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Reason’s Not to be Pretty: Report on Symposium on Design, Social Change and the “Museum” is up.

On August 4, 2010 By

Design Observer has just posted a com­pre­hen­sive (and inspir­ing) report on April’s sym­po­sium in Bel­la­gio, spon­sored by the Rock­e­feller Foun­da­tion and orga­nized by Win­ter­house Institute.

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Introducing OpenIDEO

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IDEO has just launched OpenIDEO , their new plat­form to solve global chal­lenges through a com­mu­nity of cre­ative thinkers, which, of course, you are invited to join. They’ve made a nice video explain­ing how open inno­va­tion works, above. This com­mu­nity will receive a string of design chal­lenges, begin­ning with Jamie Oliver’s Food Rev­o­lu­tion chal­lenge, pos­ing the ques­tion “How can we raise kids’ aware­ness of the ben­e­fits of fresh food so they can make bet­ter choices?” The chal­lenge ends Octo­ber 8th, but as the whole process is col­lab­o­ra­tive and open from start to fin­ish, bet­ter to get involved now by join­ing here

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Inset Border Effect jQuery Plugin

On August 4, 2010 By

A nice lit­tle free plu­gin for cre­at­ing bor­ders that cover up part of your image. View Post

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A Closer Look at Choosing Between Flash and jQuery

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“Instead of try­ing to replace Flash, it’s more effec­tive, in our opin­ion, to use jQuery in a com­pletely dif­fer­ent niche, like cre­at­ing web appli­ca­tions that are a bal­ance of visual attrac­tive­ness and func­tion­al­ity.” View Post

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Birth Story by Sommer Renaldo

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THEATER OF LIFE Act 1: Get­ting Started In the wee hours of the morn­ing, I woke because my cot­ton panties had soaked through. Noth­ing more than that; no dra­matic gush; but they were wet

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Glasshouse Conference Centre in Australia

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The Glasshouse is the new cen­ter for art and cul­ture of Port Mac­quire in Aus­tralia. The project, beyond the cen­ter of Con­fer­ences, includes an art gallery, a the­ater and a com­mu­nity work­shop place. The project was exe­cuted by the group Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects

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Open for Branding Week 2: Look Before You Leap

On August 3, 2010 By

Continuüm con­tin­ues their series Open for Brand­ing, where they are shar­ing, from start to fin­ish, their lat­est brand­ing project for the new, nomadic Design Museum Boston . They’re ask­ing for your input, so don’t hes­i­tate to leave your feed­back in the com­ments below

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How to Get Your Site Featured in Our Web Design Gallery

On August 3, 2010 By

Here at Design Shack we love good inspi­ra­tion and seek to pro­vide you with daily bits of visual sus­te­nance that will help you become a bet­ter designer by expand­ing your hori­zons and open­ing your mind up to dif­fer­ent styles of design. We’d love to fea­ture your work in our gallery and want to make sure you fully under­stand the process so you can effec­tively decide whether or not you should make a submission

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Thought for Food: LUNAR’s DIY Food Container Design Contest at the IDSA International Conference

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Atten­tion all indus­trial design stu­dents: If you’re attend­ing the IDSA’s Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence in Port­land this week, you can just lis­ten to the topic of DIY within the design pro­fes­sion, or you can roll up your sleeves and get in on the action your­self win­ning some seri­ous prize and tons of designer cred. Lunar Design , is engag­ing stu­dent mem­bers to par­tic­i­pate in a com­pe­ti­tion wor­thy of your time and talent.

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Texture Pack: 7 Hi-Res Concrete Textures

On August 3, 2010 By

“This week’s free­bie con­tent is brought to you by Jar­lan Perez, a pas­sion­ate tex­ture and game design artist.

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