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I actually have a friend who's shopping prefab, so maybe there's a love connection here. In any event, check out Marmol Radziner Prefab, including their Design Your Prefab Home interactive module. (App not custom enough? Uh, you're already going prefab, right? Roll with it.) Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
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Nothing like a wicked gallery of robot illustrations to kick start the week. View here: izmojuki.com.
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Couldn't make it to the shows? Our mammoth, 235-image gallery is up for your review! See it all here. (Above, 'Vlakwerk' lamp by Froukje Kuiper.) Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Design can be brought in as a service, but it's important to remember that it's a creative service. Designers are smart and talented people who typically do "think out of the box" (a phrase more derided inside the design community than outside, yet still requested in more initial meetings than you can imagine). So although your desired outcome may be very specific, the designer's process to delivering your outcome will inevitably involve challenging its very foundations. Here's an illustration:
Q: How many designers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Does it have to be a light bulb?
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New book from Tom Kelley, the general manager of IDEO and author of the best-selling business classic The Art of Innovation.
"Over the years, Tom has observed a number of roles that people can play in an organization to foster innovation and new ideas while offering an effective counter to naysayers. Among these approaches are the Anthropologist, the person who goes into the field to see how customers use and respond to products, to come up with new innovations; the Cross-Pollinator, who mixes and matches ideas, widely disparate people, and technologies to create new ideas that can drive growth; and the Hurdler, who instantly looks for ways to overcome the limits and challenges to any situation."
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This sleek looking set top box is the latest in the line of smart devices that allow you to access all your music from wherever. A friend of mine owns an older model and sent me this link to the "Squeezebox" as it's named. And as designers everywhere know :) we ended up analyzing the form, sleek and gorgeous, true, but the jarring note was the cheap plastic remote that comes with it. Quite unlike the credit card piece that Bose sells with it's Wave product line. Also, the interface could do with some improvement. It's a pity that the initial aesthetics and ease of use are marred by such minor yet easily correctable issues of brand consistency.
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We liked 'em before; we like 'em again. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
I'm here in Chicago where About, With, and For is set to kickoff. Matthew Oliphant will be writing up what he sees. Anyone else blogging this event? Let us know! Posted by: Steve Portigal | Comments (0)
Edward Castranova is a professor of economics who's spent the last several years aiming his analytic gaze at the virtual realm. Unless you're a lot more involved than I am in online gaming, you'll be surprised to know that a significant chunk of cash (on the order of millions of dollars per year) is spent by gamers to purchase virtual objects or structures that have been created or discovered by other gamers. Castranova makes the very salient point that the distinction between real and virtual currency is becoming less relevant by the day, as is the distinction between real and virtual interaction. With a growing legion of product designers already finding employment in the virtual realms of Hollywood, will the distinction between real and virtual industrial design similarly blur? Castranova's blog is here.
Neil Gershenfeld is the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, and spoke for half an hour on the group's Fab Lab project, which bills itself as "a group of off-the-shelf, industrial-grade fabrication and electronics tools, wrapped in open source software." What it looks like is a relatively inexpensive rapid prototyping lab, but modified for easier use and more durable results. There's been talk in the design community for years about using RP technology to make actual customized products and not just models; these folks are doing it for real, and not just in Boston.
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After your toast is done, you eat the appliance. New work from Sternform Produktgestaltung.
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On Monday at the Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota showed off its conceptual i-Swing personal mobility thingamajig. Like the Segway, the i-Swing works by leaning into it, but it also learns the driving habits of its user...
via Wired blog
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His first entry is an interesting story that is (loosely) about how design decisions get made. [via Deadrp0grammer] Posted by: Steve Portigal | Comments (0)
One step evolved from the Jump to Conclusions mat (remember Office Space?) is the Do Not Disturb sign/doorstop designed by Propaganda. Sweet and simple: If you don't want to be bothered, use it as a sign. If you are accepting visitors, use it as a doorstop. Posted by: Don Lehman | Comments (0)
Sound like something I'm making up? From the article:
Each Speck will be autonomous, with its own captive, renewable energy source. Thousands of Specks, scattered or sprayed on a person or surfaces, will collaborate in programmable computational networks called Specknets. Scientists are even considering the idea of a putting the devices in a spray-can, allowing the Specks to be sprayed onto a whatever surface they wish.So we have "skynet" and now "specknet". And if some youngster gets his mits on a can of this stuff and tries snorting it, what do we get then? The Lawnmower Man? This technology stuff is getting crazier all the time. Posted by: csven | Comments (0)
Six Decades - and six different roles for the industrial designer is an article tracking the changes in the profession in Finland over the past sixty years. Although it is focused entirely on Finland, the lessons are applicable to other Western countries as well. I imagine there is quite a different paper waiting to be written documenting the changes in the industry in Asia and developing countries in the recent past.
