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December 23, 2005

Narrowcasting

Mass customisation and niche cultural production are the driving force behind the demise of what has become an antiquated business model. The LA Times looks at the mass media's last blast.

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December 16, 2005

Visualising the stockmarket

An interesting graphical way to view the Nikkei

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Unto this last

Unto this last produces their work on on computer-controlled machines. Each product is made to order, customized for each client, from a selection of sizes, materials and options. This way each item has it's logistics costs reduced considerably.

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The first year: 7 lessons learned

Forty Media look back at their first year in business and discuss what they have learned.

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Mac productivity boosters

Macworld list their top 6 productivity boosting applications

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December 15, 2005

Baby mix me a drink

If you have a small child that needs to be trained to mix you cocktails then these 'story books' might be what you are looking for

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The 'crawl' makes you stupid

Kansas State University researchers have found that the little crawling text that is put at the bottom of news programmes inhibits the retention of facts by up to 10%

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Bochox

Some fun chocolate designs from Christchurch, NZ

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Informing Ourselves to Death

Well known for his knowledge on the way technology plays it's role in culture, Neil Postman has written a number of good books such as 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' (about Television) and 'Technopoly' (the role technology plays with society). Here is the written transcript of a speech he gave to the German Informatics Society in 1990.

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December 12, 2005

Happy Seed

Cute interactive flash animation, move your mouse around and click - Happy Seed

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Google Earth for Mac

Google have released their Beta version of Google Earth for the Mac

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iPod DJ mixer

The Ion iDJ - the world’s first iPod DJ mixing console.

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Domestic

Domestic are a Parisian publishing house set up by Stéphane Aurriubergé and Christine Montard. Domestic aims at producing « design » collections with the particular feature of offering the end user the freedom of participating in the design process. Their vinyl wall decals are worth checking out.

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December 08, 2005

Brian Jungen

Using every day mass produced items of modern society, Brian Jungen creates archeological and anthropological representations that in turn, create a dialogue between the original product and it's new cultural representation - via mocoloco

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Trademarks not Patents

Core77 looks at how 'Value Transference' played it's part in the success of the iPod . An interesting article that looks at the iPod product lifecycle and how the intrinsic value of the iPod's success can be traced back to the 'essence' of the product's design.

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Forbes top Industrial designers

In their current feature of listing the top 'tastemakers' - Forbes are now listing the 10 most influential industrial designers working today

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Modernist dream house

If you have a spare $3 million dollars and would like to live in house designed by E. Stewart Williams (First commission was the Frank Sinatra House) then this house, recently used for a photo shoot with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, should fit the bill.

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December 07, 2005

Sony does it wrong - again

After Sony's PR flop with regards to the 'trojan' it placed on it's music CD's, they have now turned it's target market against them with a graffiti based campaign.

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Zaha Hadid

CBS News profile one of the worlds most famous architects - Zaha Hadid

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Pink washing

As those in the persuasion industry wake up to half the marketplace being women, a rush to 'pinkwash' their retail outlets and products has resulted in some 'Technology stores' desperately attempting to connect. - via popgadget

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Colourize Black and White Photographs

This Windows software, is a great little tool for adding colour to your black and white photographs

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Search Engine Optimization

A beginners guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Designer Gift Guide

If you are looking for a gifts, design*sponge have put together a 'seasonal selection' to look through.

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December 06, 2005

Vivienne Westwood

The Vivienne Westwood retrospective, 35 Years in Fashion is currently showing in Tokyo

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A list of lists

Coming to the end of 2005 everyone is releasing their lists of the top 10,20, 5 etc - here is a list of those lists

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EarThumps

Griffin have just released the EarThumps iPod earbuds, designed for use with the iPod and only $20

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Inexpensive LEDs

LEDs have a life time of 100,000 hours and are being used more and more for interior, exterior and industrial lighting designs. A good cheap resource for LEDs is Xmas lights and this hobby site has all the information on how to extract them from your string of lights.

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December 05, 2005

The Flavour Industry

Excerpt From Eric Schlosser's book 'Fast Food Nation' (Houghton-Mifflin, 2001) - Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good

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Art games

A new genre in digital gaming is developing. Kristine Ploug, gives a good introduction into this new style of game. And here are a good selection of games

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The MySpace Generation

New technologies like instant messaging and the internet have created large communities of connected teenagers (there are 40 million members on MySpace.com) that spend a large amount of their time chatting with each other about what is hot and what isn't. BusinessWeek Online looks at the cultural shift occuring among teenagers and how the business world is diverting it's capital from old media to the new.

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December 02, 2005

Paper Lampshade

origami designer Tomoko Fuse has designed a way of folding your own floor lamp cover from one piece of medium to heavyweight paper (14" x 22")

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December 01, 2005

New Design

Is the new form of 'design' less about designing objects and more one of designing systems for solving problems? The design world is changing and the battle lines have been drawn.

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Arihiro Miyaki

Japanese furniture and product designer Arihiro Miyaki

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Downloading for Dollars

Only 14.2 percent of movie revenue is made at the theatres, while 85.8 percent came from licensing or selling their products for use in the home. Slate looks at the future of Hollywood.