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Ironic by design

June 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Was I the only one to spot the irony in this?
CITY DESIGN COMPANY NETS AWARD FOR HELPING FIRMS TO CUT PAPER USE
Graphic design company Alder and Alder has scooped the award for best environmental company in Devon at the first annual Federation of Small Businesses Awards. The firm launched a five-step leaflet called Today [...]

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Design quote of the day

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the “things” that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of [...]

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Tags: design · quotes

Help. I need a blog post.

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

So, for the first time I am making a double post between the Design Innovation blog and Verticalbones. My assumption is that few of you actually use the sidebar links ->, so if I truly find some interesting things around design, I should probably post them here as well. It takes time to maintain three [...]

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Tags: blog · design · duopost · work

Ambient Intelligence Chapter

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments

I suppose I’m a geek at heart, or at the very least, I acknowledge my inner geek. I was programming BASIC on my Atari home computer shortly after I owned my first bike. I have suffered gadget envy. I lived with MIT students when going to school at BU in Boston. I would have quit [...]

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Tags: design · tech · work

Eat your veggies

August 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Maybe they should use this image to inspire kids to eat their vegetables. Too incredible not to post the image.
Till Nowak has created a masterpiece “Salad”, a fantastic digital image of Alien made out of vegetables. His tribute to HR Giger and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
via Laughing Squid

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Tags: art · design · film