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Finalist:Experimental

Luna Display

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Matt Ronge, Cofounder & CEO; Giovanni Donelli, Cofounder & Head of Product; Savannah Reising, Marketing Manager; Malyse McKinnon, Head of Artist Relations; Habib Moukalled, Senior Software Engineer; Adam Mika, Senior Software Engineer; Jake Swensen, Firmware Engineer

Honorable Mention:User Experience

Luna Display

Astro HQ

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Design will kill marketing, says Ikea’s former design chief

Marcus Engman is leaving Ikea to run a consultancy that convinces companies to spend their marketing budget on what matters: design.

Dyson’s latest product is a $550 hair curler

After six years and $31 million in development, Dyson is launching the Airwrap, a device that creates ringlets using a bit of aerospace-inspired physics.

Meet Krewe, the eyewear brand that New Orleans (and Beyoncé) built

The five-year-old brand’s founder is focused on giving back to his native New Orleans and putting it on the map of fashion-forward cities.

There’s even a Warby Parker of towels now

Weezie wants to shake up a mundane industry with design.

What the healthcare industry could learn from Lyft and Airbnb

The sharing economy is built upon service and interaction designs that engender interpersonal trust. Healthcare organizations could learn from it.

The future of web design is less, not more

Low-Tech Magazine’s new website is solar-powered, which means it goes offline in cloudy weather.

This building’s giant sundial shows how much energy it’s making

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