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Core77 Photo Gallery: Core77 Design Awards 2012
By Core77 Design Awards - Aug 03, 2012
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MTN Approach backcountry accent ski
The MTN Approach system is the first ever hinged back country ski that allows you to fold and store into the space of a conventional backcountry day pack. The system is lighter, faster than conventional split board systems as well as other climber skis on the market.
Designed by: Pillar Product Design LLC
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Papernomad Sleeves
Papernomad originated from the idea of designing and manufacturing environmentally friendly paperboard furniture as a promotional vehicle for open-air events: bio-degradable beanbags made of paper and filled with popcorn.
Designed by: Christoph Rochna
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Sabi
Sabi is a new health and wellness company that introduces 9 fun and friendly products to aid in pill management for people of all ages. Sabi products are designed to fit seamlessly into the everyday lives of users: delivering highly functional products in a friendly and approachable form.
Designed by: fuseproject
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T50elite Staple Gun
The T50elite is a professional quality manual staple gun for both pro and DIY users.
Designed by: Michael Reedy & ManKi Yoo / Masco Design
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Teagueduino
Teagueduino is an open source hardware platform that makes building interactive things--from experiments and games, to classroom projects and prototypes--easier. Teagueduino makes digital electronics more accessible by offering solder-less assembly, fail-proof coding and a community of resources for support.
Designed by: TEAGUE
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Vapur's Element Anti-Bottle
The Element is a foldable, reusable, freezable, washable, and highly durable alternative to disposable water bottles; it is 100% BPA free and 100% made in the U.S. and it can be rolled, folded, or flattened when empty.
Designed by: Vapur
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Zoku Character Kit
Designed to work with the Zoku Quick Pop Maker, the Zoku Character Kit, lets users create unique character popsicles in minutes.
Designed by: Ken Zorovich, Yos Kumthampinij & John Earle
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zSpace
zSpace is a remarkable new 3D visualization tool that enables designers, engineers and film makers to build, manipulate and view objects in 3D.
Designed by: Whipsaw, Inc.
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CineSkates Tripod Dolly
CineSkates turn your tripod into a versatile video dolly. The set of three precision wheel assemblies connect to the feet of the flexible GorillaPod Focus tripod to "pull off sophisticated-looking camera moves with the nudge of a finger", aptly put by Fast Company.
Designed by: Justin Jensen
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The Nest Learning Thermostat
The Nest Learning Thermostat frees you from the hassle of programming a thermostat while providing the conservation benefits of a programmed device. It learns about you and your home to develop a customized temperature schedule that will keep you comfortable while also conserving energy.
Designed by: Nest Labs, Inc. and Bould Deign
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Lytro Light Field Camera (Winner)
Straight out of Stanford's research labs, the Lytro Light Field Camera is the first consumer Light Field Imaging camera. It's an Icon for a new era, celebrating the most significant technology shift in photography in decades.
Designed by: NewDealDesign LLC
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ArmRay
The project is a wearable light wristband that project light; the light can illuminate the user's arms with light pattern. It also includes a small whistle on the top of the light so the user can get more attention from vehicles and people by sound.
Designed by: Jean Lin / California College of the Arts
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Designed Obstacles
Designed Obstacles is a piece of modular parkour training equipment designed specifically for use in the gymnastics or other controlled training environment.
Designed by: Jonathan Spoerke
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Fla-C
Fla-C is a flashlight that not only projects light forward as standard flashlights do, but takes a portion of this light and projects it to the area around the user's foot. This adds security to the user.
Designed by: Jungjoon Hwang / Konkuk University Global Campus
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lullaby lullaby
"lullaby lullaby" is the textile audio speaker for the next generation. It will start to play the music from the moment you sink down into the product.
Designed by: Yuko Okumura / ENSCI les ateliers
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PINCH
PINCH is a simple hanger redesign, to comfortably get your hanger out from your t-shirt without damaging your clothing.
Designed by: Jaineel Shah / DSK ISD International School of Design
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Plug here!
The goal of this project was to make an additional feature for a safety belt in a vehicle. To make a safety belt indicate itself, light was added inside of the buckle, designing a simple mechanism which helps people to find the buckle easier than before.
Designed by: Min Jae Kang / Seoul National University of Science and Technology
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Pulse - Information simplification
Pulse is an analog device capable of displaying information obtained online. Pulse is meant to be hung on a wall in your living room or kitchen, where it will constantly keep you up to date on whatever information feed you connect it to.
Designed by: Jon McTaggart & Christian Ferrara / KISD - ECAL
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TAC-MAN
TAC-MAN is the magnetic holder for tacks. As you sweep over the tacks with the TAC-MAN, the tacks attach themselves onto the top of its mouth.
Designed by: Woohyeok Jeong / Hongik University
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Communicaid
The Communicaid is a system that can facilitate communication between deaf and hearing people. It's designed for the people who were born deaf and didn't acquire language early or that have lost it in early childhood.
Designed by: Jae Pyung Lee / Academy of Art University
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EasiDrive Electric Screwdriver
The EasiDrive is an electric screwdriver for people unfamiliar with DIY and power tools, for people who just want to hang a painting, assemble a side table, or attach a coat hook.
Designed by: Alastair Warren / Umeå Institute of Design
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Nursing Kit
Nursing Kit is an easy-to-use first-aid kit that offers a secondary lighting function. We observed that the concept of a first-aid kit is not familiar to typical Taiwanese families. Therefore, we sought a form with which affinities could be easily found, and that could be looked upon as an art piece within the home.
Designed by: Sheng-Hung Lee & Yu-Lin Chen / National Cheng Kung University
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Musicon (Student Winner)
Musicon is a creative, interactive "music making educational play device," designed to promote development and exploration, both physical and artistic, for children of ages 2-8.
Designed by: Kamil Laszuk / Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland
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Arion Automated Ironing System
The Arion is essentially a blower unit/heating element with an airbag attachment on top. Simply place the garment over the airbag switch on the fan, set the timer, spray with little water and walk away. It only takes 3-5 mins max to iron the clothing.
Designed by: Nigel Roddy
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audioJar
The audioJar speakers are a set of DIY speakers compatible with any standard portable audio device.
Designed by: Sarah Pease / Rhode Island School of Design
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Coronado
Coronado is a sound installation made up of several parts. In a nutshell, the sound automata is an ocean drum that has its own behaviors, plays itself in an organic way.
Designed by: Kian-Peng Ong / UCLA
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Personal Light Source "TORCH"
Personal Light Source "TORCH" can be used as a common flashlight in many places, where personalized light is required for various purposes and used in day to day life.
Designed by: Vikram Dinubhai Panchal
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Umbrella Cage
Project "Umbrella Cage" is a DIY design project of making a portable birdcage out of a used umbrella.
Designed by: Jeonghye Hong & Eunsun Lee / Hongik University, Digital Media Design Dept.
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Walk Raleigh
Walk Raleigh started as a group of 27 unsanctioned signs installed at 3 different intersections around downtown Raleigh. The signs are basic; they include an arrow, general destination, color, QR code and text stating how many minutes by foot it is to walk to said destination.
Designed by: Matt Tomasulo / CityFabric
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D.I. Wire
The D.I.Wire Bender is a rapid prototype machine that bends metal wire to produce 2D or 3D shapes. It's essentially a 3D printer that describes lines, instead of volumes, in space, and it could be used for anything from prototypes to customized products.
Designed by: Pensa
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Project RE_
This experiment of Project RE_ explores 3D printing as a DIY tool for upcycling. Customized lids are created using low cost 3D printing. They are then clipped or screwed onto standard jars, tin cans and bottles to create new and personal objects.
