Today Dragon (and alien) car mania-
Nice alien/dragon car from Krasnoyarsk, Russia!
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- Today Hidden Gem: Wayne Electronics
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I just wanted to share a little secret with our readers. There is this great electronics shop in Northern NJ, It's called Wayne Electronics. No, it isn't in Wayne, but rather up rt. 23 a bit in the town of Pompton Plains. They have been in business for 30 years and are willing to share their knowledge of electronics. This isn't an advertisement, I just thought it would be a great resource for all the Makers in NJ.
They carry so many items for the electronics enthusiast, even supplies for etch... (more)
- Today HOW TO - Wasp cake
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Michelle @ CRAFT writes:
Custom cake master, Beth from Cloth and Fodder, created a wasp cake for a friend. She used lemon loaf cake and made toffee wings.
This grosses me out almost as much as the thorax cake I saw on BoingBoing the other day. I think I just thew up in my mouth a little.
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- Yesterday Skeletonizing leaves
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As long as you're still hanging around outside, esprit cabane has an easy tutorial for skeletonizing leaves. (I'd skip the bleach step.)
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- Yesterday OpenMoko - Open source phone
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The open source Linux phone - the Neo FreeRunner fromopenmoko is now on sale... It's open source software (not hardware) to be specific, but they *do* have the CAD files which is a great first step! ... Currently there isn't a 100% opens source phone yet (that I know of). Openmoko, developer of the first open mobile computing platform today announced it will open the online store for purchase of the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner, a mobile device that the company says will help to enable ubiquitous ... (more)
- Yesterday Sew your own aviation goggles
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Patrick Wilson made a template from his father's WWI aviation goggles and made from it generated his own pair. He shares the template and plans below.
Scale drawings of my father's aviation goggles (WW1)
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- Yesterday Patriotic paper pinwheel printouts
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Natalie at CRAFT points out an easy project for kid-friendly patriotic fun.
Just print, cut, fold and fasten - Patriotic pinwheels [via CRAFT:Blog]
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- Yesterday Instructables' BBQ PDQ contest
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In case you didn't know, Instructables has been running a BBQ/grilling contest. Deadline for entry is July 6, so if you want to entry, you'll need to hurry. You can see all of the entries to date at the link below.
BBQ PDQ Contest
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- Yesterday Water balloon slingshot
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Here's a simple but effective design for a water balloon launcher using surgical tubing - Make a wicked cool catapult that shoots water balloons really well without them exploding right away! You can buy water balloon shooters in stores, but they never work well and explode the water balloon as soon as you let go. - Water Balloon Catapult
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- Yesterday HOW TO - Make beer can chicken
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Want to make the best dang chicken you've ever eaten? Try a beer can chicken on the grill. It's pretty simple. You first cover the chicken with your favorite spice rub. I use Steven Raichlen's basic BBQ rub of brown sugar (1/4c), sweet paprika (1/4c), pepper (3tbs), sea salt (3tbs), garlic powder (2tsp), onion powder (2tsp), cayenne pepper (1tsp). Then, you shove a can of beer (you can also use a soda) up the chicken's butt with half of the liquid left inside. Poke extra holes in the top of th... (more)
- Yesterday Laser Tattoo
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We saw too many work safety vids in school to even consider doing something this stupid, but it's kinda hard not to watch.
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- Yesterday 2008 Annual Design Review Winners
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I.D. Magazine's 2008 Annual Design Review winners are published on their website if you haven't had a chance to check out the latest issue. The biggest dilemma for judges this year was whether to acknowledge the iPhone or not; in the end they took a historical perspective and decided it had to be included. Good call!
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- Yesterday Hey, terrorist! Terrorize this!
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This is either China's armed police demonstrating their rapid deployment abilities during an anti-terrorist drill for the Beijing Olympics or athletes training for a new Biathlon event combining the segway with shooting.
