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MIT SENSEable City Lab's "Copenhagen Wheel" takes top US prize in Dyson Awards
At press time their website had not yet been updated with this news, but the 2010 James Dyson Award has announced their US National Winner, along with the US Shortlist. Top prize goes to MIT's...
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Materials: What exactly can Apple's new Liquidmetal do?
The web is abuzz with news of Apple's acquisition of a company called Liquidmetal Technologies Inc., a onetime NASA collaborator whose namesake material is a fast-cooling alloy mix twice as strong as...
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"If you lie, you die." Richard Seymour on the new order.
As part of Eastman Innovation Lab's ongoing series, Richard Seymour speaks about communication, push media, and transparency. Very short. And very powerful.(more...)
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Crazy FLIP ship designed to change its orientation--from horizontal to vertical
This has got to be the weirdest oceangoing vessel I've ever seen: The FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) was a ship apparently built in 1962 as a research platform. After being towed to its target...
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UncommonGoods Looks for Inventors and Designers
UncommonGoods, in honor of National Inventors Month, is looking for the next "Uncommon Inventor or Designer." Here's the pitch: The third of our YouGoods product design challenges, this contest is...
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Price drops on Modernist house from "Ferris Bueller"
Who could forget the Mies-van-der-Rohe-esque house Cameron lived in in Ferris Bueller, the one with the glass garage where he sent his dad's 1961 Ferrari 250GT plummeting to its doom? Over a year ago...
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Beautiful bikes from the past by O. Ray Courtney
Henderson is a defunct brand of U.S.-made motorcycle that went bust around the time of the Great Depression. In 1936 designer O. Ray Courtney took a 1930 Henderson and modified it into the streamlined...
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Merkury Innovations is seeking a Full Time Package Designer in New York City
Merkury Innovations Package DesignerNew York, NY YOU are a package designer/graphic artist with a solid background in consumer products. Recent grads okay if you are INCREDIBLE but retail packaging...
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Dogs on Design: Debbie Millman Knows Her Shih Tzus
In this fourth post in our series, Dogs on Design, Raleigh Pop blogger Sarah F. Cox went for a dog walk with Debbie Millman to talk about brands and breeds. While they were out, they ran into theater...
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Because We Can does up the Stanford Institute of Design
When the Stanford Institute of Design needed a couple of interior elements for their facilities, they turned to Because We Can, the awesome husband-and-wife design team we wrote about earlier this...
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The ballsiest Nike installation you've ever seen
Last month I was so caught up with the World Cup games, I never caught wind of the subsidiary events happening around South Africa. Like this killer Nike installation by Ratcliffe Fowler Design,...
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Liya Mairson's Pop-Up Cardboard Playhouse
Liya Mairson, a graduate of the Shenkar College of Engneering and Design, has created a children's play house that takes cues from pop up books, except this on is life size. As the pages are unfolded,...
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Everyday Growing by Juliette Warmenhoven
Sight Unseen has a nice feature up this week about Juliette Warmenhovem who makes odd contraptions and vessesls from plastic, paper and fiberglass to celebrate the growth and nurturing of plant life...
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Transcendental Tunes: Connecting Alzheimer's Patients with their Care...
Transcendental Tunes, by José de la O is a project that combines RFID with old school stereo equipment and digital tunes to serves as a memory trigger and emotional aid for Alzheimer's patients,...
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128 Vintage, old school calculators
There is a simple paradox I've noticed in product design; the objects with the most direct functions have a greater amount of accepted options in the marketplace. Two excellent examples of this are...
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Behind the scenes on the BMW and NielPryde collaboration
Last week we told you about BMW's collaboration with NielPryde. It's no surprise that designer Sonny Lim was involved with this effort. Sonny is a senior designer at BMW Group Designworks and has been...
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Hand-Eye Supply: LaCie IamaKey, CooKey and WhisKey USB flash drives
We know USB flash drives have been around forever, in fact USB 2.0 technology debuted over a decade ago (April 2000), and in that time we've seen endless iterations on the form but this key-shaped...
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Gensler is seeking a Senior Communications Designer in San Francisco
Gensler Senior Communications DesignerSan Francisco, CA The senior communications designer will work closely with the creative director and editorial director to design and develop multiple projects...
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For XJ75 anniversary car, Jag designers get to loosen their ties a bit
To celebrate the company's 75th anniversary, the Jaguar design team has produced a special one-off concept car, the XJ75 Platinum Concept. The uncharacteristically stark white-on-black machine was on...
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Yaniv Berg's unusual DSLR concept form factor
I was recently able to view some street photography of people walking around the city from the private collection of fashion/beauty photographer Michael Brandt. (Though his professional work is...
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