Designed by: Samuel Bernier
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Laser-Cut Folding Ukulele Kit (Winner)
This is an instrument modeled after the traditional Hawaiian ukulele. Unlike the standard ukulele, this folding version is collapsible - therefore ultra portable - and designed to be made on a laser cutter - so that it can be replicated rapidly.
Designed by: Brian Chan
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Design for America - Leadership Studio
Design for America (DFA) is a nationwide network of student led studios using design to create local and social impact.
Designed by: Design for America
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Industrial Design Outreach (iDO)
The Industrial Design Outreach (iDo) program is an educational enrichment program. iDo introduces underserved public high school students to industrial design, computer software tools and traditional and modern manufacturing systems.
Designed by: San Francisco State University
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Sustainability Crash Course
The Center for Sustainable Design Studies and Research provides faculty, students, alumni and the NYC community educational resources that promote the integration of sustainable best practices into academic programs and professional practice.
Designed by: Center for Sustainable Design Studies and Research / Pratt Institute
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The D3 Lab-Empowering Urban Middle Schoolers through Design
The D3 Lab is a unique student-centered, project-based learning program currently being developed and deployed at Nightingale Middle School in East Los Angeles.
Designed by: Commonstudio + The New Learning Institute
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Fab Lab Education Program
TYTHEdesign in collaboration with the non-profit Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), has developed and piloted an educational after-school program to teach job and life skills by focusing on sustainability and business basics through the lens of design.
Designed by: TYTHEdesign Team
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College of Design, Engineering and Commerce (DEC), Philadelphia University (Winner)
DEC represents 50% of the university, 15 undergraduate majors + 1,500 students. The core curriculum is: Integrative Design Process, Business Model Innovation, Ethnographic Research Methods, Science System Thinking, and an integrative capstone.
Designed by: DEC Core Curriculum
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Kern and Burn
Kern and Burn is an online publication and book about design entrepreneurship that curates discussions, interviews and essays. It's focus is on telling design entrepreneurs' stories with the goal of inspiring fellow designers to follow their passions and create a life they want to live, doing what they love.
Designed by: Jessica Karle Heltzel & Tim Hoover / Maryland Institute College of Art
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Retail: Retell. Recycle. Rethink.
Retail: Retell. Recycle. Rethink. is a student fueled exhibit in collaboration with Design Museum Boston. The exhibition highlights life-cycles of consumer goods across four categories; sneakers, cell phones, water bottles and cleaning products.
Designed by: Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Bilateral Hand Rehabilitation Apparatus
This product is a hand rehabilitation system for patients suffering from RSD, stroke, arthritis or other similar conditions where one hand is impaired while the other remains healthy.
Designed by: Radlab
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ClearCut S Safety Series Incisional Instruments
This safety scalpel is a disposable surgical incisional instrument to be used during cataract surgery. This tool helps to reduce injuries and minimize the potential spread of infectious disease.
Designed by: Bresslergroup
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COMPACTOR
This compactor-sorter combination compacts, sorts and stores packaging materials from beverage vending machines. It is intended for use in cafeterias, open-space offices, head offices, libraries, public buildings and waiting rooms.
Designed by: David Moreeuw
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iPad Pocket by Nurture
iPad Pocket is used for collaboration, patient education and team diagnosis. It gives doctors, nurses and patients a convenient all-in-one place to display images and share navigation tasks.
Designed by: Nurture & Modo Inc.
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Philips Sparq
The Sparq mobile ultrasound system offers a new ultrasound experience. It allows for the scanning and interpreting of ultrasound images at the point of care as simple as possible.
Designed by: Philips Design, Philips Design Healthcare team and Modo, Inc.
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SWE20B
This is a kind of earthwork excavation machinery product that works in a confined area, mainly to be used in a yard or laneway. It contains a chassis, cab, work device and counterweight group.
Designed by: Industry Design Group of Sunward Research and Develop Center, Excavator Research Institute
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Cintiq 24HD Pen Display
The Cintiq 24HD has a large drawing surface, great resolution and sensitivity and a customizable in-bezel interface that can be navigated entirely by touch.
Designed by: Ziba Design
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Crown RM 6000 MonoLift Reach Truck (Winner)
Crown's RM 6000S MonoLift™ reach truck delivers breakthrough operator visibility and unsurpassed lifting capabilities. Operators now have a comfortable, less fatiguing experience that delivers greater operator, truck and operation-wide productivity.
Designed by: Crown Design
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E-Mailbox
E-Mailbox combines the functions of both a mailbox and printer and is intended to be used while traveling. Not only does it simplify the traveller's life, it also cuts back on the use of paper stamps and inspires the creativity of those using the device.
Designed by: Ho-Tzu (River) Cheng & Ssu Kai Liao / Royal College of Art
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Nursing Kit
Nursing Kit is a first-aid kit that offers a secondary lighting function. It contains 3 sections: Sterilization, Medication and Dressing. The ‘lid' also functions as a light, and when the kit is taken apart it can be used as a flashlight.
Designed by: Sheng-Hung Lee & Yu-Lin Chen / National Cheng Kung University
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Pal IV Pump System
Pal is a completely new take on the traditional IV pump. It positions the fluid bags and mechanics low to the ground, allowing the user to effortlessly pull the device and therefore makes daily tasks easier and inspires activity in patients.
Designed by: Andrew Kim / Art Center College of Design
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Syncro - Post-surgical knee rehabilitation device
Syncro is a medical device for post-surgical knee rehabilitation. It's meant to create the most effective way for a full recovery through gradual increase of self dependency from passive to active movement.
Designed by: James Cha / Art Center College of Design
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Fountain of Life
Fountain of Life is a water birthing assistant medical device. It is a product based on a more traditional water birthing container like a tub and has several advanced material and medical technology modifications.
Designed by: Danwei Ye, Yu Liu, Yakun Zhang / Rochester Institute of Technology
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Model Machine
In addition to sketches and renderings, designers often need to have "real" models to judge the ergonomics, haptics and functionality of their work. Larger companies tend to be the only ones that can afford to have a full-fledged model shop. ModelMachine fills this void for the smaller offices and startups.
Designed by: Bernhard Ranner / University for Applied Arts, Vienna
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EG Helmet (Student Winner)
EG is the first helmet truly dedicated to mining. This will bring a new standard to head protection and comfort for miners.
Designed by: Maxime Dubreucq / Umea Institute of Design
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Precious Food - Transplant
PRECIOUS FOOD is an experimental program that relocates the meaning of design in a mutated social environment: the project is about creating awareness about our (complex) relation to food and its status.
Designed by: Transplant
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Sugarchair
The sugarchair is working as the blueprint for the consumer and he becomes part of the design concept. The consumer has to personalize the Sugarchair with his consumption in his own style.
Designed by: Pieter Brenner
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Fresh Moves Mobile Market
Fresh Moves Mobile Market is an one aisle grocery store, retrofitted within a decommissioned public transit bus, restoring fresh produce access to food deserts across Chicago.
Designed by: Architecture for Humanity Chicago
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Edible Containers (Winner)
The Edible Container invites us to reflect upon overconsumption and its impact on global pollution. To establish a sound sustainable practice around edible plates – a practice that could permeate our everyday lives – the objective is to create a strong and successful variety of products for diverse usage contexts, and a new material typology of shapes, colors and flavours that meet with high nutritional standards and sustainability.
Designed by: Diane Leclair Bisson
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Plant - (NASA)
PLANT is a concept developed in cooperation with NASA that enables astronauts to grow food on long duration space flights in a clean and safe way. The grown vegetables are meant to be an addition to the daily diet of the crew, giving them the sensation of fresh food even far out in space.
