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Book Review: Deconstructing Product Design, by William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa

Make no mistake, the "deconstruction" in the new book Deconstructing Product Design owes as much to Derrida as it does to David Macauley. William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa take 100 (mostly) iconic products and hold them up to the scrutiny of a panel of modern design thinkers. For a ha...

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Core 77 — November 03

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Tomorrow in Portland: Transportation Planning for the 21st Century

What's more fun than sitting in a dim room with fellow designers and watching slide after slide after slide? Well, maybe getting outside, mixing it up with other designers, architects, planners, and engineers and taking it to the streets to learn about effective transportation reforms by riding...

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Allison Arieff on bioplastics...and more

The comments are building on Allisson Arieff’s recent piece for The Times entitled “Not New, But Improved.” Here’s a sweet spot: Many companies are doing the important job of that “messing” by committing to product design for supply-chain management (that is, ...

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Eye-popping toys you may not want to let your children ever actually touch

It's tough to call them "toys" when they're made out of porcelain and precious metals, but that's technically what these are, Yakuza tattoos and all. Zeitgeist Toys was born from an obsession to create designer art toys that utilize craftsmanship and fine materials like metal and por...

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VisionWorks Award 2009: Big Prizes for Vertical Gardens, Bacteria Packaging and More!

Congrats to Manuel Dreesmann who received the first prize at this year's VisionWorks Award - Cargopacks 2020! His future concept GREEN envisions a more sustainable future through vertical gardens that add a green and sustainable skin to future buildings. The jury says: "The winning co...

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Screw panic rooms. Get a Bordeaux room

Have you ever been sitting in your panic room during a home invasion and thought to yourself: Why the heck don't I have my collection of prized wines down here? Most of us know that helplessly monitoring armed intruders in ski masks while they pillage your parlor goes down easier with a spot of...

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Core 77 — November 03