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Bill Moggridge: What is Design?
A big question, and Bill Moggridge, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and our newest columnist, breaks it open in this lecture at the Smithsonian Design Institute, delivered to...
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Maker Faire Detroit: Scott Klinker's Spaceframe Installation
At the Maker Faire Detroit this last weekend, Scott Klinker , the Designer-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art, performed a series of installations of Spaceframe, his "20-piece large-scale...
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The form factor of mirrorless DSLR cameras will result in better...
Of all the social photographs now populating the web, the ones shot inside bars or nightclubs are typically of the crappy flash variety, forever immortalizing your friends as ghastly white-skinned...
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Pictures From Last Night's Core77 Party in Portland
Thanks to everyone who came out to our party last night at Bar XV in Portland! We were thrilled to host the attendees of this year's IDSA National Conference and a whole bunch more PDX designers, fans...
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Design competition: Sustainable cosmetic brushes
I hate to admit it, but every time I have a DIY job that requires paint or stain, I buy a crapload of these disposable foam brushes above rather than use the few bristle brushes I own. Cleaning...
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Simple but unusual bookcases by Faktura Designs
It's hard to make a bookcase interesting, but I'm digging NYC-based Faktura Designs' efforts with their Scala (above), V (below) and Twig (bottom) bookcases. I'm not totally sold on the...
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Webb deVlam is seeking a Junior Industrial Designer in Chicago
Junior Designer Webb deVlamChicago, IL Seeking an industrial designer who is passionate about brand building and packaging with great sketching ability and some Solidworks experience with a desire to...
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Swap your Shop: Travel exchange for creative professionals
Travel the world without taking vacation time or quitting your job? Though I have to admit that I'm lucky enough to be posting from Taiwan and not New York or Chicago, this is a pipe dream for most....
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Design of the Decade competition: Which design has had ten years' worth of...
Talk about pressure: The IDSA is collaborating with Fast Company and The Henry Ford organization to hold the Design of the Decade competition, which will crown one product put on sale between January...
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JPDA's East Village Studio: Making small space livable and beautiful
Of the moves I've helped friends with, the worst are probably the ones to the East Village, a Manhattan neighborhood of often elevator-free six- and even seven-storey walk-ups. Trying to maneuver a...
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How engineers solve things: Cable isolators
I found these doodads kind of interesting: They're an engineering solution to the industrial problem of how to securely mount something heavy and vibration-prone, like a generator, to something else...
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NeilPryde and BMW Group Designworks USA bikes to debut this week
Starting this month, road bike fanatics will be able to order the Alize and/or the Diablo, two high-performance bikes designed through a collaboration between BMW Group DesignworksUSA and sporting...
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Tomas Nilsson interprets Little Red Riding Hood through info graphics
Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo. We all love a good animated info graphic, but Tomas Nilsson takes it to another level with his interpretation of the classic Little...
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Mattel is seeking a Sr. Designer in El Segundo, California
Senior Designer MattelEl Segundo, CA Mattel is seeking a Senior Level Designer to join its Boys Action Play Design Team. This individual will design, create, and deliver product lines for the Coolest...
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MetaMirror: Notion's vision for the (near) future of TV
In an answer to the ongoing debate about whether next generation television will be powered by the internet or existing television infrastructure, Irish design studio Notion have proposed MetaMirror,...
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Chicago's newest design magazine: Design Bureau
Guest post by Lynn Lim. Hot on the heels of the launch of the Midwest edition of the Architect's Newspaper is Design Bureau, a new, bi-monthly publication from Alarm Press centered on design of all...
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Cook anywhere with Kueng Caputo's Improkitchen cart
The improkitchen is an "improvisationplatform" designed by Kueng Caputo for choreographers and dancers Eva Maria Küpfer and Stefanie Grubenmann for use in their dinner parties, where...
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Touchscreens go mainstream for Tokyo vending machines
The idea of touchscreen vending machines has been kicking around since the CES in 2009. You might remember the impressive display from the collaboration between Samsung and Coca Cola (on YouTube here)...
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Now that's what we call built-in storage: Atelier Tekuto's amazing Cell Brick...
Yesterday we'd have said it'd be tough to top the JPDA East Village Studio for creative small-space living, but today we came across Atelier Tekuto's Cell Brick house in Tokyo. The chief innovation...
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Innovative cycle designs from Peter Varga
You could say Peter Varga's brain works in cycles, as the Slovakia-based designer has been rethinking pedal-powered vehicles since his design-school days. His Citycle concept is a hubless update to the...
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