Designed by: Lund University
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Real Food Farm Campaign
This is a campaign for Real Food Farm, a six-acre urban farm in Clifton Park in northeast Baltimore. The campaign includes an identity, stationery system, informational pieces, t-shirts, stickers, and most notably, an outfitted mobile market truck.
Designed by: Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Center for Design Practice
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Ento - The Art of Eating Insects
We wanted to see how design could facilitate the introduction of insects into the western diet. It's not just about introducing a new food, it's about understanding human perceptions and psychology, then using the design of innovative experiences and strategic thinking to drive cultural change and challenge the our cultural taboo.
Designed by: Team Ento / Royal College of Art & Imperial College London
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CityGrill (Student Winner)
CityGrill is a rentable grill solution (or a mortgage scheme grill) launched by the city of Copenhagen and placed in public areas. The purpose of the CityGrill project was to improve the grilling experience in public park areas and on beaches.
Designed by: Kathrine Bundgart, Christian Christensen, Morten Gleie & Thit Hagen / Copenhagen School of Design an
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Anisha
Anisha is a fluid, organically formed ellipse surrounding empty space. Anisha was inspired by the idea of an eternal object with a simple, mysterious form that transforms when the defining frame magically fills with light.
Designed by: Alberto Lievore, Jannette Altherre & Manel Molina / Lievore Asociados
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Desert Storm
The Desert Storm light fixture is inspired by sand. This project contain 2 kinds of lamps: standing lamp and table lamp.
Designed by: Nir Meiri
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Jacob Boookcase
The bookcase was inspired by the Jacob's Ladder toy--you know, the one from childhood where wood blocks are held together by ribbon? Made from five square wood frames that are joined with nylon strips, the piece can be configured in more ways than you could imagine.
Designed by: Alessandra Clark &
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Blush Lamp
Blush is an ambient lamp that is set within drywall and painted over to make it invisible. When turned on, the lamp pulsates slowly with a pink light that glows through the surface of the wall.
Designed by: Patrick Martinez
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New Logica System
After having revolutionised ergonomics by presenting the Logica System in 1996 with its 80 cm depth and equipped back section, removable jumbo drawers and wall units with Ala and Aerius lift-up doors, Valcucine is now presenting the evolution of this equipped back section. It is called New Logica System.
Designed by: Gabriele Centazzo
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Philips FreeStreet (Winner)
The FreeStreet lighting system offers a progressive and exciting solution which will also help to clear some of the clutter from our increasingly busy urban landscapes. The system eliminates traditional street light poles; instead connecting a string of LEDs along narrow cables which are virtually invisible during the day.
Designed by: Philips Design
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BellowChair
The client for BellowChair was an upholstered wooden furniture manufacturing firm intending to launch furniture range for youngsters and children in urban India. Bellow Chair is a chair with flexible body which can accommodate body movements while sitting besides being a playful character with its form, color and a soft cushioned body.
Designed by: Shrestha Kedia / National Institute of Design in Ahmedadad, India
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Bonfire
Bonfire, which is shaped like a tree, is turned on when one piece of wood is pulled off of the lamp. As more pieces of wood are removed, the light becomes brighter. This signifies light growing brighter as more wood is being burned.
Designed by: Sooeon Kim / Seoul National University of Science and Technology
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Do Not Ignore
This project investigates the way in which furniture can operate within the wider concerns of 'art' and affect psychological thought and emotional expression. The goal was to explore the way that furniture can be endowed with 'personality' to evoke the users' subconscious emotion and feeling.
Designed by: Qianyi Zhao / University of Tasmania
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Fidget
The emerging product design, fidget, is a modular object with many possibilities; it is a chair, a stool, a desk, and by connecting together, it forms an extended surface. It is just one proposed solution that embraces and celebrates this critical and dynamic dialogue in classroom design.
Designed by: Sandra Turner / Rochester Institute of Technology
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Flatpack Polypropylene
This is a polypropylene chair with steam bent ash legs. It is not only flatpack, but it also utilizes CNC technology to create a sturdy, easily to assemble plastic shell. The flex of the plastic provides comfort, while the wooden structure provides support.
Designed by: Sina Sohrab / Rhode Island School of Design
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Lumiru
The Lumiru project is my graduation work for the Master studies conducted in Kyoto Institute of Technology. The project in itself is a study of my own background and how it reflects in me as a designer.
Designed by: Arttu-Matti Immonen / Kyoto Institute of Technology
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Readymade Design Objects
Starting as a theoretical evaluation of the history of Ready-made Objects in Design we developed several Design Objects that transform ordinary products into different objects with new appearances and usages through minimal modifications such as recombination or recontextualisation.
Designed by: Max Qwertz & Yanik Balzer
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Silicone Shade
The silicone lamp takes advantage of the tactile and visual qualities of silicone. The lamp gives off a warm, soft glow that invites interaction, and the soft and flexible form is pleasing to the touch. The flexibility also adds functionality, as the lamp can be rested on a horizontal surface.
Designed by: Vladimir Anokhin / Cranbrook Academy of Art
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Elixer
The Elixir is a space-maximizing, high-quality OLED desk lamp. It is designed simply and straight, and it is able to be folded down along the edge of the desk. You can maximize your workspace.
Designed by: Nari Hwang
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Moss Light System
"Moss" is a reflection to step back from the conventional standardized system and embrace more freedom from the inspiration of nature. This light system is intended to imitate the growing way of moss with the capability to multiply and attach to many places.
Designed by: Hong Ying Guo / Rochester Institute of Technology
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kuli (Student Winner)
Kuli is a simple piece of furniture designed to be a seating object, a coffee table, or a storage and display unit, it requires the user to 'build' it themselves according to what kind of furniture is needed.
Designed by: Julia Wolf & Felix Haeffner
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9/11 Names Arrangement Software and 9/11 Memorial Guide
The 9/11 Names Arrangement software is a custom application for the 9/11 Memorial created by Local Projects and Jer Thorp that assisted in determining the arrangement of the almost 3,000 names of the people killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.
Designed by: Local Projects LLC
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Lucid Dreams - Sephora Sensorium
The Sephora Sensorium is the world's first interactive scent museum; a pop-up experience in the heart of New York City's Meatpacking District. The final "Lucid Dreams" experience explores the physical act of smelling with an interactive mix of cinema, design and technology that creates images based on how you sniff the fragrance.
Designed by: Department of the 4th Dimension
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THINK: An Exploration into Making the World
A cornerstone of IBM's centennial year celebration, THINK was a multimedia exhibition that brought to life the many ways in which people are making the world work better through innovation.
Designed by: SYPartners, Mirada, Ralph Appelbaum Associates Inc. & George P. Johnson
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Smart Actions
Smart Actions is a contextually aware app that learns the user's needs and automates those daily tasks.
Designed by: CXD UI/UX team
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Lego Life of George
The world's first interactive game combining real LEGO bricks with apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. Follow George around the world as he challenges the user to a series of fun building tasks.
Designed by: LEGO New Business Group
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Teagueduino (Winner)
Teagueduino is an open source hardware platform that makes building interactive things--from experiments and games, to classroom projects and prototypes--easier. Teagueduino makes digital electronics more accessible by offering solderless assembly, fail-proof coding and a community of resources for support.
Designed by: TEAGUE
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Feel Me
Communicating with someone special is not necessarily about content going back and forth, it is often about feeling the presence of that person. 'Feel Me' is an app that creates a sweet, playful connection with the other side through a nonverbal, interactive channel. 'Feel Me' is a simple and new way to enrich digital communications.
Designed by: Marco Triverio / Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
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Channel of Mindfulness
Bringing mindfulness (paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally) in to our day-to-day lives is key to spiritual growth. Channel of Mindfulness creates a new way to help inexperienced practitioners to discover and integrate mindfulness in their everyday life.
