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Designs for Life at London Design Festival 2015
Occupying the Imperial College Union Building and its leafy courtyard just south of the Royal Albert Hall, scientists, designers and engineers showcased their projects aiming to enhance the basic...
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Handmade Leather Furniture at London Design Festival 2015
Fine leathers and live stitching presentations drew visitors to London's North-West, where Bill Amberg Studio showcased their latest projects in the Queen's Park Design District. The studio specializes...
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In Brooklyn, Reviving the Art of Crushed-Eggshell Lacquer
Mark de la Vega has one of the more unlikely design success stories imaginable. In 2008, freshly laid off from a job at the retail-design firm Studio Sofield, de la Vega moved to Brooklyn with every...
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Glowforge: Democratizing Laser Cutting with an Inexpensive, Easy to Use Machine
For many would-be makers, there are barriers aplenty that can keep one from realizing one's dreams. One of the first barriers is not having access to the right tools—the welding rig, 3D printer, laser...
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Smartphone UI Design: Will Hexagonal Keys Be Any Better to Type On?
Of the UI design challenges of smartphones, the swiping of photos seems pretty much solved, but the typing interface is still wanting. That's why Blackberry is not only still around, but is planning to...
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Sonos Debuts Software That Makes Its Speakers Sound Good Even in Terrible...
Get tickets to see Sonos's VP of design, Tad Toulis, at the 2015 Core77 Conference, coming up this October in Los Angeles.Like any other home-audio company, Sonos designs and engineers its products to...
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Tonight at Curiosity Club: Illustrating Recipes By Hand
Tonight at Hand-Eye Supply's Curiosity Club we get a feast of information and art! Marcella Kriebel will share the story of how her cookbook, Mi Comida Latina came to be. From learning recipes as she...
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Hisako Watanabe's Dreams of the Future
Hidden away on a dimly lit shelf in the basement of UCLA's Art Library is a charming book of 1980s Japanese product design edited by Koichi Ando. Although I can't quite excuse the book's woefully...
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Best of Somerset House at London Design Festival 2015
As a new addition to LDF's dedicated design hubs in the city, Somerset House made a notable entrance this year as the home to various exhibitions and events, amongst them Ten Designers in the West...
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How Durable is the iPhone 6S?
The numbers are in, and Apple has sold a record breaking amount of the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models over the launch weekend. Thirteen million folks queued up or pre-ordered, and now at least as...
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Joseph Walsh Studio's Stunning Furniture Designs
In County Cork, Ireland, stands a furniture studio billing themselves as "one of the leading studio workshops in Europe." Looking at Joseph Walsh Studio's work, which uncannily blends the manmade and...
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Scandinavia Will Not Tolerate Furniture Design Piracy
Earlier this year, a restauranteur in Norway ordered 100 chairs to furnish his establishment. Those of you who were paying attention in Furniture Design History 101 will recognize the Hans J. Wegner...
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The Best of Bankside at London Design Festival 2015
South of the Thames, 'Bankside' is LDF's newest design district, and home to the iconic Oxo Tower Wharf, which is filled year-round with over 30 independent retail design studios, exhibition spaces and...
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10 Reasons You Should Attend the 2015 Core77 Conference
DESIGNING HERE/NOW—the official title and mantra of the 2015 Core77 Conference—kicks off on October 22nd. Will you be there? With less than a month left to purchase your ticket and get your travel and...
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Height-Adjustable Kitchens with Disappearing Fixtures
When people are differing heights, you've got an ergonomics problem. At a movie theater in Copenhagen, I saw something bizarre (to my American eyes) stacked up in the corner: Adult booster seat...
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Tesla Finally Launches Their Design-Packed Model X
Yesterday Tesla launched their highly-anticipated Model X, the design-packed SUV model whose features beggar belief. First off the 5,441-pound car is absurdly fast—the Performance model clocks 0-60 in...
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How Would You Design a Two-Sided Die That Isn't Flat?
If you were tasked with designing a two-sided die, what would you come up with? Let’s say the only criteria is that it cannot be a coin, as it must roll inside of a dice-roller like Wyrmwood’s Dice...
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Stewarding Design: An Interview with AIGA's Ric Grefé
Ric Grefé has been the Executive Director of the AIGA for the past 20 years—an organization that boasts a membership of over 25,000 and has had an enormous influence on the practice of design. After...
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Curiosity Cloud at London Design Festival 2015
Like every year, the Victoria and Albert Museum is the central hub of the London Design Festival. The longest queue of the day here rewarded visitors with an immersive experience of mischer'traxler's...
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A Kitchen Organizing Challenge: Pot Lids
If all cooks had large kitchens with plenty of storage, they might well store their pot lids right on the pots. But that's not reality; many end users need to nest their pots and pans or hang them from...
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