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BCN Barstool

On August 11, 2010 By

How often do you think of barstools as com­fort­able? Design­ers Harry & Camilla chose an indus­trial plas­tic to form a curved seat that has flex and give, and although I’m not sure how much ‘spring’ there is, it’s sure looks more com­fort­able than other barstools. Design: Harry & Camilla Mate­ri­als: Chromed Steel, PBT 16.5”w x 34.3”h x 17.75”d Also avail­able in a 30.25” height “The frame is made of chrome fin­ished tubu­lar steel with a foot rest which is pro­tected with non-slip black rub­ber.” BCN is an abbre­vi­a­tion for Barcelona where the design­ers live and work.

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Interchangeable Honey

On August 11, 2010 By

How many of you love plug-n-play elec­tron­ics? I do

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Open for Branding Week 3: Exploring the Possibilities

On August 10, 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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Jeffrey Kapec on the state of the art of digital manufacturing in orthopedics

On August 10, 2010 By

Jef­frey Kapec, prin­ci­pal of Tanaka Kapec Design Group , has a fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle up on Ortho­pe­dic Design & Tech­nol­ogy called ” Dig­i­tal Man­u­fac­tur­ing Oppor­tu­ni­ties in Ortho­pe­dics .” In the piece, Jeff describes sig­nif­i­cant advances in the processes and mate­ri­als, and how their firm was able to lever­age the tech­nol­ogy in a client engagement.

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Picturesque Country Homes — The Private River Valley Ranch in Carbondale, Calorado (GALLERY)

On August 10, 2010 By

(TrendHunter.com) The River Val­ley Ranch in Car­bon­dale, Col­orado is a pic­turesque pri­vate estate with over 250 acres of green space to roam. Designed by archi­tect Brad Jor­dan, this ranch has a very country-like vibe. Materials…

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Architecture » Double Time: Bungalow Redux

On August 9, 2010 By

by Erika Heet Upon the birth of their first child, artist Stas Orlovski and food styl­ist Alise Arato felt that their 700-square-foot 1930s bun­ga­low in the Mar Vista area of Los Ange­les was too small to accom­mo­date their grow­ing fam­ily, and hoped to dou­ble their space. They con­sid­ered remod­el­ing, but archi­tect Kevin Oreck, who had already reworked a four-car garage on the prop­erty into an art stu­dio for Orlovski, helped them real­ize the need for a total rebuild

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Can You Design a 3D Printer To Change the Lives of 1 Billion People?

On August 9, 2010 By

prizes in human­i­tar­ian inno­va­tion Per­sonal Man­u­fac­tur­ing and Water Lib­er­a­tion are the sub­jects of two Human­i­tar­ian Inno­va­tion Prizes cur­rently offered by The Fore­sight Insti­tute. The goal of the Kar­tik M

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Meet: Photographer Ditte Isager

On August 9, 2010 By

Hey folks, wel­come to our new install­ment of posts.

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Tactile Tech: 15 Beautifully Textured Websites

On August 9, 2010 By

[ By Steph in Gad­gets & Geek Art , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism , Urban­ism . ] When the world wide web first came into pop­u­lar use in the ’90s, it wasn’t pretty

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Seating for Eating by Ilse Crawford

On August 9, 2010 By

Ever since this col­lec­tion was first shown last year, I’ve been wait­ing to see it show up on a retailer’s web­site. Well, finally, it did. Ilse Crawford’s spare ‘Seat­ing for Eat­ing’ pieces are con­tem­po­rary inter­pre­ta­tions of tra­di­tional seat­ing and she describes them as “reas­sur­ingly famil­iar but care­fully detailed”.

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