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November 02 2011
Finally, Led Zeppelin Inspires A Heavenly Stairway

Finally, Led Zeppelin Inspires A Heavenly Stairway

An homage to "Stairway to Heaven," this ladder doesn’t rock. (But that’s a good thing!)

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What A Pearl: Low-Cost, Iridescent Music Center Opens In Spain

What A Pearl: Low-Cost, Iridescent Music Center Opens In Spain

Spanish architecture studio Cor & Asociados has shared with us its latest project: a music and cultural center in southeastern Spain that, from some vantage points, looks like a giant opal tucked into the hillside.

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Obscura Digital’s Stunning Headquarters Mix Techno Chic And Cali Woodsiness

Obscura Digital’s Stunning Headquarters Mix Techno Chic And Cali Woodsiness

The architects, IwamotoScott, agreed to do the design work for free in exchange for space at the office. Oh, okay, we get it now. Of course the design can’t be totally wild because, well, the architects have to live with it, too.

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A Mid-Air, 3-D Sketch Of A Living Room, Rendered With Wool

A Mid-Air, 3-D Sketch Of A Living Room, Rendered With Wool

The pieces in the set--including a table, a couple lamps, a handful of chairs, a vase, and a coat rack--look like brisk 2-D ink drawings that someone managed to convert, brushstroke by brushstroke, into 3-D forms. Incidentally, that’s 'round about what happened.

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Sign Of The Times: A Table That Hides Your Work, At The Press Of A Button

Sign Of The Times: A Table That Hides Your Work, At The Press Of A Button

It might seem hard to believe, but a simple visual trick could actually rein in compulsive workers, because our eyeballs are always sending powerful messages to our brains.

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Is Google’s “Survey Wall” Experiment Brilliant or Evil?

Is Google’s “Survey Wall” Experiment Brilliant or Evil?

The search giant is partnering with online publishers to replace their sign-ins and paywalls with market research micro-surveys.

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Avería, A Free Typeface Made By Averaging 725 Fonts Together

Avería, A Free Typeface Made By Averaging 725 Fonts Together

Dan Sayers combined typographic curiosity with some serious programming chops to generate his mashup.

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Infographic of the Day

Infographic Of The Day: Bloomberg And Frog Turn Raw Data Into Branding

Infographic Of The Day: Bloomberg And Frog Turn Raw Data Into Branding

Tasked with creating a corporate page for Bloomberg, frog had to figure out the central theme of all its myriad businesses: Data, which they then used as a clever bit of branding.

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How Lytro’s Weird Design Tells A Story About Revolutionary Tech

How Lytro’s Weird Design Tells A Story About Revolutionary Tech

The Lytro has tech nerds buzzing about its futuristic technology. But the design has just as important a role in selling such a radical leap for photography.

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Co.Design
business + innovation + design
Deputy Editor : Belinda Lanks
11 / 02 two thousand and eleven
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  • The Amazing Judges For Our 2013 Innovation By Design Awards

    The Amazing Judges For Our 2013 Innovation By Design Awards

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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