Designed by: Yufan Wang / Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
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Fade Away
Fade Away is an interactive installation that performs a twitter search for the term "fade away" and uses an ultraviolet laser diode to write these tweets on a phosphorescent surface.
Designed by: Matt Richardson / NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
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Haptic Intelligentsia
HAPTIC INTELLIGENTSIA is a human 3D printer that allows the user to tactually perceive the virtual object and to directly transform it into the physical. The user can freely move the extruding gun, which is attached to a haptic interface.
Designed by: Joong Han Lee / Design Academy Eindhoven
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LeARn Physics
LeARn Physics is an educational construction game for learning electricity among young students. It offers, by simulation, the possibility to create and manipulate electrical circuits thanks to an immersive, emerging and accessible technology (augmented reality).
Designed by: Victor Manselon
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Artificial Topography
Artificial Topography is an amorphous cave-like volume inside a container, soft like a sofa which enables people to find a spot and relax.
Designed by: Ryumei Fujiki
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Changing Room
Changing Room is a suspended gallery installation. The project captures space inside a lightweight, structural skin comprised of interlocking polycarbonate CNC cut elements, all the while exploring the relationship of intimate and public spatial realms.
Designed by: EASTON+COMBS
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Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts
Infinite variety is an exhibition of a private collection of 651 red-and-white quilts, arrayed in such a way as to enable the public to experience the vibrancy of the quilts.
Designed by: Thinc Design
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Tribal DDB
One of the largest advertising agencies in the world, this project aimed to create an office with an environment where creative interaction is supported through a structured workplace.
Designed by: Jaspar Jansen, Jeroen Dellensen & Miklos Kroeze / i29 interior architects
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3M™ Infinite Innovation
This project is a staged installation dedicated to a series of advanced, futuristic and sustainable 3M Technologies for Ambient Culture in architecture and design.
Designed by: Martino Berghinz, featuring visions & ideas developed by 3M Design Lab team in collaboration with De
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SoundAffects NYC (Winner)
The project is an interactive installation in the form of a wall with embedded sensors, cameras and light components, installed on a street in New York City. The wall "listens" to the ambient sound and translates the noise into a unique musical composition.
Designed by: Tellart
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Retail: Retell. Recycle. Rethink.
The projects consists of an exhibition which highlights life-cycles of consumer goods in the categories of sneakers, cell phones, water bottles and cleaning products.
Designed by: Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Peritoneum
This project is a freestanding organic shade and seating structure constructed to turn a campus location into an attractive destination for others.
Designed by: Second Story Design Team
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SymbiosisS
This project is a collection of soft textile interfaces, which behaves as an organic display for seating that reacts to touch.
Designed by: SymbiosisO, NYU / Estonian Academy of Art
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Liminal Spaces (Student Winner)
The winning project is an installation that presents a rich creativity, using technology in a very simple and economical form. When controlled by remote control systems, the installation varies in shape, creating different forms and an ever-changing landscape.
Designed by: Hal Watts, Ben Alun-Jones & Alicja Pytlewska / Royal College of Art (MA) + Imperial College London (
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Cretors Popcorn Packaging Re-Brand
The project was a re-branding of the G.H. Cretors line of Popcorn bags, including the Chicago Mix, Cheese Corn, Caramel Nut Crunch, Caramel Corn and Kettle Corn flavors. The re-brand and updated design provides a fresh and modern look, while at the same time conveying the story of the company heritage.
Designed by: Nick Wright on behalf of Equator Design
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Hi I'm SKINNY Packaging
The Hi I'm SKINNY line of snacks, owned by G.H. Cretors, offers a healthier snacking alternative to potato chips. A new name and packaging was developed; it speaks directly to the customer, with funky styling and voice all its own – perfect for a product so good it speaks for itself.
Designed by: Jodie Young on behalf of Equator Design
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Spin Tab
SPINTAB is a simple but effective solution to identify one's drink when multiple people are enjoying a beverage with the same packaging. Each beverage can has a color ring painted on its top. Once the drink is opened, user spins the tab to the favorite color to differentiate the drink from others.
Designed by: Zhongren Zhang
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Tinned herring
Making use of the classic tin's characteristic features in order to create a direct and humorous piece of packaging that is easily understood by consumers all over the world.
Designed by: Stockholm Design Lab PROJECT
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PACT Packaging
PACT is an innovative apparel brand that blends iconic design, sustainable textiles and support for powerful social/environmental causes into truly awesome underwear, t-shirts and socks. The solution is an innovative system of boxes, hang tags and stickers to convey PACT's brand message of sustainability, adaptability and design.
Designed by: fuseproject
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Paruva Kalaam: Fair Trade
Paruva Kaalam is a handmade soap, produced by women in the rural Thiruchuli community of Tamil Nadu, India. The soap enterprise offers a community-driven income opportunity that enables women of Southern India to earn a living wage while utilizing already existing resources.
Designed by: Design Impact, Kaleidoscope & ODAM
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NuBone Packaging (Winner)
The NuBone Supplements Packaging is designed with the user experience in mind to improve the visual and data communication between the consumer, product and its users. The new fitted packaging is plastic free, recyclable, and enriches the product selection process.
Designed by: Jacky Kaho Ling & David Dong-Hee Suh
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Avex Male Contraceptive
In a modern era that aspires toward gender equality, the burden of family planning has still largely been born by women. Yet, alternatives are on the horizon as the World Health Organization has completed phase three clinical trials for a male hormonal contraceptive.
Designed by: Jason Hu / Pratt Institute
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Double A - Edge Package for A4 Paper
Double A - 'Edge package for A4 paper' is a project that allows for people to use A4paper easily. This was designed so people can take A4paper out easily by changing the edge's angle from a right angle to an acute angle.
Designed by: Jung-hyun, Yoon / Hong-ik University
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Sportline Sports Goods
Sportline is focused on enhancing motivating workout experience by connecting with others that share the same lifestyle, moreover, appealing to new consumers by the efficient usage of packagings and a simple naming and categorizing system.
Designed by: Shanti Juchun Shiue
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Traffic cream and Sugar
Inspired from the observations of habits in everyday life, these objects allow the user to be playful and creative on the tabletop. The form signaling a reference to traffic cones, the half & half packets assure some playfulness action to be taken on the tabletop. The sugar packets are in appearance referencing sandbags to go along with the traffic cones.
Designed by: Haruka Morimoto
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Whimsy Wings Repurposable Bird Feeder
This package design is a bird feeder fashioned out of waxed cardboard using a basic cubed planar net. It is hung by a cord from an overhang or other sheltered area. After the birdseed has been eaten, the feeder can be reused as a birdhouse.
Designed by: Jean Wilczek / The Illiniois Institute of Art, Schaumburg
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Rock Climbing Shoe Box
This shoebox is made using recycled paper blended into a pulp. It was formed to fit a pair of rock climbing shoes. The shape and texture has a rock like appearance.
Designed by: Richard Guzman / Auburn University
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Split Milk
This packaging is for the Earth Fare milk products made of French Paper Company's Smart White line to employ the mills commitment to conservation. The concept highlights a growing trend in America's eating habits.
Designed by: Alyssa Mitchell / University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Tights Packaging (Student Winner)
In Afghanistan, women's rights are hidden behind the veil. They are forced to cover themselves from head to toe, and forbidden to work, be educated and leave the house without a male escort. Wearing tights are matter of choice for you, but wearing veil is obligation for them. This package provokes your action to unveil women's hijab as the tights are untangled.
