July 2011
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Jul 29th
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Architects of Air →
Children’s Playhouse or Art?…Or something more?
Jul 28th
Shipping Container Houses →
Can you live in luxury with shipping containers?  What are the attributes of a shipping container that makes it successful?  What do you look for in a house?  Do you find potential for overlap?
Jul 28th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 26th
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What happens when you put a coffee table at a bus stop? The table—set with a newspaper and a vase of flowers—becomes a hub of interaction for the corner. People not only flock to the table, they end up talking to each other about it. Kim says she was surprised to see so many serendipitous moments in what amounted to only eight minutes of video. “The number and variety of people milling...
Jul 25th
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Tangential analogs, measurement, and waffles.
Craig Fugate, The director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA*), has coined the term “Waffle House Index**” as a measure of disaster preparedness and recovery. So what does a waffle restaurant have to do with disaster recovery? According to Washington University professor Panos Kouvelis, “a waffle chain… demonstrates that companies vulnerable to supply-chain disruptions from...
Jul 25th
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Forming part of the Music Boxes exhibition at MediaCityUK for the Manchester International Festival, Maestro was developed using Microsoft Kinect technologies and lets the audience control the tempo and dynamic of the orchestra using nothing but their hands, just like a conductor. Using razor sharp HD video and 3D surround sound, the audience are given an immersive and fun opportunity to...
Jul 22nd
Shed some light on an everyday problem →
How do you approach your problems/clients? Do you find yourself using the same old process, turning out the same old solutions? Take a look again. Change your perspective and you’ll find that you will ‘shed some light’ on new and inspired ways of thinking.
Jul 22nd
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Jul 19th
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Jul 15th
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Make Everything OK →
Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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Web Typography for the Lonely →
Designer Christopher Clarke is keeping it “miserable” and showing us the beauty of a new interactive web typography: http://bit.ly/kcL2Aq thanks for the link, Meena.
Jul 15th
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Sometimes there’s a better way to accomplish an everyday task by changing one simple element. Mix up a routine today.  How does it change your perspective on an everyday task?
Jul 11th
Jul 11th
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Life Size Balloon Dinosaurs →
Jul 10th
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Jul 8th
Three reasons why experiential purchases create...
Purchases associated with an event or experience, such as going out to dinner or taking a trip, create more happiness than those associated with acquiring an object. The three reasons are: 1. Material purchases are not subject to recall and reliving in the same way as experiential ones, except perhaps among avid collectors. Recalling a vacation with the family creates a better feeling than...
Jul 8th
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Jul 7th
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Jul 7th
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Jul 2nd
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Jul 1st
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Jul 1st
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Jul 1st
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The Sixty One →
from our friends at Release the Hounds This is a really cool site for discovering new music. It’s based on really simple behavioral game mechanics. But who cares about that? It’s fun.
Jul 1st
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Jul 1st