When Evernote partnered with Moleskin last year the collaboration made analogical sense. But Evernote learned something from this experiment, says the company: their subscribers were willing to buy expensive, aesthetically pleasing stuff. But Evernote already charges users–so the question is, how do you know when your users might actually […]
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Think of some of your favorites foods, the kinds you routinely crave, dream about. Can you feel the unctuous texture of otoro (fatty tuna belly) or taste the complex notes of a dark chocolate truffle? Are you nursing the phantom pizza burn on the roof of your mouth, creamy […]
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In children’s storybooks, mushrooms often make great furniture for tiny creatures like fairies, gnomes, and toads (hence “toadstools”). In real-world design advances, the meeting of fungi and furniture is a, uh, fast-growing trend. It was only a matter of time before the mushrooms met the other Great Promise of […]
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As London’s Olympic Village was built, designers had Athens and Beijing on their minds: both former hosts are saddled with giant, useless buildings. “Our premise was, we’re designing for legacy, and, oh, yes, we happen to be accommodating the Games first,” said Ken Durbin, a technical director with CH2M […]
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The wolf might be the rockingest animal, at least if you consider the number of bands whose names pay it tribute: There’s Wolf Parade, AIDS Wolf, Wolfmother, Wolf Eyes, We are Wolves, Steppenwolf, Howlin’ Wolf, Guitar Wolf, and just Wolf (a Swedish heavy metal band). But as a threatened […]
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Well, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department isn’t using an oracle yet, but it is getting one step closer to Minority Report -style crime predicting. The department has become the latest agency to use big data analytics and data mining to prevent crime by staying one step ahead of criminals. […]
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Two of our recent parks in New York City ─ Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) and Segment Five of Hudson River Park ─ were both significantly inundated with several feet of salt water during Hurricane Sandy. At mid-tide, with thousands of fellow Brooklynites, I stood on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade […]
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Our collective desire to live in cities has never been stronger. According to the World Health Organization, 60% of the world’s population will live in a city by 2030. As urban populations swell, what people demand from their cities is evolving. In India and China, developers have embarked on […]
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Cody Foster & Co.–a company accused of pirating the designs of online artists and selling them to major retailers as their own creations–is losing another retail partner. Since our exposé of Cody Foster published late last week , retail chain Anthropologie has come forward, stating that they are severing […]
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There are more cyclists than ever in cities today, a fact that isn’t lost on city planners and administrators. Streetscapes are changing accordingly, as they are amended to accommodate bike lanes. The result is a healthier urban environment with a robust transport network. But tensions inevitably arise when such […]
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