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Dezeen promotion: downloadable magazine Edition29 ARCHITECTURE is giving away an Apple iPad on Twitter.

To enter the competition, just log onto Twitter and tweet about Edition29 ARCHITECTURE under your username, mentioning @Edition29.

The best tweet submitted by 24 December 2010 will be rewarded with an Apple iPad.

Here are some more details from Edition29 ARCHITECTURE:

‘TWEET EDITION29 AND WIN AN IPAD’ CONTEST

Edition29 ARCHITECTURE is a visually stunning collectable magazine that focuses on showcasing the new generation of modernist architects and their creations through cinematic photographic storytelling. With over 100 pages of full screen photographs, audio commentaries, video, text and pages that are in motion.

Each issue has bookmark capabilities, set soundtrack capabilities that allow you to listen to a narration, sounds or music while leafing through the magazine. All the content pages will be part of the download, while connected iPads will have access to community and gps features, with additional online supplemental materials that make this a vibrant living download to collect.

Several Issues of Edition29 are published monthly, and is made available for sale through the Apple iPad App Store for $2.99 per Issue.

The Edition29 wants to get word out to DESIGN and ARCHITECTURE fans about Edition29 ARCHITECTURE magazines for the Apple iPad. For a chance to win an iPad by December 24th, 2010, simply tweet a short message about Edition29.com through your Twitter account. The winner will be selected based on the best tweet.

This contest is available only to countries that allow iPads to be mailed to the winner. The winner is responsible for all duties and taxes where applicable.

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pAt the a href=”http://makerfaire.com/detroit/2010/”Maker Faire Detroit/a this last weekend, a href=”http://www.scottklinker.com/”Scott Klinker /a, the Designer-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art, performed a series of installations of a href=”http://www.scottklinker.com/index.php?/projects/sapceframe/”Spaceframe/a, his “20-piece large-scale construction toy for kids of all ages.” Watch the video above to see just how large-scale this might be./p

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pI suppose you could say it about a lot of fields, but to me, industrial design is problem-solving. And the education involved–at least the one I had, which combined theory, a good amount of hands-on work, and very limited resources–imparted a strong sense of DIY, which is why many of us at school made a lot of the things in our dorms, apartments and studio spaces with our own hands. We always had a sense that if you couldn’t find something you needed, or you found it but couldn’t afford to buy it, you made one yourself./p

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blockquoteAs a devoted consumer of shoes herself, Davis, whose studio is currently based in San Francisco, felt she couldn’t quite find what she was looking for – a shoe that was practical, understated and unique, but not intimidatingly radical.

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CR readers may recognise the above image, as it featured in the Grid section of our May issue. The photographer behind it, Toby Smith, is now exhibiting more work from his Renewables Project at theprintspace gallery in London, from 20 August…

“With its raging seas, wind-swept hills and high rainfall, Britain has more potential kinetic energy for capture than any other landscape in Europe,” explains Smith of the project on his blog.

“Nowhere is this concentration of energy more intense than the rich Scottish landscape where renewable energy has been providing power from the glens for over 60 years.” The Renewables Project documents some of the sustainable alternatives available that are being put to the test in Scotland.

Here are a few more images from the show:

The Renewables Project runs from 20 August to 1 September at theprintspace Gallery, 74 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DL. Opening times: Monday – Friday, 9am – 7pm. Admission free.

Following their 2007 patent for the design of their staircases, Patently Apple is reporting that Apple has filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office to protect the design of their most iconic retail store, the glass cube on Fifth Avenue in New York (and presumably by extension, their new, rounder-but-similar-looking shop in Shanghai — though we’re not certain how a US patent applies internationally). Here’s the specifics from the site about what patent they’re after:

Apple has filed their trademark solely under International Classification 035 which covers the following: Retail store services featuring computers, computer software, computer peripherals and consumer electronics, and demonstration of products relating thereto.

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