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# Tuesday, April 03, 2007
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Your Design Business
Posted by Bryn
Looking to start your own design shop (or in the throes of doing so)? Business of Design Online is surely a great resource; it's from a few of the minds behind Creative Latitude, including Catherine Morley, Jeanette (Jay) Wickham and Neil Tortorella.


Industry News
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:11:07 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 
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Customize Your Laptop
Posted by Megan

What's cooler than a 17-inch Power Book? A 17-inch Power Book that's been laser etched with a sweet design. Both Urban Retro Lifestyle and MAKE have posts on this warrenty-voiding trend.

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Just for Fun
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 5:03:48 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [1] 
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Do You Gnome Me?
Posted by Megan

In honor of HOW's associate editor Carmen Pease, who's in sunny San Diego for the Y Conference, here's a link to a great roundup of gnome products and accessories on home-style blog Shelterrific.


Just for Fun
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:48:19 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 
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Predicting The Future
Posted by Megan

What will tomorrow bring? You be the forecaster: By 2025, will design be solely the domain of professional designers or will it be a commodity created by the masses? Take our new Web Poll by April 25 and register your vote. Then watch for the results in HOW's August issue.


HOW Magazine
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:23:47 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 
# Monday, April 02, 2007
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A Model of a Model
Posted by Bryn

via designBytes

"Plastic replicas of fake copies of these great buildings": The new Las Vegas Miniland at Legoland in Carlsbad, CA, boasts a replica of, among other Vegas attractions, the ersatz New York New York. All using 2 million tiny building blocks.



Just for Fun
Monday, April 02, 2007 7:45:52 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 
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Deadlines, Schmeadlines.
Posted by Bryn

Lots 'n' lots of deadlines in the fair month of April, at least for HOW-related things. Of note:

Promotion Design Awards: Deadline is April 2. That's today, folks. Get your work together and stamp it with a postmark before midnight. In case you didn't hear, we've changed the competition to make it a bit easier to enter, with broader categories to show off even more design work. Judging starts in two weeks; we'll be sure to blog about it!

You'll be bombarded with messages about the upcoming HOW Conference early-bird registration deadline (don't say I didn't warn ya). That's April 13, so pay attention. Hotel rooms and conference slots are goin' fast.

Then there's the brand-spankin'-new In-HOWse Design Awards (how clever are we with the HOW reference, eh?). If you're a corporate creative, here's your chance to show off to a jury of your peers. Send us your stuff by April 19.


Call for Entries
Monday, April 02, 2007 4:47:34 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 
# Friday, March 30, 2007
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Crazy Climbing Wall
Posted by Megan

via SciFi.com

I might actually be excited to go to the gym if they had one of these gorgeous climbing walls.


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Friday, March 30, 2007 3:24:59 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [2] 
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brilliant book design
Posted by Tricia

via Readymade

Judging books by their covers was never so easy. Fwis, a graphic design group in Portland, Denver and Brooklyn, has a very simple, totally visual book cover blog. They have tons of gorgeous covers for pure eye candy or if you prefer to dig deeper, a few features on book arts.


Creativity
Friday, March 30, 2007 3:06:23 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [1] 
# Thursday, March 29, 2007
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Hot Tracks
Posted by Bryn

Apple announced today a new Complete My Album program on the iTunes music store: If you've previously purchased single tracks from an album, you can get credit for those tunes when you go to purchase the full album. (Previously, if you bought a single and then wanted to buy the album, you paid the full-album price and ended up with two versions of the single.) For the next 90 days, the program is retroactive to include any singles you may have purchased dating back to the iTunes store's debut.

Gifts and Goodies
Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:29:29 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0] 
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Mod or Fraud Quiz
Posted by Megan

via How About Orange

I scored a 10 out of 16 on this super fun quiz that puts your fashion and furniture design knowledge to the test. Is it vintage or it new?

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Just for Fun
Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:22:07 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [0]