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A Case of Bad Karma on Kickstarter
It's so cheating! The idea behind a Zen garden is that combing all of that sand into intricate patterns improves the practitioner's concentration. It's not easy to do—and that's the point. So Simon...
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Reclaimed Cleveland: Turning an Abandoned City Into a Raw Material
Turning this: Into this: Cleveland suffers from what I'm calling Detroit Syndrome. The population of the onetime million-resident city has shrunk to just 396,000 as manufacturing jobs have disappeared,...
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A Portable Automotive Turntable with a Crazy Quick Set-Up Time
Like Carousel USA, Turntable Works is another California-based manufacturer of large-scale turntables. But the latter firm has got a product I could not have envisioned: A portable, folding motorized...
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Made in the USA: Council Tool's Velvicut "Boutique Axe"
[photos via wood and metal] That there is the perfect object. It's completely functional, it's the latest evolution from a history of progressively better objects that have been around since man's...
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NYIGF Winter 2012: More of the Good Stuff from Black+Blum
It's no secret that we're fans of London's Black+Blum: year in, year out, the design duo always seems to have something new up their collective sleeve. The recent NYIGF was no exception, as it was...
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IxDA Interaction12: Interaction Awards Winners!
"The best interaction design doesn't just make things easier to use, it opens up new spaces for play and collaboration to enhance our relationship with the world and each other," explained jurist...
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An Introduction to the Crowdfunding Revolution by Don Lehman
By Edward Betts (Own work.) via Wikimedia Commons If I could convince you of one thing, it would be this: Crowdfunding is not Nyan Cat. Nyan Cat will be the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question in 10...
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Peep the Technique: "FACETURE" by Phil Cuttance
All photos by Petr Krejci Seeing as he cut his teeth with the likes of Max Lamb, Studio Gilthero, Martino Gamper and Julia Lohmann, it comes as no surprise that designer Phil Cuttance is well-versed in...
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Is Corque Portugal's most valuable resource?
This isn't the first time we've talked about Corque on Core77, and since the Portugese design brand keeps coming up with one good idea after another, it won't be the last either. Corque was born in...
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IxDA Interaction12: Interaction Design vs. Designing Interactions, Keynote by...
Menstruation Machine by Hiromi Ozaki Interaction design and designing interactions... are they the same concept? Anthony Dunne, partner at Dunne and Raby and professor at Royal College of Arts in...
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Continuum is seeking an Industrial Design Intern in West Newton, Massachusetts
Industrial Design Intern ContinuumWest Newton, Massachusetts Continuum, the leading design and innovation consultancy in the world, is currently looking for industrial design interns for April–June...
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Crowdfunding Revolution: Should I Do This?
By Hannes Grobe (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons Is crowdfunding right for your project? From my introductory essay, you can already get the sense that I'm pro-crowdfunding. But let's be honest with...
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Nokero's Portable, Practical Energy Solutions
Finally, a convenient, realistic and affordable way for the average consumer to utilize solar power: Nokero's C110 Battery Charger, which runs 14 bucks (battery included) and works with any...
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A Hands on Education: The American College of Building Arts
How many times have you been all set to buy the latest Apple gadget only to be told by a friend to wait—an updated version is scheduled to come out soon and any day now the phone in your pocket will...
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Marc Newson on the Design of the Pentax K-01
In an effort to distinguish their micro 4/3rds or "mirrorless" camera from the competition, Pentax turned to Marc Newson. The aesthetic look of his design for the K-01 has been drawing some fire in...
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NASA's Plane Plans
In America's recent Florida primary, one candidate was lambasted by another for discussing plans to build a base on the moon—to an audience coming from a state with a nearly 10% unemployment rate,...
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Building Toys We Love: "Linx" by Patrick Martinez
Born and raised in France, visual artist Patrick Martinez is currently based in New York City who works in just about every medium, from video to drawing to sound. His latest project might be...
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Recap and Highlights from Art Hack Day at 319 Scholes
Several weeks in the making, Art Hack Day took place just over a week ago and was by all accounts a sure sign that the digital counterculture is alive and well in 2012. From from January 26–28,...
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Three Doors in One. Why?
While I can't imagine ever installing one of these, London-based ID firm Slam's ThreeStyle door is weird enough that I had to give it a look, hoping to find some compelling reasoning behind it....
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Things That Look Like Other Things (That We've Posted): The "Hang-Over" by...
Barcelona-based Labyrinth Studio has a couple interesting products available for sale, including this wall-mounted coat rack—a clotheshanger, of sorts—that consists of seven readymade hangers mounted,...
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