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London Design Festival 2011: "A Pylon for the Future" at V&A
Also on display at the V&A in London this week, is a selection of design proposals for electricity pylons. Not the most glamourous of subjects, perhaps, but serious food for thought for industrial...
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Core77 Photo Gallery: How Cork is Made
Brooklyn-based designer and educator Daniel Michalik specializes in working with cork. Obsessed with finding new ways to shape the material, he spent a week traveling around Portugal to document how...
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Core77 Design Award 2011: TikTok + LunaTik Watch Kits, Runner-Up for...
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the...
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Two Better Bottle-Holding Designs
Because of the way my 'fridge is configured, when I store a six-pack of beer in its vertical position, I can't pull out the back four bottles without hitting the bottom of the shelf above them. So I...
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London Design Festival 2011: "Scaffolding Brut" at V&A
Why do we give something so ubiquitous so little designerly love? "Scaffolding Brut" is an inspiring installation put together by Berlin-based BetaTank, asking this very question. The Germans offer a...
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Wakeskating: Noisia Vision
A beautiful trailer for the upcoming NOISIA VISION film, dedicated to the sport of Wakeskating. Although there are a small handful of options on the market, it'd be great to think about...
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The QlockTwo Touch: Not for the Illiterate
Biegert & Funk's beautiful QlockTwo Touch dispenses with hands and digits altogether, replacing them with words for a more cerebral time-telling experience. (more...)
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London Design Festival 2011: "Lego Greenhouse" by Sebastian Bergne
We had to stop by Covent Garden to check out Sebastian Bergne's installation commissioned by Lego for the festival. Although perhaps a little smaller than we had let ourselves imagine, the spectacle...
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Core77 Design Award 2011: Gobug, Student Winner for Design for Social Impact
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the...
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Nike is Seeking a Material Designer in Portland, OR
Materials Designer (Basketball) NikePortland, OR As our Material Designer II - Basketball, you'll plan and execute materials designs, collaborate with design, product marketing, development and...
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London Design Festival 2011: Babak Golkar and the Jameel Prize at V&A Museum
Taking a quick look at the artwork on show in the Jameel Prize exhibit—a selection of prize-winning Islamic art and design—we were immediately drawn to this little treasure. "Negotiating the Space for...
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Turn Your Dropbox into a Digital Storage Unit with iTwin
Singapore-based startup iTwin has been offering their secure solution for cloud computing for over a year now, but with their recently-added Mac support, they might just become a real contender in the...
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2011 IDSA International: The Community of We
From left to right: Allan Chochinov (moderator), Margaret Gould Stewart, Kayne Burk, Aaron Zinman and Grant McCracken This year's IDSA International conference, hosted in New Orleans, represents an...
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Jy Yeon Suh's Bojaki Inflatable Goods
On trips to Ikea, as a designer I can't help but be impressed with how flat they're able to render certain pieces of furniture. But industrial designer Jy Yeon Suh, a recent graduate of Central Saint...
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Design Education Can Not be Passively Learned, Nor Painlessly Learned
"It is what you learn after you know it all that counts." -John Wooden Over the past year I've read and participated in discussions about design school and the quality of education students currently...
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Hand-Built Rolling, Cantilevered Laptop Platforms
Pre-iPad, I never could find a good solution for using a laptop in bed; my MacBook Pro's underside seems designed to fry your thighs, and putting a blanket beneath it seemed to make it even hotter....
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London Design Festival 2011: "Mind Over Matter" Alan Fletcher tribute
To mark the tenth anniversary of graphic design legend Alan Fletcher's groundbreaking The Art of Looking Sideways, a small exhibit of the preparatory notes for the book have gone on display at the...
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Would You Kickstart a Bad-Ass Art Project? Of Course You Would, It's Bad-Ass...
Chicago-based creative Josh Harker spent over ten years as a designer before committing to fine art, which explains his interest in the ever-evolving domain of prototyping technology. He's been drawing...
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Core77 Design Award 2011: Change Elevators, Paccar hall, University of...
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The Difference Between a Collector and a Hoarder
The most hurtful thing you can call me is a hoarder. I currently have 29 vintage sewing machines in my apartment in various states, but my aim is to restore them all to perfect mechanical condition...
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