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Create Your Own Greeting Cards

Cute, witty or simply colorful, a greeting card always brings a smile on the face of the recipient. iGreetingCard pushes things farther by allowing you to give your cards a really personal touch. Suitable for probably any occasion, greeting cards are amazing because they can go from expressing very personal feeling...

27 January 2012
11:11 GMT

Apple ‘Holed Up’ Designer for Months to Test Product Packaging

NetworkWorld offers a quick look into Adam Lashinsky’s ‘Inside Apple’ which goes on sale today, publishing a few excerpts that discuss Apple’s obsession with product design.Apple’s obsession with design comes not only from Steve Jobs, but also from Jonathan Ive, the company’s chief...

24 January 2012
09:02 GMT

Plan of Greening Up the Eiffel Tower Raises Controversy

As governments all across the globe are supporting new ways of fighting air pollution and preserving nature, France might perform an extreme green makeover for one of its most important symbols: the Eiffel Tower. The historical monument could look like a giant tree in the near future, due to a bold architectural pla...

3 January 2012
07:51 GMT

Best Eco-Friendly Houses Made from Recycled Tires

Latest ideas promoted by sustainable architects and designers prove that not only worldwide famous supermodels like Gisele Bündchen can make a difference by moving in an eco-friendly house with a minimal impact on the environment. Creative developers have launched a series of projects involving renewables and ...

30 December 2011
02:36 GMT

Lexus Ready to Bring New LF-LC Hybrid to Detroit

Toyota seems ready and eager to unveil the mystery surrounding its new shiny 2+2 sport coupe Lexus LF-LC concept that will most likely be under the spotlight during the Detroit Auto Show, organized on January 9th, 2012. This is the product of Lexus' Calty design studio located in Newport Beach, California and ...

28 December 2011
05:24 GMT

Early PlayStation Vita Models Had Clamshell and Slide Designs

Sony has revealed a few more interesting details about its upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld console, including some interesting tidbits about early versions of the device, which featured different designs such as sliding ones, like on the PSP Go, or clamshell ones, like the Nintendo 3DS.The PlayStation Vita is alre...

27 December 2011
19:21 GMT

Designer Launches First Pair of Eco-Friendly Headphones

Music is an important element in our lives, therefore companies operating in this industry have scaled up their efforts to launch a few eco-friendly alternatives. First, we spotted the guitar made from sustainable wood, now it is time to take a look at the amazing pair of Noisezero headphones designed by Michael Yo...

22 December 2011
06:09 GMT

Netbooks Can Become Security Bots on Wheels

Looks like anyone wondering what they could possibly do with their old netbook, finally has a solution that is both unusual and useful, assuming security is what they're seeking. Basically, Colin Adamson took an adjustable stand, some wheels, an Arduino micro-controller and a webcam periscope, plus the required...

21 December 2011
04:37 GMT

Behind the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 Studio Series Designs

Microsoft has made available a behind-the-scenes video designed to share with consumers the story of the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 Studio Series patterns. According to the Redmond company, inspiration for the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 Studio Series designs came from nature, hobbies and the city. Microsoft Ha...

29 October 2011
06:17 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Developer Talks About Constantinople Design

Ubisoft has talked about the design process in the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations title and how the team tried to create a unique location with Constantinople, recreating all of its iconic landmarks that existed in the 16th century, while emphasizing the different cultures that clashed in that older vers...

20 October 2011
03:57 GMT

Eye-Tracking Incorporated in CAD Tools

A group of experts from The Open University and the University of Leeds, both in the United Kingdom, say that augmenting computer-aided design (CAD) tool with eye-tracking technologies could easily remove some of the boundaries that using these programs places on human creativity.The team decided to call their approa...

19 October 2011
05:43 GMT

Architect Creates the ‘Earthscraper,’ Going 300m (984ft) Below Ground

Architect Esteban Suarez has come up with a solution to the current problem for building space in Mexico City and it doesn’t even imply tearing down historical landmarks – because it’s completely underground. If the Earthscraper is ever made, it will be the one building in the world to go this deep ...

