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animated label

Posted on December 11th by Leonardo Bonanni.
there’s something about stop-motion animation that appears real, maybe because of its physicality of because of all those smart materials and the promises of nano-technology. in any case and ...
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paint it white

Posted on December 9th by Leonardo Bonanni.
in today’s new york times magazine rob walker talks about the new fire extinguisher on sale at the home depot - the home hero - which replaces our old extinguishers ...
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virtual fit

Posted on December 6th by Leonardo Bonanni.
louise guay, president and founder of my virtual model, presented her company’s avatar-based fashion shopping and social networking system tuesday at the moda+tecnologia gathering at the ICA. on-line shopping ...
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interknit

Posted on December 3rd by Leonardo Bonanni.
netGranny is a revolutionary service where consumers directly commission grandmothers in switzerland to custom-knit socks for them. it has the spirit of transparency of programs like dole’s organic labels, with ...
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PC/PR

Posted on October 30th by Leonardo Bonanni.
prominent in 3M’s proud history of ’scotch’ tape is the pejorative origin of the product’s name (above). what makes some companies proud of their racist past while others deny it? 3M ...
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rendering opinions

Posted on October 30th by Leonardo Bonanni.
america’s first project off the coast of cape cod is being fought over renderings. wind-industry-backed (with 61% resident support) cape wind produced a set of renderings of how the offshore wind ...

CSIphone

Posted on October 29th by Leonardo Bonanni.
this excellent video is just greenpeace’s latest effort to PRessure apple into adopting somewhat better environmental policies - using the dissection of a popular device to reveal the inherent ugliness of what ...

youTruth

Posted on October 26th by Leonardo Bonanni.
perusing the suppliers of the laptop i write these posts on, i came across a supplier to lenovo (as well as acer, dell, fujitsu, motorola,
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carpenter shelter

Posted on October 18th by Leonardo Bonanni.
at the cooper hewitt’s lackluster ‘design for the other 90%‘ exhibit i was puzzled by the ‘day labor station:’ a well-intentioned shelter for immigrant day laborers who - at ...
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costly disposables

Posted on October 17th by Leonardo Bonanni.
greenpeace is at it again, after successfully bullying apple for its environmental carelessness by ranking it as the worst PC manufacturer in terms of environmental impact (march ‘07) and ...
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snug-fab

Posted on October 11th by Leonardo Bonanni.
mass customization is only slowly gaining ground in industries such as automobiles, and usually only with cosmetic choices like the color of seats. a number of shoe manufacturers have interfaces for customers ...
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patronizing design

Posted on October 8th by Leonardo Bonanni.
apple fans seem to enjoy design that limits choices, requires new skills and costs a lot. but my problem with apple isn’t just because they are unabashedly unfriendly to the environment. the ...