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Tauntaun and Other Expert-level Costumes

Core77 -- Bow before your costumed DIY overlords!Via MetaFilterQKWB6EHQT5MS(more...)     09:21
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The Office on Speed

Core77 -- I'm not sure how I feel about an Office Bus, but the University of Applied Arts in Vienna's Creative DNA Austria program--chaired by none other than Hartmut Esslinger--has put forth a pretty good argument, and concept work, for why one should exist.There are about 260.000 commuters in greater Vienna each workday with an average journey time of 48 minutes. About 56% of these commuters exclusivly ma...     09:21
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When in Rome...the Airbed Core77 Group!

Core77 -- Visiting a far-off (or near-at) place? Wanna stay with a like-minded person? How about hosting someone with a keen interest in design and all things creative? You can find The Core77 Group at travel site Airbnb.com connecting designers everywhere, creating a community no matter how far from home you find yourself.As you may know, Airbnb, founded in 2007, evolved from the two air beds roommates and...     09:21
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Core77 is looking for bloggers

Core77 -- Love to read Core77? Wanna write for us? Core77 is looking for bloggers who are obsessive but critical design hounds, quick with the pen and diligent about what they offer to our community. You need to be able to write with wit and authority, passion and humility. You need to know what's going on before everyone else does, and be able to make connections between people, artifacts and culture that ...     03:01
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Brilliant Strata pot helps raise a tree indoors before returning to the environment

Core77 -- Designer Kazuyo Shimada spent three years traveling the world and surfing before eventually settling back in Japan and founding Dessence, an architecture and design firm.The surfer's love of nature can be seen in his Strata flower pot, which is made from sand and biomass. The Strata's lifecycle, as conceived by Shimada, is an interesting one: The pot is first used indoors to plant and raise a sapl...     03:01
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Core77 Forum Topic: So, who else is doing it right?

Core77 -- Featured Forum Topic of the Day:So, who else is doing it right?by firenzee in general design dicsussionIt seems like Apple is continuing to dominate the public's perception of good product design...But it makes me cringe to think of pulling up an Apple product in an interview to use as a benchmark of good design. So, my question is, who else is doing it right?>>Read and Reply (more...)     03:01
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Double-duty bike pump and light

Core77 -- Recently-graduated industrial designer Kai Malte Roever's Puyl device is a combination bicycle pump and illuminating light that requires no batteries; the pumping motion you use to put air in the tires also juices up the light, meaning no batteries to buy, and renewable illumination for as long as the LED bulb wil last. Roever's design was awarded a 2009 Eurobike Award in the Student category and ...     03:01
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Sixteen Google Street Views

Core77 -- A few months ago we wrote about artist Jon Rafman's cinematic collection of Google Street Views. Since then, a select sixteen of them have been published by Golden Age, the art zine bookshop responsible for The Incredible Journey that is Consciousness.The publication was producedin an edition of 100, signed by the artist, and costs only 12 bones. Get it here.(more...)     03:01
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Objeti's flip-surface Aerialist coffee table

Core77 -- Cleveland-based furniture company Objeti's Aerialist Plane coffee table has a flip trick, actually, four of them: Turn an embedded knob to "unlock" any or all of the four planes, and it you can rotate it on its axis to upturn the upholstered side, turning it into a quick bench or ottoman. Click here to see a neat little video of it in action.(more...)     03:01
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Coroflot Design Job of the Day: Graphic Design Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

Core77 -- Full-time Faculty, Graphic DesignMaryland Institute College of ArtBaltimore, MDThe college seeks a graphic designer and educator who will bring exceptional visual and critical abilities to a vibrant graphic design department at an art school nationally known for its dedication to teaching excellence, a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, and the importance of the fine arts and design.» viewThe...     03:01
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From Clients from Hell

Core77 -- Client: I already know what I want for the logo. It's a house, with a face, and it's on wheels with an exhaust pipe coming out of the back which is shooting out smoke in the shape of dollar signs.LINK via FC(more...)     03:01
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The impact of digital technologies on formal education

Core77 -- Becta, the UK government agency promoting the use of information and communications technology in the British education system, has published a new report reviewing the evidence of the impact of digital technologies on formal education, which demonstrates their positive impact on measurable learning outcomes.The so-called hard evidence is supplemented by softer observational evidence, which has an...     11-24
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BoP mobile life in Kenya

Core77 -- How would you feel if you had to share a phone amongst your family members, or if you could not afford to by a phone. This is the case for many millions of people living in Kenya at the Base of the Pyramid, living in poverty on an income of less than $2 a day; and yet many of these people understand how mobile phone technology can save them money in their day to day activities and increase their e...     11-24
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Indoor fire

Core77 -- I've been dying to install a woodburning stove in my apartment, partly because it's always freezing in here, and partly to capitalize on the free fuel that will be littered all over the sidewalks of Manhattan come December 26th. Every year after Christmas, the sidewalks are covered with discarded Christmas trees for about two weeks, and them's good burnin'.While you can find plenty of woodburning ...     11-24
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Book Review: Glimmer, by Warren Berger

Core77 -- Warren Berger's gave his new book Glimmer the rather lofty subtitle "How design can transform your life, and maybe even the world." We at Core77 are certainly biased, but there's no doubt that we're occasionally guilty of the same hyperbole. What the "design will change the world" camp often ignores is that major social problems they try to solve with design are just that, social problems; issues ...     11-24
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GOOD at Nau, NYC

Core77 -- If you're in New York on December 1st, be sure to stop by the Nau pop-up store for the night of GOODness. Speakers include Center for Urban Pedagogy's John Mangin & Glen Cummings, desigNYC, Karin Fong from Imaginary Forces, Robert Sherman & Gideon D'Arcangelo from Mercy Corps, Mark Galbraith from Nau, and Core77's Allan Chochinov.Festivities start at 7pm, and you can get all the info at the site.(...     11-24
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Light Graffiti Cars project leaves us slightly disappointed; original Art Cars still the best

Core77 -- We were excited to hear about the Light Graffiti Cars project, Marc Cameron and Mark Brown's images of Aston Martins, Audis, and Ferraris drawn in light streaks; unfortunately, the images don't withstand scrutiny well, as they appear to be choppy Photoshop jobs rather than inspired lines air-carved with a glow stick.We like the effort, but to us the final effort doesn't stand up to earlier art car...     11-24
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Design Thinking is the flavor of the month

Core77 -- MP Ranjan, Professor of Design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India writes on his blog that November seems to be Design Thinking month with the number of events and activities taking place. He goes on to delve into a paper on Design Visualisation that he wrote in 1997 which covers much of the basics of what we understand the term "design thinking" to mean today.(more...)     11-24
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Combating product failure at the design level

Core77 -- As FailBlog loves to point out, there are a lot of people out there who can be called...insensible.Operator failure is something product designers can't do much about; failure at the design and manufacturing level is another story. In an article titled "Eight Ways to Boost Product Reliability," Design News points out how important it is for creators to understand product failure:...Design engineer...     11-24
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Unbelievable software turns average webcam into 3D scanner

Core77 -- If you're a product designer, a desktop 3D scanner would be worth its weight in gold. But that's the problem--the things are friggin' expensive.Having an affordable way to scan something in 3D is inching closer to reality due to the efforts of one Qi Pan, a PhD candidate at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University. Pan has developed software, called PROforma, that enables a run-of-the-mi...     11-24
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