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Pop!Tech 2005 ended yesterday in Camden, Maine. As in previous years, there was an astonishingly wide array of speakers, addressing the effects of technology on human society from some unpredictable directions.
Shown above: Todd Kuiken and Jesse Sullivan on building nerve-controlled bionic limbs, Theo Jansen showcasing his evolving mechanical beach-roving animals, Carolyn Porco on the recent and highly successful Saturn flyby mission, Rebecca McKinnon on internet censorship in China, and Ivan Marovic on overthrowing governments using video games and coherent design language.
Additional and equally fascinating presenters ranged from Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab to shantytown reporter Robert Neuwirth, and are all worth checking out. The Pop!Tech website features numerous links to blogs written by attendees and speakers, and extensive photographic coverage.
Posted by: Carl Alviani | Comments (0)Seriously, IM is the essential startup tool. You can't build a startup company if people don't have it. 99% of communication should run via email and IM. Most decisions get *screwed up* when people meeting f2f, because f2f meetings are emotional, personal, charged, etc.
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Issue#07 of destructed.info art & designmag is out now and available for download. Topic for this issue is "perfectly balanced," and features work by 23 international artists. Above is from Josh Cochran. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Day No. 1:
And the Lord God said, 'Let there be light,' and lo, there was light. But then the Lord God said, 'Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything else I design will look younger'�
'I'm loving that,' said Buddha. 'It's new.'
'You should design a restaurant,' added Allah.
Read the rest of the week at The New Yorker.
Posted by: Niti Bhan | Comments (0)BusinessWeek on outsourcing design engineering to India.
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A recent global survey across 15 countries revealed that the most desired features in a future mobile device was a long-life battery. Two-thirds of mobile and personal digital assistant owners said two days' active battery life was vital.
The report said that poor battery life on mobile devices was one of the main reasons people did not play more games, music and video on their devices more often. But the field of power is one which has not kept up with the speed of advances in processor performance and capabilities of consumer electronics.
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Specialised robots, devices for DIY content creation and new TV displays are among the trends to watch in 2006.
That is according to the American-based Consumer Electronic Association which has published its view of technologies set to influence in next 12 months.Devices and trends around video gaming and high-definition TV (HD) also make it into the top five.
"They truly illustrate the progress of technology in the digital age," said Gary Shapiro, president of the CEA.
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I think c77 readers should start their own flickr meme by throwing products into the air and taking pictures of them, but hey, it's Friday, and wanted to send you into the weekend with a new craft project. We love the internet. Image above by formerly TaGurit (her first cameratoss effort; a nice one too, if you ask us). Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Huge list of trend portals at http://trends.creax.net/#48 Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
I supposed we'd have to try this for ourselves, but eMachineShop.com looks intriguing. Upload your DXF file and wait for the little elves to send you the part. (We're scared by the "Step 2: Draw your part using the easy-to-use design software" on the their demo page, but hey, if it's the right tool for the job...) [Thanks to _nando for the tip.] Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
The idea of integrating a magazine wedge into a table has been kicked around a fair bit, but this is a nice one. See all their work at www.cupfuldesign.se. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Seems the MoMA is not the only design group thinking about safety these days. The Panorama Internacional de Design 05 in Rio de Janeiro opens on November 16th with the theme Safety Nest. According to their site:
National and international designers translate the meaning and nature of safety in design from a cultural, conceptual and personal point of view. Thirteen installations speak of basic instincts to keep us safe from the dangers and threats of the external world.Designers from across South America, along with several from North America and Europe will participate in the event, which includes workshops and lectures. Posted by: StuCon | Comments (0)
Designed and crafted by herself, Vicky Diandre's bracelets are made from Capim Dourado "golden grass," a plant that grows in only one region of Brazil (Tocantins), at only one time of the year. The grass shines like gold, and has been used to make bags and small objects crafted by artisans in the area. Only these artisans can actually purchase the grass and work it, and each of the them is limited to buying no more than 30 kilos per year. (This is done to protect the material, as over-harvesting of the plant could hasten its extinction.) See the bracelets here, and her other work at www.vikjewelry.com. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Marti Guix and Mediamatic are about to open Food Facility in Amsterdam.
