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Louvre

Mon Dieu! Apple Store Coming the Louvre

There's a price for everything, even in the Louvre: Tomorrow, Apple will be opening up their very first Parisian Apple Store, and it'll sit in the concourse right below I.M. Pei's glass pyramid. According to Bloomberg, this'll be ...READ»

Pearl Academy

Winners Announced in the 2009 World Architecture Festival

Today, winners were announced in the World Architecture Festival, a sprawling convocation that also serves as the most varied architectural competition around. Here's a collection of some of the most intriguing award winners.READ»

peter-clarke

The Rhythm of Design: How Being a Marine Drummer Set My Lifetime Creative Tempo

Peter Clarke's hybrid experience as a musician in the U.S. Marine Corps. gave him the skills to build a company that blends discipline and creativity to take on the challenges of designing the world's best-known brands.READ»

airfilter

Air Filter Uses Plants to Filter Toxins

Two years ago, when this concept was first shown off, we never thought it had a chance. But this week, the Andrea air filter has finally gone on sale--for $199. The idea is simple enough: Plants naturally filter toxins. So the ...READ»

WineTastes

Infographic of the Day: How Do Different Wines Taste?

Here's an infographic that should help anyone who loves getting drunk drinking wine, but can't tell a pinot from a merlot from 7-Eleven's new cab sav. For his class, Visualizing the Five Senses, NYU grad student Carl Tashian ...READ»

Herbert Bayer Sphere

Bauhaus: A Hot House for Ideas

A new exhibition at MoMA tracks how the Bauhaus ethos sprang up and blossomed.READ»

Rotterdam

Rotterdam's Fantastic Plan to Make Storm Water Beautiful

The city is planning 25 parks that will recycle rainwater while serving as urban playgrounds.READ»

thermostat

Does It Feel Green in Here? Turning Down the Office Thermostat Doesn't Save Energy

Your employees have agreed to sacrifice their comfort in exchange for energy savings. You turn down the thermostat, everyone dons a sweater, and it's all good, right? Not so fast. A new study from energy efficiency company Johnson ...READ»

Blu Dot

Blu Dot Drops Chairs on NYC Streets; Tracks Movements, Cool, but is it Marketing?

At 9:40 a.m. on Thursday, a white van pulled over near the corner of 68th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. A cameraman armed with a telephoto lens watched from the corner. A video crew snooped from a rooftop. Half a dozen ...READ»

Litl

Lisa Strausfeld, Yves Behar, and Abbott Miller Form Supergroup, Design Litl Netbook

The Litl netbook rethinks interface design, and boasts pitch-perfect design details. Too bad about the price.READ»

DressRental
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RentTheRunway.com: High-Fashion Party Frocks for Rent

There are some things to be thankful for, because of the recession: Web-based purveyors of discounted fashion are thriving, and even when the economy comes back, we'll still have them around. Recently there was Gilt Group, which has ...READ»

The Design of Business

What's Thwarting American Innovation? Too Much Science, Says Roger Martin

By pushing the principles of scientific management too far, corporations are short-circuiting their own futures, says the designiest dean of all the business schools. "The enemy of innovation is the phrase 'prove it,'" Roger Martin says.READ»

VerticalFarm

Vertical Farms, a Tower of B.S.

Urban farming might be ridiculous--but ridiculousness has its uses.READ»

barman

The Bar as a Brand Experience: Growing Up a Saloon Keeper's Son

Barkeeping and branding are both in Joe Duffy's blood ... and have more in common than you might think.READ»

china-design

The Portland Art Museum Transforms an Exhibition Into a Social Platform

A new exhibition is a wake-up call for businesses that have been slow to adopt platform thinking. Companies, non-profits and cultural institutions can all learn from its example.READ»

Nebulus

Infographic of the Day: Nebul.us Graphs Your Lifestream

Can infographics finally deliver on the promises of social networking?READ»

30Convs

30 Design Minds on Their Favorite Designs and How Design Should Evolve

Maybe you don't work at a big, high-powered graphic design house like Little & Company, but you can still benefit from their largesse. The firm traveled the world, amassing video interviews with some of the best design minds ...READ»

Museum of Jewish Heritage

Soundscape of Immigrant Voices Shapes Exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

"Voices of Liberty" is a soundscape of voices of immigrants -- among them Daniel Libeskind, Henry Kissinger, Holocaust survivors, Soviet refuseniks, Rwandans fleeing genocide -- telling stories about arriving in America for the first time. Neil Diamond would approve.READ»

spit
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Big League Chew: Phils Out-Spit Yanks

Are the Yankees and Phillies actually playing baseball on Ken Carbone's widescreen TV? To him they're just hocking high-def loogies.READ»

Lightbulb Idea

When Is the Right Time to Start a Business? Now.

If you look at the history of successful companies, they start up in good times and bad.READ»