DESIGN MONDAY: Top 100 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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A flock of paper avian creatures has roosted in the great hall of Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum and will remain there until August 31.
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Inspiration comes in a multitude of sizes, shapes and styles and you do not always need millions of dollars to find that tranquil, inspiring refuge. While we already looked at one such soothing home today, this simple and charming cabin ...
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Photo via Business Insider In a plan clearly hatched by people who've never bothered to watch a single horror movie, the long-abandoned Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in Wingdale, N.Y., was just bought up by a west coast-based evangeli...
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Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love to see what you've got. Click here to view the full...
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Photo via Arch Daily With the World Cup officially wrapped up, Brazil is facing that age-old problem of what to do with a collection of shiny new stadiums whose future levels of attendance and profitability are far from assured. In...
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Architizer explores the relationship between architecture and film, electing David Lynch to be "the ultimate architect's film director," thanks to his ability to "weave architecture into the narrative until it is indistinguishable from t...
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Do you rent? Are you waiting to make changes to your home until you feel you're in a more permanent situation? Today's tip from Fay is simple, but a good reminder for all of us that owning your "home" is about much more than a name on a ...
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I was so stoked to learn the ladies of Toronto online décor magazine Covet Garden had finally launched a print edition. I have been following this magazine since day 1 (back in Sept 2010) and loved peeking into the homes of creati...
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It took six months of house hunting before Kellan and Natalie Brady found this 1979 home in need of A LOT of work. But what it did have going for it was the home’s location in Mesa, Arizona, just a few miles away from the couple ...
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Siobhan Lam and her partner, Jaime Hughes, hadn’t planned on tackling a restoration project, but when they came across a dilapidated gem built in 1890 on the tree-lined Grand Canal in Dublin, Ireland, they knew it had the potential to be...
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No wrench, confusing screws, or undecipherable instructions - this Lander side table from design duo Parsons & Charlesworth is as easy to assemble as it is stylish. The clever design offers a new way to look at flat pack furniture - ...
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A few months ago I saw a quote from a designer espousing the beauty of black doors. I had never thought about painting my doors black before. But then, up until a few months ago, I had never considered painting my ceilings black, either....
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Summer offers a lot for us to celebrate: vacations, long days, warm nights and visits with friends near and far. Outdoor entertaining, from lunch on the deck and happy hour at sunset to dinner by candlelight and fireside gatherings under...
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Planning a trip usually means booking flights, reserving a room, making an itinerary and figuring out what to pack, but make sure you don't forget about one of the most important things about going away — making sure your home is well-ta...
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We've all been there — you move into a brand new apartment, only to discover that the lighting is hideous and unlivable. And your landlord doesn't want you to change it. AND it's virtually cemented to the ceiling, just in case you though...
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There are places where electricity still isn't accessible, and safe, low-cost options are hard to come by. The Infinite Light is a flexible solar panel that can be placed inside a water or soda bottle. A simple frame around the bottle ho...
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This Okanagan Lakeshore Home showcases plenty of details helpful in your search for the perfectly mixed design. Spreading over 7,572 square feet on a 0.62 acre property, the fascinating home in Lake Country, British Columbia, Canada, cou...
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If you are willing to avoid public crowd and to enjoy and isolated places where privacy is guaranteed, then this post is definitely for you. Most of these destinations are not very famous, but with […] The post 10 Ideal Isolated Lo...
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Renters like nice things too! And, thankfully, each year more and more products emerge that are removable and won't jeopardize your security deposit when you move out. So, you can fix up your space temporarily and not sacrifice style. He...
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An enterprising Seattle resident named Stephen Lange has so far pulled in $10,153 with a Kickstarter campaign to buy Laura Palmer's house from Twin Peaks for $550K and turn it into a museum, event space, and "fully functional BnB" dedica...
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The USA may not have the long and rich history that some other countries have but it definitely made its presence noticed in all the domains, including architecture and interior design. We’re talking about iconic names like Charles...
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Not everyone can make a New York City apartment work for a family with three active kids, but Louise Youngson-Klasfeld, Chief Curator and founder of Viyet, a site that specializes in offering pre-owned designer pieces, has plenty of expe...