In this working prototype restaurant, the central kitchen is replaced by kitchens of existing take-out restaurants in the area. You are invited to make a choice of the food available from these take-outs and consume your order at Food Facility.
A food hostess will advise you on the quality and estimated delivery time of the dinners and will place the order for you. The food dj receives the order from the delivery boys and will do away with the wrapping before the food hostess serves it to you at your table.
Mediamatic is also organising in November Triggered by RFID, a Think-and-do Tank which explores RFID from an artist's/ designer's point of view (to register).
How can we make use of RFID in meaningful ways? What sensible or beautiful things can be done with RFID that couldn't be done before? How can RFID be applied in a social context, in urban projects, in interaction and experience design?
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The Lift-Off opening was the perfect way to end a very enjoyable visit here. Above is a bag from a series by Susette Brabander featuring a print based on 6 belief systems, The 'Plant Lamp' from Quintenlans, the Muttcase from Mutt Design and a bowl made from laminated paper by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny. Check back soon for complete coverage in the core gallery.
(Alissia - I finally have your package)
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Just before I head out to the Lift-Off opening, some more pics from Eindhoven. From the top we have the Graduation 2005 exhibition space, 'Solid Poetry' a treated concrete surface that reacts with rain revealing a hidden pattern, The Dutch Mountains exhibition space, a playful ski mask by Bridgitte Hendrix at the ITEMS Selectie collection and the 'Lightfader' tile that allows a pedestrian to leave a footprint trail at the Materials Sense 2 exhibition. More soon...
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Even with a number of exhibitions closed yesterday in preparation for the much anticipated visit from Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, there was more then enough shows to get through on what was possibly the last day of summer. Pictured above, morning coffee at London Calling, preparing a room at the TAC Hotel, the Re-Use / Re-Make / Re-Value exhibition space, "Pak Vast" by Borre at Preview and a typographic voice interactive at GreyTones 05.
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This ad from Sonos features Mieko Kusano, director of product management, and Wai-Loong Lim, of Y Studios, their designer. Certainly, as we understand design as a differentiator, it gets talked about in corporate marketing, but the appearance of the actual designer is often limited to someone like Jerry Hirschberg in a Nissan ad. Here we've got the consultant with their own brand being interviewed about the product and about design. This is a designer who's demonstrated value to his clients and who is appreciated for it! (Disclosure: Wai is a former colleague)
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Ecoshack announced the completion of Thermalwing, one of three winners of an international competition to design an environmentally sustainable camping shelter. The winning design, by UK-based architects Tom Ebdon, Lee Halligan and Peter Grove, uses reflected heat to warm a thermal sleeping surface. During daytime, the wing provides shade from the sun; at dusk, the wing is lowered so that its metallic underside reflects heat and light. View project pdf here; Ecoshack site here. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Just arrived into Eindhoven in time for a couple of openings, Made in Eindhoven & the Hocus Pocus User Focus exhibition. Pictured above in order of appearance, "Bobbin Lace" by Niels van Eijk, "Glowing Places" by Magumi Fujikawa, "EOS - Play with that light" by Alexandra Rulkens and the "Follo - Pillowshaped Uberzapper" by designers Wouter Reeskamp, Dick Rutten, Eric Toering and Niko Vegt. There's a great vibe here amongst the exhibiters - now I just need to sort a bicycle out...
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From IDSA's e-newsletter, "designBytes": University of Alberta's Tim Antoniuk, IDSA, chapter chair for IDSA Alberta, assistant professor of industrial design at the University of Alberta, Canada, is working on making furniture and household accessories out of memory plastic, a high-tech material invented by NASA that can be re-morphed and shape-shifted at whim to create new designs. Read more here. Posted by: | Comments (0)
[via Pasta and Vinegar]. Technology is clearly the mother of invention here. What else can we customize? How's about mouthgards!
