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March 30, 2006
Breaking the mould
Arik Levy's love affair with materials and rapid protoyping has produced an open ended brief where any form is possible - breaking the mold
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March 29, 2006
40 Bond
Ian Schrager's 40 Bond st, New York cool luxury loft living - designed in collaboration with Swiss starchitects Herzog & de Meuron
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Innermost
Some good furniture/object/product design from the UK - Innermost
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The basic principles of chess
If you have played chess before but have found the more advanced stages a little too confusing, then this article can give you an insight into the basic principles behind controlling th board.
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Kyouei Co.,Ltd.
Some great designs from Japanese designer Kouichi Okamoto at Kyouei
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March 27, 2006
Who's building the next web?
Newsweek look at Web 2.0
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Elbe Philharmonic
Hamburg's new cultural landmark for the Elbe Philharmonic. Designed by Swiss star architects Herzog & de Meuron
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PS1
Canopy design by nArchitects a Los Angeles firm founded by Hernan Diaz Alonso - a small step off the computer and into real space
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Nuclear Nightmares
Photographs by Robert Noth, looking at the impact the Chernobyl nuclear disaster had on the people who lived in the region - Nuclear Nightmares
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March 23, 2006
Management at Work
Two different ways to look at managing your staff. The google way or the Despair way
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25 Best free fonts
25 best free fonts - a good selection made by Vitaly Friedman
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ldesign
Furniture, lighting and product design - ldesign
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March 21, 2006
Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows
To make you feel more like you are living on reality TV, Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows
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March 20, 2006
Ambient Frankfurt 2006
Some good images from Ambient Frankfurt Housewares show 2006
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Linotype FontExplorer
Linotype have just released their new free font management tool FontExplorer
via AustralianinFront
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Beautiful Losers
Just finished yesterday Beautiful Losers - contemporary art and street culture
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March 17, 2006
Drawing Restraint 9
Matthew Barney and Bjork in Drawing Restraint 9
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iTunes smart playlists
Andy Budd has a good set of smart playlist ideas for iTunes
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The secret language of Jeans
Slate look at the cult of back pocket scanning
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If Apple had listened...
If Apple had listened to their customers the iPod would never have been invented... a funny look at some of the comments made by the Apple faithful straight after the iPod was released.
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The elements of Style Manuals
A very good insight into Style Manuals
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The logos of web 2.0
If you are developing a new online application and you're needing some help with visually defining your brand - then check out Font Shops 'The Logos of Web 2.0'
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March 14, 2006
BioWall
A hand woven three dimensional structure made from springy fiberglass rods, bowed into rings and woven into dodecahedra - BioWall
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Flocks
Christien Meindertsma launches her new label 'Flocks' - an interesting concept where wool is the key ingredient - via reluct
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Public Space
What do you do when someone paints over your graffiti? Go back and paint over their advertising - competing for public space
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March 13, 2006
Vitra Headline
The Vitra Headline - a new comfortable office chair
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Vinyl Wall decals
Beearo sell some interesting wall adhesive decals while walltattoo design specifically for your wall and paint directly onto the surface
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March 10, 2006
10 megapixel camera phone
Samsung have shown off a 10 megapixel camera phone at CeBIT.
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Why Youth Heart MySpace
An interesting look at the MySpace phenomenon - Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace
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A practical guide to web typography
A valuable resource for getting the most out of typography on the internet
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3D rendered furniture
Winners from the 2005 International photoreal furniture competition
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Eva Solo
Well designed products from Eva Solo
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Industreal
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Visual Dictionary
If typography is your thing you may enjoy signage a little more than most - The Visual Dictionary
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Handmade
A new online marketplace for handmade goods from all over the world - Etsy
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Apple's new subscription service
Apple has added a new way to obtain television programmes from it's iTunes music store - subscription. Fans of 'The Daily Show' will be able to buy the next month's series of 16 new episodes via Multi-Pass for $9.99, or to pay $1.99 per episode. Broadcast television is looking old.
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Office cubicles
Bob Prost, designer for Hermann Miller and the person behind the office cubicle has come out as a critic of his own idea - cubicles: the great mistake
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March 07, 2006
Spore
New simulation game called 'Spore'
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Manufacturing
How everyday things are made - an online presentation from Stanford University that looks at how some of todays products such as Jelly Beans, Denim and Airplanes are produced.
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March 06, 2006
Pencil and Pad
An interesting Pad and Pencil design
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Product Placement Awards
Brand channel look at some of the best examples of product placement for 2005
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March 02, 2006
Rod Graves planner
An interesting daily planner design from communication designer Rod Graves via core77
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Miuccia Prada
Suzy Menkes from the IHT takes a good look at the fashion designer's designer - Miuccia Prada 'The Mistress of us all'
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Kashpoint
London fringe electro club Klashpoint has been seen to birth a resurgence in a new art/fashion/music movement that strives to abandon the vintage and embrace the futuristic
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Wikipedia on your iPod
Download and Install wikipedia on your iPod - Encyclopodia
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March 01, 2006
Masamichi Katayama & Wonderwall
Interior designer Masamichi Katayama and his company Wonderwall have done some interesting work for the BAPE boutique in AOYAMA, Japan
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Artists and Cars
Interactive artist Joshua Davis works with BMW and Mazda work with Quicksilver in new ways to help broaden their brand appeal
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The Persistence of the Exotic Menial
Michael Bierut for Design Observer, looks at the current role of the 'graphic designer' within corporate society - menial labour with an exotic twist
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