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October 21 2011
What Designing The New Girl Scouts Innovation Badges Taught Us About Raising Leaders

What Designing The New Girl Scouts Innovation Badges Taught Us About Raising Leaders

Written by: Jump Associates

As part of the organization’s rebranding, the Girl Scouts has introduced an innovation component. In designing the program, Jump Associates developed some tips for training girls to become future leaders.

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An Artist Who Sews Paper Into 3-D Sculptures

An Artist Who Sews Paper Into 3-D Sculptures

Jennifer Collier stitches found bits of paper into cameras and typewriters.

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Classic Kartell Furniture Is Refashioned, By Star Designers, Architects, And One Oncologist

Classic Kartell Furniture Is Refashioned, By Star Designers, Architects, And One Oncologist

Want to sit on Silvio Berlusconi? Now you can, thanks to the high-end plastic furniture manufacturer Kartell.

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For New Sculpture, Matthew Barney Dredges Up A Drowned 1967 Chrysler

For New Sculpture, Matthew Barney Dredges Up A Drowned 1967 Chrysler

In which 25 tons of iron were poured from five custom-built furnaces into an open, molded pit in the earth at the site of a derelict steel mill along the Detroit River.

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Simple Genius: A Sliding Door Handle That Opens And Locks With One Intuitive Motion

Simple Genius: A Sliding Door Handle That Opens And Locks With One Intuitive Motion

Say goodbye to the cumbersome two-step process of closing, then locking the door.

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The Future Of Air Travel: Sky-Surfing On A Giant Zeppelin

The Future Of Air Travel: Sky-Surfing On A Giant Zeppelin

In Passing Cloud, a lofty--and lofty--design concept by New York-based Tiago Barros, passengers float on a cloud-shaped, wind-powered aircraft.

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How Cloud Computing Made Web Typography Better For Everyone

How Cloud Computing Made Web Typography Better For Everyone

Co.Design talks to Mandy Brown of Typekit about why the service, which was recently acquired by Adobe, improved the web (and not just for designers).

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Infographic of the Day

Infographic Of The Day: The Re-Redesigned London Tube Map

Infographic Of The Day: The Re-Redesigned London Tube Map

Mark Noad’s online reinterpretation of the London Underground diagram gets a refresh that reveals transit times and walking distances between stations.

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Co.Design
business + innovation + design
Deputy Editor : Belinda Lanks
10 / 21 two thousand and eleven
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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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