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ilVespaio: Turning factory trash into raw materials
Milan-based designer Alessandro Garlandini is a co-founder of ilVespaio, "a creative workshop of social communication and design of eco-friendly products." After a fortuitous visit to a Whirlpool...
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Michael Princip's football helmet re-design
We like this ESPN story about designer Michael Princip and his self-started project to redesign football helmets, because it shows Princip thinking not only about the design, but the business side of...
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The Faltazi Lab's heavily-considered Ekokook kitchen design
Missed this one the first time around: Ekokook is a holistic kitchen design project from 2010 by The Faltazi Lab design collective, and it is more than a series of pretty renderings; these guys have...
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SketchBook Pro? Try SketchBook O
Didn't see this one coming: Apparently SketchBook Pro, the drawing app many of us designers know and love, is also a favorite app of Oprah Winfrey's. Hence O, The Oprah Magazine and Autodesk have...
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CES 2011: Trojan Vibrations
Maybe it's because the Adult Entertainment Conference was also in town, but the Trojan booth at CES in Las Vegas seemed to get lots of traffic. Trojan? Condoms? At the Consumer Electronics Show, you...
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CES 2011 Roundup, by Jordan Nollman
With almost 150,000 people in attendance at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, CES had the buzz of the 2007 and 2008 shows and the long lines at the convention center was a good indication that...
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CreativeMornings: Milton Glaser in the SVA Theater
Milton Glaser spoke today at CreativeMornings at the School of Visual Arts. The designers able to arrive slightly late for work and students able to rub the sleep out of their eyes in the morning were...
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NAIAS 2011 :: Motor City Automotive Industry Night (MAIN)
The North American International Auto Show is the oldest, and many would argue, most important auto show in the United States. On the eve of the auto show press days, the Motor City Automotive...
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The importance of being eco-ideological in Budapest
Green is in fashion in the Hungarian capital, but the word is often just an empty trunk, a sales argument in a consumer world which forgot its ecological foundations long ago. Case in point: the...
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Geekin' out with Giken: Civic design solutions Part 1, Carparks
Giken Engineering Group is the name of a Japanese company that deals with thorny construction problems: How to build a highway in the side of a mountain, how to reduce railway renovation accidents,...
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Core-toon: Winterface Designer
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Geekin' out with Giken: Civic design solutions Part 2, Bicycle Parking
Giken Engineering Group's Eco-Cycle urban bicycle parking solution follows the same Five Construction Principles--Environmental Protection, Safety, Speed, Economy and Aesthetics--that they applied to...
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Happy X Birthday Wikipedia!
Image courtesy of Will Clayton This Saturday, January 15th, Wikipedia will be turning 10 years old! To celebrate the founding of the project, NYU's ITP program is hosting a conference in collaboration...
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Ralph Lauren does not mess around when it comes to cars
Wowsers--you thought Cameron's unseen dad in Ferris Bueller's Day Off had the crazy rare-Ferrari set-up, in that Mies-van-der-Rohe-esque house in the woods? Nah, that guy was a rank amateur. You need...
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Innovative no-pole tent design coming soon
It's just a few weeks until start-up company Heimplanet is schedule to release their no-pole tent. How does the thing stand up without poles, you ask? Using air: Heimplanet - The Cave from heimplanet...
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How children perceive vintage technology
Design is all about context. When that contextual information is removed, products can be very confusing. As designers we often see this when people are introduced to a new technology that is...
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GOOD DESIGN 2010 Winners
The GOOD DESIGN 2010 award winners were announced recently and represent the work of thousands of designers from 37 nations. With 500 awards given in 2010, this was a record year for both volume of...
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Steelcase, Inc. is Seeking an Industrial Designer in Grand Rapids
Senior Industrial Designer Steelcase, Inc.Grand Rapids, MI Steelcase, Inc. is pursuing creative individuals with diverse interests and experiences to share our passion for exceptional design,...
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Core77 Gallery: ITP Winter Show 2010 Gallery
The ITP Winter Show 2010 brought a new level of polish to the presentation of this semester's plethora of reactive screens and new interfaces. There were more projects than usual from foundation...
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IDSA IDEA 2011, Special Offer for Early Registrants
We're pleased to share an exciting promotion from our friends and partners at IDSA. With the deadline to enter this year's IDEA awards just two weeks away, registrants entering within the next week...
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