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product designFriday Jun 26, 2009
Michael Jackson's Design Legacy: Patented Anti-Gravity Shoes
Thursday Jun 18, 2009
Paul Smith's Giant Rabbits Aim to Curb Littering in London
While Smith injected his trademark whimsy into rubbish bins, David Adjaye smartened up London's bus shelters, Thomas Heatherwick gathered up quotidian lampposts into a "chandelier" bouquet, and Zaha Hadid, well, she whipped up an entire vision for the city of London. Other top designers who answered the museum's call to give something back to London include Tom Dixon, Neville Brody, and Ron Arad. All 15 projects are on view through October 4 in the Design Museum's "Super Contemporary" exhibition, which is co-sponsored by Beefeater gin. You'll need to remember that last part when the guards give you trouble for drinking gin—make that Beefeater 24 "luxury gin"—in the museum. Just tell them the green bunnies made you do it. Wednesday Jun 10, 2009
One Laptop Per Child's Mary Lou Jepsen Unveils New Computer ScreensAfter all the hubbub the last couple of years, we hadn't really heard much about the One Laptop Per Child project for a while (other than the many bus ads around town here in Chicago this winter). But now a key member of the OLPC team is heading back into the news with one of the heads of the project, designer Mary Lou Jepsen, announcing that she has been working to develop a new type of computer screen, hopefully jumping that last major production expense hurdle, resulting in even less building cost. Jepsen has come up with a kind of Kindle-like solution, using a model that seems almost e-paper-like (but definitely isn't, according to a disclaimer on Jepsen's Pixel Qi site) to keep the cost down and the power consumption low, while still being able to display everything a typical monitor would. Sounds like a really great development and even though it's a for-profit endeavor at the moment, maybe it might also benefit the OLPC down the line. Jepsen is currently touring the display at a few tech events here and there, with likely more to come as she drums up support, so if you're lucky enough to catch her, do so and get a sneak peek at the future. Tuesday Jun 02, 2009
Studio Dror Hits Target with Affordable Homegoods Line
Wednesday May 27, 2009
Philippe Starck Has Now Designed Everything, Including Kitchen Sink
Wednesday May 20, 2009
Zaha Hadid Designs 'Undulating, Radiating' Boots for LacosteShoe design agrees with Zaha Hadid. Last year, Brazilian footwear company Melissa debuted strappy, space-age plastic wedges designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Now it's onward, to boots! Come September, Lacoste will launch a capsule collection of men's and women's footwear designed in collaboration with Hadid, the architect's office tells us. The final design prototypes (pictured below), which made a splash last fall at London's Frieze Art Fair, will soon go into production.
Digitizing patterned surfaces (crocodile skin, perhaps?) was the starting point for Hadid's design of the calf leather boots, which feature embossed and debossed wave patterns. "The design expression behind the collaboration with Lacoste footwear allows the evolution of dynamic fluid grids," says Hadid. "When wrapped around the shape of a foot, these expand and contract to negotiate and adapt to the body ergonomically. In doing so a landscape emerges, undulating and radiating as it merges seamlessly with the body." Monday May 18, 2009
Coca-Cola Unveils Plant-Based Plastic Bottle
The fully recyclable PlantBottle is made through a process that converts byproducts of sugar production—the aforementioned sugar cane and molasses—into a component for PET plastic. Researchers at Imperial College London found that the new bottle, which contains 30% plant-based material, reduces carbon emissions by up to 25%, compared with petroleum-based PET. It can also be processed through existing manufacturing and recycling facilities without contaminating traditional PET. The first Coca-Cola brands to be PlantBottled will be Dasani and vitaminwater. Look for "on-package messages and in-store point of sale displays" to debut later this year, or simply lick the bottle of any Coke product and see if you detect a hint of molasses. Thursday May 14, 2009
Put a Little Birdhouse in Your
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Shepard Fairey and Kenny Scharf Design Bikes for Lance Armstrong
Marc Newson's Lockheed Lounge Breaks More Records, Sells for a Cool $1.6 Million
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Job Swapping Galore in the Buiness of Automotive Design
Damien Hirst Designs Skateboard Series
A Million Theories About the 'Ikea Car'
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U2 Rewards Non-Downloaders with Extra Packaging
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A Look at Ikea's Sustainability Line
Design Fixture Zaha Hadid Designs Fixtures
Target Accused of Stealing Women's Underwear
UnBeige@NYIGF: Rich Brilliant Willing's Russian Nesting Doll Tables
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Droog Design to Open Shop in New York
New from Amazon: A Talking Kindle
UnBeige@NYIGF: Bucky's Birdhouse
Glove a Challenge? Here's One for You Product Designers
A Look at Barbie from All Sides
Never Worry About Someone Stealing Your Egg Salad Sandwich Again
Innovation Is Not Dead: Interactive Vending at the Mall
Design Within Reach Launches Nilus de Matran's DWR: Kitchen
One Laptop Per Child Goes to Colombia
New U.K. Stamps Will Celebrate Iconic British Designs
Approaching 50, Barbie to Undergo 'Sweeping Makeover'
Orbitwheels Offer New Spin on Roller Skates
Philippe Starck Goes to a Big Lots to Survey for Cheap, Workable Design Ideas
Designer Runs Afoul with White House Christmas Tree Ornament
What Will a Move Back to 'Ordinary Observer' Within Patent Law Mean for Design?