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With new nav and featured portfolio reviews (and a just-broke-26,000 portfolios talent count), check out the new www. coroflot.com design job and portfolio site (our sister site). Now with tabs! Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
The Museum of Modern Art's Safe: Design Takes On Risk show is opening this weekend; get 73 sneak peeks here in the Core77 Photo Gallery. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
The Cool New Asthma Inhaler Cover. What can't be skinned or cozied? Sure, we've got iPods, vacuums, and phones well covered (if you will), but it seems there is endless opportunity for product personalization technologies and services.
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McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) has just announced the first 6 products that qualify for Cradle to Cradle certification. TreeHugger has an excellent excerpt from the MBDC Certification scope document, so start there. Is this finally I.D.'s LEED Certification? Is this the start of something huge? Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Two tables for your consideration: 2.5 cc Turntable & 'This Never Happened' Table. Check out out all of wouter Geense's work during this week's Dutch Design Week Eindhoven extravaganza. (Ed: these two images came separately, but you gotta love how they fall on the page.) Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Freshly launched polanoid.net is building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection on the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography. To get started you might wanna pick yourself up the classic SX-70.
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Thanks to Max for the Link. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Last night was the opening of Safe: Design Takes On Risk at (the) MoMA, and it was a crazy-huge bash with truckloads of people, music and booze. There was a particular excitement in the air (fall evening, new gallery space, intriguing theme), and the escalators were working double-time, shuttling people from reception galleries to the sixth floor where the exhibit was installed. The work hit a visceral note on almost every chord, somehow establishing a direct, personal conversation with the viewer at each turn. Lots of undeniable, sobering work, lots of provocative conceptual work, and everything in between. Next time, more info on the wall text, please. (Check back at Core77 for full show review and full image galleries.) Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
This smells a bit more like a Brand Extension that the previously posted collision, but there's news of an EchoStar media player called PocketDish. Engadget suggests that it's just somebody else's device with a new label slapped on it. Mind you, I'd be a little nervous to own something called PocketDish!
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Linksys is making a Skype phone (link to a rather techy review). Interesting design and branding challenge when a router company suddenly becomes a handset company. How much new ground should they be breaking for a peripheral-appliance? How much must this be a derivative user experience? Seems like Skype, as software, takes voice calling to the next level, but should the handset go there too? Of course, we've had VOIP handsets for a while, but now we've got some interesting branded experiences that are now releasing an official-type device. Stay tuned!
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Rescue Buoy wins the BraunPrize, but we like Adriano Galvao's 'Easy-XM' phlebotomy bloodvalve the best. A bit more solid waste, but all that plugging and unplugging can get pretty anxiety-making, and the device can help prevent the collapse of patients� veins. (Sweet, sweet pdf on the device here). See all the winners and more at www.braunpreis.de. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
The I/O Brush houses a small CCD video camera in its tip with a ring of white LEDs around it. Force sensors are also embedded inside of the brush, measuring the pressure that is getting applied to the bristles. When the brush touches a surface, the lights around the camera briefly turn on to provide supplemental light for the camera. During that time, the system grabs the frames from the camera and stores them in the program.
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Ceatec is the annual consumer electronics show in Tokyo. Here's BBC's report on this year's latest gadgets. Posted by: Niti Bhan | Comments (0)
MFT (Moldable Fabric Technology) is a 100% PP thermoplastic composite from Milliken with excellent impact resistance and stiffness. This lightweight structure is an alternative to glass-filled composites the are heavier and require special handling.
Fabric or sheet can be molded using pressure thermoforming techniques. However, both must be constrained via clamping during the heating and molding process to prevent shrinkage.
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Despite the seemingly unnecessary hour something queue to get in (including a visit from the fire brigade) the Sneaker Pimps Exhibition opening in New York last night featured a massive selection of customized kicks & live art performances to entertain the masses while waiting for the main headline act - Public Enemy.
