From coins to keys to gewgaws, we dig LaCie’s multiple takes on the flash drive for their sheer variety of forms and amount of thought they’ve put into the devices. The coins in particular make the perfect currency metaphor for data, with the numerical capacity indicated on its face, and we love the way the interface emerges from the housing: Then they’ve got this little 69-ish DataShare device , which cleverly recycles your... 

The Ars Electronica Center is the second main location of Ars Electronica 2010. This so called “Museum of the Future” can’t be missed due to its striking architecture. The center along the Donau river showcases new technologies to its visitors in order to create insights and learn more about how technology affects our everyday lives. In front of the Deep Space room, people can’t wait to meet with ASIMO , Honda’s... 

Thanks to both Jeffrey Stephenson and you, our Core77 readership! Back in July we posted some shots-in-progress of Stephenson’s Mid-Century Modern PC tower design, seeking your input on some of his design queries; just this morning he’s e-mailed us shots of the finished product. Looks pretty sweet, and he’s even integrated dual cooling fans into the bottom of the housing. Hit the jump to read some of Stephenson’s thoughts... 

Check out the Marketplace at D-Build.org , a sort of Etsy for designers and consumers interested in reclaimed materials. In the Products section they sell finished products like Arbor & Taylor’s Lincoln series of furniture (above), all made from reclaimed lumber; those looking to do their own projects should check out the Materials section, where you can buy random hunks of old floor beams, planks, boards, framing, and even entire... 

YOU ARE HERE is one of the most important signs at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. The former tobacco factory is a great event venue but due to the big amount of spaces, stairways and events it’s easy to get lost. So far, we didn’t see any breadcrumb trails but visitors need to keep track not to miss out one of the many highlights. One of this year’s …  Read More →

Several signs are needed to guide all visitors towards the main entrance of the Tabakfabrik Linz, a former tobacco processing plant which is the main event area for this year’s Ars Electronica Festival . Arriving at the main square we walk into a performance by soft bodies who are using the central square as their stage, or better playground, to interact with their audience. This nude performer needed nothing more than a single rock to... 

Helmut Smit is our new favorite artist/designer, even if FLAMMA was the only project he’d ever done (it isn’t, by the way, and they are all stellar). This brilliant Ikea Hack “harks back to one of humanity’s basic needs: making fire.” As Ikea does not sell matches or lighters, Smits has taken cues from the wartime necessity of burning furniture to keep warm, and created a fire from an Ikea rope, hanger, wine rack,... 

Oscar Magnus Narud’s Keel collection: tables in rough wood and iron. Make-Me is an upcoming exhibition at Moss , running from September 15th through November 14th, that brings together an set of artists and designers producing what Moss has coined “Butch-Craft.” Maybe there is no better way to describe this than the words they use themselves: “a cerebral yet virile narrative applied to rough work crafted in wood, iron,... 

Honda R&D Automotive Designer Torrance, CA You will work independently on the development of original designs or adaptations requiring very specialized design skills and abilities. The Designer employs the best combination of preliminary information and contributing data to develop final designs (2D/3D) and basic concepts; selects technique best suited to represent project including graphics and technology; conducts product research to... 

Ah, the wonderful dilemma with design festivals: too much to do, too little time. The London Design Festival is making that problem even worse, announcing that it’s sweep of the city is broadening with three new design districts, each with its own character and events. In addition to Brompton and the Shoreditch Design Triangle , the Covent Garden, Fitzrovia Creative , and Clerkenwell districts will help to further inundate London with... 

Here’s a couple of interesting videos done by Austin-based design studio Zoticus Design , displaying computing-of-the-future concepts that demonstrate client Freescale’s networking prowess. In the second video, I dig the way the woman sends info to her tablet around 1:15; the first video is otherwise the more interesting one, but I kept thinking “Why in God’s name is that little girl wearing so much makeup?” Freescale... 

If you live in Brooklyn, the bane of your peaceful residential existence (or the source of your entertainment, depending on your disposition) is noisy teenagers hanging out on the stoop. So here we present The Last House I’d Ever Build in Brooklyn: Y+M Design Office’s Stairs House . The entire house, as you can see, is basically one gigantic stoop. Very cool for a beachside family property in Japan, not so cool when you live in Bushwick... 

Studiobility , the Icelandic design studio headed up by Gudrun Lilja, has launched a new partially-eponymous brand: Bility. Today at the Maison et Object design show in Paris, Lilja will take the wraps off of new Bility items like this Heklad Stal shelf made from polycoated steel: (more…)  Read More →

Alexander Wiethoff of the Department for Informatics at LMU Munich (and a former Experientia intern – disclosure) has developed with the Univeristy of Saarbr  Read More →

Continuum continues their series Open for Branding, where they are sharing, from start to finish, their latest branding project for the new, nomadic Design Museum Boston . Wow. Last week, we posted our Design Museum Boston branding concepts for feedback, and more than 1700 people checked out our survey and 274 completed it. The greatest part: everyone aligned–Continuum, Design Museum Boston, and you—on which directions were the strongest....