Book and magazine designer Derek Birdsall has been awarded the Prince Philip Designers Prize. TI View full entry
Pentagram, a design firm, offered its version of a future New York taxi at an exhibit opening last night at Parsons School of Design. Other suggestions included wheelchair accessibility and better roof lights. nyt View full entry
Core77 has posted a bunch of shots from Dutch Design Week. Take a look View full entry
Looking for something exciting tonight to wear out to the club? For all your stink envy, try the new fragrance collection by, uhhh... Hummer (H2). Yup, for real. (Read) View full entry
Via Milano, Design Academy Graduation Show and Utrecht Manifest. Now at www.reluct.com View full entry
Microsoft is getting into the design business. With Adobe's purchase of Macromedia, the war is about to begin. Expect Expression Suite to catch up with Illustrator and PhotoShop very quickly. View full entry
Vogler and Vittori's Desert Seal, currently on view at MoMA's Safe, gets an in-depth look from ESA. (Another archigram project finally realized?) View full entry
Rotterdam based designer Wouter Geense couldn't have made a better impression on me. His press package was handmade and was packed with small promotional gifts and a CDrom with his work. His work is very experimental and intelligent. My favorite design is this gasoline propelled record player... View full entry
Siemens has announced that it has developed a new type of computer display that is paper-thin at a disposable cost, scheduled to hit the market in 2007. Read View full entry
Here 's how big digital mapping companies like Navteq and Tele Atlas stockpile Yahoo and Google with stree-by-street city-maps. See how these researchers keep up with the constant chaging landscape, and chase after "the holy grail" of the $3 to $5 billion digital mapping industry: finding their... View full entry
'Minimizing Einstein' by Studio Demakersvan. Judith de Graauw of Demakersvan introduced an amazing radio recently, titled 'Minimizing Einstein'. You can change the volume by removing part of the speaker horn. The slider attached to the antenna is used to adjust the channel. RE. View full entry
An intriguingly bizarre exhibit at the Science, Industry and Business Library reveals the differences between television, radio, print and online advertisting. NYT View full entry
Hundreds of delegates met in Belfast this week to attend the annual World Toilet Summit. Experts discussed toilet-related issues including anti-social behavior in rest rooms, portable toilets, and facilities for the blind.CBC World News View full entry
Regine, best known for We Make Money Not Art launched a new blog that's off the eggshell, and it also has a cryptic title to boot. I'd best describe it as a blog about affective pieces. Regine also blogs for one of my other favorite blogs, Smart Mobs, among several others. www.no-garlic-please.com View full entry
When Mr.Michael Carroll won £9.7 million in the national lottery in Enland, no one knew what they were in for... NYT View full entry