Designed by: Seoyeon Hong
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Building Peer Education Programs, One Hour at a Time
HourSchool's mission is to discover the teacher within everyone, to increase self-worth, and to foster a culture of participation in our communities. This project's goal is to build education programs with community organizations who share that same vision. We provide the starting framework, and we co-design to customize it based on their values and needs.
Designed by: Christina Tran
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LEGO CUUSOO
LEGO CUUSOO is a website where LEGO fans can submit their ideas for new LEGO products and collect votes to make their ideas become a reality. They can also vote for other users' ideas. Ideas that are supported by 10,000 votes have a chance of being selected to become part of the LEGO Group's product portfolio. Consumers who have their ideas chosen will earn 1% of the total net sales of the product.
Designed by: CUUSOO System
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The Service Design Programme (Winner)
The Service Design Programme provides comprehensive support for the manufacturing industry through activities that include promotional seminars, intensive workshops with teams from individual companies and on-line resources. In parallel, design businesses are being introduced to new tools and techniques to build both their capacity for and confidence in the delivery of service design.
Designed by: Design Wales
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k.di lib'
k-di lib' is a free-of-charge urban mobility service for goods. It is a low-cost design solution for the complex phenomenon of the stray shopping cart: shopping carts abandoned in public space by their users after transporting any type of goods due to the lack of appropriate (local) mobility solutions. k.lib lib is a simple shopping cart sharing system with stations in the city and next to the shops. The clients can use the k.di carts as an urban transport service. They receive an ‘award' (e.g
Designed by: Michael Schnell
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BaseCamp
It is a product and service that provides urban dwellers easy access to an out-of-the-box type of camping experience. The design system is made up of a partnership, online community and product. First, by co-branding with Zipcar, a membership-based car sharing company, urban dwellers are provided a more seamless and accessible camping experience. The online community helps improve the camping experience by making it predictable, so that users have a better idea of what to expect. Lastly, an easy
Designed by: Dave Pickett / The Cleveland Institute of Art
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Designing for Doctor & Patient Interactions in the Leave-Taking Experience
This was an academic research project for a capstone MBA class called 'Design in Management: Concepts, Methods of Practice and Products' at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. It addresses the area of patient experience and was a joint collaboration between Weatherhead and the Office of Patient Experience at Cleveland Clinic. Out of the many dimensions and moments of patient experience, our project focused on the issue of doctor-to-patient interaction during th
Designed by: Kipum Lee / Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University
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Museumvirus (Student Winner)
Museumvirus is an educational game divided in 3 phases. The first phase takes place at school. Through an online game played on the interactive white-board children identify themselves with different virus profiles. In the second phase the 4 virus groups, with the help of decoding glasses, read 4 sets of secret messages spread allover the museum exhibition. In this way they can answer a set of questions and obtain a secret code. In the third phase, back at school, with the secret code students a
Designed by: Clementina Gentile + Northernlight / TU Delft, Design for Interaction
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Know your lines
Know Your Lines goes behind the scenes of the largely invisible redistricting process in which politicians often get to choose their voters, instead of the other way around. Questions brought up were: Who's actually drawing the lines? What does the shape of a district mean? What does a good redistricting process look like?
Designed by: The Center for Urban Pedagogy
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SAFETY LOCK AK47
SAFETY LOCK AK-47 is a new weapon lock for the AK-47, the most common weapon in the world, for use in developing countries.
Designed by: Sylvia Holthen
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Social-Unit #1
This cupboard bed is designed for homeless shelters of the Salvation Army. It is a space-saving combination of a bed and storage space on 3 m2. It is made of recycled consumer plastics, bottle caps and beer crates, and is produced in social working projects by e.g. homeless and drug addicts.
Designed by: Wouter Kalis / Social-Unit
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UNICEF Project Mwana
Project Mwana consists of a mobile service that delivers HIV results to rural clinics and a messaging platform to ensure the results are communicated directly to mothers. It has reduced the time to deliver critical information from four weeks to minutes and increased post-natal visits.
Designed by: frog
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Earthquake Proof Table
The "Earthquake-Proof Table" is a school table designed to protect pupils during and immediately after an earthquake. The table designed for a range of building types and collapse scenarios. It provides a comprehensive solution by creating both covering protection and passageways for rescue team accessibility.
Designed by: Arthur Brutter & Ido Bruno
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Eliodomestico (Winner)
Eliodomestico is an open-source eco-distiller, running on solar power, to provide safe drinking water for people in developing countries. It's a very simple way to produce freshwater, starting from sea or brackish water. The device produces 5 liters daily, through a direct solar-powered distillation process. Eliodomestico works without filters nor electricity, and requires minimal maintenance.
Designed by: Gabriele Diamanti
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AdaptAir Pediatric Nasal Interface (Student Winner)
A therapy known as Bubble CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) is a simple and affordable way to deliver effective respiratory treatment for children who suffer from life threatening respiratory illnesses, but when the nasal interface responsible for delivering life-sustaining oxygen therapy does not fit, the therapy is compromised. AdaptAir is the missing link in delivering effective care to dying children in the developing world.
Designed by: Alejandro Palandjoglou / Stanford University
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Ento - The Art of Eating Insects
How could design facilitate the introduction of insects into the western diet? It's not just about introducing a new food, it's about understanding human perceptions and psychology, then using the design of innovative experiences and strategic thinking to drive cultural change. Ento designed a succession of foods and eating experiences that will gently challenge the cultural taboo. And perhaps by 2020, fresh grasshoppers will be a regular sight in your local supermarket.
Designed by: Team Ento / Royal College of Art & Imperial College London
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Gira Dora: Safe Agua
GiraDora, a human-powered washer and spin dryer, increases the efficiency and improves the experience of hand-washing clothes for women living without access to running water. The user sits on the drum-like appliance and pumps the pedal with her foot, to agitate, clean, rinse, then spin-dry clothes. For under $40, GiraDora's comfortable and ergonomic operation more than doubles productivity, increases health, instills dignity, and affords opportunities to begin breaking the poverty cycle.
Designed by: Ji A You / Designmatters at Art Center College of Design
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immune
A smart phone based system designed to increase the rate of vaccination in developing countries. It is extremely user friendly and the customizable system will help to bring the vaccination rate up in developing countries from 50% where it stands at present.
Designed by: Peter Beegle / Virginia Tech
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Notex Wristband
"Notex" Wristband is a Money Identification solution for the Visually Impaired population of India. It comprises of a spring steel strip with four kinks arranged according to the difference in length's of the Indian Rupees Bills. One end of Notex is round while the other is straight so, that the blind person know's which side it is. To identify the bill Visually Impaired people need their sense of touch to feel at which kink the bill ends when its laid straight along the length of the strip.
Designed by: Charandeep Singh Kapoor / National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
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Reach & Match
Reach & Match is a Braille learning toy for visually impaired children with multi-disabilities to have an interesting exposure to Braille literacy and functional skills learning for independence. The design aims to bring dignity, comfort, support and a quality of life experience for visually impaired children to enjoy equal rights and opportunity.
Designed by: Mandy Shuk-Man Lau / Monash University
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Sustainable Sanitary Pad
In rural Uganda as in many other challenged countries, drop out rates for girls in school reaches 40%, in great part due to the lack of access to affordable and effective sanitary products. This product addresses the issues of cost by being designed in a way that uses local available materials, skills, hygiene, and comfort by offering a hybrid design: a reusable and washable waterproof envelope, which can be stuffed with disposable toilet paper or reusable washable cloth, giving the girls optio
Designed by: Diana Sierra
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Balde a Balde: Safe Agua
Balde a Balde (Spanish for "Bucket to Bucket") is a portable faucet that delivers a flow of water from any container. It makes the convenience and health benefits of running water available to the 46% of the global population living without it.