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This has been running the circuit lately, but it's true that the site is lame, and WHERE ARE THE PICS OF SOME PAINTINGS?! Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
A quick trend spot at reddot online: ...It has to fulfil the user's wish to identify with their vehicle as well as their need for differentiation and individualisation, because a car is much more than a means of transport - it is also a status symbol and reflects the "mobile part" of the attitude to life. Well ya, and they also kill a lot of people and spew a ton of exhaust into the environment, but we'll leave that alone on a Friday afternoon. Read the thing here. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Chicago is known for its style of pizza, but it doesn't get nearly enough credit for its hotdogs. A typical Chicago dog includes: a hotdog, slice of pickle, wedges of tomatoes, neon green relish, chopped onions, hot peppers, celery salt, mustard, and a bun with poppy seeds. It eats like a meal.
A couple of weekends ago I came across Superdawg. Superdawg is what happens when you marry an awesome product (Chicago dogs) with an awesome experience. Argyle everywhere. A sentient hotdog wearing a Tarzan outfit. French fries cut in such a way that they absorb ketchup. A box that doesn't call itself a box but "a lounge".
You have to love when a product embraces what it truly is and then goes all the way with it.
Posted by: Don Lehman | Comments (0)I'm tempted to generalize and say that behind every successful Web 2.0 company there'll be someone who understands the user. I know that's not guaranteed always to be true--someone with a crappy product will be acquired because they're lucky. But in general I think we've gone from a time when high concept was enough to get you an exit, to a time when you have to prove yourself with users. The key to that is understanding the user.Can I get a Hallelujah!? Posted by: csven | Comments (0)
Cranbrook student Duck Young Kong has got a nice portfolio site showing a wide range of work, including concepts, furniture and interiors. If you can get through the navigation at top, check out the storyboard for The H.T.W., a project dealing with information sharing and the hacker subculture.
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33 Things answers everything you were ever curious about - even if you don't know it yet.
7. Who were the first ping-pong players?
Upper class Englishmen with a lot of time on their hands after dinner started to mimic a tennis game indoors with objects in their house. They used cigar box lids as paddels and lined up books as a net.
(also check No.3)
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the twist trike converts from a trike to a big wheel and back with a simple twist. be sure to check out their animation of how their trike converts on their site.
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Accurate Fishing Products is a spinoff of Accurate Grinding and Manufacturing Corporation, a 50 year old manufacturer of precision jet turbine engine components based in Southern California. Pictured above is the TwinDrag 130, their top of the line. The reels are manufactured using using 6061-T6 aircraft-grade aluminum for all major components, with titanium washers and and stainless steel bearings, and milled on CNC machines to tolerances of 1/1000th of an inch. Judging from the photos on their site these reels make it easy to catch huge fish.
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150 awesome images from London Design Week, including 100 Percent Design, 100 Percent Design East, [re]design, Design UK, Designersblock, and Off The Hook. View all the galleries here. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
...If brevity is the soul of wit, Caplan is master of both. Each of the short essays in Cracking the Whip starts out so elegantly that we thought it would be interesting to take the first bits—the leads—and share them with you here. But the problem is that it was both hard to choose and hard to make any progress. If you read the first paragraph, you're invariably sucked into the whole thing. Heck, even his first sentences deliver the goods. How's this one, from a Circumstantial Evidence column, dated Jan/Feb 1988: "I have never seen a mortician who did not enjoy his work or a mover who did."
Read the whole piece here.
Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)Scientific patron Professor Hasso Plattner has agreed together with Stanford University to establish a new institute in which scientists from various disciplines are to unite to develop user-friendly innovations. The co-founder and chairman of the supervisory board of SAP will donate 35 million US dollars to the establishment, which will be named 'Hasso Plattner Institute of Design' and be affiliated with the 'School of Engineering' of Stanford University in Silicon Valley. The festive inauguration took place on Monday, October 3.It goes on to confusingly say "The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design builds on an institute at Stanford University previously named d.school (d for design)." The thing is barely open and already I'm confused what to call it. Is this the d.school? Part of the d.school? Too much festive and not enough brand/communication design. Help me, please. Posted by: Steve Portigal | Comments (0)
It is one of those leapfrog moments, like where an undeveloped country skips the expense of building a land line network and moves directly to cell phone technology...
