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Spiral Tree
Relish has created a holiday tree for minimalist families--or those with limited storage space. Star Trees are made from spirals of aluminum that telescope downward to form the cone-like ...
Red Light, Green Light
Cambridge, Massachusetts, based Ambient Devices relies on a 900 MHz network to provide a constant stream of weather, sports, and financial information to its customers. A product offered by the ...
Transportation in Context
The transportation and development process Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) emerged from the 1998 Thinking Beyond the Pavement conference, where participants sought to define a set of professional values that would ...
Designing Baseball
One of our favorite designers is at it again. Lokesh Dhakar illustrates baseball pitches so that you can understand them. If you aren't familiar with Lokesh's name, you're probably ...
Genetically Designing DIVs
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome.
Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively ...
Whole Tree Architecture
Roald Gundersen's Whole Tree Architecture incorporates unmilled trees into design and construction, creating buildings that balance an organic sense of style with a unique approach to preservation and sustainable development. Gundersen ...
The Way of the Gun
The cover of the September/October 2007 issue of Good Magazine bore the image of an AK-47--a symbol of good design as well as a socio-political icon--and asked the question: "Is ...
Five Million ‘Thank You’s from Recycled Canvas
Recycled Canvas, our recycled research wordpress theme that collects data about its users, has been around for a pretty long time now. We've collected an incredible amount of data. ...
The Poetry of Community
Virginia-based planning firm Sympoetica balances green design principles, a vibrant aesthetic sense, and respect for history with a usercentric approach to land use. The planners believe that designs based on ...
In the Light
Daylighting blends sustainable design techniques, industrial psychology and ergonomics, and environmental awareness to create usable spaces that connect people to the outside world while reducing their energy demands. Using carefully ...
Playing at Peace
Tamar Meshulam's cooperative game Master Peace asks players to complete a circuit around a felt board by developing a collaborative story reflecting a noncompetitive, creative system of personal interaction. Moving ...
Designers without Borders
Originally created to provide support for the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts in Kampala, Designers without Borders has become a cutting-edge consultant for schools and nonprofit groups in ...
Simple Designs: Designing Coffee
Sometimes we get lured into the perspective that design is some complicated arcane art. The reality is often that good design is simple, informative and clear. I recently saw these ...
Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed ...
Collaborative Conversations: Leonardo Bonanni
It is often difficult to capture the kind of conversations we have here at at the collaborative. This is an attempt to do that, in a quasi journalistic style. It ...