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August 22, 2009

Video: Green Box transforms standard pizza boxes

"Green Box is an innovative pizza box that easily breaks down into 4 serving plates, while the remainder of the box transforms into a storage container for leftovers. Made from a standard pizza blank, the Green Box requires no additional material and can therefore be produced at no additional manufacturing cost." (from the toxel.com post)

Check out the toxel.com post for lots of photos of this cool project.

Posted by Joshua Velasquez 

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August 20, 2009

Video: Peter Belanger's time lapse photography of the creation of a Macworld magazine cover

"After working on the latest cover for Macworld Magazine I wanted to show what is involved in making a cover. I focused on the three main areas: the photography, photoshop and design." (from the description on Vimeo)

Posted by Joshua Velasquez 

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August 20, 2009

Video: Using littleBits to design and prototype a coffeemaker

"In this video, we demonstrate the use of littleBits in the design and prototyping process of a coffeemaker, from the interaction aspect, to aesthetics, behavior, and overall experience." (from the description on Vimeo)

Posted by Joshua Velasquez 

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August 18, 2009

From the MOO blog: Creative products based on MiniCards

Photo by Flickr user Bibliopet

MOO is an online printing company famous for their custom MiniCards. A post on their blog today highlights a few creative uses of these cards to make fun products like dog tags and magnets. Product designers have to be resourceful, and these MiniCard-based products are examples of resourcefulness at its best.

Read the full post on the MOO blog.

Posted by Joshua Velasquez 

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August 17, 2009

Video: 'Sketch', a very cool kinetic drawing machine by Jeff Lieberman

"This is the kinetic drawing machine made by Jeff Lieberman, called 'Sketch' drawing a CMYK separated photo of an eye - only the black layer is shown of four layers totaling about 30 hours and 250,000 dots, all done with crayola markers." (from the description on YouTube)

Read more about Sketch on Jeff Lieberman's website.

Jeff is an MIT alum and now hosts Time Warp on the Discovery Channel. Be sure to check out more of his projects and photos.

Posted by Joshua Velasquez 

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August 16, 2009

Video: Manufacturing the MacBook unibody

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"Traditionally, notebooks are made from multiple parts. But the problem is, when you have multiple parts, you add size and weight and you increase the opportunity for failure. The huge breakthrough that we had was to replace all of those parts with just one part." -- Jony Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple

Posted by Joshua Velasquez 

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