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September 2009 Greetings Design Fans, It's been a great summer here in New York City, and we're all pretty excited to start things off after a final holiday weekend. For September, we've got an enormous amount of design news, features and coverage for you, including Nathan Cooke's gallery from MakerFaire Africa, Aart van Bezooyen's shots from Eurobike 2009, and Veanne Cao's pics from the International Gift Fair. Check out the results from our previous 1 Hour Design Challenge and get in on the new one: The Future of Digital Reading. And to really get your year started, we have been working tirelessly on a huge special for this month— HACK2WORK: Essential Tips for the Design Professional. Filled with hundreds of tips, tricks, lifehacks and advice for practicing designers, the feature covers everything from office supplies to office snacks, from essential books to essential software, and from intellectual property and design research to conferences, working with the press, and creative hiring. Summer's over. Hack 2 Work! Allan Chochinov |
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Hack 2 Work: Essential Tips for the Design Professional After a long and lazy summer, it's time to kick it back into high gear. To help you out, we've worked long and hard to bring you the best tips, tricks, advice and wit from leading experts in design (and, seemingly, lifehacking). We're not kidding—Michael Bierut, Steve Heller, Helen Walters, Jill Singer, Monica Khemsurov, Julie Lasky, Alissa Walker and more are here to help you with everything from winning design competitions to filling your office bookshelves.
One Hour Design Challenge Winners: Ideation Sketches! The results of last month's One Hour Design Challenge are in! Congratulations to Thedinomeister for hitting it all: good quality, good quanitity and just loose enough to have been done in an hour. Congratulations also to honorable mentions to Blaster, Mikeserafin, Bennybtl and Sergiomora. View the winners and discuss all the submissions (from digger trucks to handbags) in the forum.
Coroflot Creative Confab: San Francisco The third installment of the acclaimed Coroflot Creative Employment Confab will take place in San Francsico on October 21st. The event will revolve around a panel discussion between guests John Foster of IDEO, Kate Gilman of 24 Seven, Inc., and Steve Johnson of LinkedIn. Afterwards, get to know your fellow SF creatives at the reception that follows. Bonus: this round of the Creative Confab will feature optional morning workshops, led by experts on both sides of the hiring equation.
Eurobike, the world's leading tradeshow for the bike industry, took place between September 2nd and 5th in Friedrichschafen, Germany. This year, electric bicycles, or e-bikes, were an especially hot topic, appearing en masse alongside the usual lightweight parts, bike gear, and pimped-out accessories. Aart van Bezooyen went trekking onsite, returing with a giant gallery of bike shots... and maybe the BMX trick or two.
"While not exactly summer beach reading, Hartmut Esslinger's new book on Design Strategy, A Fine Line crams as many ideas, themes and disparate story arcs into its 180 pages as a Dan Brown novel. For the first few chapters Esslinger follows the tried and true business book methodology of using real world examples to illustrate lessons in leadership and strategy. For the last three chapters, he begins to apply the design lessons he learned in the corporate world to what he terms "industrial-colonial capitalism" -- the problems of the modern age caused in part by the last century of design strategy. The beginning brims with ideas and scattershot observations about people and companies that occasionally distract from the underlying message, but by the end Esslinger has hit his stride, talking about big ideas applying principles with real insight...."
The inaugural Maker Faire Africa invited makers and entrepreneurs from around the globe to celebrate and showcase African ingenuity on an international stage. Nathan Cooke traveled all the way to Accra, Ghana to witness this, discovering work by makers and artisans from as far as Liberia, Malawi and Uganda. See homemade cassava grinders, water purifiers, irrigators, off-the-grid refrigerators, plastic fashion, and more in this (especially) exciting Core77 gallery!
The 9th Annual Coroflot Salary Survey We're conducting our annual Coroflot Designer Salary Survey for the 9th year running! After you give us some survey love, take a few moments to browse the rich pool of data you've helped us build over the years. Compare what you make with your kindred in other regions, fields, and work environments; look at salary trends over the past decade; see which fields are growing and find out which ones are truly taking off.
New York International Gift Fair 2009 Gallery The New York International Gift Fair, "the premier gift and home accessories market in the U.S.", takes place in New York City every August, with over 2,900 exhibitors and 30,000 buyers traipsing through the Javits Center to see the latest and greatest. Veanne Cao joined them in search of the best tabletop objects, housewares, and accessories for the Core77 galleries.
Book Review: Classic Cars: 100 Years of Automotive Ads, by Jim Heimann and Phil Patton "The collapse of the US auto industry stands as one of the national tragedies of this generation, but it also provides boundless opportunities for ironic reflection when looking through a book like Heimann and Patton's Classic Cars. The first time we opened their book of historic auto ads, it revealed a blue '67 Olds Toronodo, complete with a matador against a red background, framed against the caption, "After you've walked off with all the honors, what do you do for an encore?" Regrettably we've found out. The copy on the back of this coffee table books contrasts the Stone Age and the Bronze Age with the 20th Century -- The Automobile Age. The 20th Century has come to a close, and there's little doubt that the age of the automobile is at an end as well. That said, a hundred year retrospective on any human endeavor reflects not only on the products produced, but upon the values and the cultures that produced them..."
New One Hour Design Challenge: The Future of Digital Reading Core77 has teamed up with Portigal Consulting and 826 Valencia to challenge YOU to design the future of digital reading...in under 60 minutes! TK TK TK |
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