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- 3 days Samsung's Green phones
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Today Samsung released their green "Eco-Phone," made of corn-based bioplastics and lacking in harmful lead, mercury and cadmium. They're also Energy-Star-rated, and an alarm feature beeps when the battery's topped off, so you don't leave it plugged in and drawing juice. For now, the Eco-Phones are only available in South Korea.
via akihabara news
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- 3 days 3D CAD News and Tips
- Weekly finds from the 3D world:
Rhino
McNeel Associates releases Grasshopper, a graphical algorithm editor for Rhino that requires no scripting
Inventor
CAD Wars video (in German, but so worth it)
Pro/Engineer
Introduction to SmartAssembly third party scripting tool, for defining templates and UDFs
3D Studio Max
Bend modifier tutorial
SolidWorks
The complete guide to Layout Sketches
Multiple Packages
Google Trends analysis of major 3D CAD companies - results may surprise you
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- 3 days Cool tools: manhole magnet
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If you've ever seen a construction worker hoist a manhole cover open, you know why they're built the way they are. Here to provide some assistance is the Magswitch Manhole Lifter System, an ingenious combination of a simple lever and an on-off magnet; the 23-lb. tool will hoist 400-lb. manholes with no problem. And the price? "Very affordable when compared to the cost of injury," says the manufacturer's website. Wonder if that means it costs an arm and a leg.
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- 3 days Air McFlys
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As more and more design ideas trickle down from the megaplex into our living rooms (and vice versa), futuristic movies become self-fulfilling prophesies. The latest news? Sneakerheads and sci-fi geeks, come together in rejoicing! After years of pestering by concerned fans, Nike has finally dropped the Marty McFly Hyperdunk. Hold on to your hoverboard, this is the shoe from Back to the Future 2 (more or less - no automatic lacing). They're fly alright, but I'm still holding out for the jacket w... (more)
- 3 days Zero Tolerance for Decorative Design, the ±0 Electric Kettle
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Whether you're a minimal purist or stuck in a small apartment with limited counter space, you might want to consider Plus Minus Zero's latest offering, an electric kettle. Bordering on the ordinary, the small cylindrical kettle would look perfect with a coupe of ±0 mugs.
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- 3 days Charles Ogilvie explains the systems in place to create Virgin America experience
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Boing Boing TV gets a peek behind the scenes with Charles Ogilvie at Virgin America. As one of the most service focused airlines, they're about to offer wireless internet, and following the spirit of linux used to run their in-flight entertainment system, they're holding a competition for open source game submissions.
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- 3 days Virtual Shoe Museum
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Didn't prof's always say drawing shoes was like drawing cars? Take a look at the Virtual Shoe Museum for more proof that ID and fashion are closer than ever before. There's a ton of mind-blowing options you can sort through by color, material, use, type....the list is endless. Here's one of our faves, the Agila City Heels, by Luca Stappers for the launch of Opel's new Agila City Car.
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- Book a spot in the Sahara to plant your tree: Tree-Nation
- If you hang out a lot of the web, you probably have heard about the $1 million page. Its principle is dead simple: the page features 1 million pixels and allows you to book your tiny pixel-size ad for $1. Tree-Nation technique is comparable yet with a more citizen spirit. Instead of pixels, you support trees; instead of investing into an individual future fortune, you contribute to re-green desert areas in the Sahara.
“Our objective is two-fold: Primarily environmental, but also closely... (more)
- No walls, reused materials, but a real fitness club
- Green warriors have their green fitness club. Where? In Spain, in Valdespino de Somoza, in the countryside of Leon. It’s there where some Spanish villagers have built a low-tech green gym area called Lumen. Don’t expect to meet steamy trainers, listen to trendy music, or carry heart beat tracker. There, you get in shape by playing with exercise machines made from a worn car battery, tree branches, boots, rocks or concrete.
There, you essentially learn everything by yourself, by re... (more)
- French mailmen to ride electric vehicle
- French mailmen have a new vehicle. La Poste, the French postal service, has ordered 500 electric delivery microcars for this year and 10,000 within the next five years. Great move that we applaud, although the new squad will be a tiny portion of the gigantic fleet of fossil-fuel vehicle. By far to private sector companies, La Poste has around 60.000 vehicles, 25 airplanes and 3 high-speed trains.
