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Vibrant Arrivals from Artifact Bag Co.
At Hand-Eye Supply we live for good-looking, well-made stuff, especially when that stuff helps us make our own good-looking stuff. This spring we're thrilled to bring in a beautiful burly bunch of new...
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Inexpensive, Durable Shoes Designed to Grow Along with the Child
One of my pet peeves is that I can't find durable footwear. Every year my sneakers seem to wear out faster than the year before.But that is a lament of the privileged. For children in developing...
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Need a Mechanism for Your Design? Here's the Motherlode
Let's say you're a designer trying to create something with moving parts: A set of double doors that open in an unusual way, a console that deploys a hidden flatscreen monitor, or a space-saving...
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Hacking Furniture: Open-Source is Center Stage at Atelier Clerici
With the IKEA temporary show that included a concept kitchen, Milan was abuzz discussing the future of flat pack shipping and embedded technology. IKEA's charging-hub furniture became available to buy...
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Volvo Designers Replace the Front Passenger Seat with Something Better
Chauffeurs can get uppity, and it's no wonder: They're entrusted with driving your six-figure luxury vehicle, and just as you sit in the back with an empty seat next to you, so too is there an empty...
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Why Design Piracy Affects a Lot More People than Just the Designers
Many of us would love to see one of our product designs for sale at a large retail chain. But when Aaron and Claire Van Holland saw their mirror selling at Urban Outfitters, they were less than...
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Brilliant Sanding Tricks from Master Maker Jimmy Diresta
Of all the things you'll do in the shop, sanding is often one of the least pleasant tasks. It's not the dust: It's the frustration of figuring out how to get sandpaper to follow the peculiar contours,...
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New Directions for 3D Printing
Rows of brightly colored PLA and rapid-prototyped pieces filled New York's Javits Center the other week for the annual 3D Print Design Show. The expo, which has been traveling internationally since...
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The Groundfridge Pre-Fab Root Cellar
Much of our electricity bills are spent countering nature: We turn on lights when it's dark, we make warm things cold, or cold things hot. If we could work with nature rather than against it, both our...
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"Technology Art:" Combining Facial Tracking and Projection Mapping for...
"Face hacking" might not have an artistic ring to it, but it looks stunning in execution. A collaboration between a multimedia artist, a makeup artist and a digital image engineer—Nobumichi Asai,...
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This Solar-Powered Grill Can Continue to Cook at Night
In just a few years, we've seen solar-powered cooking devices go from relatively cumbersome, outdoorsy objects to a refined product design that's ready for prime time.The first commercially-successful...
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Instead of Driving to the Office, How About Driving the Actual Office?
IDEO's known for forward thinking, and with their Automobility project, IDEO skipper Tim Brown shows what it really means to re-think something: Stepping back to reimagine not just transportation, but...
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Sonos's Tad Toulis on Bridging Hardware and Software, Being a "Pessimistic...
Name:Tad ToulisOccupation: Designer, and I'm the vice president of design at SonosLocation: Santa Barbara, CaliforniaCurrent projects: You know I can't give you an answer to this question. [Laughs] The...
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More Challenging than Product Photography: Produce Photography
Brittany Wright photographs everything from products and spaces to weddings and portraits. But our favorite part of the Seattle-based shooter's book is her series on food. "I'm working on my life goal...
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This Vehicle is a Combination Skateboard and Golf Cart
Like you, I figured this had to be a gag. But apparently the Golfboard is a legitimate golf-course-traversing vehicle, one that is "undeniably the most exciting and enjoyable way to experience any...
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America's Oldest Shopping Mall Converted into Microapartments
The Westminster Arcade in Providence is America's oldest existing shopping mall, with a structure dating back to 1828. As its fortunes began to wane in the late 1900s, the building was shuttered...
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The Ugly Airport Carpet that Spawned a Cottage Industry
Casino carpeting is pretty ugly, but the hideous floor covering at Portland International Airport gives it a run for its money. So lovably awful is PDX's carpet that it's spawned an Instagram account...
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Desktop CNC Milling: Cutting Applebox Tops & Bottoms [Core77 Shopbot...
To demystify the process of working with a CNC mill, here we'll show you what you need to learn to cut a basic part out. In broad strokes, there are four steps:1. Setting up the drawing file2....
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Brilliant Design for a Transforming Open/Closed Sign
Admittedly, flipping a store sign from "Open" to "Closed" isn't a huge difficulty. But it still tickles us that this man came up with a more kinetically interesting way to change one to the other:Fine,...
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A Pen that Lets You Draw with Wine, Beer, Tea and More
Industrial designer Jessica Chan was working on a sustainable printer concept when she made an interesting discovery: "I learned that inks—even those made with vegetable and soy—used in traditional...
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