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Demakersvan’s Lace Chain Link Fence
Dutch design outfit Demakersvan has attempted to remedy the cold industrial feel of the chain link fence by adding an unexpected flourish of beauty to the standard security device. Re-routing the repetitive diamond pattern of the fence into a needlepoint-esque organic design, the “Lace Fence” concept brings some sorely needed beauty into this ubiquitous element of urban space.
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John Maeda’s Design Life in Five Photos
John Maeda wears a lot of hats: graphic designer, computer scientist, mathematician, sneaker designer, university professor, author, and now President of Rhode Island School of Design. His work on the intersection of technology and design landed him on Esquire’s list of the 21 most important people in the 21st century. In this episode of Dezeen Magazine’s Design Miami Chat Shows, the endlessly-interesting Maeda presents his “design life in five photos.”Filed under Design
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Depression Design
“American designers took the Depression as a call to arms,” says Kristina Wilson, in a New York Times piece by Michael Cannell (1/4/09). “It was a chance to make good on the Modernist promise to make affordable intelligent design for a broad audience,” adds Kristina, an art history professor at Clark University...Filed under Design
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Ask the Innovation Guru
"How can business schools restructure to incorporate design thinking into their curricula?" asks reader Mike. BusinessWeek's Bruce Nussbaum responds. (Video
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2008's Best Contest Photos You Never Saw, Part 2
With an average of over 500 submissions for each of our twice-monthly photo contests in 2008, a lot of great photos got overlooked. In celebration of the year coming to a close, we've gone back and pulled out some of our favorite contest photos that just didn't get the votes we think they deserved.
Click through the gallery to see these resurrected gems.
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Bonus chart of the day: Annus horribilis in 3D
Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow (BTW, have you picked up his book, Little Brother? It's the perfect gift for any smart, tech-savvy teen)points to the work of Berlin artist Andreas Nicholas Fischer, who has rendered financial charts as wooden sculptures.Below is a piece, fashioned from more than 150 laser-cut wood polygons, in which Fischer depicts the performance of the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and NASDAQ from January to November of this year.
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Rockwell's Dramatic Brand Strategies
26 NOV 2008 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
Architect and Broadway set designer David Rockwell discusses why it's important for corporations to invest in design during the economic downturn. (Video )
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Making Computers Based on the Human Brain
How the biology of gray matter is having an increasing influence on computer design.
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Can Design Solve Social Problems?
NOV 2008 from Fast Company | Read the full story»
Participle's interdisciplinary crew includes anthropologists, economists, entrepreneurs, psychologists, social scientists, and a military-logistics expert, but it is driven by design techniques and headed by Cottam, 42, who also has used such strategies to tackle the shortcomings of Britain's school and health systems.
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IKEA’s Guerrilla Interior Design in Russia
IKEA undertook an interesting publicity stunt in Novosibirsk, Russia recently. The ubiquitous home furnishings company completely decked out four subway cars in IKEA gear. Seats were upholstered in colorful fabric and curtains hung from the windows. Nice (legal) guerrilla style interior design. It would be great to see more of this stuff - understated advertising that actually improves a space.
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Businesses Take a Page From Design Firms
06 NOV 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»
Clinic staff from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York role-play patient-care scenarios with consultants from design firm IDEO. The hospital has enlisted designers 'to look at problems differently.' (Subscription required)
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Dell Bets Splashy Design Will Sell Its New Laptops
Dell Design Chief Ed Boyd is transforming those once-stodgy PCs with art and color. Can made-to-order laptops revitalize the computer maker?
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Designers Share Their Literary Inspirations
The Goodness blog conducted a little survey of 26 exemplary graphic designers that resulted in some unique answers. They asked participants to recommend a book that they have found particularly inspiring or meaningful to their development as a creative person, with the stipulation that graphic design books could not be mentioned. The end product is a very varied and surprising assortment of titles. Books range from children’s books like Go, Dog, Go!, to Brian Eno’s A Year With Swollen Appendices. Even more interesting is the details of what about the books sparked a creative streak in the designer’s minds.Filed under Design
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Russell Davies On The Development Of Pre-Experience Design
People’s experiences of most big-time consumer products starts with the communications / marketing / whatever you want to call it. The experience starts with the thing that gets built second. This, I suspect, is why we’re not seeing more people actively doing something like pre-experience design. It’s not because integrating marketing and design thinking isn’t a good idea, it’s because it’s organisationally / politically impossible. This may not have been a problem in the past, but as more and more products ‘informationalise’ it’s going to become more of an issue.Filed under Design
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Clarks Shoes Installation Inspired by Dust
Lance Clark of the UK Clarks Shoe brand thought the courtyard of the company’s Somerset England headquarters was looking a bit dull. Mr. Clark gave ROSO a call and commissioned an installation. Clark worked previously on a smaller installation with ROSO who specialize in projects that merge art, architecture, and design.
The installation itself was developed from a single observation - Light is only seen when reflected. A light beam coming through a window is only visible because light is reflected in the millions of dust particles floating in the air.
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Unboxed: Design Is More Than Packaging
"Design thinking" focuses on people’s actual needs rather than trying to persuade them to buy into what businesses are selling. (Subscription required)Hat tip: Stephen Garner
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Charge Your iPhone With a Yo-Yo
The iYo is a very cool idea. Combining play with renewable energy and the iPhone? Triple win. Swedish designer Peter Thuvander has designed a concept device (though it's almost a reality) that charges iPhones, or any other Apple gadgets. All it takes is 30 spins of the yo-yo, and there is enough power to fully charge the phone.Filed under Design
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Bike stand doubles as tire pump
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Plastic Bagism
Adrian is working on "getting some New York City residents on various blocks to forsake their boring black garbage bags, and instead create an urban art installation with his biodegradable beauties." He explains: "Public artwork carries over for me from Poland, where a lot of things are community based." And he elaborates: "Because it’s a trash bag, it tackles the issue of consumption and waste," but does so "in a positive manner, rather than critique or twist things around in an apocalyptic fashion."
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Target's Design Scout
Culture & Commerce brought Philippe Starck to Target. Now the firm is helping the retailer introduce young designers to the mass market.Filed under Design
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Radio that's all user-interface
The Hidden Radio has no obvious controls...unless you count that the radio *is* the controls...it "has either no user interface...or...is all user interface". The volume is controlled by lifting the lid of the radio (which also reveals the speaker). Tuning is done by twisting the lid. Absurdly clever.
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Art design for the masses, chosen by the masses
Industry execs say crowdsourcing is one of the best ways to stay on top of consumer trends, so a host of new sites are asking professional and armchair designers to submit art for sneakers, skateboards, car art and stationary.Filed under Design
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Just Browsing | New Coke(s)
04 AUG 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»
Despite the extreme blowback that tinkering with the Real Thing has earned the makers of Coca-Cola in the past, they’re not resting on their coca-leaf laurels. A top secret laboratory set up last October in Beijing by Coke and the China Academy of Chinese Medical Services has finally opened its doors to journalists. What they found: 40 people, a machine squeezing the liquids out of medicinal plants, and cell cultures testing traditional anti-aging remedies, all in the service of what Coke hopes will be the "drinks of the new millennium." For those more interested in chic than chi, over in Florence, Roberto Cavalli has just shrouded Diet Coke bottles with three different animal prints, which will go on sale from September to December. (Subscription required)
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Designing the Future of Business
Forget total quality. Forget top-down strategy. Design is the engine that can transform a company into a powerhouse of nonstop innovation.Filed under Design
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P&G Changes Its Game
How Procter & Gamble is using design thinking to crack difficult business problems.Filed under Design
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Starck Realities
"I regret that my job is design," says designer Phillippe Starck in the New York Times (8/7/08). "Design stupidly produces more things, and for years I've spoken about the importance of living with fewer things," he says. Those "stupid" things have made Phillippe Starck a very wealthy man...Filed under Design
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London caps skyscrapers; Paris piles high
In the global race to build glitzy skyscrapers, London and Paris are choosing opposite paths, as usual.Filed under Design
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LED lighting system for bikes
The MonkeyLectric LED light system, invented by Instructables.com co-founder Dan Goldwater, turns spinning bike wheels into a psychedelic experience. Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Brownlee has written a magnificent essay on the inherent weirdness of bicycles and the magic of MonkeyLectric lights.Filed under Design
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The 10 Commandments of Web Design
The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008.Filed under Design
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Architects Envision the Next Starbucks
24 JUL 2008 from Brand Autopsy | Read the full story»
Consider peeping [at] the July issue of ARCHITECT magazine. The magazine asked five architect design firms to envision the rebirth of Starbucks. Interesting results ... lots of daydreaming esoteric fodder for design-types. The regular marketing-type in me likes the Modular Community Kitchen design from Studios Architecture.
