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MineCraft Players Putting Themselves at Risk of Copyright Lawsuits
That tribute to your favorite TV show or videogame that you lovingly crafted out of blocks of stone in MineCraft could land you in some legal hot water if the company that made the original is in a litigious mood.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/18 9:31pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/18 9:31pm
Valuations: Why is This Watch Worth $312,000?
Purists prefer Patek Philippe, says Vanessa Herrera, deputy director for Sotheby's Asia watch department. Everytime the auction house has a Patek in its lot, it is flagged as an auction highlight. For the Oct. 6 Sotheby's watch auction, a Patek Philippe platinum 5078P sold for 2.42 million Hong Kong dollars (US$312,000). It was "a most sought-after piece," says Ms. Herrera.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/18 9:06pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/18 9:06pm
Braille Alphabet Bracelet Wins People’s Design Award
The votes have been tallied and the people have spoken: the Braille Alphabet Bracelet is the winner of the 2010 People’s Design Award. The Cooper-Hewitt’s annual crowd-sourced honor was presented to designer Leslie Ligon by White House Deputy Social Secretary Ebs Burnough and fashion designer Cynthia Rowley at last week’s National Design Awards gala in New York City.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/18 8:56pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/18 8:56pm
Falguni and Shane in running to design Perry’s wedding outfit
It seems that Falguni and Shane Peacock’s designs, which have bowled over the big-wigs of Hollywood, have impressed soon to be married couple Katy Perry and Russell Brand. As per the latest buzz, the designer duo, that had earlier designed an outfit for Perry, is competing with some big international names for designing her wedding gown.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/15 4:42pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/15 4:42pm
Design Tricks From the 2010 Kips Bay Decorator Show House
This year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House, the annual fundraising event for the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, got off to a rocky start when the original location was sold before the show house could open. Six months later in a new location across town, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House is finally ready for design enthusiasts to come in and drool.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/15 4:40pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/15 4:40pm
4 Game-Changing Trends in Web App Design
The web app is a signifier of a fundamental shift in computing. It’s representative of the cloud and our newfound ability to decentralize our technical lives and spread ourselves across desktop computers, mobile devices and pretty much anything else connected to the Internet.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/14 8:53pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/14 8:53pm
Taylor Momsen Has The Right To Bear Arms And A Bare Midriff
The face of Madonna’s Material Girl clothing line had on a her usual listless pout and thick eye makeup for the hard rock/heavy metal mag. Below, get a closer look at the gun-wielding Gossip Girl and tell us if you think Taylor’s look was on target.
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/14 4:19am
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/14 4:19am
99designs Holds Design Contest to ‘Design a Better GAP Logo’
99designs launched an open design contest to “Design a Better GAP Logo” in response to the criticism designers and GAP customers around the world expressed when the GAP recently unveiled its own logo redesign. The project was open for anyone to participate and received 4,660 submissions from over 1,000 designers in just 5 days.
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/13 5:36pm
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/13 5:36pm
London 2012 Olympic coin designed by Reading man
Shane Abery's boxing design beat 27,000 others in the first competition of its kind in the Royal Mint's 1,100 year history.
Mr Abery said he had entered the competition by chance and was was "shocked and ecstatic" to have won.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/13 5:34pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/13 5:34pm
Freak Week: Design Flaw
It was the logo redesign heard around the world -- and immediately, almost universally reviled. It came from the Gap, which last Tuesday quietly unveiled its new brand mark on its Web site, with the well-known white text on a blue square giving way to simple black Helvetica text with a smaller blue square intersecting with the lowercase "p."
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/10 6:08pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/10 6:08pm
Asus wins 12 design awards
Japan’s celebrated Good Design Award, also known as the G Mark Award, gives commendation to companies whose products best exemplified designs that the award-giving body believes could help enrich society and people’s lives. More than 1,000 companies and designers submit entries for consideration for the Good Design Awards each year.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/10 6:06pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/10 6:06pm
Printable Pumpkin Carving Templates and Stencils for Halloween
It’s the same with everyone who loves Halloween. There’s only about 20 days left and everyone is preparing party themes worldwide! There are also tons of Pumpkin Carving contests everywhere and this is right about the time where everyone is trying to search for Pumpkin Carving Templates and Pumpkin Carving Stencils online.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/10 6:04pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/10 6:04pm
Criticism causes Gap to backtrack on logo
Gap, the global clothing chain, has backtracked on a substantial relaunch of its renowned logo just days after it was unveiled.
The new logo – three black letters and a small blue square – provoked a storm of online abuse from both customers and graphic designers on blogs after it was unveiled on Gap’s US website on Monday.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/08 10:53pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/08 10:53pm
Google, YouTube celebrate John Lennon's 70th birthday
Google has found yet another way to present the logo on its home page, this time with video commemorating the 70th birthday of rock legend John Lennon.
The Google doodle is part of a larger tribute teaming Yoko Ono, EMI Music and Google's YouTube.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/08 10:10pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/08 10:10pm
America the Beautiful Silver Coins and Quarters: Contrasting Design Images
On Tuesday, October 5, CoinNews.net published an article that included an edge view of the 2010 America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins. The United States Mint started producing them on September 21, 2010, and they will launch later this year.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/08 9:32pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 10/08 9:32pm