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August 23, 2004
Language shapes our reality
Science has discovered the reason for it's existence
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August 20, 2004
Wallpaper on the comeback
Since New York's International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) more wallpaper designs are beginning to surface
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August 19, 2004
Gehry designs a car
Frank Gehry has been given the brief to design a car.
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Spiral Jetty returns
Robert Smithsons 'Spiral Jetty' has re-emerged after decades below the surface of Utah's Great Salt Lake.
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What is Design for?
An interesting discussion where Creative Review editor Patrick Burgoyne asked Rick Poynor and Michael Bierut - What is Design for?
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Maverick Scientists
It has been 'discovered' that scientists in Britain that come up with theories that go against the norm, are shunned and forced into isolation by their peers.
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August 18, 2004
Yohji Yamamoto
A well designed fashion site showing off the work that Yohji Yamamoto has done for Adidas
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UN creates a game to tackle hunger
A new game 'Food Force' designed to teach children about world hunger has just been released by the World Food Programme
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Blobjects
Bruce Sterling at Siggraph talks about blobjects, gizmos and splimes - the future is waiting to be distributed.
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Rapid Prototyping
If you are after a list of companies that produce rapid protoyping machines then look no further than this siggraph list
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August 17, 2004
Curse of the shopping mall
Like alien generic forms that suck the life out of cities - the curse of the shopping mall
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Cornerstone garden
A landscape garden festival in California, showcasing new designs from some of the worlds best landscape designers.
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August 16, 2004
Olympukes font
A free pictogram font released by Fontshop and designed by Jonathan Barnbrook and Marcus McCallion just in time for the Olympukes
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August 13, 2004
Home entertainment
Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living room
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What makes a good Blog
A weblog author points out some of the qualities that he bellieves make a good weblog
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Solar Sail
Japan has unfurled the worlds first 'solar sail' - a technology that some see as the tool to open up space travel
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Life Caching
With new technologies, new trends emerge; Life Caching and Generation C are two of these.
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August 10, 2004
Watch Gallery
A nice gallery of some really cool watches and Electronic fabrics- via bb
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The Quantum Sleeper
Feeling scared? or maybe your house has been invaded - then this is the bed for you - the Quantum Sleeper
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Privacy
An interesting transcript from the BBC on what new technologies are being used to track, search and monitor people.
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Excentro
A nice little shareware tool for creating 'Guilloche' designs on your mac. Guilloche is the ornate line drawings that you see in bank notes and other documents that try to make counterfeiting more difficult.
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August 06, 2004
Subversive Sculpture
More sculpture from Banksy - the sculptor who sprayed "Mind the crap" on the steps of the Tate Britain before the Turner Prize ceremony.
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FTA and Copyright
With the possibility of a 'Free' Trade Agreement being signed between Australia and the USA many cultural works will go from being in the public domain to being locked up by America's copyright system.
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SMS home phone
Soon we'll be able to text message to and from our fixed-line phones.
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August 05, 2004
wow-chitecture
When an architect becomes a celebrity due to the creation of a building they can become trapped into reproducing the same style over and over by clients that not only expect, it but demand it.
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Dream machine
Brion Gysin designed the Dream Machine. A tool for lucid dreaming utilised by William S. Burroughs. One is currently being exhibited this week in San Francisco or you could just build one yourself.
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Advergames
Does the growth of online games that advertise products mean more children are being directly influenced to encourage their parents buying decisions?
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Amplified Intelligence
Using technology to enhance intelligence
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guerrilla gigging
Using the Internet, mobiles and Instant messaging, bands are now putting on spontaneous shows for their close fans.
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August 04, 2004
Mobiles and the appropriation of space
Vodafone have an interesting article written by Mizuko Ito on how mobile phones are changing the experience of 'place'
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Gameblog
The Guardian have a new weblog up for console games.
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