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Unusual vehicle concepts from Gambo Design
Some interesting concepts on the vehicle front from Nuremberg-based Gambo Design: The Thansadet is a towable camper-trailer, with a killer app that sets it apart from its competitors: It floats. Tow it...
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No Right Brain Left Behind
Education has been a huge focus for the creative community this year with films like David Guggenheim's Waiting for Superman and programs like Redu calling attention to the crisis in US schools today....
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The barbarian shrine that is the Plantronics ergonomic testing wall
Reading consumer product reviews of headphones on Amazon or Apple's site is depressing, and rather like reading the Reader Comments section of a Daily News article: People seem to have no concept or...
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Quick video tour of CCA's new materials library
I want to go to there. California College of the Arts' Jake Sollins, archivist and ID grad, takes us on a tour through their New Materials Resource Center. The library of sorts is loaded up with 1,800...
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Congrats to One Size Fits All...LifeEdited Jury Winner!
The results are in! And the Winner of the LifeEdited Small Apartment Design Contest is...One Size Fits All. The announcement was livestreamed today with Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger, hosting the...
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"Karmatech": Underfoot RFID concept for WeSC
Over the last few years blue-sky RFID concepts have been ten a penny—even if the conversion rate of these technological marvels into reality has been small and somewhat slow. Emerging from the Hyper...
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FLOTspotting :: AK Geneve HYBRID mvt Watch, by Thierry Fischer
French design-student Thierry Fischer has been causing quite the stir on Coroflot with his concept watches. Besides watch design, the 5th year industrial design student has some great automotive...
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"Rethink": Debranded cigarette packaging by Build for ICON
Over here in the UK, the powers that be are seriously considering new legislation to control the packaging design of cigarettes—a move intended to subvert the alluring brands of tobacco giants and...
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Japan's 1960 "Good Design Award" initiative has paid off in Masatoshi Sakaegi
The Japan Times has got a nice profile up on designer Masatoshi Sakaegi that delves not only into his "origin story," to borrow a phrase from the superhero world, but also provides little-known...
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Just as we layer clothes, U.S. architects finally start layering buildings
I was in the Arctic Circle last year freezing my butt off, and it never ceases to amaze me that humans have lived up there for eons, well before indoor heat. One "technology" that enabled early...
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Bose is Seeking an UX Concept Designer in Massachusetts
User Experience Concept Designer BoseFramingham, Massachusetts The User Experience group at Bose is looking for a world-class Concept Designer to help us create our next generations of innovative...
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nendo's "Forest" Curry Spoons
Designed for the Japanese curry restaurant chain, CoCo Ichibanya, nendo introduces the "forest-spoon." The team hoped to design a spoon that would be fun -- even when not in use. A single...
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Michael DiTullo for Glass House Conversations
Michael DiTullo, Core77 friend and contributor, has been hosting this week's Glass House Conversations, an extension of the salons and public conversations that were hosted at the Philip Johnson Glass...
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The two Kenwoods
With shamefully similar logos and like hi-tech aesthetics, you could be forgiven for assuming Kenwood the kitchen appliance company and Kenwood the audio device company are one and the same. After...
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Herman Miller promos: Win a Sayl or cash
Herman Miller's currently running not one, but two promotional prize giveaways. The first is Twitter-based, and so low-effort you've got no reason not to try: "Simply tweet a TwitPic to @hermanmiller...
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South is the Way Forward
South is the way forward! A pretty bold statement from our friend and contributor Arturo Pelayo. We recently became aware of his design education project that, with your help, will take place in...
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Missing Summer? An Indoor Pop-Up Park for Winter Blues
NYC!! Feeling sad about mother nature's unending gift of snow (19 inches and counting)? Escape the winter blues, if only for the weekend, at Park Here, an indoor pop-up park. The OpenHouse Gallery and...
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"Over the Top": Mind-boggling 3D printed 17x17x17 rubik's cube
Over on Shapeways, community member and rubik's puzzle fanatic Oskar van Deventer has been turning a few heads with his, apparently world-record breaking, 17x17x17 Rubik's cube. This marvel took 15...
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European Commission's design secretariat to locate in Helsinki
The European Commission will launch an initiative in 2011 to reinforce the link between design, innovation and competitiveness. The European Design Innovation Initiave (EDII) will have a secretariat,...
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