1HDC: Winter is Coming Challenge
Dive into the world of designing for a fantasy world. George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones series has been turned into an Emmy winning HBO television show. Ned Stark, one of the story's driving...
View ArticleRemembering Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 The world lost a hero and a visionary on Wednesday with the passing of Steve Jobs. His philosophy and work have fundamentally transformed the way we live our lives. Jobs was a...
View ArticleCore77 Photo Gallery: Oregon Manifest 2011
Photography by Ray Hu & Stephen Li for Core77 The second biennial Oregon Manifest has come and gone, but the spirit of the competition to build the ultimate utility bike lives on in our photo...
View ArticleFlotspotting: Priestmangoode's Moving Platforms Keep the Motion in Locomotion
Egor Chupryna's transportation renderings caught my eye a few weeks ago, shortly after he posted them to his portfolio, but it didn't occur to me to investigate any further, thinking that the images...
View ArticleDesign Dodgeball 2011: 18 Firms, 4 Fields, 1 Champion
Runners-up One & Co. in action. All images courtesy of Smart Design Dodgeball. Played by the best sportsmen (and women) on the battlefields of middleschool P.E. classes around the world. Luckily,...
View ArticleDesigning a Sustainable Cleveland: First Designers Accord Town Hall in...
You are invited on Wednesday, October 26th for the first Designers Accord Town Hall meeting in Cleveland! Please join SmartShape Design, CIA, IDSA, Northeast Ohio Chapter, and AIGA Cleveland Chapter...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2011: Honey & Bunny, Food Tools Performance
A very fun and at times—sorry, but it has to be said—rather gross performance was part of Vienna Design Week: Sonja Stummerer, Martin Hablesreiter and Tom Hanslmaier of the Viennese architecture and...
View ArticleBuy Drugs for Stefan Sagmeister, via Kickstarter
If you back one film on Kickstarter this year, make it Stefan Sagmeister & documentary filmmaker Hillman Curtis's Happy Film, in which the self-described "New York-based graphic designer known for...
View ArticleCNC Music Factory: Ishac Bertran, DJ With a Laser Cutter
Here's an innovative use of a CNC laser cutter: Spanish supercreative Ishac Bertran precision sliced segments out of vinyl records, essentially cut-and-pasting music samples for analog playback. He's...
View ArticleDesign for America: Ready for Launch!
Design for America (DfA) has been busy these last few months, whether leading workshops at universities across the nation and at ABWBD, winning design awards, being featured on the cover of Fast...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival 2011: "Unnatural Selection," from Raw-Edges
Under the title of Waste Not, Want It, the London Bloomberg offices commission different UK designers every year to transform their office waste into design installations. Raw-Edges design studio,...
View ArticleDEWALT Power Tools is seeking a Industrial Designer in Towson, Maryland
Industrial Designer DEWALT Power ToolsTowson, Maryland DEWALT is looking for creative and motivated industrial designers with up to four years of professional experience to become a part of the global...
View ArticleWe Dig This Silvered Doug: One & Co's Periodic Tables
I often place what I consider to be good design into one of two categories: 1) So brilliant and complex that I wonder how they ever conceived of it, and 2) So simple that I wonder why no one had...
View ArticleAnnouncing the H2Overhaul Water Efficiency Challenge
Global warming is as hot a topic as ever these days, but the availability of fresh water—"needed for drinking, industry and sanitation"—is just as pressing a concern. Jovoto, Duke University's Center...
View ArticleSteve Jobs Biography Moves Up Again
Publishing house Simon & Schuster has announced they'll be bumping up the release of the Steve Jobs biography yet again, this time to October 24th. Originally scheduled for release in 2012, the...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2011: kidsroomZOOM
During Vienna Design Week, kidsroomZOOM inhabited a 200 square meter apartment in the centre of Vienna, featuring furnishings by 25 selected international designers. The show was a snapshot of...
View ArticleTables That Transform Length, Some More Stylishly Than Others
I'll never get tired of seeing tables designed to seamlessly change their length. Here's a quick roundup of five tables that flip open, extend and transform from basic to boastful. First, the basic,...
View ArticleTables That Change Length, Some More Stylishly Than Others
I'll never get tired of seeing tables designed to seamlessly change their length. Here's a quick roundup of five tables that flip open, extend and transform from basic to boastful. First, the basic,...
View ArticleMicrosoft is seeking a User Experience Designer in Redmond, Washington
User Experience Designer MicrosoftRedmond, Washington The Microsoft Hardware (MSH) team is seeking a senior designer with a broad set of skills. The ideal candidate can deliver high quality visual...
View ArticleDesigning the Ideal Industrial Design Program, by Paul Backett
Pixel Roller project from RCA graduates This is the postscript of the 6-part series from Ziba's Industrial Design Director, Paul Backett, on rethinking design education. Read the Introduction to the...
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