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October 17 2011
One More Great Lesson From Steve Jobs: Innovation Begins As A Social Movement

One More Great Lesson From Steve Jobs: Innovation Begins As A Social Movement

Written by: Bruce Nussbaum

Why is the loss of one CEO the cause for universal mourning? Because he symbolized the kind of capitalism that generates the fun that comes with creating the new.

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A Miniature Apartment Complex Lets Visitors Peep On Korea’s Bizarro Underbelly

A Miniature Apartment Complex Lets Visitors Peep On Korea’s Bizarro Underbelly

Peeping Tom, a miniature city block for the Gwanju Design Biennale, is populated with Super Maids, 2-D Lovers, and Wild Goose Daddies. Wild Goose, what? Read on.

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Wanted

Wanted: A Fishbowl That Doubles As Glass Sculpture

Wanted: A Fishbowl That Doubles As Glass Sculpture

If there’s one accessory that looks horribly out of a place in a minimalist home, it’s a fish tank decked out with plastic accessories. Which is kind of a shame, since a fish is one of the few pets that won’t wreck the Mies van der Rohe daybed.

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Infographic of the Day

Infographic Of The Day: A Video History Of The iPhone

Infographic Of The Day: A Video History Of The iPhone

The first commercially available cell phone, released in 1983, weighed nearly two pounds, cost $3,995, and had a battery that lasted about as long an episode of Benson. Fast-forward more than 25 years to the iPhone 4, with its 1 GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera and HD video, 512 megabytes of memory.

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Olaf Hajek’s Wallpaper Turns Hotel Rooms Into A Wild Circus

Olaf Hajek’s Wallpaper Turns Hotel Rooms Into A Wild Circus

The German artist creates a lively leitmotif for 25hours Hotel, a circus-themed hotel in the Austrian capital, with paint and cardboard.

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Wanted: A Handy Toolkit For Making Catchy Protest Signs

Wanted: A Handy Toolkit For Making Catchy Protest Signs

Here’s something that oughta come in handy now that Occupy Wall Street has officially transformed into Occupy Everywhere: a toolkit for making your own protest signs that covers an indiscriminate raft of causes--and in multiple languages.

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Lego’s iPhone App: A Brilliant Mix Of Physical And Digital Play

Lego’s iPhone App: A Brilliant Mix Of Physical And Digital Play

This cleverly designed iPhone app will tickle Lego fans from eight to 80.

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Art Spiegelman Peels Back The Process That Produced His Masterpiece, “Maus”

Art Spiegelman Peels Back The Process That Produced His Masterpiece, “Maus”

Art Spiegelman wrote a book about his process to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Maus, his classic comics memoir about the Holocaust.

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From the Editor

Thanks for stopping by Fast Company’s Co.Design. If you’ve been a reader for some time, you’ll notice that we’ve just unveiled a brand-new redesign. You can read about the thought process behind it here. Our content, of course, will be the same: Our focus is on highlighting the world’s best examples of design and innovation, working in concert.

We started this site with a few simple premises in mind. First, design is a window onto the world at large, and the culture we live in.

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