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Name: Brock Harris Real Estate Location: Silver Lake; Los Angeles, California Size: 1,830 square feet Years in business: 11 years This 3-level loft was originally built by Rob Brill, the drummer for Berlin . When Brock was looking for a ...
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Photo by William Waldron/ Elle Decor Frustrated by cramped quarters and desperate for a bit more green space for their three young children, longtime NYC inhabitants Jon and Keith Meacham chose to forgo city life in favor of a grand...
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A severely adorable piece of New Jersey history called White Cloud Farm was put on the market last week for $4.25M. Though the white-clapboard compound dates back to the 1800s, its most...
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One of the many iconic trends created by Midcentury masters like Isamu Noguchi was the seamless blend of the east and the west when it comes to interiors design. While the 70s and the 80s were filled with playful and exuberant colors, th...
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With the beautiful and modern house, usually come and modern accessories as well decorated patio and pool. Swimming pool in your own backyard is a real refreshment in the hot summer days. Its performance often […] The post 13 Sophi...
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There's just nothing like that special feeling when a single girl finds a home to love and cherish 'til death do them part. Last week, we wondered if home ownership was still a part of the American Dream . Well, it looks like, at least a...
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Whitney Leigh Morris and Adam Winkleman don’t let size define their tiny cottage in Venice Beach. It might only be 362 square feet but they’ve managed to make use of every square inch of space. In designing the space, Whitney...
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Last week we all confessed our illicit apartment painting , and that was all kinds of forbidden fun — but what about the renters that take it a few steps further? Here are my favorite security-deposit-be-damned DIYS from the Apartment Th...
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Buzzfeed has a list of Washington D.C.'s seven "most heinously ugly government buildings," all off which are deemed "monolithic temples to bureaucracy, using only concrete, brutalist architecture, and sadness." Top perpetrators include t...
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Another week begins, another monstrously-priced estate in hyper-affluent Greenwich, Conn., hits the market. The onetime manor of late businesswoman and "Queen of Mean" Leona Helmsley just hit the market for $65M. It's been four years sin...
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Preliminary sketches of the Jurassica Museum, a new subterranean dinosaur museum housed in an old quarry in Portland, England, have been released. A World Heritage site, architect Renzo Piano plans to cover the 132-foot-deep limestone qu...
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The touch of Bob and Cortney Novogratz, the Mike and Carol Brady of interior design, doesn't seem to be doing much for NYC's "saddest townhouse," which is now on offer for $4.795M, over $3M less than its original ask. As...
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Your front door is often the first impression people have of your home. It adds character, keeps out the elements and acts as a secure barrier for you and your […]
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A coffee table can be an effective focal point for any living space. When you are able to choose one that is well crafted, it can even inspire the decor around it to a high level. The tables included in this post are high quality and ent...
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If you would like to send me photos to include in next week's pets on furniture post, please ensure your photos follow these basic rules: First, the pet must be on a piece of furniture. And said piece of furniture must be clearly v...
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Over the past seven years, Design*Sponge has shared over 1,000 home tours online. When I first started posting homes in 2007, I only shared a single image at a time because I wasn’t sure anyone would be interested in them. The firs...
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Blasting the AC all night may be great for sleeping, but it's not so great for the environment or your bottom line. Give your budget a break by using a fraction of the energy with this simple tip to make your hard-working fan extra effec...
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Who doesn’t love a crafty and cute catchall place to store items for everyday use? This handy little rope basket is not only convenient but super easy to create! Create in just a few minutes and customize with different colors or g...
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When you’d rather stay in the comfort of your own apartment to study for school, you can enhance your effectiveness by creating an area dedicated to studying your course material. Start with these quick tips to help you build the p...
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Canadian firm Atelier 21 conducted an extensive renovation of Quebec City’s “Place Quebec” in the 900 Rene-Levesque boulevard building.
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You may be surprised to know that losing all of my earthly possessions was the easy part of having an arsonist set my house on fire. The hard part was wrangling with the insurance company while trying to build a new house. Have you seen ...
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You have the talent, the staff and the business processes in place to build great projects. So where are all the clients? Done well, marketing can keep customers walking through the door despite the ups and downs of the economy. The keys...
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Interior designer Jennifer Reynolds had to work hard to sell a recent groom on letting chartreuse into his life. Her newlywed clients were decorating their first home together, and “he was in favor of only...