China, rather than spending a few generations developing a middle class, fostering a culture and economy based on recreational expenditures such as swimming pools, building an educational and social system which disenfranchises their children, ignoring any resulting underground culture as it comandeers and subverts those same symbols of class but eventually embracing a clean-scrubbed, de-politicized version as an extreme sport, just went ahead and built the rad-est f#*'ing skatepark ever.
Designed by Convic More pics at the Shanghai Showdown site
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The folks at Finkbuilt have launched a new contest: You don't have to be Malcom Gladwell to notice that in the mustard world, fads come and fads go, varietals and variants are tried and eventually embraced by consumers. Ketchup always stays the same. Here at Finkbuilt Labs, our plan is nothing less than to shake the world out of this condiment orthodoxy by introducing a NEW tomato ketchup. Change can be unsettling, but fear not, FINKZ Tomato Ketchup will do everything your old ketchup did, and more. Before FINKZ Tomato Ketchup can come to dominate the marketplace, as it inevitably will, it needs an identity. This is where YOU come in! As the FINKZ Tomato Ketchup label designer, you will have the onece-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a part of something big. But since we know that while contributing to progress and meaningful change can be satisfying, it�s easy to put it off until later. That�s why this design contest is offering a generous incentive package of cash and prizes to the one who dreams up the winning label. You'll need to click on to find out what they are.) Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
The chess pieces need better differentiation, but this is a sweet idea. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
On a related note, the news last night aired a segment discussing retail chain Best Buy's new employee work program called ROWE (Results-Oriented Work Environment). If you're unfamiliar with it here's a link to a Time article about it (note: link to article may not allow viewing; I can't now go back to it but hopefully everyone else can see it at least once). On the news segment they reported that the program is not only still working, but that Best Buy still plans to expand it to retail. I don't know if that will work, but I do know this: if Best Buy is considering this kind of expansion, it can't be a stretch for manufacturers to be thinking R&D employees could be working at home and using PLM software to link them into the corporate grid.
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Toyota Japan soon to introduce a Citizen Wristwatch with a smart key inside to lock and unlock cars automatically via a radio signal.
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Chickens Suit is a conceptual art piece cum product that is as confusing as it is provocative In the future, The ChickensSuit� will outfit the old, familiar house chicken, and future clothes will naturally be offered in different sizes and available in the color combinations red-white, in each case the piece being inspired by the flags of the two countries, Japan and Austria, including one warm corduroy outfit, as well as two disguise versions: in camouflage or as hair fur.Also see previous entry about tattoos on pigs. Posted by: Steve Portigal | Comments (0)
Fat Guy Shirts targets a specific consumer, with t-shirts up to 5X, sporting proud (or is it denial) slogans. I wonder if we'll see Fat Chick Shirts anytime soon (and no, shirts that say "No Fat Chicks" don't count).
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Probably everyone knew this but me, but Fossil Watches offers an impressive (at least in terms of number, if not actual appeal) array of themed watches. Themes (or shall we call them brands) include Ohio State, Universities of Illinois, Alabama, Michigan, Tennessee, Florida, as well as Starck, Gehry, Atari, and some other geeky options. Fossil is riding the same trends as everyone else - co-branding with entertainment properties, designers as brands, Substance-of-Style-esque massive choice.
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SVA launches CRIT, a grad student design blog. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
Not sure what our duro fans would think of this, especially with the disclaimer: "Also, the Flyak does NOT comply with ICF racing regulations. It has never been our aim to make a boat that fits inside the rules. Instead we like to think of it as a supplement to canoeing, more like the sport of snowboarding is related to alpine skiing." [engadget] Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
In an exploration of potential museum experiences, the
Steve Bowden & Erik Strom's Last Meal Trays are available and on display at Felissimo Design House from October 6th to the 29th.
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Above facade, designed with Louis Vuitton's Architecture Department...just crazy enough to work. GAS Design Group founders website here Gregory Polletta's site here and Sung Jangs site here. Posted by: Allan Chochinov | Comments (0)
This link will take you directly to the winning photograph and finalists from the 2005 Top shots award for science photography. The winner is amazing. Posted by: Niti Bhan | Comments (0)
