Hasta La Ideas

That is the provocative question posed by this year’s international conference of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), a four-day confab that kicks off on August 4 in Portland, Oregon. Of course, it’s by design that the City of Roses is a DIY hotbed. “If the next decade is about local, authentic, and personal, Portland is a window into the future,” says IDSA. “Portland also serves as both the epicenter of the U.S. crafting resurgence and home to many top design-driven companies like Nike, Intel, Ziba, and Wieden+Kennedy.”

Get ready to lace up your customized NIKEiD sneakers and settle in for discussion exploring the current and future links between DIY and the industrial design profession. Weighing in on themes such as enabling technologies, crowdsourcing, and “slow craft” will be stellar speakers including MAKE founder Dale Dougherty, Cooper-Hewitt director Bill Moggridge, Nike design exec John Hoke, and Etsy’s Vanessa Bertozzi. And don’t miss the opportunity to get valuable feedback at the portfolio review session sponsored by our friends at Core77. Regular registration has been extended through today, July 23, so pull out that credit card personalized with your photo and head here.

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Scottish brewery BrewDog have packaged their latest range of beers inside dead animals.

Called The End of History, the collection of roadkill includes seven stoats, four squirrels and a hare, each containing a bottle of beer at 55% ABV.

The range has now sold out.

Here#8217;s some more information from BrewDog:

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We’ve got together with Dutch architects MVRDV to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Green Dream – How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature, written by The Why Factory foundation. (more…)

Translocation is a project by photographer George Logan, which sees African wildlife relocated into less predictable settings…

Logan’s photographic series has been five years in the making, and has recently been published as a book, which will be sold with 100% of the sale price going to the international wildlife charity, the Born Free Foundation.

The film Born Free was in fact an early inspiration on Logan, who, when moving to different towns in Scotland, began telling new friends that he was from Africa. “As I boy I’d tell tall tales to classmates and claim that I’d been raised on an African farm, surrounded by all sorts of exotic wildlife. It had me imagining how these creatures would appear in the rural Scottish landscapes I was familiar with. This project has allowed me to explore those early fantasies.”

Logan travelled extensively throughout Africa to capture the wild animals in their natural habitats, visiting Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa. The landscape shots are largely taken in Scotland and the wild coastlines of Cornwall. Logan then mixes animal and landscape images that feel like plausible combinations, resulting in a surprising set of photographs.

The book of the project has been designed and written by Elmwood Design in London (design director Michael Smith designed the book, with Elmwood’s head of writing, Laura Forman, contributing the text). Elmwood is also currently showing an exhibition of the photos, which is viewable by appointment.

The book has been published for free by Hewlett Packard, who are using it as a showcase for their premium digital printing service. This has allowed all proceeds from the sales of the publication to go to the Born Free Foundation. Funds raised will be dedicated to Born Free’s new wildlife rescue, conservation and education centre, Ensessakotteh, in Ethiopia.

The book retails at £30 and can be ordered at translocationbook.com. More info on George Logan’s work is at georgelogan.co.uk.

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