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R&D: The D Is for Design
Monty Montague, a principal at innovation consultancy Bolt, discusses how incorporating design into traditional R and D departments has led to major innovations at companies ranging from IBM to Herman Miller. (Audio
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IDEA Winners, 2008
Check out our extensive special report looking at the winners of this year's International Design Excellence Awards. Hat tip: Stephen GarnerFiled under Design
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Our World Today: Why Everything Is Designer
In the Times Online last week, Lisa Armstrong explores the issue, wondering what it’ll be like if (when) we live in a world where every single object around us, every experience we live, is touched by a designer’s hand - or at least branded to be so.Filed under Design
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The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design
Would you like a process to create more consistently creative work which distinguishes itself from the work of your peers? Would you like a process which would help translate the often vague, unclear wishes of your clients (and yourself, for that matter) into a clear and solid basis for your design? This manifesto will show you how. By Stephen HayFiled under Design
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Talking About Design
23 JUN 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»
David Lewis is responsible for some of Bang & Olufsen's most famous products. Here's how he does it.
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The 10 Commandments of Web Design
The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008.Filed under Design
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Two very different takes on public sculpture and art
Chicago understands public art in a public space. The public will only be interested if they can engage with it. Walk on it, play it in, look into it, touch it, brush up against it.
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PRODUCT DESIGN
23 JUN 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»
It's one thing to have a broad idea of what you want a product to be, but it's something else to figure out how it will all be put together and what it's going to look like. And behind every product, there's a story about why it looks the way it does. Here are seven of those stories, from a water-purifying straw to women's jeans that fit right, and starting with Callaway's i-brid golf club. (Subscription required)
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The New Direction of Design
BusinessWeek Innovation chief Bruce Nussbaum talks to Frank Tyneski, IDSA's Ducati-driving executive director about new directions for design and innovation. (Video)
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Johnson & Johnson's Big Design Challenge
J&J Chief Design Officer Chris Hacker is a man with a mission: to bring sustainable design to corporate America.Filed under Design
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Importing Shenzen
Travelodge is in a hurry to build more hotels in London, and so it is importing its properties, pre-fab, in containers from China, reports Fred A. Bernstein in the New York Times (5/11/08). Travelodge current projects include two "modular" hotels, one in Uxbridge and the other near Heathrow airport. Both were designed by Travelodge with each room built as a metal container by a company called Verbus Systems near Shenzen, China, "ready to be stacked into buildings up to 16 stories tall."Filed under Design
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A New Mantra for Creativity
Executives should apply the "Order of Magnitude" rule to any problem that demands a creative solution.Filed under Design
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Great Numbers, Not So Great Design
30 APR 2008 from Subtraction | Read the full story»
Let me admit a real prejudice that I have, and maybe you can try to convince me that I’m wrong: it’s my belief that you just can’t get great design out of a design agency with a staff larger than a dozen or two. Design doesn’t scale well, in my opinion, or at least it doesn’t do so easily. This craft, and whatever pretensions to art it can pull off, rests so much on the efficiency of transferring ideas from the brain to the hand. This means that in its ideal form, it works best when practiced by a single person.
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pre-experience design
30 APR 2008 from russell davies | Read the full story»
I bet there's not a decent-sized corporation anywhere that enables process and experience designers to collaborate on 'expectation design' with marketing and communications people. It just doesn't work like that.
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Talk to the Newsroom: Khoi Vinh, Design Director
21 APR 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»
"[W]e pay a lot of attention to how people use our content online. That is, not just how they read it, but how they make use of it: how they might scan the page haphazardly rather than diligently reading from top to bottom; what parts of the page they look to first and last; what they expect to change from visit to visit; which visual cues are meaningful for them and which design flourishes they find useless."
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Pure Digital Flips the Script
How the Flip—a bare-bones digital camcorder—grew from a simple idea to a contender among giants like Sony.Filed under Design
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Fashion meets technology?
A few months ago, Michael Dell – the newly returned CEO of his eponymous computer company – said, "We are in the fashion business." Yowza. Add another notch on design’s bed post. Now, according to the FT, Microsoft has issued a research paper with the unlikely title "Fashion meets technology: Welcome to the future of PCs."Filed under Design
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The Flip takes 13% of the camcorder market by doing less
Pogue says the secret is that it just simply works. It’s always ready, it’s always trustworthy, it’s always with you. The quality isn’t the sell, the convenience and foolproofery is. You can’t make a mistake, you can’t do anything wrong. Its purpose is pure to the core: Shoot quick videos without thinking about it. I love it. Kudos to Pure Digital for having the discipline to make a camcorder for the rest of us.Filed under Design
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Director's Commentary: Amia Chair
Director's Commentary about the Amia chair. Thomas Overthun, a colleague of mine from IDEO, and Bruce Smith of Steelcase take us through its genesis.
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Is It Worth It?
"Good design" often comes with a hefty price tag. We pitted four popular, pricey products against their low-cost counterparts—with surprising results.Filed under Design
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The State of Indian Design
India's advertising industry is soaring, and a graphic design community is emerging. The country's most exciting creative talents talk about what the future might hold.
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Podcast: Design and the Elastic Mind
Paola Antonelli discusses a new exhibit that shows how design can transform so-called disruptive technologies, complex data, and scientific breakthroughs in surprising and creative works. (Audio)
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Design, democracy, and low expectations
12 FEB 2008 from Dan Pink | Read the full story»
Democracy is inspiring, the way we design it, not so much. I discovered that again this afternoon when I voted in the D.C. Democratic presidential primary. For example, here's the entrance of my polling place. Duct tape keeping up the main sign. The official placard resting on the ground. Nice. The whole aesthetic has a certain Soviet Union circa 1983 despair to it, don't you think?
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Is the Design Revolution Here? Can Designers get to the top of a publicly traded company?
In the past months I’ve read several articles and blogs about the possibility that Jonathan Ive, SVP of Industrial Design at Apple, could succeed Steve Jobs as CEO. As far as I can tell this is only a rumor, but it prompts the questions: Is corporate America ready for the design revolution? Can designers be CEOs?Filed under Design
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A New Model for Green Design
18 JAN 2008 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
A radical document, supported by industry organizations, major designers and leading consultancies, aims to set a new standard for sustainability in design.
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Everything By Design
Alan Lapidus, an architect of hotels and casinos, says his chosen profession is often called the world’s second-oldest, "but sometimes it bears a close resemblance to its older sister." His new book, "Everything By Design," reviewed by Eric Gibson in The Wall Street Journal, (12/26/07), "takes an unpretentious, even mordant, view of the field..."Filed under Design
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Connecting the Dots
Design has more bearing on industry and commerce than one might think. The education of future generations should place more emphasis on creativity and a successful integration of design thinking into these arenas.Filed under Design
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re-design netflix's envelope, or else
Netflix has been hailed as one of the most innovative business ideas in recent history. Much of its success has been down to the brilliant design of its envelope, a very simple, but important element that allows the business to function. It now appears this envelope has been adding costs the United States Postal Service that it can no longer tolerate.Filed under Design
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Work With Me, Baby
06 DEC 2007 from the New York Times | Read the full story»
FASHION is a stepchild, in photography no less than in other areas of the culture. The reach of the imagery it produces influences everything from trash television to presidential campaigns. Yet the slick work cranked out by the fashion machine is rarely taken seriously.
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Star Wars tatts -- best of body-art
The Force in the Flesh, a site that tracks Star Wars-themed body art, has done a roundup of its top-ten Star Wars tatts (including one angry, scarified Yoda). I'm very fond of these subtle, side-finger lightsabers. You could have endless duels during long train rides.