13 October 2011
15:51 GMT

Mentor Graphics Collaborates with ARM on New Designs

Mentor Graphics deals in electronic design automation, and its recent projects have come to involve a closer partnership with ARM, so that processor-based designs may be more easily created. Computer-aided design automation is a very important part of the global IT industry, since it is used in more or less every...

19 September 2011
10:45 GMT

Redesigning the Workplace

Work flow efficiency experts say that it may be time to do away with the current setup most companies use. They add that the omnipresent cubicle should be removed from office floors and replaced with clusters of tables centered around mobile technologies and social services.Tablets, smart phones, and social technolog...

5 August 2011
09:53 GMT

Design Change Possible Before Nintendo Wii U Launch

Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Nintendo has announced that the design of the new Wii U home console that was shown at E3 2011 is not final and that a number of changes might be made to the hardware and to how it looks before it is released.Reggie Fils-Aime, who is the president and the chief e...

14 June 2011
13:41 GMT

Make Sure Your Products Will Look Amazing

Some say that a good product will sell itself but today’s salesmen know better: advertising and display are as important as quality. Planograms is an application that allows you to easily create your own schematics, so that your merchandise will have the same look and feel, regardless of its location. Creating ...

10 June 2011
11:51 GMT

Vector Drawing at Its Best

Creating or editing vector images isn't a simple process, but you can use various applications to ease your work. DrawIt offers its users some powerful vector editing tools, making the image creation process a lot easier for amateur illustrators.

Vector graphics allow the use of geometric figures (points,...

2 April 2011
09:01 GMT

SourceForge Revamps Interface, Gets on the HTML5 & CSS3 Bandwagon

SourceForge is the latest big name to adopt and use HTML5 and CSS3 for their user interface. Even if the official HTML5 and CSS3 standards have not been completed, large websites are making the crucial step toward this new technology.Developers and users alike have been pleasantly surprised on February 9th 2011 when ...

10 February 2011
09:28 GMT

Forrst One Year Anniversary Numbers, Forrst.me Goes Beta

One year after it went online in January 2010, Forrst, an invitation-only design community has grown spectacularly, posting very good numbers for a niche start-up.Launched a few months after Dribbble, the two established themselves as the main front runners when it came to high-end closed design communities.Right now...

3 February 2011
13:32 GMT

Create Your Own Custom Calendar

Whether you like to create our own yearly calendar just for fun, use it to mark important events in your life or to plan the next business move, Photo Calendar Creator will provide the tools to design the perfect calendar for your needs.Calendars can be used in a variety of situations, from daily planning to unique ...

2 February 2011
08:55 GMT

Notion Ink Adam Gets Its Own Website

Notion Ink, the company that promised not too long ago the launch of a new tablet PC that would run under Google's Android operating system, has just put up a special website to present their creation.On that website, one can find all the necessary info available on the slate's design, as well as on its so...

23 November 2010
04:21 GMT

Seagull-Like Designs for Cutting-Edge Aircraft Developed

At the meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics, held in Long Beach, California, researchers presented a departure from the classic design of aircraft. The goal was to avoid the classic shape of an airplane, and the result was an innovative, seagull-like aircraft. The main dri...

22 November 2010
04:20 GMT

Flash Card Creation at its Best

Put your creativity at work and create simple or professional flash cards in a matter of minutes. Education and intelligence are an important part of our life. Without them, we would be only some big creatures, that lack in intellectual talents. Even from ancient times, people realized that education is important, ...

25 September 2010
14:01 GMT

Boeing Finishes Critical Design Review of Intelsat 22

Boeing is building the Intelsat 22 satellite for Intelsat, fixed satellite services provider. The Ultra High Frequency payload will be placed on the IS-22, in order to be used by the Australian Defense Force. It will provide network, commercial video and voice services to Intelsat's customers in the Indian Ocean...

27 July 2010
05:41 GMT

The Best Way to Frame Your Pictures

People like to customize almost everything. The reason is simple. Why accept something standard when you can mold it to your requirements? This is how the need of photo editing software came to life. But this wasn't enough, because some people also wanted custom frames for their paintings and images. It was just...