Nevertheless, the electric vehicle will bring substantial energy saving. According to La Poste CE... (more)
- Bicodi, a simple and aesthetic stool for your bar
- We could be filed this under “camper knowledge for the living room.” After all, campers sit on any tree branch and when they could find one, they consider a tree trunk as a temporary stool. We were quite like this when we first way the Bicodi stool from the Italian design agency 2CWorkshop. Their bar stool has something from the rather simple camper trick but with a more aesthetic approach.
The Bicodi concept consists of linking a base and a seating with a bar. Many variations can... (more)
- En-Fer: Solid furnitures made from solid gears
- For an explicit name, En-Fer is a good one. The atelier, founded by Swiss designer Stefan Lehner and Christina Lanzos, is only interested in thrown-away steel products like old supermarket carts, worn industrial chains, springs, rings or used tin cans. What for, will you ask. To make new furniture, to make new things from materials that have an history.
Take this spring chair for example. The frame is a classic industrial chair with membrane springs. “Membrane springs are used in conden... (more)
- Once worn, cardboard boxes turn blankets
- This may not the most colorful blanket, but the material used to manufacture it is abundant: worn cardboards. While they are rigid and uncomfortable, those Cardboard Coverings blankets are soft and supple. Plus they’re light enough to be folded and carried easily in a bag.
While the still visible graphics of the original box remind us that they were once disposable containers of consumables, we wish they could be customizable or come with different patterns. This way, they would provide... (more)
- Your carpet, this wool balls piece of art
- Tennis balls aren’t only for tennis games. They can be make a seat. Wool balls aren’t only for knitting purposes. Consider them as ready-made pieces of carpet.
That’s right, Belgium designer Diane Steverlynck brought this nice idea up. Her Modul_le is a flexible carpet made of felted wool balls. Each round unit is independent from the others. To stick them together, just pin them on the velcro layer. What is great in this big puzzle is that everyone could change the pattern ... (more)
- Pump bike tires up with the seatpost
- How to get a bike pump always at hand without attaching it to the bike? Dumb question, isn’t it? Just put one in your bag, will you answer. Okay, but how do you do if you want to carry a bag, if your bag is too small or that your pump is just too big? Ah.
British designer Philip Robinson proposes another way to solve the case: Hide it in the bike itself.
Its BioLogic ZorinPump is a combination of a seat-post and a floor-pump, hiding the pump mechanism inside the seat-post without addin... (more)
- BottleCycler crushes bottles to save space
- Ask Germans what they think of beer in can, they’ll answer you it’s lame. Glass bottles are much better for the aroma, plus they could be recycled easier than white tin and paper brick. Remains this problem: glass bottles are harder to store.
Hopefully, the problem has its solution. Bottle Cycler issued a bottle crusher machine which, according to the Australian company, reduces the disposable volume of your empty bottles by 80% (enough to store some 200 wine bottles). The machine... (more)
- Road ramp generator better than windmill turbines
- “More than 200 local authorities had expressed an interest in ordering the 36,000 euros-ramps to power their traffic lights and road signs,” Peter Hughes said. His order book is full. 2,000 units should be sold next year. He should create 300 jobs in Somerset this year.
But who is Mr. Peter Hughes?
Creator. Mr Hughes is 70-years-old mechanical engineer. He lives in Dorset, UK and has spent ten years of his life as a United Nations adviser on renewable energy. And above all, he in... (more)
- Today Crochet Maneki Neko Pattern
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I love this crochet maneki neko pattern that Kathy of Mountain Weaver Fiber Art Studio has made available on her blog.
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- Today HOW TO - Make Wine Charms
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Crafty Daisies has a giveaway and tutorial on how to make wine charms. This one is great because you'll also learn how to make the actual hoop while also making your own charms using special ink jet shrink film.
