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  • July 2008

    • Green Housing: From Good Idea to Good Business

      Fast Company  |  Jul 15, 08 11:56 AM CDT

      Green Housing: From Good Idea to Good Business

      (Newser) - With US homes on average twice as large as they were 50 years ago—and, of course, dwarfing those in all other developed countries—rethinking our idea of "home" is as crucial to cutting global warming as switching to a smaller car, says architect Edward Mazria in Fast Company . Half of all greenhouse gas emissions are building-related; residential buildings make up 21% of national energy consumption—almost as much as transportation. More »

  • June 2008

    • Arms Smugglers Had Nuke Blueprints

      Washington Post  |  Jun 15, 08 11:02 AM CDT

      Arms Smugglers Had Nuke Blueprints

      (Newser) - Smugglers who sold weapons parts to Libya, Iran, and North Korea also had blueprints for a compact nuclear weapon—plans that could have been sold “to some of the most treacherous regimes in the world," warns an upcoming report by American and international investigators. The device could be attached to missiles used by Iran and many developing countries, according to the Washington Post . More »

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      Iran  • North Korea  • nuclear weapons  • missile  • design  • smuggler

    • Iconic Sign Is Fabulous Indeed

      Las Vegas Weekly  |  Jun 14, 08 10:25 AM CDT

      Iconic Sign Is Fabulous Indeed

      (Newser) - It's been nearly a half-century since the iconic "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign went up on the Strip, and Betty Willis is still as sharp as she was when she designed it, Las Vegas Weekly reports. Willis created the neon design back when the Strip still intersected dirt roads, but she never doubted "fabulous" was the best word for her hometown. More »

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      Las Vegas  • Nevada  • architecture  • design  • Las Vegas Strip  • icons

    • Architects Vie for Best Wobble

      Building Design  |  Jun 7, 08 5:28 AM CDT

      Architects Vie for Best Wobble

      (Newser) - Don’t accuse them of playing with their food; the finalists in the 2008 London Festival of Architecture’s Jelly Design Contest aren’t fooling around. Using what Americans would call gelatin, “a vast range of architectural motifs and techniques have been used to spectacular effect,” an event organizer tells Building Design. Entries will be evaluated on aesthetics, innovation and “wobble factor.” More »

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      food  • England  • architecture  • design  • sculpture  • University College London

  • May 2008

    • Vuitton Refuses to Be Accessory to Genocide

      ABC News  |  May 13, 08 4:37 AM CDT

      Vuitton Refuses to Be Accessory to Genocide

      (Newser) - A Danish designer hoped her T-shirt featuring a starving child tricked out with Paris Hilton's favorite accessories—a Louis Vuitton handbag and her tiny dog Tinkerbell—would highlight the media's distorted priorities and raise money to fight genocide in Darfur. The French luxury brand, however, was not amused, and has launched a lawsuit calling for a halt in production of the T-shirts and demanding $7,500 for every day her website uses the Vuitton name, reports ABC News. More »

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      Sudan  • Darfur  • design  • Louis Vuitton  • T shirts  • handbag

  • February 2008
  • August 2007

    • Tiger Designing First Golf Course

      Associated Press  |  Aug 15, 07 5:20 AM CDT

      Tiger Designing First Golf Course

      (Newser) - Super champ Tiger Woods is ready to hit the greens again—this time with his first-ever design for a golf course. He's planning a whole new 18 holes on a scenic spread in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Describing himself as a "minimalist," Woods said he'll rely on the land to dictate form, but plans a challenging game. More »

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      golf  • Tiger Woods  • North Carolina  • design  • PGA Championship  • Jack Nicklaus  • golf course

    • Product Design Gets Wilder, Faster

      New York Times  |  Aug 10, 07 2:55 PM CDT

      Product Design Gets Wilder, Faster

      (Newser) - Commercial product design is being overhauled faster and faster as brands compete in a fragmented market. The Internet and cable TV have diluted the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and companies are spending more money on engaging design to win customers: Pepsi, for one, is rolling out a new can every few weeks this year. The Times takes a look. More »

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      advertising  • media  • Internet advertising  • consumer  • shopping  • design  • product design

    • Bill Targets Designer Knockoffs

      Washington Post  |  Aug 10, 07 8:34 AM CDT

      Bill Targets Designer Knockoffs

      (Newser) - Capitol HIll is considering a bill that would place fashion designs in the same league as a work of art that can be copyrighted, protecting designers from cheap knockoffs for three years. Currently, designers can copyright logos and names, but manufacturers can legally replicate their creations stitch for stitch—and they do. More »

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      fashion  • copyright  • fashion designer  • clothes  • design  • knockoff  • Narciso Rodriguez

  • July 2007

    • The 10 Laws of Design Simplicity

      NPR  |  Jul 14, 07 1:01 PM CDT

      The 10 Laws of Design Simplicity

      (Newser) - In an interview with John Maeda, NPR correspondent Ira Flatow questions the MIT Media Lab designer about his new book, "The Laws of Simplicity." The 10 laws are: Reduce: Remove functionality Organize: Organization makes a system of many seem fewer Time: Savings in time feel like simplicity Learn: Knowledge makes everything simpler Difference: Simplicity and complexity need each other More »

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      list  • iPhone  • technology  • MIT  • design

  • June 2007

    • Liz Claiborne Dead at 78

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 28, 07 5:03 AM CDT

      Liz Claiborne Dead at 78

      (Newser) - Designer Liz Claiborne, whose styles aimed at career women revolutionized everyday fashion sense in America and brought feminine new looks to the workplace, is dead at 78. She was the first woman founder of a Fortune 500 company. Claiborne died Tuesday in New York, after a lengthy battle with bone cancer. More »

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      obituary  • women  • fashion  • fashion designer  • clothes  • design  • Fortune 500  • Liz Claiborne  • bone cancer

    • Fashionista Ferre Dies at 62

      Associated Press  |  Jun 18, 07 5:13 AM CDT

      Fashionista Ferre Dies at 62

      (Newser) - Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre died in Milan yesterday of a brain hemorrhage, at age 62. Ferre became the top designer for Parisian fashion powerhouse Christian Dior, an honor almost exclusively reserved for French designers, in 1989. He left Dior in 1996 to build his own lines, which became some of the most critically successful in the world. More »

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      obituary  • fashion  • fashion designer  • clothes  • design  • Milan  • Christian Dior  • Donatella Versace

    • 'No Go to the Logo,' Say Londoners

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Jun 6, 07 6:46 AM CDT

      'No Go to the Logo,' Say Londoners

      (Newser) - Londoners loathe the logo unveiled Monday for the 2012 Olympics so much that 30,000 have already signed a petition demanding a new one. The jagged pink-and-orange rendition of 2012  took a brand-consultancy firm $800,000 and more than a year to design; Olympics organizers, calling it "dynamic" and "vibrant," say people will "get used to it," reports the Daily Mail. More »

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      London  • Olympic Games  • 2012 London Olympics  • design  • Ken Livingstone  • epilepsy  • logo

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