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Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Process
Photos follow the development of an external hard drive from concept to completion, with bonus shots of the machines and material needed for the process.Filed under Design
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Video tribute to designer Paul Rand - video
Here is a 4 minute Quicktime film tributing Paul's work, a delicious animated journey through very familiar shapes and colors as Paul explains graphic design. In short, it looks really great. (Video)
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better for the environment- hummer or prius?
[Nathan Shedroff's] presentation highlights the massively complex challenge involved in creating products that are better for the planet, because the definition and proof of what constitutes "better" is hard to come by and hard work to generate.Filed under Design
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Where Designers Rule
05 NOV 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
Electronics maker Bang & Olufsen doesn't ask shoppers what they want. Its faith is in its design gurus.
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Dell Is Getting Serious About the Customer Experience.
Dell is getting very serious about transitioning from the PC cube to the consumer experience.Filed under Design
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Enabling Innovation Through Office Design
15 OCT 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
Work has become more mobile and team-based, but most organizations have been slow in changing their workplaces to reflect the new reality.
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At Last! PC Industry Gets Serious About Good Design
Computer makers have discovered that good industrial design sells -- and some, like Dell and Hewlett Packard, are making well-designed products a priority.Filed under Design
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Active Design
Design should not only look great, but also make shoppers act. By Jonathan Dodd.Filed under Design
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What is Design Thinking? Who Teaches it Best?
Check out this video on design thinking. It's amazing. You have Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman Management School, Harry West head of strategy and innovation from Continuum, Dan Pink, Jeff Huang and others. (Video)
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As boomers go gray, will big money mean better tech?
Companies targeting a large retiree market with money and time to spare could result in better features for all.Filed under Design
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Paola the Populist
The design universe revolves around a woman who loves Q-tips, Post-its, and The Twilight Zone.Filed under Design
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Streamlining HP
"It's fine with me if design is regarded as nothing more than a business tool."-Sam Lucente , VP of design, Hewlett-PackardFiled under Design
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What HP's Design VP Learned from IBM and Netscape
How do you design a coordinated, focused design strategy for a sprawling, $97 billion behemoth comprised of scores of business units that are used to operating independently? If you're Sam Lucente, who leads Hewlett-Packard's design practice, you leverage some of what you learned at your previous two gigs, even as you ignore the conventional wisdom on "managing design." ... In an interview, Lucente spotlighted some of the genetic code from IBM and Netscape that found its way into HP's design DNA.Filed under Design
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Romancing the Flat Pack: Ikea, Repurposed
10 SEP 2007 from the New York Times | Read the full story»
Do-it-yourselfers and technogeeks, tinkerers, artists, crafters and product and furniture designers, the hackers are united only by their perspective, which looks upon an Ikea Billy bookcase or Lack table and sees not a finished object but raw material: a clean palette yearning to be embellished or repurposed. They make a subset of an expanding global D.I.Y. movement, itself a huge tent of philosophies and manifestoes including but not confined to anticonsumerism, antiglobalism, environmentalism and all-purpose iconoclasm. (Subscription required)
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if advertising equals myth, does design equal truth?
"Design is so popular today mostly because business sees design as connecting it to the consumer populace in a deep, fundamental and honest way. An honest way. If you are in the myth-making business, you don’t need design. You need a great ad agency. But if you are in the authenticity and integrity business then you have to think design."Bruce Nussbaum-Business Week- Speech given to the Royal College of Art- London
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The top 50
01 SEP 2007 from the Guardian | Read the full story»
When it comes to design, the UK is home to some of the world's biggest talent. But who are the brightest stars? We put together a panel of judges to identify the hottest names.
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Phaidon's Ice Cream: 100 of the Coolest Artists
Phaidon’s recent release Ice Cream, following its earlier collections Cream (1998), Fresh Cream (2000), and Cream 3 (2003), showcases a selection of works from 100 of the most significant up-and-coming artists working today.
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MIT software measures clutter
Web design purists who favor simplistic pages like Google.com can take heart.Filed under Design
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Drawer Fridge
Let's face it, fridges are ugly. They're big, chunky and take up a whack of space. The Norcool Drawer Fridge takes the bulk out of your kitchen and kicks it up a notch on the trendiness scale. The sleek metallic refrigerator is built right under your existing counter top space into easy pull-out drawer.
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Proving Design Moves Markets
We know that great design fuels revenue and grows margins. But thus far, most companies -- with the possible exception of pioneers like Procter & Gamble and Whirlpool—have been unable to prove it.Filed under Design
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The Best Product Design Of 2007
30 JUL 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
This year's awards run the gamut from "split-head" hammers to ultralight jets to savings plans for shoppers.
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Books shaped like cigarettes
Tank is launching a series of books designed to mimic cigarette packs – the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane. TankBooks pay homage to this monumentally successful piece of packaging design by employing it in the service of great literature.
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Proving the Value of Design
We know that design is an expense—just look at any company's balance sheet. And we know intuitively that for many companies, design is a profit center. But few organizations can actually prove that great design drives profits.Filed under Design
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[Mailbag] Volvo, Seagate, Tufte Mint, etc.
The new Volvo S40
From: Régis Kuckaertz
Volvo has redesigned (sic) the S40 model, following a few — scandinavian — design principles:
...Seagate packaging like Apple
From: Ross Hill
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The Best Web Sites Are Useful and Ugly
Functionality and usefulness are far more important to the success of your Web site than how nice and elegant it looks.
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New Media Meets Old: A Look at Redesigned Mainstream News Sites
02 JUL 2007 from Read/WriteWeb | Read the full story»
I thought it might be interesting to compare three big media sites that have launched new versions of their web news properties in 2007: CNN, USA Today, and AOL News. I'll look at the different approaches each news outlet took, and what cues they took from web 2.0.
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Beach Reading--Design and Innovation.
[H]ere are four intangible assets that good designers tend to share...Filed under Design
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The Automobile as Accessory: Current Car Trends
Forbes Autos published an article earlier this week discussing the various emerging trends in car design, focusing on ten current innovations that seem to indicate new consumer attitudes towards the vehicles they are purchasing. Like in so many industries right now, the old business model of conservative action and pure number-crunching is gradually being replaced by a new wave of dynamic, fashion-conscious strategies that serve to get brands recognized in an increasingly fast-paced and savvy consumer market.Filed under Design
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Dyson Airblade
"We’ve taken a totally different approach," says James Dyson, commenting on his latest creation, Dyson’s Airblade, in a USA Today article by Bruce Horovitz (6/18/07). Not to be confused with Dyson’s best-selling, $599 vacuum cleaners, the Airblade is a $1,400 commercial hand-dryer...Filed under Design
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Pushing the Boundaries of Design
12 JUN 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
Innovation often arises out of crossing disciplines and combining technologies. That's a focus of our look for the top cutting-edge designers.
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Boxfish Roadster
"The key advantage of working with designs that are in harmony with the laws of nature is that evolution has formed creatures to be very economical with energy," says Dieter Gurtler of DaimlerChrysler in a Business 2.0 article by Ethan Watters (Jun ‘07).Filed under Design
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Heated Architecture Competition Inspires Creative Solutions for Staying Cool
Every year the P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center in Long Island City hosts a series of summer music concerts called Warm Up. For 10 Saturdays, 5,000 partygoers converge on the museum's 15,000-square-foot courtyard to pump up the jams with their favorite bands... Rather than put up humdrum tents, the arts center holds a competition for temporary structures in the courtyard.
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The Sony Odo Digital Camera - Eco Friendly and Powered By You
In Tokyo this weekend, Sony unveiled a few eco-friendly digital products at their “Sony-made ECO showcase". The coolest by far though has to be the Odo digital camera. You put your two fingers in the holes and spin it vertically until it's powered-up.
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Pimp My Chair: La-Z-Boy Thrives on Overstuffed Innovation
A piece of souped-up patio furniture spurs eight decades of comforting craftsmanship.
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FAQ: Guide to indoor lighting
How many inventions does it take to change a lightbulb for good?Filed under Design
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Design for the Other 90%
The vast majority of designers put their talent to where the money is: crafting products and services that aim to beguile the richest 10% of the world's population. Nothing wrong with making a living.Filed under Design
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Sinking Titanic Lamp
Viable London describes their product as, "leaning as if sinking below the surface of the table... titanic is designed to throw a wash of light across a room."
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Did we ever remember design?