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- Today CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
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This week in the CRAFT Flickr Pool we saw:
Soft Guitars
Utz Bag Pocket
Handmade Mary Janes
And here are a few of my favorite shots from the week:
Purple Paisley Paramecium Party
Flat Cow Coaster
Prunus Cerasus Freeform Crochet Necklace
Tape Measure Brooches
Bird Houses with Vintage Papers
Breakfast Face Cushion
George Michael Pillow
Butt Mold
Snails vs Slugs: The Eating Contest 1
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- Yesterday HOW TO - Make Strawberry Yogurt Popsicles
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Make your own summer refreshments with this simple Strawberry Yogurt Popsicle recipe from Apartment Therapy's The Kitchn. via PURPLEPINKANDORANGE.COM.
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- Yesterday Joy Ride Quilted Postcards
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Pink Chalk Studio shares her Joy Ride -- beautiful quilted postcards commemorating a 4th of July road trip! I love all the layers and details in her stitching! Thanks Elaine!
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- Yesterday Calvin & Hobbes Amigurumi
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Craftster user Pretty.Odd created this playful, improvised crocheted Calvin & Hobbes, complete with a little red wagon.
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- Yesterday Handmade Mary Janes
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Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr Pool: Etsy seller netamir (from Tel Aviv) makes these mary jane shoes, and also slippers! They have foam plastic soles and look really comfy.
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DIY Shoes - CRAFT Video Podcast
CRAFT: 07 Preview the Shoe Issue - CRAFT Video Podcast
From the pages of CRAFT: 07:
"Old Sole, New Shoe," by Thomas Maiorana, pgs 92-98. Preview the article now in our Digital Edition.
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- 3 days Sarah McNeil Diorama
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Sarah McNeil made this awesome diorama of a carousel on fire for the cover of a magazine (photo assistance by Tim Anderson). Check out her photostream for other great projects. via Meet Me at Mikes.
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- 3 days Crochet Chess Set
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Softies Central points us to this soft crocheted chess set by Etsy seller CozyColeman. She's offering the pattern as well as the actual crocheted set itself.
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- 3 days HOW TO - Knit a 4th of July Cap
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Petula points us to wards Mary Jane, Midge & Mink's pattern for making this knitted 4th of July cap--it reminds me of Captain America's shield!
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- Zon Hearing Aid
- SKD designs a better hearing aid for Starkey Laboratories... (more)
- The Nylon Backpack, the Nylon Slim, and the Canvas Vertical Sling
- Review of three laptop bags from InCase designs, followed by an interview with designer Tim Wall.... (more)
- KEER chair
- Dutch designer's three-way chair... (more)
- ShakerScope
- Patient inventors bring a self-powered flashlight--no batteries, no power, no problem--to market, with a little design muscle from PDR.... (more)
- Motorola/Clearwire Signal Booster Accessory Antenna
- Elemental8's wi-fi signal booster: simple solution to a complicated design brief... (more)
- Y Water bottle
- Yves Behar and fuseproject's revolutionary water bottle for kids.... (more)
- Enertia Motorcycle
- Oregon-based Brammo Motorsports introduces Enertia, an eco-vehicle that delivers a sleeker option for guilt free transportation. Enertia is a 100% electric motorcycle that is efficient and lightweight. This zero emission bike will appeal to true motor enthusiasts and novices since it is designed from the ground up with the rider in mind... (more)
- BACTRACK Breathalyzer
- David Shaw, Industrial Designer and founder of San Francisco-based Metaform Product Development, has created a unique alcohol breath analyzer called BACTRACK.... (more)
- Flaik
- CMD Product Design and Innovation, a Brisbane-based design and development firm, has a new way for snow sports enthusiast to stay in touch with friends and family while tracking their own performance. Their newest design, Snow Sports Flaik, will change the winter sports experience for all.... (more)
- Preserve Kitchen
- Just as Organic food production is gentler on the environment, making products that reuse and recycle materials leaves a smaller environmental footprint. Two leading proponents of green design team up to create a line of kitchen products that will make a big impact in preserving the planet.... (more)
- Today Jonah Staw, LittleMissMatched
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Jonah Staw, co-founder and CEO of LittleMissMatched, heads-up a lifestyle brand that is based on “innovative and creative mixing and mismatching.” LittleMissMatched launched in 2004 with a collection of mismatched socks sold in odd numbers to encourage girls of all ages to express themselves. The “nothing matches but anything goes” philosophy knocked people’s socks off, and sales jumped from $5 million to $25 million in just three years. Today, the LittleMissMatche... (more)
- The Writing Organization: Knowledge Management Made Easy
- I have a piece of advice for those who bemoan the lack of knowledge-sharing in their organizations: Make tacit knowledge explicit. Externalize expertise and experiences across all functions, from the office manager to the executive team.