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Photo via Houzz · Meiselman with enviable outdoor space wants $649K. · Watch a classic fiberglass chair get made by hand. · Huge Real World Corn Exchange asks $4.3M. · Thomas Britt crafts a vibrant pied-à-terre. ·...
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Have you noticed more and more cowhide rugs in interior pictures, magazines and furniture catalogs lately? Natural cowhide rugs make a big come back this coming fall and I can't complain: they offer a soft touch to a wooden floor, a cosy...
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Are you guys brave foodies? Me, not so much. But sometimes I have my moments. Hello everyone, this is Jewels again from Liz & Jewels with another episode for Food in Motion. Here in New York, I see people on the streets all the time ...
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We’ve already told you of some pretty party drink stirrers, and here’s one of the ideas in details. For these wood block stirrers you’ll need wood blocks in the following sizes 1 1/2 in, 1 1/4 in, 3/4 in, a hand drill and drill bit, pain...
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I hate shaving, and have always viewed it as a bothersome to-do item rather than a pleasurable manscaping ritual. To some extent this is probably because of the shaving objects I use. Gilette's Mach3 Turbo blades produce a good shave but...
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Learn how to apply your knowledge of brand strategy to packaging in the Product Packaging Design Strategy course from HOW Design University. On Wednesday, brand strategy gurus Marcia Hoeck and Ed Roach will present a live design tutorial...
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“We only have to buy as much as we can store,” says the inventor. “We make the shoes on demand; there’s no surplus; there’s no warehouse of size 8’s.
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the hygienic furniture system lets the owner become the designer as they create multiple arrangements of blue and green to complement interior concepts. The post fritz und franken develops storage modules for work and play appeared first...
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A new maze from Danish architecture firm BIG, is made for those of us with higher than normal maze-related anxiety.
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Back in 2012 we featured a brief video about a small automata that could almost perfectly mimic the song of a bird. Using mechanics similar to a clock, the fully automated wind-up device sucks air into a small bellows and forces it throu...
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There's nothing I love more than cocky, clickbait-y, ham-fisted, virally-aimed campaigns and content-free content marketing. Well, it's my lucky day, because since last week the pablum hose has been backing up with a flutter of buzz for ...
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Jim Stoten’s new children’s book stars the very helpful and rather well-dressed Mr Tweed.
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Pic of the Day #450
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Print Club London has commissioned a series of ‘alternative’ film posters from illustrators including Rose Blake, Kate Moross and Hattie Stewart.
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“We have these brief lives, and our only real choice is how we will fill them. Your attention is precious. Don’t squander it. Don’t throw it away. Don’t let companies and products steal it from you. Don’t let advertisers trick you ...
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The desk sets, inspired by R. Buckminster Fuller, were pulled from shelves in 2012. The maker of Buckyballs and Buckycubes has agreed to issue refunds to customers who return the high-powered desk magnets. In 2012, the Consumer Safety Co...
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Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: artist Lucy McRae explains how she plans to vacuum-pack visitors at the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition in September to prepare their body for long-haul space travel. "I'm keen on exploring how the body co...
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The move comes amid a flurry of furniture industry mergers and acquisitions Design Within Reach , the retailer known for seducing American homeowners into an (expensive) love affair with European design, has attracted a new admirer. Herm...
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First Sight: Smart Fortwo and Forfour
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Megumi Igarishi is free but could still face criminal charges for distributing 3-D-printable files of her vagina. The Japanese "vagina artist," Megumi Igarishi, has been freed from police custody after a week in jail following her arrest...
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Utrecht’s historical Maliehuis building has been transformed by Dutch designer Maurice Mentjens to house the headquarters of Dutch creative agency Born05.
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If the artwork is on train tracks, is it still called street art? Rail art? Either way, we’re loving this series by Portuguese artist Artur Bordalo in which he cleverly converts the horizontal lines of train tracks into a canvas. The ser...
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Jon Daniel talks to Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party.
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Johnny Cupcakes has recently launched "Johnny Cupcakes Farms" - a limited and exclusive (as always) T-Shirt design of Johnny's iconic cupcake logo reconfigured as a meat cupcake. Lead designer, Chris DeLorenzo, tells us the idea came abo...
