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Nosigner's Magnetic Pearls become Transforming Jewelry
Though craft revivalism and artisanal practice is all the rage these days, Japan-based Nosigner has taken it somewhere else, working with HK, who has access to the knowledge base of the craftsmen who...
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Carnegie Mellon design students propose a new IDSA website
IDSA.org redesign: a digital short by CMU IDSA from Julius Tarng on Vimeo. I like to define design as "Design is the ability to see nothing is as it should be, coupled with the desire and aptitude to...
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New York Art Book Fair Coming Up Next Weekend
If you're in NYC, keep your calendar open on the weekend of November 5th-7th for the New York Art Book Fair, presented by Printed Matter and hosted by MoMA PS1 in Long Island City for the fifth time....
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Core77 Gallery: Vienna Design Week
The Vienna Design Week is an annual design festival thattakes place in various locations of the Austrian capital. Organised and curated by Neigungsgruppe Design, Vienna became a design platform with...
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Back To The Futures - Looking Back at Corporate Futures
A range of products as envisioned by technology corporations such as Philips, AT&T and Apple Chris Woebken, a designer based in Brooklyn, will be screening 'Back To The Futures' as part of the...
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The Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative and frog design lead Energy ThinkIn
The Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) conducts consumer research on how people are using power and collaborates with energy leaders to create industry best practices using their findings. This...
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Two Year Old Robocop says Happy Halloween
Easily weighing in as a top Halloween costume this year is Young Robocop. Pretty awesome! "The helmet is an old bike helmet that didn't really fit him anymore, so I ripped out all the padding inside...
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Monster post: Crap I've Built - Banquettes (poor man's couches)
I refer to some of the things I've built as "crap" because a) It's often built from leftover materials, b) I'm more concerned with utility than a high level of finish, and c) Not knowing what to do, I...
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CraftedSystems: Xanthe Matychak Interviews Aurelie Tu
Top: A lineup of products from CraftedSystems. Bottom: Producing the work at a local YWCA. Designer Aurelie Tu, formerly the head of women's product at NikeVision, Timing and Technology, has left the...
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fuseproject's new Jambox portable speaker
fuseproject has been busy. Hot on the heels of the Sayl chair they've rolled out the comes-in-four-flavors Jambox, a tiny and wireless portable speaker, for Jawbone. Despite its diminutive size, the...
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Waterloop - For water, by water and about water
Vissen (Fish), a textile print as part of Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters' Waterloop series Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters, two designers based in the Netherlands, worked with the Audax Textielmuseum...
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The Wehrmachtkanister, a/k/a Jerrycan: Astonishingly good industrial design...
While the Allies of World War II certainly had the moral high ground over the Axis, it's almost embarassing to see how far the former was behind the latter in terms of industrial design. A good case...
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Be Linen: A Short Documentary about the European Linen and Hemp Industry
French filmmaker Benoit Millot sent us a short film he made on behalf ot the CELC Masters of Linen, supporting the Linen and Hemp Industry in Europe. Watch as the film travels from linen and flax...
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Holy cow: DIY product designers behind the Glif use Kickstarter to raise 70...
The Economist has a great piece up looking at the product development story of the Glif, a simple kickstand that attaches to an iPhone and doubles as a tripod mount. What didn't seem simple was...
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Inside the San Francisco Fire Department's ladder shop
Sharp-eyed residents of San Francisco may notice something unusual about their city's emergency services: The ladders on all of the fire trucks are made of wood, not metal. Why? In a city with...
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Coroflot 2010 Designer Salary Survey: Compare your Earnings!
10 years running, Coroflot launches its annual Designer Salary Survey today featuring real-time results. Take the survey and compare your earnings against others in the industry. Has a slowly growing...
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What Raw-Edges designed for just themselves: The unique Book Case
Sight Unseen's Jill Singer recently talked to Shay Alkalay, the London-based designer and one half of design firm Raw-Edges (along with partner Yael Mer); you'll recognize their Pivot wall cabinet,...
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Tom Dixon is seeking a Customer Service Representative in NYC
Customer Service RepresentativeTom DixonNew York City The appropriate candidate will be numerate, results focused, with a commercial mind & sales motivated. Specific sales/marketing/logistics...
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The Dutch Invertuals Transform Medieval Oak Wood into New Design Projects
Top: 600 year old oak timber. Bottom: Julien Carretero's Matchsticks. This year, the group of designers behind the loose collective Dutch Invertuals had the opportunity to work with a magnificent...
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Objects in the Rearview Mirror are Closer Than They Appear
A maquette of the exhibition, top, one of the temporary exhibition houses within the city, pictured bottom This curious title for a temporary exhibition was set up during the Dutch Design Week by a...
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