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Fake Dior shoes, purses made of frogs, USB-Sticks that look like fruits, cheap rocks made of plastic...welcome to the world of design mistakes from the "Bad Taste Exhibition" at the Museum of Things in Berlin. 100 years ago, Gustav E. Pazaurek started a so called "Cabinet of Bad Taste" ...
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As part of this year's Ultimate Gift Guide, we'll be featuring some of our favorite righteous gifts in the blog. Above, find the lovable Lego Community Workers Set. They've got playability, and just enough of that social participation flavor designers have grown to love!
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Stephen Bayley, design critic for The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, refers to his home's garden as "a space where we can sit with a book and a glass of wine," an attitude that I appreciate but might interfere with the clarity of any future book reviews. Fortunately, lacking ...
Gaming
Today is the deadline if you want to throw your hat into the ring (midnight tonight EST). Here's the pitch:
Love to read Core77? Wanna write for us? Core77 is looking for bloggers who are obsessive but critical design hounds, quick with the pen and diligent about what they offer to our ...
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That's right, Stockholm! The Designers Accord Town Hall Meeting is making its debut on the other side of the Atlantic on December 10th, hosted by The Swedish Association of Designers at Ecoteque in Stockholm, which also happens to be the very first European Green Capital . Please note that ...
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Core-fave Nicolas Roope, the CEO of both Poke London (a leading interactive design firm) and Hulger (an innovative product design company) is featured on the new series of design interviews put together by Andy Polaine and the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales ...
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In English, Husmus means "house mouse." It's also the name of a new recycling bin system by We Muungano (who had a part in the PeePoo Bag ), named for the abstract mouse face created by the rivets and handles on the front of the container.
In addition to being cute, the bins are sized in ...
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Senior Designer The New School New York City
The New School Communications and External Affairs (CEA) department is the university's in-house publicity, promotion, writing, design and web facility. CEA seeks an experienced, personable, and inventive senior interactive & print designer ...
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Even though I've been practicing interaction design for most of my career, it is my industrial design experience that has enabled me to straddle the worlds of both hardware and software. Over the years I've seen interaction design thrive while the industrial design profession has gone into ...
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The Designer's Accord Global Summit on Sustainability & Education held October 23rd & 24th in San Francisco, marked an important step forward for the sustainable design movement. For two days a high-powered group of about 100 designers, educators, writers, business strategists, ...
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It's only 11 inches wide when closed, but the new Kohjinsha DZ laptop unfurls two 10.1-inch screens side by side, giving you an absurd amount of screen real estate.
The sub-$1,000 device is the first mass-market dual-screen laptop, and while it has obvious applications for ...
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Launching tomorrow: Something like Play-Doh for industrial designers, Sugru is a modeling-clay-like silicone that can be used for everything from molding ergonomic grips to repairing leaky sneakers. Once removed from its packaging, it can be molded for a 30-minute period, and it then cures ...
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Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A; (London, UK) showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers ...
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A bite-sized list of what's happenin' now:
alice rawsthorn @ ny times
The current state of the Dutch design scene
dexigner
New book "Showcasing the best packaging design from around the world"
herald palladium
Is your car styled or designed?
design taxi
Tokyo Opera City ...
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A quick reminder that if you're in New York City tomorrow night, be sure to stop by the Nau pop-up store for a night of GOODness. Speakers include Center for Urban Pedagogy's John Mangin & Glen Cummings, desigNYC, Karin Fong from Imaginary Forces, Robert Sherman & Gideon D'Arcangelo from ...
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We've just pulled the switch on this year's Core77 Ultimate Gift Guide: 77 Righteous Gifts Under $77 From Core77 . As the title proclaims, we've focused this year's guide exclusively on the righteous— from great philanthropies and progressive social impact projects, to books, ...
Gadgets
Having a tiny kitchen myself, I'm all for food-prep tools that take up less space; and while stacking measuring cups are nothing new, William Kang's Adjustable Measuring Cup does them one better, as it's a singular device that the user can "dial in" a variety of measurements on.
For ...
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"For its weight, spider silk is stronger than steel, but--unlike steel--it can stretch up to 40% of its normal length," reports the American Museum of Natural History .
Scientists are trying to produce this intriguing material artificially on a large scale for possible uses on the ...
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Swedish artist Tomas Redigh's nutty "Rymdreglage" project took 1,500 hours and God knows how many Lego pieces. Is stop-motion animation any easier when you have a predetermined grid the pieces can move along? Doesn't seem so to us, but you be the judge:
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Engadget's picked up on ID student Erin Fong's Nova DSLR camera concept, designed to let shutterbugs get a handle on their photography in a novel way. After studying how people hold cameras in the field, Fong devised a solution with dual swiveling handles that can be used with one hand or ...
