Category Archives: Design

What’s behind the recent changes at Good magazine?

By Flavie | Published: April 9, 2009
I just opened the new issue of Good magazine — the magazine with the best paper smell — and was surprised by the answer give to the first letter to the editor. Our big focus is on doing more with less — which is why we’ve shifted from six issues a year to being a quarterly, [...]
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What your PC will look like

By Flavie | Published: June 23, 2008
The 2007-2008 Next-Gen PC Design Competition results are out. Once again, the candidates of this contest organized by Microsoft had to come up with their vision of a futurist PC, which would be designed for a specific application. The results are diverse and target all sorts of fields, from the office to childhood education and [...]
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Celebrities design

By Flavie | Published: June 6, 2008
You’ve probably heard about it already, Brad Pitt will join a team of architects to design the plans of an ecologically-sensitive 800-rooms luxury hotel in Dubai. Pitt has always been interested in architecture and is currently working on a housing project in New Orleans to relocate victims of Katrina. And singer/producer Pharell Williams designed his first [...]
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Design Can Change

By Flavie | Published: May 17, 2008
An article published in today’s Life Style section of the Globe and Mail presents Design Can Change, a campaign launched by Vancouver designer Eric Karjaluoto. Following the principles explained by Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point — social epidemics are better spread by small well-connected and influential groups — he launched his website to push [...]
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100-mile design

By Flavie | Published: April 19, 2008
After the 100-mile diet, please welcome the 100-mile design. This Saturday’s Globe and Mail edition talks about Canada-made luxurious furniture that we can be proud of and buy without having to worry about our carbon footprint. Maybe next week they’ll explain how to get local furniture when you’re on an Ikea budget… In the same Life [...]
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Eco-design

By Flavie | Published: April 17, 2008
A new showroom in Paris specializes in contemporary furniture made out of recycled materials. Their goal is to associate luxury with ecology. If you speak French you can read this article to know more about Acabas.
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