2 July 2010
13:41 GMT

ASUS Waveface Design Concept Showcased

As we mentioned in some of our previous articles, ASUS had one of the most impressive booths at this year's CeBIT computer show in Hanover, Germany. The Taiwanese company managed to steal the show by introducing a couple of new products that combined designed with functionality. The e-book reader was one of the ...

10 March 2010
11:36 GMT

The Firefox 4 Home Tab Design Challenge Has a Winner (Pics)

Mozilla has been running a competition asking the community to come up with ideas on how the new Firefox 4 home tab should look like and function. Quite a number of submissions came in, but, after two rounds of voting, Mozilla is ready to announce the winner of the "People's Choice Award." "After two rounds of ...

2 March 2010
06:33 GMT

Vote for Your Favorite Firefox 4 Home Tab Design

There are plenty of reasons why Firefox has become so popular ranging from the technical to the philosophical. One would be that, when Firefox came out, it was the only viable alternative to Internet Explorer but a less cynical view would be that its success had plenty to do with the community involvement in the deve...

18 February 2010
03:41 GMT

The iPad Is Not All That Good Looking

I’ve had this on the tip of my tongue for a week now, but I just couldn’t get myself to write down these words. Until now, that is. Having seen so much disappointment about the iPad, I’m guessing few Apple fanboys will be offended by the allegation that the iPad is not all that great from a design s...

2 February 2010
14:54 GMT

Shipping-Container Homes Could Help Earthquake Victims

The January 12 Haiti Earthquake killed thousands, but left even more homeless, without a place to sleep. As rescue efforts develop, it becomes more and more obvious that the thousands of tents that have been erected as temporary housing units will not be maintained for longer. Still, constructing new homes for all th...

16 January 2010
04:38 GMT

Freescale Develops New Tablet Design for Second-Generation Smartbook Form Factors

Freescale recently unveiled a new tablet reference design meant to fully leverage the full spectrum of performance capabilities of the ARM processors. New smartbooks will provide instant-on functionality, improved connectivity and longer battery life. The design is the first in the Smart Application Blueprint for Rap...

4 January 2010
08:35 GMT

Help Mozilla Design the New Home Tab for Firefox 4.0

Firefox 3.6 isn't even out the door and the Mozilla folks are already looking well ahead not only to 3.7 but to 4.0 as well. One area the team is focusing on in particular is the user interface which is starting to look a little long in the tooth compared to Google Chrome and even Internet Explorer. Luckily, th...

23 December 2009
04:21 GMT

Quickly Create Even the Most Complex Maps

We all need maps. Even if we are lost in traffic, in the middle of nowhere, or when exploring a new area, it's very important that we have one near us. With the advancement of technology, we can have one even on our phone, or other mobile device, so that we never get lost in traffic. But maps were more than sim...

17 December 2009
12:41 GMT

Google Extends the Fading Homepage Tests

Google is constantly tweaking and updating its products and the homepage isn't spared. But if you thought that something as iconic as the Google homepage would be spared of any major change, especially considering that the 11 or so years it has been around haven't taken too much toll on it, you'd be wr...

2 November 2009
11:41 GMT

Mind-Boggling Designs Turn Bridges into Cities

Urban architects undoubtedly have something special of their own, a fact that has been evidenced numerous times by the wide array of improvements and reconversions they brought to seemingly decrepit and abandoned structures. San Francisco architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello one day took a look at the San...

8 October 2009
13:01 GMT

Julian Hakes’ Mojito Shoe Takes Minimalist Design to New Heights

Household designers are constantly working on ideas to further make shoes more visually appealing, adding to them anything from straps and spikes to feathers and rhinestones. In doing so, they’re looking at footwear from the outside in, whereas British architect Julian Hakes is doing it the other way around. Be...

3 October 2009
08:21 GMT

The Unusual Way to Create, Manage and Explore Mind Maps

Ever since ancient times, people have been trying to express their thoughts and feelings in various ways, and one of the most important is writing. But time passed by, technology evolved and soon we found out that computers could help us express our thoughts more than we even imagine. And this how came the idea to cr...

