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Design and the National Soul

March 13, 2008
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Design and the National Soul

Can the graphic design of everyday products be used as anthropological tools? What does the look of matchboxes, notebooks and cold cream jars say about cultural attitudes and history? We invited design expert Alisa Grifo, proprietor of popular New York design store Kiosk, http://www.kioskkiosk.com which features interesting utilitarian objects from different countries for six months at a time, to...

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Design and the Elastic Mind

March 11, 2008
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Design and the Elastic Mind

When most designers create a chair they make a sketch and build a prototype. When Swedish design collective Front create a chair they hook up a motion capture sensor to their index fingers to draw its shape in the air. Then they send the sketch file to a laser sintering beam that slowly builds the final chair from liquid...

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