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Fast Company’s iPad App Explores Best-Designed American Products

October 1, 2011

Photo: Screenshot of U.S. Design iPad app by Fast Company.

If you seek out products that are “Made in America,” seek out this app. It’s called the “United States of Design” and was created by the Fast Company magazine folks. I may have come across i…

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Solar Decathlon 2011: Team California

September 29, 2011

Photo credit: Michelle Kaufmann

Michelle Kaufmann judged this year’s Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall’s West Potomac Park.

Spending time in this home as a juror for the Solar…

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Solar Decathlon 2011: Ohio State

September 29, 2011

Photo credit: Michelle Kaufmann

Michelle Kaufmann judged this year’s Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall’s West Potomac Park.

Spending time in this home as a juror for the Solar…

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Zem Joaquin, Founder of Ecofabulous.com (Podcast)

September 29, 2011

Even if the label of “maven” is painfully over-applied, there are people who still deserve it. Zem Joaquin, the stylish polymath behind Ecofabulous.com, is one of those few. Zem has been on the editorial side of mags like House and Garden, Domino, and…

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Textiles Abound at Origin Craft Fair

September 29, 2011

Photo: B. Alter, Danielle Gori-Montanelli

Origin: the Contemporary Craft Fair brings together 200 of the most innovative UK and international crafts people in one really big show.

Textiles are always a big part of the fair and this year they came in…

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Solar Decathlon 2011: Canada

September 28, 2011

Photos by Michelle Kaufmann

Michelle Kaufmann judged this year’s Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall’s West Potomac Park.
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Solar Decathlon 2011: Illinois

September 28, 2011

Photos by Michelle Kaufmann

Michelle Kaufmann judged this year’s Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall’s West Potomac Park.

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Solar Decathlon 2011: Maryland

September 28, 2011

Photos by Michelle Kaufmann

Michelle Kaufmann judged this year’s Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall’s West Potomac Park.

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The Acoustic Alarm Plucks A Tune To Wake You Up

September 28, 2011

Images credit Jamie McMahon

Alarm clocks and clock radios are not a pleasant way to start your day. But product designer Jamie McMahon has reinvented it, with a softer, natural tone generated by a rotational pick that plucks guitar strings to wake yo…

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Sancal’s Natural Collection; Good Furniture Locally-Made in Spain (Photos)

September 28, 2011

Image Credit: Sancal

Located in Murcia, south-east Spain, Sancal is one of the few furniture companies still left in the country that manufacture locally and have not taken their production elsewhere where labor is cheaper and regulations often weake…

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