When it comes to design, every year is the same.Filed under Design
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Space Shot: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
The Seattle office of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects is never the same place twice.Filed under Design
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Simplicity - Maeda vs. Bauhaus
23 APR 2007 from Sachlichkeit | Read the full story»
Anybody who has ever been in a design briefing knows about the fragmentations of our modern world. Anybody who has ever been to a second meeting with two new people on the client side knows this even better. And anybody who has ever given up after the third meeting and has still continued with the assignment also knows how design by compromise looks and feels: it has frictions more than one can count. - In this essay we explore the nature of 'simplicity' - from Maeda to Bauhaus - and its central implications for both the job of a designer and for the job of design management.
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Made in China
The world is bigger than Detroit. It's bigger than North America.Filed under Design
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A Career in Enhancing The Way Consumers Shop
Sarah E. Needleman on the pros and cons of a job as a customer-experience-designer, also known as user-experience designer information architect and interactive designer.Filed under Design
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The Designer Who Meant Business
It is somehow fitting that what is arguably corporate design's most powerful mantra—"Good design is good business"—is widely credited to former IBM chief Thomas Watson Jr., but was in fact formulated by the architect and industrial designer Eliot Noyes.Filed under Design
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50 Affordable Designs by Famous Designers
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A Manifesto On Sustainability In Design
Allan Chochinov at Core77 has written an important Manifesto on Sustainability In Design that should be read by business people and designers alike.Filed under Design
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PSFK TV : Product Design Trends By Allan Chochinov At The PSFK Conference NYC
Has the ability of the web to share ideas forced a sudden shift towards the consumption of the idea of a product rather than a product itself? How does this impact design and product development? (Video)
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Design Vs. Design Thinking--The Talent Battle Continues.
There is a nasty civil war going on in design education between traditionalists who want to focus on form and a new generation who focus on concept. This generation is into design thinking.Filed under Design
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Novelties: How to Soften the Edges of Technology
Some companies will now encase both a computer and its peripherals in a back-to-the-future covering of a different sort: warm, glowing wood.Filed under Design
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Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?
Here's the speech I gave at Parson's on Thursday that deals with the backlash against design.Filed under Design
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Newspapers and web design
Good newspaper design is all about effectively presenting large quantities of text/information in a usable, straightforward way. That’s got a lot more in common with good web design than most of the sexy print pieces you find in design magazines/annuals.Filed under Design
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Savage, funny mobile phone review
Charlie Brooker, writing in the Guardian, reviews his phone under the headline, "My new mobile is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary features aimed at idiots." It gets even better from there.Filed under Design
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Pimp My Bentley - Bentley Tricks Out Their Knob!
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Hasbro Magic
“Games are math puzzles with a thousand details, but what you want customers to feel is that they’re getting magic in a box,” says Rob Daviau, a senior game designer for Hasbro, reports Carol Hymowitz in The Wall Street Journal (2/26/07).Filed under Design
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Lamborghini Spiga - The New Gallardo Concept
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Flashback: Bone Fone
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The human factor in gadget, Web design
New gizmos and Web sites may be cool, but they're not always easy to use. Some people are out to change that.Filed under Design
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New School
Life Is Carbon points to a design for the Ordrup School in Denmark where the Danish design team of Bosch & Fjord have created a whole range of spaces for "differentiated teaching and creative thinking". The design was based on the premise that all people are different, think differently and learn differently.Filed under Design
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Design and class
[W]ith all the talk over niche markets and long-tails, could it be that the perception of social class remains a powerful tool in marketing to consumer groups?Filed under Design
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Whirlpool Metrics
Chuck Jones knew he needed a new approach when his management at Whirlpool wouldn’t approve a design flourish that would add five bucks to per-unit costs, reports Bill Breen in Fast Company (February 07). Chuck is Whirlpool’s design chief...Filed under Design
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Ambient Autos
"Lighting is going to be the next big thing in automobile design," says Ian Callum, Jaguar’s design director, in a New York Times article by Phil Patton (1/14/07). What’s promised is "a sense that light is capable of providing the style once imparted by stamped metal or molded glass."Filed under Design
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Interactive Design: Where Tech Meets Art
Industrial designer Bill Moggridge mines the history of interactive design to better understand how we mortals interact with technology.Filed under Design
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Design Life Now
Eighty-seven designers across a range of categories are on display at Andrew Carnegie’s former N.Y.C. mansion in a triennial exploration of American design, this year called "Design Life Now," reports Roberta Smith in The New York Times (12/15/06).Filed under Design
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Designing for Contagion
Begin with Desire: create an offering that will bring value to people's lives by starting your process with a focus on their needs. Not on your killer technology. Not on your brilliant business model.Filed under Design
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Happy New Year
We wish you a new year filled with prosperity and growth, both personal and professional.
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Economic View: Goodbye, Production (and Maybe Innovation)
Over the long run, can invention and design be separated from production? (Subscription required)Filed under Design
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Inventables DesignAid Kit: The Secret Weapon of Great Designers
A peek inside the Inventables DesignAid kit, the odd but thought-provoking secret weapon of great designers.Filed under Design
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Happy Holidays!
We're observing the Christmas holiday today and will return to posting tomorrow, Boxing day. We wish you a day filled with joy and peace.
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Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design
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What's Trendy in American Design?
Biomimicry, interaction and do-it-yourself initiative ride the forefront of U.S. design, says a new exhibit. Michael Myser gets a sneak peek at the Design Life Now triennial at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt in New York City.Filed under Design
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Thinking Simple At Philips
11 DEC 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
A panel of outside experts is helping the electronics giant reinvent itself.
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Thoughts of a Design Pioneer
30 NOV 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
In his new book, Designing Interactions, IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge profiles the most influential designers in the history of Silicon Valley.
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How Home Depot is borrowing a page from the Target playbook
At the FORTUNE Innovation Forum in New York, Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli explained how the company is experimenting with a new innovation program called Orange Works that will create new high-design products for the home-improvement retailer.Filed under Design
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Color of Ideas
Pantone aspires to inspire the global creative community. By Drew Coburn and Jeff Verses of G2 Branding and Design.Filed under Design
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Designing the 21st century cubicle
15 NOV 2006 from Business2.0 | Read the full story»
From conference rooms that collapse to desks that roll, companies like Google and Cisco are giving their offices a makeover to meet the needs of a mobile workforce.
Hat tip: MyBusiness Magazine
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Multiple personalities
Should we integrate creativity into our usual thinking behaviour, or should we keep it separate and then choose to 'switch' when required? This is an important question.Filed under Design
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Design your own Penguin cover
"Penguin has released six classic titles with pure white, art-quality covers for people to design their own book jackets. Titles include The Picture of Dorian Gray,Magic Tales from the Brothers Grimm and Emma."Filed under Design
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Happy Thanksgiving
We hope that you all have a day rich with community and contentment. The wire service will resume tomorrow.
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Advertisements Revisited
"Ready. Fire! Aim." is one of Tom’s favorite mantras. In that spirit, we've been experimenting with advertising here at the TP Wire Service. We've also considered and researched it for our parent site, tompeters.com. The results have underwhelmed us. We're removing the ads from the TP Wire Service RSS feeds today and will be removing the ads from the TP Wire Service home page in the near future. Tompeters.com will remain ad-free. We welcome your thoughts on the subject. Here's to "Relentless Experimentation!"
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The Nokia 888 communicator changes shape on demand
Nokia recently unveiled a new concept phone (the Nokia 888) that changes shape on demand. The product took home first place in Nokia's Benelux design contest, thanks to a number of innovative features - such as liquid batteries, a flexible touch screen, and speech recognition - that make traditional mobile phone keys obsolete.Filed under Design
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Is Design the New Management Consultancy? Not Exactly.
