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ICSID World Design Impact Prize
What would happen if design projects and initiatives with the potential to change the world were given the opportunity to tell their story? The good folks at ICSID are announcing the launch of the...
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FeiYue's DIY Hover Shoe Kit
Feiyue The Flying Project from Feiyue on Vimeo. Who doesnt want your own DIY hover shoe kit? First appearing in Shanghai in the 1920s, the Feiyue sneaker has been consistently popular amongst martial...
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"Giraffe" Studio Space Divider by Kawamura-Ganjavian
Call us weak, but we can't help but want everything that comes out of the Madrid based Kawamura-Ganjavian studio. Having swooned over their fold-up felt "Oyster" chairs late last year, we're now...
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IHHS 2011 Preview
The International Home and Housewares Show hosted a preview highlighting some of the trends and products we can look forward to seeing this year in Chicago. Besides the usual mix of ergonomic kitchen...
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Fuse is Seeking a Web Designer in Burlington, VT
Web Designer FuseBurlington, VT Fuse is looking for a creative, fresh-thinking Web Designer to add as a key member of the Creative Team. As Web Designer, you will concept and create digital work for a...
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Salvaging Creativity: Engineering duo finds purpose in found objects
How cool would it be to take an abandoned farm silo and convert it into your shop? Casey and Patrick are former engineers who have "migrated towards greater creative freedom" and now operate under the...
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Wine packaging redesign gets the tattoo treatment
Will oenophiles flinch? The U.K.-based Cornish Mead Company has taken on a radical (for the wine industry, anyway) package redesign featuring wraparound graphics inspired by, of all things, tattoos....
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Book Review: Designing Media, by Bill Moggridge
We're jealous of Bill Moggridge's social network...which is a rather meta way of expressing that his new book "Designing Media", about the divide between traditional and virtual media, includes...
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Nutty design for a 360-mountable, VW-bug-towed camper
It would never occur to me that you could mount a camper-trailer to a Volkswagen Bug, nor have I ever thought about how you'd actually enable the junction. But somebody thought about it back in the...
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Touch-sensitive wall paint that can trigger the lights
This is pretty killer, especially for those of us with inconveniently-placed light switches: Three guys in France (Nicolas Triboulot, Laurent Grapin and Thibault Thomas) have patented a system of...
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NAIAS 2011 :: Q+A Dirk van Braeckel, Bentley
This is the second of a series of Q+As contributor Tamara Warren conducted with designers from the NAIAS 2011 show. Dirk van Braeckel heads up design and concept for Bentley Motors, responsible for...
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Sustainable Refrainables Jury Winner Announcement @ Compostmodern
The Jury Winner for our Sustainable Refrainables poster competition will be announced this weekend at Compostmodern, live and on stage during the "Unconference" on Sunday. Lea Hickman, a judge for the...
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TankBot: iGadget-Controlled Desktop Toy
TankBot, debuting at this month's New York International Gift Fair, is a desktop toy that can be controlled by just a tilt of your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The toy's three modes allow it to...
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PSFK's Future of Mobile Tagging
Whether you use QR codes or not, its undeniable that mobile tagging has become an integrated part of the marketing landscape. Popping up in print advertising and corporate-sponsored event/experiences,...
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Crowdsourcing Ideas for the City
Mayor Bloomberg is not one to shy away from new ideas. The 8 million citizens of New York City are famously opinionated -- for every problem, there are at least 8 million ideas on how to fix it. Give...
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desigNYC announces 2011 Design x Nonprofit projects
desigNYC, a group founded to connect NYC nonprofits serving the public good with probono designers, announced their 2011 list of collaborators today. 2010's inaugural year projects were a huge success...
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Interface design: Touchscreen meets touch-edge
Making the blog rounds is video of the Line Phone, a concept design that reportedly won first prize in a Chinese design competition (one that's apparently Google-proof, at least in English). The...
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Tovolo is seeking an Industrial Designer in Seattle
Industrial Designer TovoloSeattle, WA Tovolo is looking for a super creative industrial designer to join the design team and be a part of creating their future. They're looking for a creative thinker...
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Smithsonian's hidden "Noah's Ark" of historical cars
Looks like Ralph Lauren's not the only one with a secret stash of rare cars. In the Associated Press video below, we get a rare glimpse inside a "secret Smithsonian storage warehouse," where 217 rare...
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"Turnstyle": Turntable Reinterpretation by R.D. Silver
Stripping products down to bare essentials can become something of an obsession for modern day designers. Only last month we saw legendary product reinterpreter Daniel Weil's "Clock for an Architect,"...
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