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Reimagining an Addictive Icon
They once graced the dark corners of America. From the crassly functional to quaint stylized relics of the mid-twentieth century, cigarette vending machines offered instant satisfaction to smokers until their numbers dwindled due to steady changes ...
PC/PR
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 ...
CSIphone
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 ...
carpenter shelter
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 ...
costly disposables
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 ...
voodoo chat
schulze and webb’s availabot is an ambient reminder of whether your friend is logged in to chat. it’s a good idea to take non-essential functions off your computer desktop, but it’s ...
improvisation
open-source design promises a lot of invention but has the trouble motivating a lot of people to contribute design work. but one kind of distributed design is flourishing: improvised explosive devices, which ...