Could tapping influence our kindness?

http://www.apple.com/iphone/design/#design-video Tap is soft and gentle. Press is hard and short. I am asking myself if the gestures we make so many times during the day could influence our actitude towards objects and then relationships? I see very often people interacting with their iphones as they would do with babies, touching...

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Overturning a creative technique

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A good designer is a problem solver...

Clockwise, from upper left: Jerry Seinfeld, Ricky Gervais, Louis CK, and Chris Rock. © HBO There is a strong similarity between designer and comedians. See which are the things in common and learn from them! Seven things designers can learn from stand up comics. The premise of HBO's hour-long special "Talking Funny" is simple: invite four...

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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalists

One of the semifinalists: The Portable Light Project The Buckminster Fuller Challenge  is an annual international design award grants $100,000 to support the development and implementation of a "bold, visionary, tangible initiative that is focused on a well-defined need of critical importance and comprehensive, anticipatory,...

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Olfactory charme - Scent marketing

Scent of Lithuania Lietuvos Kvapas is the first lithuanian national scent.Audronius Azubalis the foreign minister says: "When creating the Scent of Lithuania, our goal was not only to impersonate the fragrances of the country, but also to tell a story about its cities and villages, its nature, ancient traditions and cultural heritage,...

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Shoot your aurea

photo Carlo Van de Roer Towards new renaissance here is an experiment to capture the intangible of ourselves. A Polaroid camera developed in the 1970s to capture the unseen, a subject’s aura. The camera translates biofeedback into near-fluorescent colors that show the subject’s potential, present emotional state and future possibilities....

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Milan Design Week 2011 - Breaths of light

Fragile Future Fragile Future III edition is a modular system (based on the former Fragile Future) in which 3-d bronze electronical circuits contain luminous dandelion seed heads and bolt together.  Infinite possibilities to create forms with breaths of light.  By Drift Design and Carpenters Workshop. Fragile Future III Fragile...

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DUNE - From sand to stone

Photo Magnus Larsson Photo Magnus Larsson Thank to a bacteria, sand is solidified into a habitable structure that protects from wind and sand. As the architect Magnus Larsson said: "in this way, we can start 'growing' controlled oases in the desert, and stop the sand from pushing people away from their homes and villages, which, in...

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Step 3 - MARKET TRENDS. Musa Boom designs a sustainable table.

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Milan Design Week 2011 - Rememberme

For those throwing his favourite pair of jeans is like mutilating, now a viable alternative. Old jeans and apparel live again with a different shape and use in this chair. What was born for dressing are now revived for seating. Sustainability through recycling. Designer Tobias Juretzek for  Casamania....

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Milan Design Week 2011 - Ultra Gamma

A boost towards the future where emotions will be designed by colours of ultra gamma rays that currently do not exist. Five giant cones under LED technology lighting, controlled by a workstation, featuring changeable hue and lighting intensities depending on the colour chosen by each person. Designer Ezri Tarazi and the d-vision Group. A...

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Milan Design Week 2011 - La dote

By Agnieszka Lasota a reflection on interpersonal relationships, women conditions and flaunted nudity. Hanging embroidered linens with strategic holes like first wedding nights some decades ago in the south of Italy. At Designersblock Ventura....

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