Yoox.com’s CEO on Betting Big on High-End Design
Remember Pets.com, and its fiery explosion? In 2000, the Internet wasn’t exactly a friendly place for fledgling e-commerce. And yet that’s exactly when Federico Marchetti founded Yoox.com.
Remember Pets.com, and its fiery explosion? In 2000, the Internet wasn’t exactly a friendly place for fledgling e-commerce. And yet that’s exactly when Federico Marchetti founded Yoox.com.
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With Bush-era tax breaks set to expire at the end of the year, Congress is gearing up for a knock-down-drag-out fight over whether to extend all of them, some of them, or none at all (and just in time for mid-term elections!).
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With Bush-era tax breaks set to expire at the end of the year, Congress is gearing up for a knock-down-drag-out fight over whether to extend all of them, some of them, or none at all (and just in time for mid-term elections!).
Pentagram unveiled a fresh logo for the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art recently, and it has that elusive quality brand designers are always trying to capture: movement. We mean that literally.
Forget print ads, TV spots, and Google sponsored links. Art Marcovici says marketers can make money off money itself.
Biomega has given Co.Design an exclusive sneak peak at their two newest bikes, which will be publicly unveiled late next month, at the Eurobike and Interbike tradeshows. The showstopper: A stunning new bike by design titan Ross Lovegrove, called the LDN.
Leo Villareal has been dazzling the art world for about a decade with tripped-out light sculptures that would look just as at home in a snooty gallery as at a rave or a matinee of Laser Floyd. Now, you can see much of his work in one place: He’s got his first major museum survey opening Saturday, at the San Jose Museum of Art, in California.
We always thought the iPhone 4's new hardware--and the gyro in particular--would usher in a totally new era of apps. And SoundGyro is easily one the most charming examples we've seen so far. Sure, other iPhone instruments exist. But none are quite as amazingly gestural as this:
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