Designed by: Kim Chow / Designmatters at Art Center College of Design
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Care Trade / Smart Touch
Smart Touch is a blood glucose monitor for insulin dependent diabetics. The device is designed to be integrated into an object that everyone has with them all the time anyway--their phone--and uses the phone's own camera to analyze a sample. In combination with the Smart Touch App, Smart Touch can replace the current blood glucose monitor machine, and it has all the stuff in one. It is a cell phone casing which has four test strips and needles inside. Moreover, when using the Smart Touch to take
Designed by: Ho-Tzu Cheng, Luc Fusaro, Kevin Bickham & Ruby Steel / Royal College of Art
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Ali'I Ekolu
The design solution was reached by keeping the construction of the shoe simple, the materials used raw, and the design as "native" to the ancient Hawaiian lifestyle as possible.
Designed by: Bill Worthington
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Interactive Fashion INTIMACY 2.0
INTIMACY is a fashion project exploring the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high-tech garments are made out of opaque smart e-foils that become increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people. Here social interactions determine how transparent you want to be, creating a sensual play of disclosure.
Designed by: Daan Roosegaarde with Studio Roosegaarde
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N12.bikini
The N12 is a 3D-printed bikini and textile system. It is the world's first 3D-printed ready-to-wear item of clothing.
Designed by: Mary Huang & Jenna Fizel / Continuum Fashion
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Landscape Blanket
Landscape linen aims to change the sickness experience. Able to be used at home or in the hospital, it incorporates distraction, humour and social interaction to positively impact the wellbeing of the patient and their visitors. Fashioned from soft, naturally-dyed bamboo fleece the blanket begins blank and over time and participation a unique, colorful landscape begins to form on its surface enveloping the patient with traces of well wishes.
Designed by: Jo Szczepanska
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Strong Arm Lifting Safety Garment
The Strong Arm is a device that makes lifting packages and materials easier and safer. Designed for materials handlers, the ergonomically designed Strong Arm reduces risk and fatigue when lifting materials at a factory, delivering packages or carrying a variety of loads.
Designed by: Sean Petterson / Rochester Institute of Technology
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A Place For My Stuff
This is a functional laptop bag for young professionals, for use while riding public transportation. The bag opens to provide a safe and secure working platform. The bag lid stays vertical and protects the laptop from swinging backpacks, etc. in crowded situations. There is a gap between functional laptop bags and classical high quality fashion bags on the market today. This design bridges that gap.
Designed by: Jonas Kristiansson / Art Center College of Design
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Elefanti
Elefanti is children's furniture that has double functions; a round play mat made of felt that can also be folded into an elephant-shaped basket. It is designed to fit in an environment where there are both adults and children, such as a living room and it fulfills both parties' values.
Designed by: Yue Xin / School of Design and Crafts University of Gothenburg
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R-Mano glove
R-Mano is an orthopaedic glove that allows the user to secure an object to his hand, maintaining prehension during an activity. Specially designed for people with hand disabilities, the glove's grip is ensured by a strap system that ties to the back of the hand. The system adjusts to different objects' sizes, providing the user with an adaptable and very accurate fit.
Designed by: Hugo Messier / University of Montreal
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SAP
SAP is a compression bandage for military use, with a textile that has integrated super absorbent polymers with rich swell qualities. The blood that is lost during an injury is absorbed and the expansion provides accurate pressure on a wound, to stop bleeding.
Designed by: Chris Gruijters / Industrial Design at University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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VEE Bag
This product is a reusable modern bag with style and elegance. It is a highly versatile, highly functional and highly durable bag that serves a wide array of specific purposes.
Designed by: Zara Dramov / California College of the Arts
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Allayant – A shirt with built-in back support for paramedics
Allayant is a paramedic uniform with a built-in adjustable artificial spine (spring) for back support. As the EMT bends over to lift, the back brace automatically adjusts, assisting the EMT in tightening their lower back muscles. With this built in back brace, EMTs can safely lift and transport patients and other heavy loads.
Designed by: Leonardo Ochoa / Art Center College of Design
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Rooster
Rooster is the wearable amplifier bag suitable for street performers seeking for sleek, comfortable touch of sound. The speaker flap could be opened or closed by coated nylon depending on the user's preference, and the bag strap is also the guitar strap as well.
Designed by: Henry Wu & Yanika Tinaphongs / California College of the Arts
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Whaletale (Student Winner)
Whaletale is a compact fashionable traveling mat that provides comfortable and relaxing waiting experience at airports for family travelers. It is a traveling accessory that attaches onto any carry-on luggage that unfolds into a semi-private space providing a comfortable seating for a parent and sanitary play environment for children.
Designed by: Daye Kim / California College of the Arts
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Maxi-Cosi Pria 70 (Winner)
The Maxi-Cosi Pria70 is a child restraint system (car seat) for infants and toddlers (4lbs-70lbs). The seat can be positioned both rear facing for young children and forward facing for older children. The seat incorporates side impact protection with air cushion technology and features the Tiny Fit system, a specially designed removable insert for small children.
Designed by: ram
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Future Visions for Synthetic Biology
The emerging field of synthetic biology enables the creation of living designs through science. Two concept designs explore and provoke dialogue about the future: 1) personal microbial culture and 2) packaging that creates its own contents.
Designed by: IDEO & University of California San Francisco Lim Lab
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Sandbox
Sandbox is a project that explores how to draw inspiration from a common material and geometric forms. One geometrical creation became the inspiration for a new take on the aesthetic and functionality of a table.
Designed by: Alex Rochat
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Chromatic Typewriter
The Chromatic Typewriter is a conceptual art piece consisting of a modified late-1930's Underwood typewriter that types a spectrum of colors, rather than the letters of an alphabet.
Designed by: Tyree Callahan
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Urbanflow Helsinki
Urbanflow Helsinki is a concept and a piece of design fiction on an interactive, situated service for urban screens and connected devices. The project also worked as a testbed for a larger set of ideas how to make a system like this reality in Helsinki and other cities around the world.
Designed by: Nordkapp, Urbanscale LLC
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Window to the World (Winner)
This concept re-defines the relationship between passengers in a vehicle and the world around it by transforming the vehicle's windows into an interactive interface. The concepts generated in this project aimed to re-define human-nature relationship in the context of near future mobility, expose Europeans to Japanese values and culture and use this experience to trigger emotions.
Designed by: Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design & Toyota Motor Europe/Kansei Design
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No Right Brain Left Behind
No Right Brain Left Behind was a 7 day innovation challenge asking the creative industries of U.S. to re-think education and challenge the creativity crisis in schools. We challenged design shops, ad agencies, innovation companies, art schools and beyond to participate. In 7 days, we received 300 concepts from 150 teams nationally. The winning idea from BBDO Chicago is currently in pre-production.
Designed by: No Right Brain Left Behind / Stopp Inc.
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Redesign of the UK Emergency Ambulance
The Redesign of the UK Emergency Ambulance aims to improve the patient experience and enhance clinical efficiency by providing a better treatment space with improved equipment and technology.
Designed by: Helen Hamlyn / Centre for Design, Royal College of Art
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UNICEF Project Mwana
Project Mwana consists of a mobile service that delivers HIV lab results in real time to rural clinics and a messaging platform between clinics and Community Health Workers to ensure the results are communicated directly to mothers. It has reduced the time to deliver critical information from four weeks to a few minutes. Project Mwana is now serving as a demonstration project for a new approach to collaborative design to enhance the use of real-time data within UNICEF.