See the big picture. Sometimes design does have direct influence on business strategy. But describing that influence in terms of customer experience alone can lack the information that executives want to hear. Learning how to describe design’s benefits in financial and strategic language is key.Filed under Design
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Silent Jet
A team of 40 researchers from Cambridge University and MIT has spent the last three years working on a concept "silent jet," which would sound about as noisy as a washing machine or other household appliance to people on the ground.Filed under Design
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A tribute to men and women who design
A Tribute to the Men and Women Who Design is a 28-minute film highlighting the importance in America of design and aesthetics in everyday life. Somewhat surprisingly, the film was made nearly 50 years ago, way back in 1958. The rise of the modern design aesthetic, apparently, had its roots in the 1950s.Filed under Design
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Open Debate
Can anyone be a designer?Filed under Design
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National Design Week Begins Today
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is celebrating National Design Week from October 15 to 21 in New York City to promote design education on a national scale. Target is providing free admission to the museum.Filed under Design
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To Read the Consumer's Mind
In this edited interview, Steve McCallion, creative director of Portland, Oregon-based Ziba Design, expands on why "deep consumer research" is a critical part of the design process and how he leveraged it for clients as varied as Umpqua Bank and Sirius Satellite Radio.Filed under Design
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Design Master: The Mind Reader
He studies who we are and what we want, then reinvents the things we've always known.Filed under Design
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Underwater Hotels: the Poseidon vs. Hydropolis
Underwater hotels have long been dream projects for architects and designers, but it looks like two of them may actually be built over the next 18 months in Fiji and Dubai.
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2006 Masters of Design
Is design a craft, a tool, or an obsession? These days, it's a bit of all three. In our annual roundup meet the creative businesspeople dialing in to the power of design, and hear sage advice on what design can (and can't) do for your bottom line -- and get an eyeful of some amazing examples of the craft.
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Tough Love
OCT 2006 from Fast Company | Read the full story»
Business wants to love design, but it's often an awkward romance.
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A Portable Toilet With a Flat-Panel TV
22 SEP 2006 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»
[A]s the $1.5 billion U.S. portable-sanitation industry chases the luxury market, the port-a-potty is getting a makeover. Rental companies are rolling out upscale "restroom trailers," equipped with amenities such as marble counters, wall-to-wall carpeting, satellite radio and flat-panel TVs. (Subscription required!)
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The Deans of Design
24 SEP 2006 from U.S. News & World Report | Read the full story»
Palo Alto, Calif.-based IDEO is one the most influential design firms on the planet. From the computer mouse to the newest Swiffer, IDEO is behind the scenes.
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Who Is Jonathan Ive?
25 SEP 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
An in-depth look at the man behind Apple's design magic.
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Hand-truck chair
I'm not sure if these handtruck chairs are for sale, but they're way ingenious and a great way to cart your friends around in style.
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Where the Healing Touch Starts With the Hospital Design
07 SEP 2006 from the New York Times | Read the full story»
If there is one universal truth about hospitals, it is that they are drab, dismal places, not at all designed to soothe and heal... But a sprinkling of architects and designers around the world are working to greatly change hospitals by humanizing their design, a concept that is slowly gaining influence in Europe and the United States. (Subscription required!)
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Labor Day
"Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country." [U.S. Dept. of Labor]
There will be no postings today at TP Wire Service in observance of the holiday. Have a wonderful day.
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Smart Buildings Make Smooth Moves
Architects develop shape-shifting structures that morph in response to changing weather, fluctuating temperatures and differing uses. Imagine a skyscraper that braces itself in gusty winds, or a house that shakes the snow from its roof. By Lakshmi Sandhana.Filed under Design
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A Quantum Leap for Cell Phones
21 AUG 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
On Aug. 21, designer Pilotfish and sensor maker Synaptics are releasing a prototype of a cell phone, and the funny thing is, it doesn't have any buttons.
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heatherwick- a new creative genius
Thomas Heatherwick is rapidly building a reputation as THE new "Renaissance Man" of the creative-world. He doesn't appear to be limited by the "box" of a specific creative discipline. Only in his mid-30s, he already has an impressive range of projects under his belt.Filed under Design
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metacool Thought of the Day
"[W]e must consider the possibility that if Design Thinking is critical, maybe restricting it to designers and protecting them from business people is not actually the most productive avenue to pursue..."Filed under Design
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E-volver
E-volver is a software that invites an "image-breeding-machine" and a human "gardener" to collaborate together. While the machine has no notion of the aesthetic qualities of the evolved images, the human can barely understand what internal processes are taking place.
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Why We Buy
"The computer industry is immature; it has been preoccupied with technology and driven by technologists."
-Jonathan Ive , designer, Apple
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'Synthetic Gecko' material paves the way for Spider-Men gloves
Soldiers and spies of the future could be given "Spider-Man" suits to climb up sheer surfaces and even stick to the ceiling, according to BAE Systems.The British engineering firm has developed a material that closely mimics the feet of a gecko lizard. The gecko's foot is covered with hairs so small that they merge with molecules of things that they touch. This incredibly strong bond can also be easily peeled off.
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The Stowaway Guitar
Sporting a detachable neck, this six-string is easy to transport. In Gear Factor.Filed under Design
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Behind Bars, He Turns M&M’s Into an Art Form
16 JUL 2006 from the New York Times | Read the full story»
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/us/21artist.html?pagewanted=1
CRESCENT CITY, Calif., July 16 — The morning after the opening of a show of his recent work, the artist was in his studio, a concrete cell in the Pelican Bay State Prison, where he is serving three life terms in solitary confinement for murder and for slashing a prison guard’s throat. He was checking his supplies, taking inventory. (Subscription required!)
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How to live happily with a great designer
Why do some organizations look great... and get great results from their design efforts and ads... while others languish in mediocrity? I think it has little to do with who they hire and a lot to do with how they work with their agencies and designers.
Here are the things your design team wishes you would know ...
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Yeti Skin Rug
By Debra Swann.
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New in Basecamp: Significantly improved print layouts
13 JUL 2006 from 37signals | Read the full story»
We’re not big printers, but our customers tell us they are. They often have to print screens from Basecamp to take to meetings, present to clients, or prepare a report for their superiors.
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Times Infiniti
Nissan vice president Jan Thompson on how a passion for "vibrant design" is driving a high-wire revival of a formerly faltering brand. A HUB magazine exclusive conversation, with Tim Manners.Filed under Design
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Happy 4th of July!
We're taking the day off in celebration of Independence Day here in the U.S. We hope everyone has an opportunity to relish freedom today. Enjoy!
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Kudos for Mion
Today, the winners of the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards were announced. The awards, created by the Industrial Designers Society of America, are among the most prestigious in the design world, and their winners garner a huge amount of attention....Filed under Design
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Design Thinking and Innovation for Social Issues.
Applying design thinking outside the corporate sphere in civil society is one of our great challenges--and opportunities. Chicago's mayor Daley is into using design to solve education, transportation and other problems...Filed under Design
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The Design Dozen
In the global culture, great ideas cross borders, economies, even generations. A Frenchman designs on the Mississippi, a Canadian makes chairs in Botswana, and an all-American fashion designer rediscovers a midcentury artist from Cincinnati. Dorothy Kalins and Cathleen McGuigan choose the best of the new.Filed under Design
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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards 06
The National Design Awards were conceived in 1997 by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design.Filed under Design
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Fancy features don't sell phones in U.S.
Advanced features aren't moving mobile phones off shelves in the U.S. even though more users are adopting them, according to a recent survey by research company J.D. Power and Associates. Price and design are the biggest reasons consumers give for buying particular handsets...Filed under Design
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Why so stupid?
18 MAY 2006 from Management Issues | Read the full story»
Mankind has failed to learn how to think. Plato, Socrates and Aristotle came up with our current thought software 2,400 years ago.
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Eyeballing the new 24/7 Apple store in NY
It's just an empty glass box now, but this site will become the world's most powerful nerd magnet tomorrow. Expect to see geeks flying through the air towards it, whoosh! over Manhattan, like steel dust drawn to a neodymium disc.
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Apple, a Success at Stores, Bets Big on Fifth Avenue
Since it opened its first two stores five years ago today, the Apple chain has become a retailing phenomenon. (Subscription required!)Filed under Design
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How Apple's Store Strategy Beat the Odds
17 MAY 2006 from The Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»
When Apple Computer Inc. opened its first Apple retail store in 2001 in a shopping mall in McLean, Va., critics saw the initiative as an expensive, dubious gamble. But as Apple prepares to take the wraps off its latest, most ambitious store yet -- on New York's Fifth Avenue, opposite the Plaza Hotel and Bergdorf Goodman -- there are few doubters left about Chief Executive Steve Jobs's retail strategy. (Subscription required!)
