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January 31, 2006
Elegant wind power
Quiet Revolution have come up with an elegant answer to lowering carbon production - via treehugger
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B&B Italia buys moooi
Furniture powerhouse B&B Italia has purchased the fresh, energetic Dutch design group moooi
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Nam June Paik
One of the great video artists of the 20th century, Nam June Paik has passed away at his Miami home at 8:00pm EST on Sunday, January 29th, 2006.
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Bubble 2.0
There is another tech wave brewing and Wired magazine think this one isn't a bubble. Publishing 2.0 see this wave as a bubble that could destroy the business models used within the media industry causing chaos and a mess bigger than bubble 1.0
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January 30, 2006
Flexi Tube shelving system
Kisskalt Designs have designed a simple yet clever system for shelving - the Flexi Tube shelving system. - via mocoloco
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Absolut drops the bottle
After 25 years and 1,500 versions of print ads built around the shape of its bottle, Absolut vodka is shelving the campaign that made it famous. Absolut vodka has dropped the bottle from it's new $20 million advertising campaign.
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January 23, 2006
McQueen's new diffusion range
Alexander McQueen has just launched his secondary range at
Milan Fashion week. It is called McQ and is described as "younger, edgier and more renegade" than his main collection, taking inspiration from 1960s biker gangs and the rebellious teen spirit of that particular era.
UPDATE: McQ to be given first showing at NY fashion week - article and more photos
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Geraldine Lau
Laser cut adhesive vinyl from Geraldine Lau
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January 20, 2006
Konica-Minolta quits camera business
After more than 103 years, the camera maker Konica-Minolta has decided to call it quits.
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January 19, 2006
What does "Innovation" really mean?
Brianna Sylver over at Core77 looks at the meaning behind 'Innovation'
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Richard Eisermann Interview
Director of Design and Innovation at the UK Design Council, Richard Eisermann is interviewed by Mark Vanderbeeken at Experientia
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2006 Cologne Furniture Fair
Pol Oxygen have a good selection of photographs from this years Cologne Furniture fair. If you speak Dutch, you can get the latest news on the fair from Bright.
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January 18, 2006
iMac intel
Ars Technica review the latest offering from Apple - the iMac with an intel processor
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Disaffected
Persuasive games have released a videogame parody of working in a Kinko’s copy store. Disaffected! puts the player in the role of an employee dealing with customers.
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Image transfers
A good list of techniques used for transferring images from photographs to paper/fabric
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Thumbtack Press
Thumbtack Press have a good selection of prints at reasonable prices
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January 17, 2006
Virtual NYC tour
Using google maps, this website takes you on a tour of New York City
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January 13, 2006
Rainer Mutsch
Austrian Furniture designer Rainer Mutsch
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Adding a google map to your webpage
Google Maps can now be integrated into your webpages using a little bit of HTML knowledge and the Google Maps API key. Exploration Age has the rundown.
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Twelve Facts about the Confucian Consumer
Tom Doctoroff from JWT has compiled "Twelve Facts About the Confucian Consumer" an insight into the Chinese worldview.
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Alannah Hill
Australian Fashion designer Alannah Hill has a new website, designed by Lemonade - via Australianinfront
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January 12, 2006
The Digital home
The Economist takes a good look at how different companies are attempting to set up and control the central media hub within the home - The Digital Home
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Chatsum
An interesting idea; a plugin for a web browser that lets you chat with other people who are on the same webpage as you - Chatsum
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Pimp my Brand
The latest call for entries from the Art Directors Club has Rick Poynor from Eye Magazine and Steven Heller from Voice: AIGA Journal of Design, questioning whether the design suggests that graphic design and branding is a simplistic, exploitative and degrading practice - "One wonders how the judges feel about being associated with a competition presented in this way."
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Adobe Lightroom
Adobe has released (in beta - for free download) their new photography software 'Lightroom', some see it as a competitor to Apple's Aperture.
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January 10, 2006
The Unseen Video
A Flash animation/music video that changes based on where you are and the current temperature - TheUnseenVideo
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News corporation censors MySpace
After it's much publicised purchase of MySpace, News corporation has been made to back down on it's censoring of user posts and blocking access to competitors websites. Subscribers discovered that when they wrote to each other about rival video-swapping site YouTube, the words were automatically deleted, and attempts to download video images from YouTube led to blank screens.
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January 09, 2006
Spaceport design
Virgin Galactic have requested Philippe Starck to draw up designs for their new $225m spaceport to be built in New Mexico (construction begins early in 2007).
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Top fonts for 2005
Typographica look at some of their favourite fonts from 2005
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January 07, 2006
klip//collective
Video installation work - klip//collective
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Click Fraud
Internet advertising has been hailed as the perfect way to target your customers directly - unlike mainstream advertising which tries to sell products and services to people that aren't interested. But what happens when the clicks you are paying for are being made by your competitors, purely so they can use up your advertising budget? Wired looks at Click Fraud in online advertising.
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New Musical Experiences
New technologies have changed the way music is being experienced and discovered. The old systems and structures are changing - this interesting essay looks at what is happening to music and what the future possibly holds for this art form.
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