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Scheisse is a large pendant lamp. The lamp pays its respect to the traditional incandescent light bulb,which with its warm light and good color reflec..
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WHITE Pendant Organza Light Lamp Hanging MODERN New!
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A while back I wrote "Where to Go to Find Design Inspiration ", where I listed some of my favorite places to peruse when I’m looking for design inspiration. At the end, I posed the following question to the readers: "Where do you go for design inspiration?", and asked that you contribute suggestions. [...]

Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.

Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS3 [...]

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Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome Max Gladwell, of MaxGladwell.com , as a regular guest writer on sustainablog. Max Gladwell covers the nexus of social media and green living. We feel that these two trends and technological developments hold tremendous promise for improving quality of life for everyone on the planet.
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AdSense for Search is now powered by Google Custom Search. Yesterday, Google officially announced the availability of AdSense for Search for use in combination with the powerful Google Custom Search service, something not possible until now and potentially very welcome to both small and large professional web publishers looking for further ways to optimize their [...]

Persuading people to buy, to sign-up for your newsletter, or to download your supercool new PDF, it is much harder than internet marketers would have you believe, and to obtain tangible successes it is generally not enough to have a great product and to be able to sell it online.

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What is Feedburner ? I know many of you are already very familiar with Feeburner and its array of useful features, but however hard to believe, I am getting a ton of emails from individuals just starting their online publishing career and asking me to spend a few words to better explain what Feedburner is [...]

Gel fireplace made of stainless steel
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This fully adjustable stainless steel belt by Sebastian Bergne. Clever details and unusual use of materials makes it truly unique.
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Black leather silver glitter flame belt size 34
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Your corporate identity is very important when starting out. Here are dozens of stunning logos to inspire you and your graphic designer when creating your business’ face to the world.

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Have a voice conference while co-browsing any web site and whiteboarding with your team. Better yet: connect to all major instant messaging networks from one new service, share Flickr pictures in real-time while you are chatting, and send any type of file or document without using email. All in this week collaboration tools focused Sharewood [...]

Publish your recorded video lecture next to your PowerPoint original slides while keeping everything in sync, compare and convert images, download videos, and browse your image library like you have never done before. All in this week Sharewood Picnic and more.

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Here my selected visual communication tools for this week:

Vcasmo: Combine PowerPoint files with [...]

There is a lot of information out there. And it’s growing. Faster. It is difficult to get a clear grasp of the amount of information currently in existence and we are all at a primitive stage when it comes to handle, process, digest, evaluate and understand this growing ocean of information coming at us.
In this [...]

AdSense revenues can ignite spikes of exhilarating joy as well as phenomenal dips of depression, depending on whether AdSense-based revenues are moving rapidly up or have suddenly dropped without any apparent logic to it.
The reasons for such advertising revenue fluctuations can vary a great deal, and learning which variables and factors can affect them [...]

Extending Internet reach and accessibility while making it more resilient, and immune to possible controls and manipulations has been one of the major concerns addressed, and although some significant steps forward, at least in terms of awareness, have been made in this direction, bridging the digital divide and safeguarding Internet net neutrality has remained for [...]

Welcome to 2008, the year of the friend. This year it’s not about what you like or are interested in, it’s what you will show interest in because your friends thought you should. Toluu has launched to help us with this task. It’s simple to use: pop in your feed list (also known as OPML), [...]

Alright so this one is a bit complicated but let’s give it a try. KIT Capital, which has invested in former NY-based ROO Group, has provided an unspecified strategic investment in NY-based Viewdle. Viewdle has created a video search engine based on their proprietary facial recognition software. Side note, why aren’t they indexing photos in addition [...]

Pufferfish’s flagship inflatable display system, the
PufferSphere®, offers a compelling 360° spherical
viewing window for the high-impact display of digital
content in a wide range of environments. Visible at
distance, this unique platform opens the way to new
possibilities in the presentation of content.
The arresting 2 or 2.5 diameter spherical screen is
inflated via a [...]

