September 7, 2010
Dupont has a history of working with artist's and designers to find new ways to extend the materials they produce, like Corian. This time they work with artist-cum-architect...
UK-based designer Jared Thompson has taken the time to exhaustively go through YouTube and compile a list of ID videos ranging from SolidWorks and AutoCAD tutorials to Photoshop rendering demos and RP manufacturing vids. There are a couple of fluff ID-fanboy videos sprinkled throughout, but for the most...
We're sure there is a giant overlap between the 14 million people that have seen Yosemite Bear's Double Rainbow Video and Donald Judd fans worldwide. If you're included in this set, you'll appreciate this video mash-up as much as we did, by VJ Peter Rand. It couldn't be simpler: the Double Rainbow audio is superimposed onto a gallery walkthrough of late works by Judd. When was the...
How can we start thinking about sustainability as intrinsic part of good design, instead of an...
Dean Kamen, Lego, children, and biomedical engineering are not an intuitive mix of elements, but they're all part of the FIRST Lego League Body Forward Challenge.
Inventor Kamen's FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) organization is sponsoring the...
If design and technology conferences were cities, which cities would they be?
We might imagine South by Southwest Interactive to be a sprawling and disjointed metropolis that has developed organically, like Bangkok. The various...
Track bike aficionados, feast your eyes on the ultimate Fixie. Made from wood and iron, this front-drive bike from 1870 weighed a ton and probably provided a ride marginally more comfortable than being thrown down a staircase.
The bike was spotted on the ...
UK-based Industrial Design Consultancy "regularly [fields] calls from inventors bristling with new inventions and ideas." And no matter how diverse the inventions are, there's a commonality to getting something mass produced that requires a sort of FAQ to help would-be designers out.
IDC has put just such a guide...
Design students Ramon Coronado (Graphic Design) and Diane Jie Wei (Product Design) interview a family in the Campamento San José outside Santiago, Chile, as part of field research for the Safe Agua studio. Lead Faculty: Liliana Becerra (Product Design), Penny Herscovitch and Dan Gottlieb (Environmental Design).
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