May 2012
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20 Innovative Brands Focused on Game-Changing...
Here’s a quick mental exercise for you. Imagine you were faced with a fight, in which you knew your opponent was bigger, stronger, more experienced, and had access to the best facilities, trainers, and coaches money could buy. Would you step into the ring?
It’s a terrible analogy, but those kind of Rocky odds are what nearly every new independent brand faces today. Amazingly, despite having the...
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Collaboration, Content and Communication: New...
The technological revolution that has been ushered in by affordable technology and powerful processors has provided ordinary people with the tools to create everything from photos and videos to virtual architecture and even complex 3D models. Consider that on average, YouTube users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week, more than 250 million photos are uploaded...
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Forget Shoes and Handbags (Just for a Moment),...
Technology is great and all (and we couldn’t survive without it), but let’s be honest: it’s not always great looking. Touchscreens, portable readers and laptops have traditionally been boxy and boring. While that trend is slowly changing as tech becomes sleeker, fashion is helping to speed the process up a bit. Luckily, designers know that we, as both technology and shopping addicts, want to...
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My Smart Life: Tomorrow
This is Part 2 of My Smart Design Life, which features interviews with three designers — Chris Spooner (graphics) , Kelly Hoppen (interiors), and Yves Behar (products) — about their wired lives and how technology has shaped the way they work, supported by Intel. Read Part 1 here.
Less than 10 years ago, I dreamed of a phone that could help me organize my life and stay connected. I dreamed that...
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The Tools That Make It Happen: Parsons -- School...
Parsons The New School for Design, located in New York City, is made up of five schools that bring together graduate and undergraduate programs, including the School of Art, Media and Technology, School of Art and Design/History and Theory, School of Design Strategies, School of Fashion, and The School of Constructed Environments.
The School of Constructed Environments is the only integrated...
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WatchFuture Shock: Technology in the Next 10 Years
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My Smart Design Life: Today
This is the first in a series of five posts we’ll be doing on “Technology and Design” with the support of Intel that focus on how technology has shaped and will shape design. Not only will we get to take a closer look at the products we all use daily, but we’ll be talking to designers from all over the globe about how they use technology in their design work every day.
Technology is changing so...
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20 Innovative Brands Focused on Game-Changing...
Here’s a quick mental exercise for you. Imagine you were faced with a fight, in which you knew your opponent was bigger, stronger, more experienced, and had access to the best facilities, trainers, and coaches money could buy. Would you step into the ring?
It’s a terrible analogy, but those kind of Rocky odds are what nearly every new independent brand faces today. Amazingly, despite having the...
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A Day in the Life of Sean Sullivan
I spent a day on the road with videographer Sean Sullivan as he started his month long journey on the road documenting the American West on a project called Ramblers Bone with photographer Mikael Kennedy. The trip started out as the duo picked up their RV in Los Angeles and drove towards Joshua Tree National Park where they plan on shooting and spending the night…
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WatchFuture Shock: Technology in the Next 10 Years
To watch this video on its original location with FORA.tv, please click here.
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16 Ways Technology is Mapping the Universe
For most of us, the mapping technology we use on a daily basis is limited to dash-mounted GPS units.
No disrespect — I mean, just 10 years ago we were dependent on hard-copy road atlases to get where we were going; cutting-edge meant route-finding in Mapquest and then printing off the pages.
But as you read this, hundreds of teams of scientists are working with vastly more complex technologies...
