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Air Traffic Control Skills: Here's What They Do When Lots of Planes Must Land...
It is fascinating how utterly videogame-like this is. As the recent AirAsia disaster proved once again, thunderstorms and airplanes oughtn't mix. So what happens when several dozen or hundred are...
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Old School Graphic Design Inspiration: Huge, Free, Online Repository of WPA Work
America wasn't always prosperous. Eighty years ago we had plenty of people who tied their pants with a rope and pointed at airplanes in the sky. So during the Great Depression, the U.S. Government did...
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Bikes at the Detroit Auto Show?! Only for FuturePeople
The North American International Auto Show aka the Detroit auto show is an unparalleled industry focused event in the car world. It is less well known for debuting new and conceptual bicycles. This...
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Motor Skijoring: Like Skiing, but with Vintage Porsche Racecars
Skijoring is Norwegian for "ski driving," and it refers to a sport where a rider on skis is pulled by a horse, a team of dogs, or even a motor vehicle. I think it's similar to waterskiing in that it's...
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Gain Legendary Industrial Design Experience With This Internship at Shure
Legendary products require legendary people. At Shure Incorporated, their professional audio products have earned the trust of performers, sound engineers, and music lovers worldwide. This summer,...
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Bjarke Ingels' Advice for Aspiring Architects
In this era of Vines, it's a big ask to expect the current generation to sit through an 8.5-minute video of an architect talking. But this isn't any architect: This is Bjarke Ingels, who was asked to...
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Japanese Master Craftsmen Dry Fitting Huge, Insanely Complicated Wood Joints
After a woodworker has cut his/her joinery, prior to final assembly they'll do a dry fit to make sure everything fits correctly. This can be challenging depending upon how complicated the piece is; the...
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Sci-Fi Film Corridors Re-Purposed as a Videogame Maze
This post originally appeared on Kill Screen, a videogame arts and culture website.Story by Chris Priestman for Kill Screen.Corridors are a significant architectural space in a lot of science fiction...
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Want to Build Your Own Corvette Engine? Here's What it Takes
As makers know, humans tend to be more engaged with objects they had a hand in building. DIY'ers are proud of their coffee tables, furniture designers get a special enjoyment out of sitting in a chair...
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Take Your Product Design Engineering Skills to 4c Design in Glasgow, United...
Established in 2002 in Scotland; award winning 4c Design combines years of experience, creativity and engineering ability to deliver product design engineering solutions. For over ten years, they have...
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Reach & Match: Learning through Listening, Touching and Collaborating
Projects pop-up on peoples radars in various ways. Sometimes information about a person or project comes from many different sources all at once. This was the case for Mandy Lau and her award-winning...
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Ex-Architect Kacper Kowalski's Amazing Aerial Photography
Architects among you: Is there anything more pleasing than seeing things in plan view? That godlike perspective that reduces those pesky humans to mere ovals and gives you omniscience over the grand...
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This Service Will Mail Glitter to People You Hate
I hold a special hatred for glitter, because people sometimes use it in my photo studio and it takes me forever to clean it up. So I find this new business, ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com, deviously...
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Measuring Without Metric...Or Imperial
How do we fathom fathoms? Often by referring back to our own bodies. It's startling to realize that the much beloved metric system and the idiosyncratic imperial only became widely adopted in the 20th...
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Ex-Jewelrymaker Michael Walker's Awesome Art Knives
In his 20s, Michael Walker worked as a jewelrymaker. But one day his wife gave him a copy of American Blade, a magazine for knife collectors. Walker looked through the pages and figured he'd give...
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Taphandles is Looking for a Junior Designer Who Loves Beer
Taphandles is a high energy and collaborative award winning beer marketing firm based in Seattle. They are the leader in supporting the brewing industry with the most innovative and unique product...
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No Panties, No Problem: An Interview with Julie Sygiel of Dear Kate
Over the last few months, the hot topic of conversation among myself and my female startup friends (and a number of male friends too) has switched from the usual suspects of Shinola, YikYak, Casper etc...
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Spine Optics' Forthcoming Metal Injection Molded Self-Closing Eyeglass Hinges
Italian design engineer Guido Medana has invented eyeglasses with a new type of hinge called Spine. Created through metal injection molding (although the website, perhaps erroneously, lists the...
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Animator Hacks Nintendo Power Glove to Remotely Control Capture Equipment
Dillon Markey is a Los Angeles-based stop-motion animator who works for Robot Chicken and the film director PES. And as we saw in the Boxtrolls video, stop-motion work requires making hundreds upon...
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Quick 'N Dirty DIY Drill Guide with Built-in Gauges
And we mean quick 'n dirty. For every finely polished shop solution is an equally functional, nasty-looking one that you quickly bang out because you need it. And if there was a museum filled with...
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