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Form Follows Function. Now Go Out and Cut the Grass.
15 MAY 2006 from The New York Times | Read the full story»
Failure, Mr. Petroski shows, works. Or rather, engineers only learn from things that fail: bridges that collapse, software that crashes, spacecraft that explode. Everything that is designed fails, and everything that fails leads to better design. (Subscription required!)
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Skype-mouse flip-phone
Enter Sony's MouseTalk, an optical mouse that flips open to act as a VOIP or Skype phone.Filed under Design
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Secrets of design prices revealed
One of the great mysteries in the Web business is how design agencies charge for projects. But design firm Blue Flavor has decided...Filed under Design
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Think Big
24 APR 2006 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»
Want to hook customers? Remember that good design isn't simply about the product -- it's about the entire business environment
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Laptop stand designed for airplane seat-back tables
The Aviator laptop stand is specifically designed to elevate your laptop and position its screen on a narrow, cramped airplane seat-back tray.
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Self-weighing luggage
Ricardo Beverly hills haas a line of self-weighing luggage with in-built scales that tell you how much they weigh before you get to the airport and get dinged for overweight charges. Link
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Europe's New Design Capital
MAY 2006 from Food & Wine | Read the full story»
Helsinki is making news with brash designs that eschew blond-wood clichés. After all, why shouldn't a dresser drawer double as a suitcase?
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The New Age Of The Skyscraper
An article presents the case that we're living in a golden era of architecture with the evolution of skyscrapers.
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USB drive inflates when full
Call the Flashbag the technological equivalent of a blowfish. The USB flash drive by Russian designer Dima Komissarov has a built-in micropump that expands and contracts the storage device depending on the amount of data it's holding.
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How Moto Got Its Mojo Back
The company is at the inevitable crossroads again, forced to come up with another winning design in a bloodthirsty and innovative market ... And while there's no question that the Pebl is something novel, something aesthetically nuanced and pleasing, questions are hanging over it: Is it any good? Will consumers clamor for it the way they did for the Razr? Has Motorola's new emphasis on design come at the expense of engineering and/or execution?Filed under Design
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Podcasting's Official Logo?
03 APR 2006 from Wired Blogs | Read the full story»
The German site Podcastlogo.com recently held a contest to see who could come up with the best design for a podcast logo. The winner is Peter Marquardt and this is his creation:
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The sharpest knives in the drawer
08 MAR 2006 from The Los Angeles Times | Read the full story»
And that's just the beginning. Here's how Oxo tools became the gold standard for serious cooks.
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It's bad design, not good design, that makes an impression
13 MAR 2006 from The Guardian Unlimited | Read the full story»
How can a product that doesn't work and offends the eye possibly be described as a 'design classic', says Germaine Greer
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Going Off the Beaten Path for New Design Ideas
12 MAR 2006 from The New York Times | Read the full story»
IDEO, founded in San Francisco in 1991, is delving into the psychology of space and coming up with unusual approaches for companies like Marriott International and Forest City Enterprises, two of the largest real estate businesses in the country. (Subscription required!)
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A Curate-Your-Own Museum Web Site
11 MAR 2006 from The Washington Post | Read the full story»
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is about to take its Web site where no museum has gone before... The so-called "online national design museum" promises to open the museum and its vast collection to visitors anywhere in the world. What's more, if development can keep up with vision, the site will turn museumgoers into participants in a bold cultural experiment.
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Design for Thinking
"Everyone has the capacity to do good design," says Randy Granger, who teaches his students how to "use art and imagination to design a solution to a problem," reports Anita Manning in USA Today. For example, one group of Randy’s students at the William Penn Charter School “created a multi-sided box that [...]Filed under Design
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Interview of UnitedVisualArtists
UnitedVisualArtists's work integrates art direction, production design and software engineering. A look at their portfolio is an eye-popping experience. The images are somptuous and their clients include fashion designers, night clubs, pop stars, rock stars, music shows ... lots of music shows.
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Holy Paint Job!
Check out these 3D rooms over at 2Loop.com. They pretty much speak for themselves; I’m not sure what else to say except Wow.
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CNNi Goes Clean
Loud, grating design on tv is standard... So kudos to CNN International for going with a cleaner look and abandoning that ticking scroller (it’s been replaced with a new information bar that displays one complete sentence or story at a time). CNNi is billing the change as a "radical move away from the cluttered screens and heavy graphics that currently prevail…"Filed under Design
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President Bush, Davos and Design
One of the ideas repeated often at the World Economic Forum in Davos was that invention is not innovation. Someone needs to tell that to President Bush and his advisors because virtually all the initiatives coming out of the White...Filed under Design
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Good Design, Better Sales
A decade ago when online stores were first being created, usability was all the rage. Perhaps it's time for a renaissance?Filed under Design
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Mini modded into desk
The Mini Desk, a car converted into a work table, is available from UK-based Mini Statements for £2500.
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Design Within Reach's Design Within Constraints
The winners of DWR’s annual Champagne Chair design contest have been announced (I love the simplicity of the winner). This is a fantastic example of creativity born from constraints. Amazing creativity.
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Media Design: What It Is, Why It Should Matter To You
JAN 2006 from MediaPost Publications | Read the full story»
Just as industrial design is integral to creating hit toys, cool gadgets, comfortable furniture, and streamlined kitchens, media design is now more important than ever as content becomes available on a variety of devices and across multiple platforms, ranging from high-definition television sets, video iPods, and RSS feeds to broadband video advertainment, blogs, IP/TV, and more.
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Saddle Up Yer Velomobile
Torrential rain and even snow is nothing to a versatile velomobile. Popular in Europe, these all-weather, human-powered vehicles are finally being produced domestically in the United States. By Bryan Ball.
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IDEO Identity Card Concept Project
The IDEO Identity Card Concept Project is a collection of ideas from various designers to stretch the concept of a plain business card. Some of the entries are really creative, and others are a bit creepy (like the Hair Card where you give someone your card...and a hair). The main themes seemed to...Filed under Design
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Pardon, Your Dress Is Singing
A New York artist has created fabric that is durable and eco-friendly. But what's really turning heads is the sound the material makes. By Rachel Metz.Filed under Design
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The Case for Fanaticism
At Danish electronics maker Bang & Olufsen, design always wins. Is that any way to run a business?Filed under Design
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Will Design Elegance Win the Gadget War?
Devices on display at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are crammed with technology. But New York Times technology columnist David Pogue says companies are also rushing to make their products more fashionable. (Audio)
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Navigating Complex Waters: Product Design’s Perfect Storm (Part 1 of 2)
19 DEC 2005 from Gizmodo | Read the full story»
It wouldn’t feel like the proper end to 2005 without some sort of dramatic, sensational prediction. So I’ve taken it upon myself to declare the following: Product design, as we know it, is finished.
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Chevrolet of tomorrow: Back to the '50s
03 JAN 2005 from CNN | Read the full story»
GM's mass-market brand wants to turn back the clock to the days when exciting design sold cars.
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Happy New Year
Wishing you a prosperous and fulfilling New Year, the TP Wire Service will resume its postings tomorrow.
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Toilet bowl cleaner looks like a windsurfer
Owners of toilets in Germany have cause to celebrate -- they can go to the store and buy a little guy who rides the circular waves of their commode, spreading good smells to all who enter the bathroom.
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Happy Holidays
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Best Of TH: Sustainable Designers, Part I
14 DEC 2005 from Treehugger | Read the full story»
TreeHugger spends a lot of time poring over sustainable design websites, books, magazines and the like, and, though a lot of it catches our eye, only a select few can be considered "the best" that we've seen... Over the next two weeks, we'll bring you our favorite sixteen product designers, retailers and manufacturers working today to make the world a greener place.
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Heavy Metal Jacket With a Luxe Lining
01 DEC 2005 from The New York Times | Read the full story»
Design's boldface names may be upstaged by Adam Kalkin, an architect and artist who is unveiling his Push Button House, a shipping container with motorized walls that unfold like an elaborate Murphy bed to reveal an unexpectedly muted interior with the refined furnishings one might find in a Park Avenue apartment of patrician taste, complete with a couch from George Smith and a lacquer chandelier. (Subscription required!)