Designed by: frog
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frogMob: Crowdsourcing Platform for Global
frogMob is a website and mobile app that taps into an active global network of designers, students and enthusiasts who capture stories, images and insights from around the world. It provides designers unique material early in the design process, in an innovative, rapid and cost-effective manner. It is a unique mechanism for bringing local knowledge to global companies while challenging stereotypes in the early stage of problem definition.
Designed by: frog
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Designing Out Medical Error
Designing Out Medical Error is a three-year multidisciplinary research and design project. A team of designers, clinicians, psychologists and patient safety experts was brought together to look at the problem of medical error on elective surgical wards. The aim was to understand common healthcare processes, where they fail, and identify where design can intervene to reduce errors. These have been clinically trialled and one output is now in use in the UK.
Designed by: Helen Hamlyn / Centre for Design, Royal College of Art
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GE User Experience Strategy and Capacity Building (Winner)
This is a strategy for increasing GE's capability to engage in user-centered design and deliver superior software user experiences across all of its businesses. The strategy was developed and communicated over the course of 11 months through a broad range of tools and activities that engaged stakeholders throughout the organization.
Designed by: frog
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E-Z Rise Walker for Senior Citizens
The E-Z RISE walker is a medical walker for senior citizens. It addresses the key issues that seniors face when attempting to stand up and get out of their seat. The EZ-RISE walker uses simple ergonomic touch points as well as leverage to provide a safe and effective way for senior citizens to stand.
Designed by: Mike Seskauskas / University of Illinois at Chicago
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KPCC+
KPCC+ is a systematic, multi-pronged growth strategy intended to increase listenership and maintain a long term competitive advantage through multiple components.
Designed by: Art Center College of Design Grad ID & the Drucker Graduate School of Management
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Reach & Match
Reach & Match is a Braille learning toy for visually impaired children with multi-disabilities to have an interesting exposure to Braille literacy and functional skills learning for independence. The design aims to bring dignity, comfort, support and a quality of life experience for visually impaired children to enjoy equal rights and opportunity.
Designed by: Mandy Shuk-Man Lau / Monash University
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Ento - The Art of Eating Insects
We wanted to see how design could facilitate the introduction of insects into the western diet. It's not just about introducing a new food, it's about understanding human perceptions and psychology, then using the design of innovative experiences and strategic thinking to drive cultural change and challenge the our cultural taboo.
Designed by: Team Ento / Royal College of Art & Imperial College London
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Core77 Design Awards Defining patient-centered design opportunities in stereotactic breast biopsy (Student Winner) Getting diagnosed with breast cancer can be a traumatic experience. In this research and design project, ethnographic methods were used to define opportunities for improving the delivery of care in one particularly difficult diagnostic procedure--stereotactic biopsy. These solutions work in harmony to facilitate less traumatic diagnostic experiences, enabling patients to begin the journey through breast cancer with as positive an outlook as possible.
Designed by: Charlotte Lux / University of Notre Dame
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BRD RedShift electric motorcycle
BRD set out to build an electric vehicle with appeal beyond environmentalists and early adopters, to skeptics who have every reason to reject electric drivetrains. The RedShift electric motocrosser is the first production electric vehicle to outperform the gas equivalents on their own turf, and has garnered rave reviews from an industry renowned for its love of noise and smoke.
Designed by: Jeff Sand, CDO / BRD Motorcycles
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Prius x Parlee
The project is a collaboration between Toyota Prius Projects, Parlee Cycles, and Deep Local. The resulting working concept is the world's first thought shifting bicycle. Parlee produced a specially designed Aero-Road Bicycle for the project that was designed to integrate the neural hardware/ software developed by Deep Local.
Designed by: Bob Parlee & Parlee Cycles
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Faraday Electric Bicycle
The Faraday is a vision of the ultimate utility bicycle for all--a beautiful, everyday vehicle that works whether one is seeking a healthier commute, transporting one's child to school, or carrying boxes 20 miles in the dark. The innovative design combines the functionality of a cargo bike with the power of an electric bike and seamlessly integrates all electronics into the frame.
Designed by: IDEO & Rock Lobster
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Airstream Sterling travel trailer
The Airstream Sterling travel trailer's design features an all new interior comprised of aluminum casework, vibrantly colored flooring, and minimalist upholstered furniture, all in innovative floor plans previously developed in his more than 12 year collaboration with Airstream.
Designed by: Christopher C. Deam
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Revolights Bike Lighting System (Winner)
The Revolights bike lighting system consists of two narrow rings of LEDs that mount directly to each bike wheel using a series of rim-specific clips. The spoke/rim/wheel mounted design enables 360 degree visibility to shared road traffic, while also illuminating the rider's forward path.
Designed by: Kent Frankovich & Revolights
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Airship Sunrise
Generating lift and thrust only by solar irradiance; Sunrise is a thermal airship designed to accomplish aerial missions based on low speeds and long flight duration; such as: patrolling, filming, observations, expeditions and recreational usage.
Designed by: Metin Kaplan / Umea Institute of Design Sweden
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Efficiency Truck
The Supertruck was a sponsored Project by Freightliner Trucks, where the creators got input from designers and engineers from DTNA (Daimler Trucks of North America) about aerodynamic efficiency, as well as lightweight materials to design a new efficiency Truck, which would set a new standard in tomorrows Trucking market.
Designed by: Daimler Trucks of North America / College For Creative Studies
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Flycat
FlyCat is a folding catamaran boat that can be stored at home, load onto a car and sail in any type of water. The boat is made of carbon fiber for lightness and strength and take approx. 15 min to assembly and can hold up to 4 persons.
Designed by: Alon Blumenzweig / Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
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Gig Pack
The Gig Pack is a scooter backpack for daily use. Its portability allows it to be used whenever needed. Unlike conventional folding bikes and scooters, it can be carried on the back, allowing the user to have both hands free. It's perfect for college students, people who live in big cities and users of public transportation.
Designed by: Gustavo Brenck / Universidade FUMEC
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LifeCycle
Lifecycle is a bike kit designed for Northern Uganda emergency transit. It quickly connects two normal bikes and turns them into an emergency transport vehicle. The project was created for "Design for UNICEF", a course at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Designed by: Team Wind / NYU - Interactive Telecommunications Program
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Triton
Triton is a product designed to promote a more efficient container handling in harbors worldwide. It is a small unit that replaces the existing seal, which is attached on the front of every container in the world. The unit has two functions: 1) Logs every geographic location as well as sudden rough movements, which will be accessible for the client when container is received and 2) Improves the handling for customs at any harbor, since everything is done electronically.
Designed by: Phillip Bodum / Parsons School for Design
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Waterline Marine Spearfishing Watercraft
Waterline Marine Spearfishing watercraft simultaneously integrates the ease of entry and exit to the craft with the appropriate spearfishing equipment storage, making the process of spearfishing easier and more enjoyable. It transports up to 5 persons and offers optimum stability at rest due to the catamaran hull. The shallow draft of the hull allows access hard to reach dive locations.
Designed by: Andre Heller
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UMV - Urban Mail Vehicle
The UMV Urban Mail Vehicle is a urban delivery vehicle for Posten, the national mail service of Sweden. It's designed for the restructured service environment of 2015, and the harsh Swedish cold, weather and darkness. UMV is distinguished by its complete adaptability and its reduced footprint also allows increased manoeuvrability.
