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Core77 Photo Gallery: Vienna Design Week 2011
Photography by Brit Leissler for Core77 Vienna Design Week celebrated it's fifth year with exhibitions, venue-specific installations, talks, and workshops throughout the capital. In an effort to...
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Eliodomestico Solar Household Still by Gabriele Diamanti
Milan-based designer Gabriele Diamanti's "Eliodomestico" solar-powered eco-distiller was recently selected as one of 12 finalists for the Prix Émile Hermès 2011. The small, vat-like still is made...
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Designing our Competitive Advantage, by Beth Comstock
Image courtesy of the UN Population Fund. Article by Beth Comstock, Senior Vice President & CMO, GE. According to the United Nations, today we celebrate the birth of the world's seven billionth...
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frog design is seeking a Industrial Design Intern in San Francisco, California
Industrial Design Intern frog designSan Francisco, California As a renowned "global innovation firm," frog design should need know introduction to our readers. They're searching for people who...
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frog design is seeking an Industrial Design Intern in San Francisco, California
Industrial Design Intern frog designSan Francisco, California As a renowned "global innovation firm," frog design should need no introduction to our readers. They're searching for people who...
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DRC x 2011: Cyborg Superheroes and Mobile Zombies
Images and reporting by Ciara Taylor There was much conversation about tools for design researchers during the first day of talks at the Design Research Conference, held at the Spertus Institute last...
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An Ongoing Review, for Industrial Designers, of the Steve Jobs Biography
I'd been meaning to wait until I finished Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs before committing to an entry, but I'm only 1/3rd of the way through and feel compelled to tell fellow ID'ers what they might...
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A New Angle on Mobile Communications
Last week, the so-called "Porscheberry" generated quite a bit of (mostly negative) discussion as to whether or not it could save Research in Motion. As one commenter pointed out, the sunset wallpaper...
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Six Minutes of Microsoft's Futuristic Designs
Though it's been live for less than a week, this alluring "Productivity Future Vision" video already has north of a million hits. Produced by Microsoft's Office Division, the concept video displays...
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A Jack O'Lantern Blowout
Happy Halloween! As this year's falls on a weekday, the little 'uns are most likely at school. Which wouldn't be so bad if they had a Science teacher like Mr. Bergmann of Kinard Middle School,...
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Trailer for Forthcoming Eames: The Architect and the Painter Documentary
We're not sure how this one slipped by us—the trailer has been online for nearly two weeks now—but with the (limited) release less than three weeks away, the trailer for Eames: The Architect and the...
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Design Tide Tokyo 2011: "Toge" by Emmanuelle Moureaux
When first walking into the exhibition space, one encounters a mysterious, optically-fuzzy, impressively colorful, wedding dress. Upon closer inspection, the dress is composed of small...
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Near Tag Quality, Arduino-enabled Graffiti
The folks from Graffiti Research Lab, an online resource for digitally enabled, open-source tools for "urban communication," recently posted a video for an Arduino-enabled project called the Near Tag...
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John Fluevog Shoes is seeking a Senior Accessories Designer & Developer in...
Senior Accessories Designer & Developer John Fluevog ShoesVancouver, British Columbia The Senior Accessories Designer & Developer at John Fluevog Shoes will drive the accessories development...
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DesignPhiladelphia 2011: Transforming Dilworth Plaza
On the west side of City Hall in Philadelphia sits Dilworth Plaza; a public space designed in the mid-1970s as an urban renewal project. The plaza received funding through the federal Transportation...
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Why Was the Snowstorm So Devastating? It Has to Do with the Design of Leaves
Thanks to evolution, nature has balance designed into it, and it is us humans who typically muck that balance up with our deforesting and overfishing. It's in our nature to build things and overtax...
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Book Review: The Toaster Project, by Thomas Thwaites
Thomas Thwaites opens his recent book with a quote from Mostly Harmless, the last book that Douglas Adams wrote in his Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series: "Left to his own devices he couldn't...
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The Value of Data Visualization: When Will People Finally Start Getting This...
Yesterday I tried going through my cell phone bill to check some usage stats and isolate costs, a completely maddening experience made unnecesarily slow through poor design. Whomever "designed"...
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Type Be Positive: Kickstart the Ludlow Project
It's easy to say that letterpress printing leaves an impression, but perhaps the most remarkable thing about the process, which dates back to Gutenberg's original invention in 1440, is that much of the...
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Storage Solutions Then and Now: The Portovault and the Box Butler
Had I lived in the 1920s, when personal possessions were sparse, I'd never have foreseen that in the future we'd own so much stuff that we'd pay other people to keep it for us. Or that there would be...
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