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We'd love to see the introduction of a television program about industrial design that isn't an annoying reality show, but until that day comes, we'll happily settle for National Geographic's awesome "Ultimate Factories." Check out this excerpt from their inside look at an Ikea factory , where ...

A bite-sized list of what's happenin' now: the vineyard gazette The Greenest Home in America property week Architect wins King's Cross design competition for converted gasholder ny times regional NYC's MetroCard gets one-word art dna india Nokia design manager Jonne ...

Industrial Designer Level II Ziba Design San Diego, California We are looking for an Industrial Designer level II to join our San Diego, California Product Development team. This position is responsible for driving conceptual industrial design and for the hands-on design process. This ...

ID students at the Savannah College of Art & Design are currently engaged in a hands-on project with local relevance: Helping a nearby vacation destination, Tybee Island, reduce its water consumption to preserve a local aquifer. Vacationers flocking to Tybee's beaches have already found ...

I love the titling of the sub-sectors of Singapore's rigidly-defined design sectors: "Placemaking" (environments design, architecture), "Objectmaking" (industrial, product, and fashion design), "Imagemaking" (graphics, visual communications and advertising design). Singapore takes design ...

Portugal's newest daily newspaper, i , was launched in early May and has attracted a significant amount of attention due to its rising circulation figures and innovative approach. It recently won a design award from the Society of News Design . The Editors Weblog spoke to ...

Weekly finds from the 3D world. SolidWorks Video Tutorial: Using Excel spreadsheets to drive 3D model creation. Mythbusting: Do fully defined sketches really solve faster? Cadalyst reviews SW 2010. Alias Tutorial: Modeling strategy and patch layout. Rhino Simlab's 3D ...

[photo credit: Bernard Hoffman/LIFE.com] Life.com has a new photo gallery up curated by guest editor Mark Frauenfelder, the founder of BoingBoing , offering his insights on ID grandaddy Raymond Loewy. Called " The Man Who Designed America ," the gallery features shots of good ol' Ray-Ray ...

A bite-sized list of what's happenin' now: cctv Video: Innovation adds glamour to porcelain on design contest in Beijing eye of dubai BoConcept's Design Your Own Cup businessweek Nussbaum on "How Design thinking Can Help Us Navigate Through This Time of Cascading Change"  ...

They say the worst thing you can do to a painter is to examine their latest work and say, "Very nice...is it finished?" It's true that artists and designers, after finally settling on a concept to pursue, can spend forever tweaking it into its arbitrarily finished form. Tel Aviv-based ...

Launched earlier this month at art-store/concept-shop Golden Age , The Incredible Journey that is Consciousness is a limited-run book by Chicagoans Alex Fuller and Gabe Usadel , that "invites each reader to interpret a landscape of symmetries, simplicities and geometric structures."  ...

Casio furthers its shockproof line of products with two new devices: The Exilim G1 , an extremely thin digital camera meant to take a beating, and their all-black Gulfman watch model. The zoom on the former doesn't extend, reducing the chances you'll bust the lens if you drop it, and ...

Product Design Manager 3M China Shanghai The Product Design Manager will be responsible for Product Development (from concept to production, developing designs on his own and partnering with the internal teams, especially business & lab), Project Management (developing the right design ...

That there is the Brussels-based collective LAb[au]'s new project/installation, the unwieldily-named "f5x5x5." The quartet of creatives behind LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jerome Decock, Alexandre Plennevaux and Els Vernang, examine "the transformation of architecture and spatio-temporal ...

A bite-sized list of what's happenin' now: daily 49er Here's a switch: Design school exhibit featuring faculty, not students clean technica How Nike Considered Uses Innovation and Collaboration to Close the Loop companies and markets "Industrial Design Services in the US" ...

The 1963 Split-Window Coupe is one of the more rare Corvettes you'll have trouble finding and has a design feature that didn't last, primarily because it neatly blocked the sightline of the rearview mirror. In a sense the design was ahead of its time, meaning if it could be combined with ...

Fellina Sok-Cham's killer bamboo serving tray with inset bamboo saucers and little Modernist spoons that nest in the cups is a great way to serve espresso, tea, or desserts. The dishwasher-safe set is also a surprisingly affordable 45 bucks at the MoMA store (or $36 for those of you who've ...

David J. Irwin , a product and furniture designer based in Newcastle Upon Tyne (and who we featured here prior to London Design Week 2007), just sent us his latest project: The Aluminum Stacker. The three-legged aluminum chair provides a stable ground on uneven surfaces. To stack, the back ...

As you can gather from the photos, what you see here is no ordinary bicycle: Argentinian designer Pablo Lopez's "Pardo" concept (short for guepardo, or cheetah in Spanish) is designed to place the rider in a posture resembling that of its namesake animal. Power is delivered to the ...