thus the folks over at a...
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New Sketching, Product Design Presentation Book
Industrial designers do at least two types of sketching. The first is the messy kind where we're "thinking out loud," problem-solving technical details or quickly trying to explain a concept to a...
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2014 Year in Review: Wearables, Wearables Everywhere
Oh what a year for wearables. Like every coming year until we run our civilization into the ground, 2014 saw a lot of growth in the tech-on-your-body department. From breakthroughs in affordably...
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Robby Cuthbert's Furniture Designs: Suspending Disbelief
Palo-Alto-based designer Robby Cuthbert studied both sculpture and architecture. The melding of both fields has yielded his approach to furniture design: "I combine the careful planning and engineering...
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What's the Deal With Lux-Craft Tools?
Following their recent three-year $90-million mega-renovation, the Cooper-Hewitt has been going all out to raise the game of their recently relaunched all important museum SHOP. As part of their...
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Ghost in the Machine: Laika Cleverly Reveals Why Good Stop-Motion Animation...
Despite the Russian-sounding name, Laika is an American stop-motion animation company based in Oregon. You probably know their name from 2009's Coraline, which they produced, and earlier this year they...
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MFA in Products of Design: Application Deadline is February 1
One more month to go: If you're looking for grad school, you might want to use some of the holiday break to polish up your portfolio and apply to the MFA in Products of Design program at SVA in New...
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Awesome, Budget-Style Star Wars Trailer Re-make
Dumb Drum is the name of a group of amateur filmmakers in California. For years they've been making shot-for-shot "sweded"* versions of popular movie trailers--remember fellow filmmaker Dustin McLean...
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