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Why Designers Can Think
Is there incongruity between the intellectual prowess of designers and the educational requirements of the trade? Caplan examines how the mind fits into the designer's life.Filed under Design
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Cease and Design
What ever happened to apprenticing — to learning on the job? Why shouldn’t time in school be spent learning how to think, how to solve problems, how to make work — frankly, how to be a designer?Filed under Design
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India Times on the d.school
Here's an article about the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (a.k.a. "the d.school) from the India Times... it affirms my belief that the d.school isn't so much a place as a state of mind.Filed under Design
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The true truth about design in China.
Design is sizzling hot in China today--but what does that mean exactly?Filed under Design
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Happy Thanksgiving
Have a wonderful holiday. The wire service will resume tomorrow.
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Insert Object, and Out Comes an Artful Replica
23 NOV 2005 from The New York Times | Read the full story»
Sometimes - never often enough - there's magic in new art. You'll find a sweet, rude shot of it, at least until 10 tonight, at Leo Koenig in Chelsea, where the Vienna-based collective Gelitin is in residence. Over the past week, the group has turned the gallery into a sociable, raunchy, pixilated all-night version of Santa's workshop, pumping out free art on demand, and turning the image of a money-choked, object-clogged New York art world on its head.
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Nike Considered
John R. Hoke III, “Nike Inc.’s chief design guru … wants designers to rely on geometry, not chemistry, to figure out how to rebuild a shoe,” reports Stanley Holmes in BusinessWeek (11/28/05). His directive is all part of “a corporate-wide mission called ‘Considered’,” a “new ethos” of “sustainable design” at Nike. [...]Filed under Design
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Wal-Mart Village
"It humanizes big-box retail," says Ben Pentreath, an architectural designer, commenting on the potential of a new kind of Wal-Mart store that’s designed to help re-build towns devastated by Hurricane Katrina, reports Haya El Nasser in USA Today. The proposed design has “apartments, condominiums and town houses” surrounding “the giant store...Filed under Design
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The Final Days of AT&T
The acquisition of AT&T by SBC will result in, among other things, the retirement of one of Saul Bass's most well-known logos. Does anyone care?Filed under Design
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Fully Recyclable Cardboard PC Case by Lupo
21 OCT 2005 from Treehugger | Read the full story»
This cardboard ATX PC case is made by Japanese company Lupo. All you need to do after you buy it is to remove a few perforated sections and fold it, and you've got a computer case!
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Ikea PS 2006
07 OCT 2005 from Cool Hunting | Read the full story»
2 1/2 years, 28 designers, 42 pieces: The challenge Ikea set forth-- to produce socially and environmentally responsible products using simple (often reused, recycled, and repurposed) materials. By all accounts the designers succeeded, often brilliantly.
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The future of flying is batwing
Airline passengers of the future will have to do without window seats and fly in “batwing” aircraft as a result of aviation industry proposals to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from flights.
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Design: Style Meets Function, and Technology Gets a Human Touch
Like many new technologies, dongles - the tiny sticks that attach to computer ports and transport files from one computer to another, have been designed in many guises. (Subscription required!)Filed under Design
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Emergency Housing Need Sparks Creative Designs
Natural disasters often leave thousands of people homeless. How to house these people is a problem yet to be convincingly solved. But that hasn't stopped some architects from trying.
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On Second Original Thought?
When is an original thought truly original? Summerford argues only at the moment of revelation, and only if the audience (of one or many) hasn't already thought of it.Filed under Design
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The Great Non-Amber-Colored Hope
A student design for a prescription pill bottle takes a metoric rise to mass production and becomes an instant icon in the world of graphic design.
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Does your company need a design audit?
I had a great lunch with RitaSue Siegel, a top head-hunter for senior designs and design managers. She is doing a design audit for a big company. It's a fascinating idea. The design needs of corporations are changing dramatically. And...Filed under Design
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Cleaning the Carpet
Sarah Lacy of Business Week has written a delightful account of the design process beyind P&G's new CarpetFlick--the Swiffer's soft-surface sibling.Filed under Design
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Design outsourcing may be big--think India.
David Kohler, the group president of that great bath and kitchen appliance maker (and award winner) that goes by his great, great grandfather's name writes from India to say it is booming way beyond software and business process outsourcing.Filed under Design
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NYC Walk/Don't Walk sign chair
This $2700 chair is made from what appears to be real NYC Walk/Don't Walk signs and comes with a remote to make it light up.
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Forward-Looking Car Lets Driver Return Sideways Glances
27 SEP 2005 from The Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»
Japan's second-largest car producer by volume is expected to unveil a futuristic concept car at the Tokyo Motor Show next month called the Pivo, an electric-powered vehicle meant to illustrate the coming advantages of the increased use of electricity to power various aspects of cars and driving. One of those benefits: The driver won't necessarily have to face the same direction as any of the wheels. (Subscription required!)
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Thermo suits and warm "mouse hands"
The Environment Agency, in the UK, was noted for encouraging its staff to wear thermal underwear in order to lower energy usage. electricwig has designed a range of products inspired by this approach.
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Sledgehammer keyboard
Chicago artist Taylor Hokanson constructed a massive computer keyboard that you type on with a sledgehammer.
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Tom has generously provided the funding for this site since its inception. Now that we have launched successfully and have a steady readership, it's time to pull our own weight, fiscally speaking, and begin to use advertisements to support the site. By going this route, we're joining such news aggregators as Always On Network, The Huffington Post, and Information Week. We're not sure which method will work best both for us and for you. So you'll see a few changes both to the site and to the RSS feeds in the coming weeks. Feel free to let us know what you think by emailing us.
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Purse made from keyboard keys
These keyboard-key-covered purses are available in white and black... Update: Joreg wrote to the manufacturer and these bags aren't in production (dammit).
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iPod, circa 1954
The BBC has a great story on a pioneering 1954 transistor radio that bears a striking resemblance to the iPod in form, disruptiveness and marketing.
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Cabinet
Cabinet is an appliance prototype for merging designers' physical and digital collections of visual materials. Users can add images, organize them into piles and narrative layouts, and reuse them. Cabinet’s table displays thumbnails of images, spatially arranged in a way similar to physical cards or photos on a desk or kitchen table.
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Recycled shoes made from thrift shop suits and prison blankets
Worn Again are limited edition running shoes made from recycled materials that come in two models: Escape (made from ex-military parachutes, prison blankets, car seat scrap leather, lined with ex-military longjohns and ex-military towels) and Jack (made from unsold or damaged suit-jackets from charity shops, car seat scrap leather, reused jacket buttons, lined with jacket-linings and hand-towels).
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New piece for Central Library pushes art to the technical edge
13 SEP 2005 from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Read the full story»
From now on, whatever you check out of the Seattle Central Library will play in color-coded streams across six big plasma screens on the library's fifth floor. Fear not. "Making Visible the Invisible" is art, not FBI or Homeland Security research. Whoever you are, the art isn't engineered to care. All participants are anonymous.
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wants vs. needs- apple's nano vs. sky mall
In corporate America, design is an overlooked selling tool. Only a handful of companies get it; Apple have led the way for years in computing, but after years of selling dull boxes, Detroit is only just getting passionate about design...Filed under Design
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How Modernism Got Its Curves
01 SEP 2005 from Slate | Read the full story»
A look at the extraordinary career of designer Eva Zeisel. By Virginia Postrel. [A slide show essay]
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Eco-aware shower recycles water
Smart shower offers big savings by reusing water - cleaning it first of course.Filed under Design
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Dining Table That Shows Where Your Food Came From
Asaichi project, by Kyoko Yamakawa, connects urban life and rural life of farmers through a dining table. A video table, which was installed at a cafe restaurant called etw in Kyoto, shows video clips of farmers who produced the food while a customer is eating it at the table.
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Machines That Can Make Anything
From design to delivery, custom manufacturing is coming soon to a desktop near you. By Clive Thompson of Wired magazine.Filed under Design
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Urban Nomad Shelter
Both esthetically pleasing to passersby and occupants, the Urban Nomad Shelter uses a self-conscious "design culture" aesthetic (think Target or Ikea) to re-brand the homeless and re-map urban real estate. The neon-colored cocoons work like soft pushpins on a city plan, making it impossible not to see the homeless and not to see them as human.
