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A design blog for the Industrial Design Program at the National University of Singapore (NUS)

September 2007 - Posts

NextGEN PC design competition
deadline: December 14, 2007 Influence tomorrow's digital lifestyle with your vision of the Next-Gen PC. Change the way people pursue their passions by designing the ultimate Next-Gen Windows-based PC. Give them everything they need to do what they love, Read More...
Leapfrog wins Braunprize 2007 (update)
The 16th International BraunPrize, one of the most coveted prizes for young designers, has been awarded to Donn Koh from Singapore for his project “LeapFrog”, an innovative walking aid for children with impaired mobility. Mr. Donn Koh, a recent National Read More...
Sony's Rolly
What looks like the latest attempt by Sony to knock the iPod off its throne appears to have kicked off in Japan this morning with the launch of a new website called Rolly World . It's a round player with built-in speaker, with 1GB of internal memory and Read More...
Ted Talks Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature
With 3.8 billion years of research and development on its side, nature has already solved problems that human designers and engineers still struggle with. In this inspiring talk, Janine Benyus provides fascinating examples of biomimicry -- the way humans Read More...
Design Thinking
To represent design thinking, IDEO chose objects from Cooper-Hewitt that demonstrate innovative problem solving over the past five centuries. IDEO uses three lenses-Inspiration, Empathy, and Intuition-to explore these objects and the very human impulses Read More...
TED Talks Chris Bangle: Great cars are Art
American designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an engaging account of the BMW Group's Deep Blue project, intended to create the SUV of the future. This passionate, entertaining -- and ultimately Read More...
1000 words of advice for design teachers
Allan Chochinov wrote an article titled "Everything You Ever Needed to Know You Learned in...: 1000 Words of Advice for Design Students." at Cor77 two year ago. Now he presents 1000 words of advice for design teachers . Below are some comments from him: Read More...
core 77's hack 2 school 1
In honor of the start of the school year, Core77 has put together the definitive set of tips, tricks, and lifehacks for design students. Everything you need to survive a design education has been hunted down, written up, and offered to you on a blue foam Read More...