16 September 2009
12:31 GMT

Twitter Reveals New Default Theme

With more and more people using Twitter with mobile or desktop clients, it looks like even Biz is beginning to doubt the site as a viable alternative. Still, it hasn't abandoned the idea altogether and for those that actually do use the website, even as a secondary alternative, there are now four more official t...

15 September 2009
04:23 GMT

Gmail Drops Four New Themes

The Gmail user interface team pulled four new themes out of the hat and delighted their users once again. The announcement came today, September 4, 2009, on the official Gmail blog under a chat between designer Jake Knapp and developer Manu Cornet. These four themes (which are actually three, but we will explain that...

4 September 2009
05:15 GMT

Orion Passes Design Review Test

The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the segment of Project Constellation that is planned to take astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the Moon starting 2015, has recently passed its preliminary design review test. Even though this is good news, its faith is still unclear, considering the fact that the future of the ARES...

2 September 2009
03:04 GMT

Rumor Mill: HTC Hero to Hit Sprint Without a Chin

HTC Hero is reportedly the nicest mobile phone launched on the market with Google's Android operating system running on it, and it is expected to soon become available for purchase in the US via wireless carrier Sprint. While rumors about the operator getting the Hero have been cycling around for quite some time...

1 September 2009
05:32 GMT

Facebook Introduces Some Design Tweaks

Facebook has been adding a lot of new features and functionality lately, sometimes making big changes to the site. New features like the upgraded search engine and the simplified privacy options made a significant impact on the way most users interacted with the site. Now though, Facebook made some design changes and...

26 August 2009
10:50 GMT

Wikipedia Redesign Enters Beta

Wikipedia, one of the biggest web sites in the world, is getting ready for a new, fresher look and has launched the proposed redesign in beta. As expected from one of the most recognizable sites online, the changes aren't groundbreaking but they do make for a cleaner and more modern look. The new design is avail...

10 August 2009
07:13 GMT

New Chip-Architecture Design Program Relies on 'Intuition'

Over recent years, designing the best possible chip architecture – forcing as many transistors and connections on an ever-smaller microchip in an optimum manner – has become so complex, that many designers have simply outsourced their job to supercomputers. The machines browse through billions of arrangem...

29 July 2009
04:54 GMT

New Windows 7 Logo and Box Design

Microsoft is a tad late at the unveiling “party” of the Windows 7 box art. But what's a few months when you hold the keys to confirming the official packaging design for the next iteration of the Windows client? Approximately two months after the concepts for the retail flavors of Windows 7 were leak...

24 June 2009
03:04 GMT

iPhone 3G S Gallery

As many of you have already heard, Apple has introduced a new iPhone model recently. iPhone 3G S (for speed), is touted by its makers as “the fastest and most powerful iPhone yet.” Some may have expected the device to be different not only inside, but also outside. As it turns out, Apple did nothing to ch...

9 June 2009
15:10 GMT

Windows 7 Box Art Pops Up on Microsoft Store

Windows 7 is progressing along the development process toward RTM, and the final details for the operating system are starting to take contour. It is the case of the packaging for the successor of Windows Vista. Windows 7 box art has popped up on the official Microsoft Store website. However, it can be considered hal...

9 June 2009
02:12 GMT

Windows 7 Boxes – Packaging Design

With the Release Candidate of Windows 7 available for public download, Microsoft has moved onward with the development of the operating system. The next stage in the evolution of the next iteration of the Windows client is RTM. Only after Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing will the platform hit the shelves, ...

11 May 2009
09:01 GMT

Dell's Smartphone Is a No Go for Now

We already reported that Dell was another personal computer maker that announced plans to enter the smartphone market this year. And while the company was expected to come to the market with its first such device sometime in September 2009, it seems that we're not going to see that happen after all. On the oth...

23 March 2009
03:12 GMT

Apple's iPods, iPhone 3G, MBA Nab Four iF Design Gold Awards

The folks at 1 Infinite Loop should be patting each other on the back after seeing their products take home four separate iF product design awards from the prestigious iF International Forum Design, Macworld reports. That's right, Apple netted four awards, one for the iPhone 3G, one for the second-generation iPo...

4 March 2009
06:27 GMT


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