How? Make it mandatory for every employee to keep an internal blog and post at least once per week. Depending on their role, employees can blog about customer experiences, sales tactics, strategy, product improvements, organizational design, competitors, market... (more)
- Food packaging: Promise vs Reality
- From the “what you see is not what you get” department, here’s a great website illustrating many examples of how actual food does not exactly live up to the billing promised by the packaging. Originally this was on a German site so all the examples are German, but I’m sure you can think of examples no matter what country you hail from.
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- Exit-Architecture: Design between War and Peace
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Stephan Trüby is a theoretician, curator, and architect, and his new book “Exit-Architecture — Design between War and Peace” is essentially a pamphlet that condenses his preceding writing. He rehashes the key theses of his previous publication, the anthology “5 Codes — Architecture, Paranoia and Risk in Times of Terror,” and substantiates them in his own words and with more contemporary examples.
“Exit-Architecture” maintains Trüby’s obses... (more)
- Are You a GNE?
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In a recent article, Wallpaper describes Global Nomadic Expatriates, or GNEs, as a new breed of “career expats” who move from country to country for short-term professional gigs, “with no particular loyalty to a home nation.”
The magazine cites a Mercer study covering 232 multi-national corporations, stating that the numbers of GNEs have increased by more than a third in recent years and now outnumber traditional expats (who return home) and long-term expats (who finally... (more)
- What I Like About Being A Secondary Researcher
- Many companies do not have researchers, but quite a few bigger companies have teams of them, and I’m talking about market researchers here, not scientific ones. For those companies that do not have this type of employee in your stable, I feel for your project teams.
Though my experience is not extensive, my eyes were opened almost immediately when attempting to answer questions about what is going on in the world, what people are doing, what do they want to do, what is that company doin... (more)
- Nokia Researcher Jan Chipchase Interviewed
- New Scientist magazine has a good interview with roving Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase. He travels around the world observing and photographing how people live their lives, and how mobile phones fit into that. It's kind of amazing that Nokia allows him to blog about it as much as he does, normally a large corporation would keep a much tighter lid on this kind of research. But he's a good ambassador for the brand, and I'm sure there's plenty he doesn't make public (including the all-important con... (more)
- The Next Big Thing: Table Tennis Triples
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The Table Tennis Triples and Modular Table Tennis System (MTTS) was a finalist in the Australian Next Big Thing Awards.
I love how the invention’s “unique benefits” are listed on the award site:
“- More people play on one table: social benefits, reduced waiting times
- Greater shot range, fairer ‘Triples’ scoring system
- Conventional tables can be reversibly ‘Triples’ retrofitted
- Numerous games/table shapes possible with the MTTS sectors”... (more)
- Brand-Dead: Song Over, End of Ted
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United announced a few weeks ago that their low-fare sub-brand Ted is closing. At the beginning of the year Delta had already terminated services of its low-fare subsidiary Song.
I think this is sad because both were bold attempts to revitalize old, traditional brands by extending them. It turned out that it was too much of a stretch — consumers didn’t buy into it, no matter how low the fare.
Beautiful CI and a clever name (both designed by Pentagram) smart ads, designer uniforms,... (more)
- Environmentalism in Product Design, a Survey
- Brendan Baker contacted us about his research, called the Ginkgo Project, over at Cambridge University. He and his team are conducting research in order to answer these questions:
* To what extent have environmental impact assessment tools been adopted into commercial product design processes?
* What are the business drivers for increased environmentalism in product design?
And, you see, he’d like your help. He needs to track as many practices as possible. Take a survey, possibly win a g... (more)
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