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Hi, I am Shagane Barsegian Launey. This blog documents insightful design work from around the world. To see my creative work jump here.

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Protobooth, An Animated GIF Photobooth

Just for fun, DK Seattle hacked together three Canon 5D MKII’s, a MAKE controller, MaxMSP, and a bunch of craft supplies to create a three frame animated GIF photobooth.

There’s a party rental business idea in this one.

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Fashion futures report from the Forum For The Future in collaboration with Levi Strauss & Co covering a wide range of issues and posing some searching questions: 

- How will the industry react to shortages of cotton and other raw materials?  - How could the fashion workforce be affected by shifting supply chains and technological development?  - How might technology influence fashion and change the way it is produced and sold?

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"New York based artist Anthony McCall has been creating unique light installations since the 1970s with a 20-year break in between. Currently, McCall has a solo exhibit in Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof, titled Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture.

From CollabCubed

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Future Forward Returns From Amazon > Sweet User Experience

“The moment UPS came to my office and scanned my return package, I received an email notifying me that Amazon credited my account for the full purchase price of the bag.”

Full article here: http://bit.ly/Nr5aQW

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Digital Clothing Hangers display Facebook LIKES live.

With any new marketing concept, however, problems arise. The most obvious issue with digital hangers is the possibility of shoppers switching the items from their corresponding hangers. Holding that aside, there are serious questions about whether shoppers really want an item that is liked by thousands of random people? Especially whether digital hangers will drive away stylish influencers, the target market for many brands.

Die-hard stylists and fashionistas have already raised some doubt about digital hangers. The pushback is not surprising since stylish individuals often prefer a unique style, as opposed to being influenced by general popularity or what’s in most people’s closet. One fashion blogger, Nora Crotty, described her personal hesitancy to use FashionLike in stark terms: “I wouldn’t even want style advice from 90% of my Facebook ‘friends’, let alone the entirety of the Facebook universe. Even Mark Zuckerberg wears a hoodie every day.”

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I always find these explosion exercises in Industrial Design really interesting, this one is made by Maddy Lucas. I think that is something really valuable to in Fashion Design classes to understand the amount of work, parts and processes that is involved in making one item!

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Fast Company features a hanger designed by Ziba that promises to solved the stretched out necklines on sweaters and tees.

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Threading The Needle, currently exhibiting at San Francisco International Airport. An incredible depth and richness of antique sewing machines.

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Sam Flores at Denver Airport, part of the Terminal Kings Project.

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Østersøen, An Astonishing Paper Craft Animated Music Video

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Super creative web based film, game, illustration! http://blabla.nfb.ca/

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yep, taking style tips from little kids. this is just too cute!

wildfox kids lookbook.

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An interactive theater that captures kid's hand movement to project giant colorful puppets, pretty incredible!

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French label Pimpki has created a real-time fashion Colorforecast by capturing video and analyzing color patterns people are wearing on the streets of Paris, Milan and Antwerp.

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Tiny Wearable Kinetic Wing Sculptures

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HANDMADE TYPE a typography experiment by Tien-Min Liao