Part sculptural works, part high-design objects, these
warm and functional forms are composed of seamlessly
interconnecting stools, chairs and benches that blend
historical and contemporary aesthetics with an
unusually light-hearted touch.
Designer: Yvonne Fehling, Jennie Peiz
Made in Germany
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A lightweight wooden chair using duct tape for the seat
and backrest. Easy to renovate, just by using a piece
of new tape.
Designer: Stephan Siepermann
Material: wood, ducttape
Made in the Netherlands
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RADIO DESIGNSPOTTER SPECIAL-JUST FOR YOU!
Easter holiday without soulsender.de? No way jose!
Again the guys from soulsender.de are doing a
fantastic job and spinning the wheels of stylez
just for you designspotter friends. Take some time
to listen to our designspotter radio easter special.
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Design company Indera joined forces with Xavier Lust,
rising star of the Belgian design. Their cooperation is
epitomized in ‘FLOW’, a beautiful timeless sofa.
In this sofa, Xavier Lust unites innovation, movement
and emotion. He combines cool high tech/futuristic
aluminium with a sensual, seamless play of shapes and
warm fabrics.
The result is ‘FLOW’, [...]

Soul Ash Solace
There’s only one certainty in life: we will all die
someday. In our society there’s a trend towards cremation.
Cremation however demands for specific solutions.
Therefore we’ve created a cremation coffin with integrated
urn in order to appeal to the specific functional needs
and emotional circumstances of a cremation funeral.
Most coffins on the [...]

an acoustic, half high, freestanding wall that won
already the ‘Brussels Design Award for Best Belgian
Product’.
Designer: Sas Adriaenssens
Made in Belgium
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Moonwalk lamp
This cosmonaut lamp is a “Playful” wink in the universe
of the creator. The lamp is in aluminum cuted and lacquered.
(Several colours are available).
Designer: Thomas De Lussac
Made in France
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Originally Richard designed it as the ceiling for the
offices of the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in
Rotterdam. Now it’s being taken in production by Gispen
office furniture.
Designer: Richard Hutten studio bv
Made in the Netherlands
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We are honoured that the Goethe Institut Toronto
support our ROADSPOTTER GOES CANADA tour 2008.
More Information about the tour
and our Sponsors: Website
Goethe Institut Toronto: Website

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The ingredients:
photo+Your message+our idea+a stamp = getframed!
The ready-made, mailable paper picture frame in an
envelope. Open, fold, put up: The 10×15cm picture
frame is ready. Once folded, it is a standard picture
frame, which is delivered as a pre-cut paper in an
envelope. Included in the envelope is also a pictogram
detailing instructions and space [...]

Bomb usb is one serious weapon of mass storage.
Designer: Joel Escalona
Made in Mexico
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At both Contemporary art exhibits I have been to this month at The New Museum and the Biennel Exhibit at the Whitney I have noticed and admired the use of neon colors. I especially love it in small doses for example in type treatments or other details. Cards shown by Christopher and Tia.
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This house creates a bridge between static furniture and
educational playful objects. The house contains 12 blocks,
which children can play with. Children between the age of
3 and 12 are able to design and build new forms.Older
children can make those forms high in the sky and younger
children can make new forms at [...]

The basis for “Sciocolà” project is the purpose of
create a Luxury object that increase the value of
wood and its sensuous qualities. Sciocolà seat
invite you to live the downtime as a pleasure and
a luxury moment. These feelings come from high quality
of materials, manufactory care and the design that
allude to the pleasure [...]

Pendant lamp with inflatable shade in black and white
PVC. Diameter 80 cm. 1 x compact fluorescent light bulb
21-24 W. You can call it “lamp made of air”. In fact the
air is the main material, which the lamp is built of.
That’s way despite it’s size lamp is very lightweight.
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‘Papercut” is the result of the collaboration between
the architectural office dARCH Studio and the fashion
designer, Yiorgos Eleftheriades. A place 90m2, located
on the first floor of a two-storey building at the
center of Athens, where the fashion designer exhibits
his work. The need to synthesize the two different
approaches to design (fashion [...]

This year’s fashion exhibition MODEPALAST takes
place for the sixth time at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier
from 17 until 20 April 2008. In one big fashion zone
young Austrian and international labels present designs
ranging from Street Couture to Urban Wear and High
Fashion. Against the background of the EURO 2008
Austrian and Swiss designers show their ideas [...]