Zaha Hadid Teams with Lacoste for Her Second Shoe Design
European Union to Fight Apple Over Product Design
FriMonday Photo: What's That Squiggle?
Unveiling of Google's Android Phone Will Thankfully Bring an End to Google Android Speculation
Eau de Rodarte: Designers Collaborate with Lexus on Eco-Friendly Candle
Right on Target: Discounted Derian Decoupage
Eyeglass Designer Kazuo Kawasaki Strikes Gold with Sarah Palin
Christie's Holds Its First Ever Design-Only Auction
Sneak Peek at Chevy Volt's Apple-esque Interiors
What Happed to Nokia's Design Legacy?
NY Finally Begins Roll Out of New Streetlight Design
A Wiki for Future Project Runway Designers
Despite a Tough Year and Difficult Deadlines, GM's Volt Still On Track
Are smart Cars Daimler's Little Engines That Could?
Zaha Hadid Joins the Valli & Valli Doorknob Design Family
Introducing Zaha Hadid's New Shoes
The Bratz Design Battle Resumes, Call for Mistrial Issued
Out of Fire, into Frying Pan: Olympic Torch Design History
Pharrell Williams Tries Chair Design, Gives Eames Classic Surrealist Twist
The Troubling Woes of Ballot Design
Legal Battle Over Bratz Designs Comes to a Close
Knoll and Alphaville in Legal Battle Over Mies van der Rohe Furniture Rights
Report Finds Executives Think General Public Will Be Designing Everything Themselves by 2013
Apple Lowers Temperatures for Brighter, Warmer Screens
Simon Clift Wants to Get Unilever to Put Focus Back on Design
Lord Foster Gets into the Yacht Design Game
A Talk with Mr. Stereophonic: Bang & Olufsen's Chief Designer, David Lewis
The Chubby Fingered and Long Nailed Among Us Demand iPhone Design Changes
Eames Stamps Now on Sale (and What Each One References)
Bravo, Sui and Wii: Cable Network Honors Designer, Gaming Console
The Car in the Gray Lycra Suit
Bratz Design Legal Battle Keeps on Getting Better
Ingo Maurer Brings OLEDs into the Furniture Market
Despite Rocky Start, One Laptop Per Child Team Pushes Forward with New X02
More Is More for Ultraspeedy, Full-Body Swimsuits
Porsche Design Group Steps into the Perfume Game...For Some Reason
Jasper Morrison's 'Crate': 'The Most Controversial Object in Design'
Harrods Celebrates Design Icons, Christian Lacroix Holds the Syrup
Thrill of the Chipchase: Human-Centered Cell Phone Design in Ghana
Pro Swimming Organizations: 'Stop Designing Better Stuff!'
Converse Cashes in on Dead Cobain
The New iPhone You'll Probably Never/Maybe/Possibly See
Design Head Ian Callum Thinks Jaguar's Old Look is Dragging It Down
Meet the Designers Behind the Wheels
Talking to Peter Arnell, New Head of Chrysler's Dying Design Departments
Introducing Chumby: Will People Surf the Internet on a Beanbag?
Ross Lovegrove Gets Loud(speaker)
Our Love of License Plates Is Forced to Continue
Toy Fair Shows Off "Imaginative and Fun Playthings"
Shiny, Happy People Greet Shiny, Happy Condom Dispensers
Yves Behar's Rubber Stamp: NYC Debuts New Condoms, Dispensers
Accent on Design Awards Best of New York Gift Show
Pro-Green Apple? Product Design Says Different
Same Microsoft Product in Two Different Worlds
Hello? You're, Uh, Talking Into a Hamburger?
Harry Allen Has a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates
We've Got Deja Vu Over Apple's Deja Vu All Over Again
For Apple, It's Dieter Rams All Over Again
Macworld Predictions: Celebrity Edition
The Story Behind the iPhone or 'Remember When That Thing Came Out? It Was Crazy!'
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