Hasta La Ideas

As summer heat takes over here in New York, we’re reminded of the clever Ice Jacket bottle chiller. The Ice Jacket is a little easy-to-use device that suspends a bottle of your favorite liquor in a frozen sheath, lending a frosty aesthetic and chilling function. You can even get fancy with colored water or suspended decor, though we prefer to keep it simple.

The Jacket is the first in new partnership we’re trying out with OpenSky, a service that makes it easy for you to buy stuff you like from Cool Hunting. If you want an Ice Jacket, hit the link below. And if you have feedback about OpenSky, be sure to contact us.

This grinder by brothers Adrian and Jeremy Wright of London design studio DesignWright dispenses both salt and pepper. (more…)

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pThe User Interface Designer will research and understand the changing needs of our mobile customer base to build effective web-based and mobile-based applications driving adoption and usage of Vonage services. The individual will be responsible for the look, feel and overall user experience for our consumer applications and will champion the customer experience and serve as the interfact for Vonage for customers and partners, providing leadership and vision across cross-functional teams./p

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Une idée de Rintala Eggertsson avec cette installation, au musée Victoria & Albert à Londres, d’une tour en bois nommée “Ark Tower”. Dans un désir de rappeler les enjeux écologiques et de la biodiversité, elle invite à choisir une alternative avec cet univers invitant à la lecture.

Previously on Fubiz

• Bar Rouge – Shanghaï
• Comfort Series
• Number Residence

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pThe other day as I sat in a hotel room in Milwaukee watching Anderson Cooper grow more and more telegenically indignant about the BP oil spill, I found my thoughts returning once again to a growing list of recent governmental and institutional failings. The entries on the list are familiar to us all: the housing bust, the credit crises, the ensuing job losses and now, the apparent lack of oversight that may well have led to the Deepwater Horizon fiasco. The plot twists have become so common over the past two years that they threaten to lose their ability to shock and alarm us. You know the story: large federally regulated industry makes naughty with oversight body leading to mayhem and merry making at the taxpayer’s expense. Sitting there in Wisconsin, a flickering thought tripped me up; at the heart of this series of catastrophes might well lay the design brief for the next 50 years: Empowering, leveraging and generally flat out exploiting community to effect social and economic change./p

pAttribute it to social media, dead simple organization or maker culture writ large, but after years of anemic political engagement, citizenry and social engagement are back in fashion. This recent turn of events couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Not for society at large or for design as a profession. Throughout the economic downturn, designers used their newfound idle time to ponder the future focus of their profession, to reassess what it was they were so doggedly pursuing with design, not to mention ‘within’ design. Case and point: Project H. Drawing a deep contemplative breath, a generation of designers looked up from their monitors and found something lacking. Entrepreneur? Design Auteur? Corporate advocate? There were, it seemed, too few options on offer. In a world of increasing complexity, mounting uncertainty and expanding individual possibility, the formal paths forward appeared perversely antiquated. One could attribute this realization to the perennial impatience of design, or perhaps the Millennial workforce’s penchant for meaning in their workmdash;but maybe it just comes down to simple economics: if you’re going to ask someone to work twice as hard for half the job security, they may well surprise you by asking for something in return. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/columns/coordinating_disaffection_a_design_challenge_worth_considering_16809.asp”(more…)/a
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