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Feb
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2010
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The Best Of: Design Boom |
Design Boom is a great site for the best in design news of all types and disciplines, Luckily I am subscribed to their RSS feed. This allows me to receive each of their articles into my Google reader inbox each day. Here I am going to round-up some of my favourite articles from which they have released in the past few weeks.
Ever Wanted your chips made of bricks?
Istvan Kulinyi: Mobil Pixel Lamp
This is one sexy lamp, made by Hungarian designer Kulinyi.
International architectural firm LAVA has developed a simple, cost effective, easily constructed skin that promises to transforms aged 1960′s buildings in Sydney, into sustainable, iconic buildings.
The future in augmented reality is amazing to think of!
Creative design thinking at its best!
The classic board game undertakes a new look.
A new form of head protection for snow sports.
The concept aims to prevent repetitive stress injuries by dissolving the standard desktop mouse into a floating device worn on the user’s hand.
Julien Renault: Hand Forged Aluminium Stools
Hand craftsmanship at it’s very best.
House Made with 15 Shipping Containers
How can you not be a little interested in this concept?
2010 Vancouver Olympics Medals
Everyone is buzzing over the Olympics, check out the medals the athletes are vying to win.
The design process by Omer Arbel.
You’ve seen him on Objectified now check out his furniture and stools collection.
Toronto Interior Design Show: Prototype
Love some great prototype designs.
Article written by Jared Thompson
Owner and writer of Design Juices, currently studying Product design at the University of Central Lancashire in his final year. He has interest in minimal, clean and simplistic design styles.
Naoto Fukasawa has had a colorful career to match his colorful upbringing, born in in japan in 1956 he graduated from the Tama Art university in 1980. Since then he has barely took breathe to take heed of his career, the man has been constantly busy grinding out great pieces of work.
For the next eight years Naoto would work as a designed at Seiko-Epson, (not a bad first job in design!) He then began to move out to expand his horizons and went to work in the United States. In San Francisco he joined a small office and worked in a team of no more than 15 workers, but after his eight years in the states in this small company he went back to Japan.
LCD he created for ±0, and the recently designed N310 mini laptop for Samsung. The minimalistic look of the laptop is really appealing with the rubber at the back of the display. The laptop is crammed full of features and works just as well as your normal laptop would,