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The City Marathon PT Pack from Adidas Originals—released today, 6 September 2013—honors the ultimate pursuit of 26.2 miles on foot. The team at the German athletic powerhouse updated the Marathon PT in three new colorways for…

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Les artistes canadiens, Caitlind Brown et Wayne Garrett, envahissent le Progress Bar à Chicago en proposant de revisiter l’éclairage. À l’aide d’un système électronique complexe, utilisant notamment des LED et des détecteurs de mouvements, le nuage réagit au passage des clients. Un beau projet à découvrir.

As a cutting-edge innovator you are breaking the rules almost every single day! Take the recent iOS7 interface for example, Jony Ive has re-written the rules about the role of a product or industrial designer. So get ready to Throw the Rule Book Out the Window, Blaze a New Path and Kick Your Career up a Notch in the Process! Yanko Design will be there at IDSA’s 2013 International Conference, Breaking the Rules! Question is, Will You?

When we create revolutionary ideas and game-changing innovations, we tear down predefined assumptions. But how can you know which rules to break and which to keep? Find out at IDSA’s 2013 International Conference, Breaking the Rules, Aug. 21-24 in Chicago!

Here are three reasons why you should be a part of this path-breaking conference:

• Get inspired by speakers who are thought leaders from outside of design with fresh perspectives on how innovators and game changers operate in other fields.
• Learn from the best including some of the most captivating cutting-edge design leaders
• Fast track your information exchange with high-octane TED-style 20-minute presentations in a single track.

Some of the Speakers for the 20-minute TED-esque session.

• Dean Kamen, founder and president of DEKA Research & Development Corp
• Bruce Nussbaum, award-winning writer, former assistant managing editor for Business Week and professor of innovation and design at Parsons The New School for Design
• John Bielenberg, founding partner at FUTURE, designer, entrepreneur and creator of Project M
• Bill Buxton, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, former researcher at Xerox PARC, chief scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc. and co-recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement
• Pat Schiavoni, global vice president of design for Whirlpool Corp., designer of the 11th generation Ford F-150, the best-selling truck in the world, and the 1994 Ford Mustang, a refresh that is said to have saved the “pony car”
• Surya Vanka, principal manager of user experience at Microsoft, author and international lecture

Essentially just ‘Break all the rules’ with the first-ever IDSA Unconference!

Unlike the traditional conference where on-stage speakers present to a large audience, everything about the Unconference is completely participant driven! This session will be held only on Thursday, 22nd August.

Multiple sessions run in parallel, each addressing an entirely different subject matter. It’s an excellent contrast to the rest of the conference allowing for more in-depth and personal discussions to take place on an even wider spectrum of subjects.
It is also a perfect fit for the Breaking The Rules theme.

• Early registration: open through June 15, 2013
• Regular registration: June 16 -July 20, 2013.
• Late registration: July 21- Aug. 11, 2013.
• On-site registration: Aug. 12 -Aug. 24, 2013
• All registration deadlines are midnight EST

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Motion graphics designer Al Boardman celebrates five Chicago skyscrapers in this short animation.

Al Boardman is a British designer, but he lives and works in Chicago and wanted to pay homage to the city’s architecture. “Chicago has many truly great buildings. It sits firmly on the map of global architecture and is the birthplace of the skyscraper,” he explains.

The movie presents each tower as a colourful cartoon made from bold blocks of colour and clean geometric lines.

First up are two projects from US firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill: the 442-metre Willis Tower – more commonly known as the Sears Tower and until recently the tallest building in the US – and the 344-metre John Hancock Observatory.

Also featured are the diamond-shaped Crain Communications Building, the corncob-like Marina City towers and Trump Tower, a hotel and apartment block owned by billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump.

Another architectural illustration on Dezeen recently was The ABC of Architects, an animation depicting a famous building for every letter of the alphabet.

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After debuting the Luxe bag earlier this year, Defy Bags is expanding on their line of cleaned-up cases for the urban commuter. With years of experience producing burly messenger bags—like those made from 24-ounce tarpaulin…

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