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Photo by Leung Ching Ho The bustling scenes of Hong Kong at night wouldn't be complete without the constant glow of its neon-lit streets. This is a sentiment that is not only experienced by those who have made the pilgrimage to the city ...
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It took an established 83-year-old photographer Ken Heyman by a great surprise when he found a box full of black and white photos of mothers and their children around the world that he took 50 years ago. Related posts: Almost Lost 1950-6...
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The New Yorker website is now responsive--but it also has a metered paywall. Following a redesign of the magazine last September , the New Yorker has today unveiled a new look for its website. NewYorker.com is now easier to read on smart...
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the 1 lb. and 1/8" thick shell units produce a very light yet strong canopy structure, demonstrating the architectural potentials of carbon fiber. The post IIT design studio fabricates pavilion of carbon fiber panels appeared first on de...
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Your enjoyment is not just encouraged, but mandatory. All too often, we sit mutely staring at commercials, or distractedly flipping through channels, watching our televisions joylessly. But with the Smile TV , a student project by design...
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Experiments and side projects are wonderful ways to challenge yourself and explore areas that you wouldn't usually consider exploring. That's what Smashing Mystery Riddles are for us: little experiments that challenge us to...
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Porsche has officially opened three new buildings - including a new design studio with concept car construction facility - at its Weissach development center, marking the conclusion a $200 million investment project in the center's history.
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When Nike launched its latest Nike Free model: Nike Free 5.0, the most flexible shoe in history, it needed to communicate the completely unique attribute. To do this, Publicis Impetu, a Uraguay based advertising agency, decided to develo...
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Pixel precision is imperative for responsive web design in the age of retina display. Dig into what constitutes a "pixel," the differences and more. The post Hardware + CSS Pixels in the Age of Retina Display appeared first on HOW Design .
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Alana, the founder of Etta + Billie, has a true passion for natural bath + body products. Wanting to make a difference, she combined her passion of natural products and creativity and developed Etta + Billie. After developing her product...
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Figure 1: Digital CAD used to communicate form and design aesthetic. All images Courtesy of Younghoon Hwang, UNIST, Korea From thumbnail sketches to low fidelity models and prototypes to test rigs, CAD concept renderings, illustrations, ...
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In Asian countries, designs made of bamboo are common and have been used for centuries. Modern designers are also interested by this strong and flexible material that is perfect for creating great designs. In this post we share some grea...
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Porsche opens new Weissach design studio
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PriestmanGoode has designed new interiors for Embraer’s fleet of E2 Commercial Jets.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Smithsonian and Sadler’s Wells are all planning to be part of the ‘Olympicopolis’ development.
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This World print by Wasted Rita. (via Bas)
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A big thank you to Doxie for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed. Scan drawings, sketches, notebooks, posters, artwork, receipts, and anything else with Doxie. It scan everything brilliantly with batteries and built-in memory, so there’...
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Color-coordinated outfits aren't fetch, a new study says. But neither is power clashing. Put down the color-coordinated pantsuit. Scientific research has ruled on what's fashionable, and wearing matching colors is officially out. The ver...
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It's Monday! It's time to check out our Top 10 packaging projects for the week of July 13th - 19th! Here we go! Related Posts: Top 10: This Week's Top Packaging Projects
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Making its official debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show in March, the Quant e-Sportlimousine has now been officially approved by Tüv Süd in Munich for use on public roads. Built around a monocoque composed of carbon-fibre structures, the...
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This fantastic short cartoon won't teach you everything you need to be a designer, but it's a great start. Although not anyone can be a designer, everyone who wants to can learn the elements of visual design: contrast, transparency, hier...
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Never wonder which car has empty seats again. Getting on a train always involves a certain amount of guesswork. You don't know where the train will stop on the platform or where you should stand to get a seat. One car might be full, anot...
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Are you looking for a career with a growing company? Looking for a challenging and quick pace environment? Then look no further than this Design Researcher role for Milwaukee Tool in Brookfield, WI. Since its founding in 1924, Milwaukee ...
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the vehicle delivers a driving range of up to 600 km, and draws energy from an electrolyte flow cell power system. The post 912 horsepower QUANT e-sportlimousine runs exclusively on salt water appeared first on designboom | architecture ...
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The penultimate extract from the Car Design Review yearbook
