Celebrating Lego's 50th anniversary, the world record for the tallest tower made of Lego bricks was broken (by 7 inches) in Vienna. Designed to represent a Viking longboat mast, the tower stands 96.7f...
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This sounds kinda awesome: Lextant's Lauren Serota and Dan Rockwell have recently launched a weekly series of forty minute design-related conference calls. This week's topic is Design Hacks. Hacks are...
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By now most of you have seen the Flatshare Fridge designed by Stefan Buchberger, but have a look at the other winners of the 2008 Electrolux Design Lab. From a basket-style washing machine to a toaste...
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FreeDesigndom 2008 is the first edition of a new annual design and fashion event in the Netherlands, with four-week program of festivals, exhibitions and symposiums including Experimenta Design, Hacki...
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John Chris Jones, Welsh designer and author of the book, Design Methods, wrote these 2200 words in 1981. Timeless advice, they are still worth a read over 17 years later. Here is his introduction and ...
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Now in its sixth year, The London Design Festival offers a great array of creative events, attracting everyone from consumers and professionals to students and all those with a keen interest in design...
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Seth Weintraub sheds some light on rumors of "The Brick," a code-name for a secret product to be released on Oct. 14th. Apparently it may not be the name of a product at all, but rather, the productio...
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It's a beautiful thing when good design is the byproduct of finely-done mechanical engineering. If all engineers had an eye for aesthetics, yes, we ID'ers would be obsolete; but we could live with tha...
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PingMag caught up with Keiichi Matsuo of Hakusan Porcelain, an eighth generation ceramic company in Nagasaki, Japan. His father introduced a design-based approach to traditional crafts in the 1950's e...
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A gathering of graphic design professionals committed to serving the social good, this year's Designism, Version 3.0, had the misfortune of being scheduled opposite Thursday's Biden-Palin debate. Give...
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Senior Footwear Designer: Women's Lifestyle Columbia Sportswear Portland, Oregon For the Women's Lifestyle footwear products you will conceptualize and perform a wide variety of product design tasks i...
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In Design Is More Than Packaging, the New York Times introduces "design thinking," citing Jump's work for Saturn, as well as Stanford's d.school, and Half Moon Bay's C2 Group.The article takes a stab ...
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Crisis in the Credit System is a four-part drama dealing with the credit crisis, scripted and directed by artist Melanie Gilligan. A major investment bank runs a brainstorming and role-playing session...
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Style maven Alice Rawsthorne asks in the New York Times style magazine whether design is still a boy's club and do women face the challenge of prejudice and misperception in the field? Personal experi...
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Social impact projects that come into the classroom and burst out into the field are thrilling. When you experience them up close, it becomes about the rush of creativity that results from the synergy...
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In a perfect world, we wouldn't need to sell what we design--people would just know. When Industrial Designers imagine utopia, it's not only full of beautiful, functional products, it's also full of c...
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Ok, we're over the crystal-bling craze, but crystal-bling-steampunk?! Yep. Hold onto your blowtorches n' chisels, design fans, the new Harmon Kardon GLA-55 speakers are exactly that. Kurt Solland, the...
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Gary Hustwit's research for his upcoming film Objectified has uncovered an obscure record from the mid 90's that samples Braun products. Aided by the internet,he not only managed to get hold of the al...
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The Art of Innovation, a report by NESTA, the UK innovation endowment, explores how fine arts graduates contribute to innovation in the creative industries and beyond, and what policy makers can do to...
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Earlier this year we posted about how tile was creeping into living spaces not ordinarily associated with such surfaces, like the bedroom and living room. As the trend continues, designers like Jurgen...
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