Designed by: Alastair Warren / Umea Institute of Design
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Shavit - Electronic Adjustable Superbike (Student Winner)
Shavit is basically a road sport bike (superbike), with an adjustable riding position system, which allows it to turn into an everyday tourer/urban motorcycle, without sacrificing its basic sportbike character, by changing the riding position geometry and basic bike ergonomic. Its structure creates a sharp and aggressive superbike icon, that would talk to superbike riders' hearts, which are rather conservative by taste and acceptance of new technologies which change the familiar visualisations o
Designed by: Eyal Melnick / Shenkar College of Design and Engineering, Israel
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7TV rebranding
The rebranding was intended to strengthen 7TV's new image as a Do It Yourself channel. One that promotes health, education and general knowledge about how to better yourself. To emphasize an honest and human approach, all on-screen elements were made and animated by hand.
Designed by: Greg Barth
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From Farm to Fork - A Green Summit
Creating an overall identity for a yearly green conference, held by the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce. Amore created all printed material for the event including a new logotype.
Designed by: Amore
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Know Your Lines
Know Your Lines goes behind the scenes of the largely invisible redistricting process in which politicians often get to choose their voters, instead of the other way around. Who's actually drawing the lines? What does the shape of a district mean? What does a good redistricting process look like?
Designed by: The Center for Urban Pedagogy
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The Sexperience 1000
The Sexperience 1000 is an interactive data visualiser that shows the sexual behaviours and preferences of one thousand British individuals, representative of the nation. It concisely illustrates many different aspects of our sexual lives from an overall, big picture perspective while allowing you to close in to each individual.
Designed by: Mint Digital
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Visual identity for Valeur Absolue brand
The objective was to create a visual identity for the Swiss Fine Fragrances and Cosmetics company Valeur Absolue, that would invigorate the Fine Fragrances market.
Designed by: Casa Rex
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Warren and Mahoney Website
Warren and Mahoney's website was aging, so they sought a new brand and website to help them to expand on existing partnerships, highlight key projects, tell staff stories and build the internal culture across the multiple offices.
Designed by: Alt Group
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W.K. Kellogg Foundation 2011 Annual Report
An annual report that uses editorial language and form to capture the progress of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, one of the largest private philanthropic foundations in the U.S., dedicated to helping vulnerable children through engagement with communities.
Designed by: Otherwise Incorporated
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Folk Culture Exhibition Graphics 'Flower of Salt'
Poster, banners, and invitations for the special exhibition in the National Folk Museum of Korea, presented all about salt; from how to make salt to how it influenced the human lives.
Designed by: Jaemin Lee & Woogyung Geel / studio fnt
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Posters in Amsterdam
Postersinamsterdam.com is a website showing a growing collection of posters that are and were displayed in the city of Amsterdam from 2002 till the present. Currently containing more than 3000 posters, it forms an inspirational design source for designers worldwide.
Designed by: Jarr Geerligs
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Graphic Design: Now in Production catalogue (Winner)
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition "Graphic Design: Now in Production" and surveys the vibrant landscape of graphic designers who have seized the means of production and are rewriting the nature of contemporary design practice.
Designed by: Walker Art Center design studio
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How would you handle the challenge?
This project is an advertising campaign to raise awareness that teens get arthritis. It targets peers of these teens so that they can be proactive when confronted with the disease.
Designed by: Lisa Martin & Natasha Godetz / Massey University College of Creative Arts
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Science & Art Symposium
This is a week long Science and Art symposium held in Pasadena. The symposium connects professionals from science and art to investigate new aesthetic possibilities at the intersection of art, science and engineering.
Designed by: Stanley Chen
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Type Fluid Experiment
Type fluid was an experimentation with typography, inspired by cool fluid bursts and movements. It was an exploration of how letterforms could be created using fluids and liquids, and frozen in time just as it is on its way to create some beautiful splashes as it hits the surface.
Designed by: Skyrill
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Walking on Jong-ro with Mr. Gubo
"Walking on Jong-ro with Mr. Gubo" was started based on "A day of a novelist Mr. Gubo" written by a novelist Park, Taewon in 1934 and rewritten by Choi, InHun in 1969 and again by Ju, InSeok in 1990 in the background of those each time. The same background was used for three novels and paying attention to places within the novel and changes of emotion.
Designed by: Sung, Jungyeon / Korea Tech
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Another Singularity
This is an exhibition poster for Antony Gormley, a British fine artist, who has made sculpture that explores the relation of the human body to space at large-scale installations. He uses his body as a medium. This is an exhibition poster where the body structure is composed of his artist statement.
Designed by: Yerina Cha
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OMG SPACE
OMG SPACE is a project of infographics, detailing humankind's physical exploration of space. In the last century, mankind has been sending hundreds of probes out to finally explore space physically; this set of posters illustrate these accomplishments.
Designed by: Margot Trudell / OCAD University
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The New Design Smell (Student Winner)
That New Design Smell is a design criticism magazine based on dialogue rather than monologue. It experiments with open content production where criticism engages an active online public at thatnewdesignsmell.net and then the dialogue is edited into a printed magazine.
Designed by: Michele Champagne / Sandberg Institute Amsterdam, Design Department
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Monster Soup--Making the Invisible Visible
The text is about the analogies between the caricature "Monster Soup" by William Heath, published in 1828 and a printed version of the ‘State-Trojan' in a German newspaper in 2011. Though seemingly two different subjects, both publications reveal a serious threat of their times by making something invisible visible.
Designed by: Florian Alexander Schmidt / Royal College of Art
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Dancing What You Can't See
This essay explores the current function and potential of dance notation systems. As complex systems of documenting ballet, most dance notation is unreadable, even to the professional ballerinas who perform the parts. The piece bridges an academic tone with personal anecdote. It employs footnotes and images to convey the notation's nuance and complexity.
Designed by: Sarah Handelman
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The Intertwining--Bodies and Spaces in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dirty War (Winner)
Since Argentina's Dirty War, artists and activists have taken bold steps to reclaim memory and public space, proving that to remember is to resist, and to resist is to remember. This persistent connection between bodies and space over the last 35 years has enabled a resistant sensory politics of the "disappeared" to thrive in contemporary art and memorials. This essay applies a phenomenological and visual analysis to the Monument to the Victims of State Terror at Memory Park in Buenos Aires.
Designed by: Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa / California College of the Arts
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Wrapping up our second year, the Core77 Design Awards is proud to honor over 200 award-winning design innovations from around the world. Representing 17 categories of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and the brilliance of its practitioners by encouraging designers, researchers and writers a unique opportunity to communicate the intent, rigor and passion behind their efforts.
A truly global effort, the Core77 Design Awards would not be possible without the insight and participation of our international juries. Representing 13 cities in 8 countries, the results of the 2012 Awards program encompass the perspectives of 74 outstanding jury members who shared their thoughts, directly with you, in our live jury announcements. From Paris to Pretoria, Chicago to Changsha, the Core77 Design Awards is truly a current reflection on the global state of design.
For a quick look at this year's program, we have a full gallery of the 2012 awardees. For more in-depth analysis, go to Core77DesignAwards.com
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Core77 Photo Gallery: Designing 007 - Fifty Years of Bond Style
Paying tribute to 50 years of Bond films, London's Barbican showcases a huge selection of costumes, props, gadgets and design drawings from Sean Connery's 1962 debut as 007 in Dr No to this year's Skyfall.
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Core77 Photo Gallery: Farnborough International Airshow 2012
Every second year the aviation industry and aircraft enthusiasts converge at the world's most iconic airshow in South East England. The aerospace sector dominated this year with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo making it's European debut.
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Core77 Photo Gallery: Show RCA 2012
This year's annual summer show took place simultaneously in six buildings across the college's two campuses in Battersea and Kensington with projects exploring everything from subversion, to social impact, and engineering research.
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Core77 Photo Gallery: Metal Molding in the South of Brazil
New York-based designer and educator Anna Rabinowicz toured metal factories in the south of Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) to research sand casting, vertical die casting, and horizontal cold-chamber die casting.
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