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• Shane Riley

  

  Simon Diener's portable Pong light uses its battery as a counterweight

  dezeen.com - Emma Tucker

  German designer Simon Diener has designed a portable light that is suspended using its wrap-around cord and counterweight. The Pong light's battery, …

• Shane Riley

  

  Storm force: Ishinomaki Laboratory has turned utility into a fine art

  Wallpaper* - Jens H Jensen

  Keiji Ashizawa and Takahiro Chiba, the dynamic duo behind Ishinomaki Laboratory, like to describe their operation as the world’s first DIY furniture company. Chiba, a former sushi chef, heads up operations in a large, former wakame-seaweed hangar in the small city of Ishinomaki in northern Japan. …

• Shane Riley

  

  The tech industry needs more designers — are hybrid designer-developers the answer?

  VentureBeat - Ken Yeung

  The growing need for tech designers is driving the industry to seek out multi-disciplinary talent and leading to more inclusive hiring practices. Highlighting this trend, John Maeda, former design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has published a new report on what companies are looking …

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  Facebook officially releases new Video app for fourth-gen Apple TV [Gallery]

  9to5Mac - Chance Miller

  After announcing its plans for the app earlier this month, Facebook this evening officially released its video-centric app on the fourth-gen Apple TV. Facebook touts the new application as a prime source for the latest and greatest video content and the launch on tvOS comes a day after the app made …

• Shane Riley

  

  Mies’s Mansion House Square: the best building London never had?

  The Guardian - Jack Self

  Mies van der Rohe’s plans for an office tower in the City were scuppered by Prince Charles’ criticism and Margaret Thatcher’s fear of new public space – yet this tale has as much to do with shifts in public opinion against modernist architecture

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  Shane Riley

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  Jan 13, 2017