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Amplifying Creative Communities 2011 Northwest Brooklyn: Kinds and Products...
This is the third in a 4-part series from Cameron Tonkinwise, sharing learnings from a two-year project from the New School's Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab. Amplifying...
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Core77 Ultimate Gift Guide 2011 Featured Item: Bungee Netting
2011 has been a hard year. Global Revolution! Natural disasters! Bankruptcy! What's next? We're not hedging bets for 2012 just yet, but in case things don't turn out the way you'd expected, we've got...
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Design for (Your) Product Lifetime Showcase: Marc Levinson Redesigns the Tea...
The Autodesk Sustainability Workshop is a free and vast online resource that aims to teach sustainability strategies, from micro to macro. The simple, easily-digestible series of strategy videos,...
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The Story of the Modern Desk Lamp, Part 3: The Anglepoise Grows (Literally)
Luxo did well out of the licensing arrangement for the Anglepoise lamp, selling an estimated 25 million L-1s and branching out into the full-fledged lighting company they are today. John and Simon...
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MoMA Welcomes Pedro Gadanho as Contemporary Architecture and Museum Design...
The Museum of Modern Art welcomes Portugese architect Pedro Gadanho as it's newest Contemporary Architecture and Museum Design curator. Best known for his curatorial work and jewel-colored...
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Flotspotting Bike Bad-assery, Part 1: Chris Flechtner's Beezerker
Seattle-based designer, maker and Coroflotter Christopher Flechtner runs Speed Shop Design LLC, a design firm "dedicated to the design of all things fast." Flechtner's wicked-looking Beezerker...
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Behind the Bricks: Making LEGO TV Ads
LEGO was a vital part of my childhood and is definitely one of the reasons I'm an engineer/designer. I remember drooling over the LEGO sets in TV ads back in the 1990's and I was always so envious of...
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Ziba California is seeking a Senior Industrial Designer in San Diego, California
Senior Industrial Designer Ziba CaliforniaSan Diego, California Ziba California is looking for a Senior Industrial Designer to join our small San Diego based team in designing a range of commercially...
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The Story of the Modern Desk Lamp, Part 4: Pixar and Luxo, Jr.
Hard to believe, but Pixar Animation Studios was once an unheard-of upstart. In the mid-1980s no one knew who they were, and they'd developed a computer graphics technology called RenderMan that was...
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Core77 Ultimate Gift Guide 2011 Featured Item: Cristalino Sparkling Wine
2011 has been a hard year. Global Revolution! Natural disasters! Bankruptcy! What's next? We're not hedging bets for 2012 just yet, but in case things don't turn out the way you'd expected, we've got...
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Flotspotting Bike Bad-assery, Part 2: Dean Benstead's Air-Powered Pursuit
Of all the reasons to be named one of your city's Top 100 Most Influential People, Melbourne-based designer and Coroflotter Dean Benstead's got a cool one: He's developed a motorcycle prototype,...
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Design For and Against the 99%: "In Case of Riot" Table vs. "Protestor...
We were only half-joking when we suggested that Poler Stuff's "Napsack" might be well-suited to Occupiers looking to hunker down for the winter. The international sociopolitical phenomenon recently...
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1000 Typographic Drawings for Your Coffee Table
I don't know about you, but I'm beyond sick of the seemingly endless supply of iPad accessories coming out of Kickstarter. It's really making me wonder what doesn't make it past Kickstarter's review...
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Core77 2011 Year in Review: An Introduction
ShelterBox, disaster relief in a box, from Michael Sammet's "Building Adaptive Capacity: Towards a Sustainability 3.0" 2011 has been a year marked by the extreme winds of mother nature, political...
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Sori Yanagi, Japanese Industrial Design Pioneer, Passes Away
Sadly, last night designer Sori Yanagi passed away. The Japanese industrial design pioneer was 96 years of age. After founding the Yanagi Industrial Design Institute in Japan in 1952, Yanagi and his...
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Masters of the Cutaway Part 2: Frank Soltesz, L. Ashwell Wood and George Zaffo
In Part 1, I took a look at Hans Jenssen, a modern master of cutaway illustration. In this part, I'll spotlight two illustrators from the 1940's and 50's, back when cross-sections were the method of...
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Innovation Gets Tired, Part 1: The Non-Pneumatic Tire
Remember Ron Arad's spring steel wheel bicycle? Wisconsin-based Resilient Technologies, a company that develops "advanced mobility products," makes something similar for motor vehicles: The...
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Core77 2011 Year in Review: Visual Communication
Welcome to the third chapter of our 2011 year-end wrap-up, in which we focus on visual communication, including a full range of graphics, identity, packaging and otherwise visually-driven content from...
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Andrew Geller, Modernist Architect Behind Loewy's Leisurama Houses, Passes Away
On the same day as Sori Yanagi, another design giant passed away. Modernist architect Andrew Geller, who worked at Raymond Loewy and Associates for 35 years, died on Sunday at the age of 87. One of...
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GM Readies Shanghai Design Studio, First Female Design Director Steps Up
In July 2012 General Motors Advanced Studio will cut the ribbon on their new Shanghai design facility, which will be headed up by Wulin Gaowa (pictured above). Gaowa is GM's first female design studio...
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