September 29th, 2008
The 49-year-old daredevil took less than ten minutes to fly from the French coast to the white cliffs of Dover using his backpack style carbon composite wing with jets. Shown below is a CNN video shot before he crossed the channel - this is so sick!
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September 18th, 2008
The Flatshare Fridge, designed by Austrian design student Stefan Buchberger is one of nine finalists in the Electrolux Design Lab 2008 competition. It consists of up to four modules that stack on top of a base station. The only problem is that this clever product idea solves a problem that your landlord doesn’t cares […]
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September 16th, 2008
Although this software more useful to our cousins the architects, we thought it was something all designers should know about:
Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) recently revealed a free plug-in for Google SketchUp that will allow anyone to perform energy modeling on projects. The powerful plugin will allow anyone to analyze a building’s energy performance, carbon dioxide […]
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September 15th, 2008
see more unbelievable work from Jennifer Maestre here
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September 11th, 2008
Very clever add campaign for 3M security glass
via The Canadian Design Resource
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September 10th, 2008
It is nice when people design just for fun…
see more inflatable sculptures from Joshua Allen Harris here
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September 4th, 2008
Something I found on one of my many searches for rendering tips and techniques.
All i can say is this guys is amazing… modeling, rendering, attention to detail. flawless.
see more here
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September 2nd, 2008
I stumbled on an amazing thread today - It documents the process of two Industrial Design students designing and building a DH Mountain Bike/Dirt Bike Hybrid… I was so interested I read the entire 16 page thread that started more than a year ago. These guys have built a pretty sick one-off (shown above) […]
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