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Help launch the Solar Vox through Kickstarter
Detroit-based industrial designer Eric Strebel, along with his partner Jim Nogarian, have launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking funding for the Solar Vox, a solar powered USB charger. Inspired by...
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Mike Smith on "Sketch Your Way to Success"
The newest video in Autodesk's "Sketch Your Way to Success" looks at Ford designer Mike Smith, who unsurprisingly has some amazing drawing skills. Smith discusses what made him get into ID, discusses...
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Cardboard Christmas Challenge winners
The people have spoken! We're thrilled to announce the five finalists of our Cardboard Christmas Challenge, pictured below. 1. Maybe Santa Drinks Red Eyes? by bakerscookin 2. 100% recyclable cardboard...
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Cuda had a V8
The Camaro, the Mustang, the Challenger. It's become the era of the remake, as U.S. auto design studios (like Hollywood studios) seek hits by producing updated versions of classics from the past....
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TDK updates the boombox. (How long 'til we see a Grandmaster Flash Drive?)
Yet another design blast-from-the-past outside of cars and Hollywood movie: TDK is bringing back the boombox. Gone of course is the tape deck; both their 2 Speaker and 3 Speaker models will play...
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Abitare compilation goes on sale, and you can still get it before Xmas
Released earlier this week: Italian style bible Abitare gets the coffee-table-book treatment with Abitare: 50 Years of Design: The Best of Architecture, Interiors, Photography, Travel, and Trends...
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Bombardier Aerospace is Seeking a Sr. Industrial Designer for Aircraft...
Sr. Industrial Designer for Aircraft Interiors Bombardier AerospaceMontréal, Québec Bombardier Aerospace is looking for a creative and passionate Industrial Designer to join our team in the...
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Vintage World Expo snapshots collection by ElectroSpark
Florida-based designer and Flickr user "ElectroSpark" collects and shares "random bits of vintage ephemera from mid-century vacationers" mostly in the form of charming round-cornered Kodachromes. We...
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"Tvor": Perhaps the world's most existential lamp
The "Tvor" lamp by Czech design student Jindrich Vodicka, is another example of the weird and wonderful creations to emerge from the maturing design scene in central and eastern Europe in recent...
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The BoomCase: Salvation-Army-style boomboxes
Depending on your aesthetic tastes, the design of TDK's forthcoming boomboxes that we showed you yesterday will have made some of you excited and left others cold. For that latter group, perhaps you'd...
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Cases to Hold Stuff, Part 1: I'm attracted to gun cases and I don't even like...
To keep your desk or room clean, the book Lighten Up! Free Yourself From Clutter espouses a simple but easily-overlooked tenet: "Everything has a place." The thinking goes that if there was a...
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Cases to Hold Stuff, Part 2: The Traveling Salesman of the past
In this age of click-shopping on Amazon or hopping over to your local superstore, it's difficult to imagine that companies once advertised and distributed their products through hat-wearing men...
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Cases to Hold Stuff, Part 3: Brilliant Point-of-Purchase design from 1906
Here's an example of someone doing great industrial design before anyone knew what industrial design was: In 1903, a Minneapolis businessman named James H. Boye had the quintessential...
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Method is Seeking a Lead UX Designer in New York, NY
Lead UX Designer MethodNew York, NY Do you want to make people's lives easier? Make them smile? Stop them cursing at all the different things they can't figure out? We have no fear of moving from...
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360 Panorama app gets immersive upgrade
This is pretty nutty: Occipital, the company behind the 360 Panorama app, has recently added an upgrade that lets you see panoramas on your phone in a way that becomes immersive despite your phone's...
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Crayola's crayon-recycling machine
If only this were possible with pens and pencils: Crayola has released a machine called the Crayon Maker, which melts down the nubs of old crayons to combine and re-mold them into new ones (as long as...
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Module R: Pop-up shop focusing on modular design & more
Folks, now that the holiday's over you can shop for whom you really want to shop for: Yourself! Those in proximity to Brooklyn should head over to Module R, a pop-up gallery/store with a unique focus...
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"Thimble": Another smartphone enabled concept for the visually impaired
You might recall the very impressive "Blinput" concept by Scotland-based design student Erik Hals from earlier this month. Well now it seems that the visually impaired could be spoiled for choice with...
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Pompous or pimpish? The Bristol Freighter airplane once allowed unusual...
[image by Anthony Cowland] After World War II, a Royal Air Force pilot and Wing Commander named Taffy Powel hacked a Bristol 130 Bombay bomber plane for an unusual purpose: Carrying cars across the...
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Salami CD and vacuum packaging by Mother Eleganza
Lithuanian design outfit Mother Eleganza have come up with this packaging concept for "Saliami Postmodern", the new album of fellow countryman and musician Shidlas. Compact discs are fast becoming...
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