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The Hot Fridge
The idea of Hot Fridge is based on an experimental use of waste heat from a refrigerator and is inspired by Gudul (Ondol), the traditional under-floor Korean heating system.
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TPWS had a tune-up
Over the weekend, the Tom Peters Wire Service switched servers. As a result, readers may notice some kinks due to the information transfer. Our team has yet to encounter any, so please let us know if you experience a problem and we'd be happy to help solve it.
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'My building is a hi-tech tool'
In our vote on Stirling Prize nominees, one of your favourites was McLaren's new HQ. What's it like to work in? Jonathan Neale, head of McLaren's racing division, offers his thoughts.
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Bench'Mark
1 AUG 2005 from we make money not art | Read the full story»
Bench'Mark is a project inspired from street culture and street art.
It is a piece of public seating, a bench on which people are invited to leave their mark. The users can make graffiti on the bench using their finger. The written or drawn mark will randomly appear on the surface of the bench.
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Emotional Design
The LAT's Alex Pham reports on how "traditionally geeky manufacturers are embracing their sensitive side to develop products that evoke feelings, including joy, desire, comfort and nostalgia."Filed under Design
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Fancy Meets Function on Runway
The Siggraph Cyber Fashion Show sports futuristic designs and accessories like wearable sensors, integrated cameras and GPS. The techno designs could populate your future closet. Xeni Jardin reports from Los Angeles.
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U.S. Companies and 'The Substance of Style'
Virginia Postrel, author of The Substance of Style talks about the importance of design and how companies like Apple became successful on that concept. (Audio)
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Designing Meaning, Creating Value
John Maeda of MIT's Media Lab wrote a delightful post about meaning and design, and how deep meaning can be embedded into a designed offering. And as he tells the story, meaning can even be designed into something as mundane (yet vitally important) as a restroom door ...Filed under Design
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Nissan Shows The Power of Marketing By Design
Did anyone notice that in June, the month that General Motors wiped out the industry with its "employee pricing" promotion (which garnered GM a 40%+ sales gain over the previous year and added almost 7 points of market share) that...Filed under Design
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Credit Line Goes Here
Design is essentially a collaborative enterprise. That makes assigning credit for the products of our work a complicated issue.Filed under Design
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Tattooed Fruit Is on Way
19 JUL 2005 from NYT > Dining & Wine | Read the full story»
A new technology being used by produce distributors employs lasers to tattoo fruits and vegetables with their names, identifying numbers, countries of origin and other information that helps speed distribution. The marks are burned onto the outer layer of the skin and are visible to discerning consumers and befuddled cashiers alike. (Subscription required!)
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Design – the New Competitive Difference
The CEO of Procter & Gamble, A.G. Lafley, after running P&G's Asia operation from Japan for four years in the mid-1990s, came to a very un-Procteresque conclusion:design, not simply price or technology, should be P&G's key differentiator.Filed under Design
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Flexible Color Paper Computer Screen
Fujitsu have announced the development of the world’s first flexible color paper computer screen. The new electronic paper features vivid color images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent...
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My Favorite Book is Not About Design (or Is It?)
Act One, the autobiography of playwright and director Moss Hart, is the best, funniest, and most inspiring description of the creative process ever put down on paper.Filed under Design
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We Are All Editors Now. Or Are We?
The fact is that many designers fancy themselves in the role of editor. Why wouldn’t they? They work with editors all the time. At least they should be working with them. If a designer is handling text and there is no editor in sight, then things are probably already starting to go wrong ... Usually there is an editor and sometimes more than one. Designers see this person, envy the power he or she has — to decide on content, to make final decisions, to boss the designer around — and think to themselves: “I could do that. I’m practically doing it already!”Filed under Design
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The Best Product Designs of 2005
4 JUL 2005 from BusinessWeek Online | Read the full story»
Many of the winning entries from this year's competition for Industrial Design Excellence Awards spring from a close observation of the customer.
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Remarkable & Disposable Shoes
Made from recycled newsprint, these remarkable and disposable slippers are eco-friendly and cost less than 50 cents each. Since winning a bronze prize from the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), Satish Gokahle, the designer of the Solemates, has received interest from manufactures wanting to bring these shoes to market.
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Mesu: Inspired Design Spreads the Word
Mesu, portion measuring nesting bowls, was one that really struck me. They were designed by a young woman who found portion control to be key to her successful weight maintenance. She knew that many others could use an easier/more aesthetically pleasing way to measure smaller portions than a measuring cup, so she used her incredible design talent and gumption to launch the line.
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Bye bye lullaby: automatic cot takes care of bedtime
Life: Revolutionary cot rocks baby to sleep automatically.Filed under Design
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Anthropomorphic iPod stand
26 May 2005 from BoingBoing.net | Read the full story»
The iGuy is an anthropomorphic iPod stand that -- as Gizmodo point out -- makes the iPod pretty useless for pocket-borne use.
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Method Designing: The Paradox of Modern Design Education
To this day, method acting remains a highly regarded pedagogical model for training actors. But when did it become an appropriate system for educating designers?Filed under Design
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Rotating electrical outlet for big plugs
360electrical makes electrical outlets that swivel in your wall to accommodate bulky plugs and transformers -- if your plug blocks the other outlet, just rotate it until it doesn't.
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Reading Design
Last night, Fast Company held an event at Moma to recognize the winners of this year's Masters of Design. At the event, I picked up a copy of Jane Fulton Suri's book Thoughtless Acts?Filed under Design
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Tyke's Trike Becomes a Bike
Learning to ride a bicycle can be a painful rite of passage. But a new tricycle that morphs into a two-wheeler as it gains speed may make things easier. By Abby Christopher.Filed under Design
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Bubble House in France for sale
This rare Bubble House in southwest France, inspired by Finnish architect Antti Lovag is on the market for $3 million.
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influx interview-jody turner- color and trend forecaster
We are currently in a co-creation culture meaning the lifestyle need of the consumer strongly influences design outcomes.Filed under Design
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Beausage
I'd like to tell you about a new aesthetic term called "beausage". It sounds French but it's not; instead it's a synthetic combination of the words beauty and usage, and describes the beauty that comes with using something.Filed under Design
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Steve Jobs Buys a Washing Machine
Apple's CEO is famously obsessed with design. Find out what he went through to buy the perfect laundry aid in this excerpt from a new unauthorized biography, iCon.Filed under Design
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Designing the Future: No Waste or Pollution
In a new interview series, NEWSWEEK talks to a leading ecological architect whose goal is nothing less than eliminating waste and pollution.Filed under Design
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Barbie with a USB sticking out of her neck
This is the bestest Barbie doll mod ever: a doll with a USB keychain drive in her chest, with a pop-off head that reveals the USB prongs sticking out of her neck.Filed under Design
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Bar Code Art
Scott Blake is a Bar Code artist, creating beautiful images and potraits from the ubiquitious bar code.Filed under Design
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Getting Louder: Chinese Design on the March
When someone suggested that I might I like to attend the opening of the “Get it Louder” exhibition in Shenzhen, in southern China, I had no real idea what I was signing up for.Filed under Design
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Purse with integrated old-school phone
For sale on eBay: a purse with a built-in old-school telephone -- it actually works if you plug it into a landline jack.Filed under Design
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The Perfect Prescription
By the time an object, or an apartment, or a company hits the half-century mark, it’s usually been through a redesign or two. Yet the standard-issue amber-cast pharmacy pill bottle has remained virtually unchanged since it was pressed into service after the second World War. (A child-safety cap was added in the seventies.) An overhaul is finally coming, courtesy of Deborah Adler, a 29-year-old graphic designer whose ClearRx prescription-packaging system debuts at Target pharmacies May 1.
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American Standard Flushes 24 Golf Balls to Test New Kind of Toilet
If you think that bathrooms are standardized, low-tech places, walk through American Standard's cavernous two-year-old design center.Filed under Design
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21 Most Influential
Who are the people who are changing the contemporary design landscape? What are the products, organisations and ideas that everyone will be copying in the immediate future?
For Icon's 21st issue, we asked ourselves these questions and this is what we came up with. We argued about it for ages and if we were to start again, we'd probably come up with an entirely different list.
And you'll probably disagree with it completely. But isn't that the point of list stories? Read The 21 Most Influential.
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