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Thursday, 10th May, 2012 / Posted by: Ciara

Umbrellas for the civil but discontent man

Why be caught out in a shower looking soggy and ill-prepared when you could be defying the drizzle by wielding one of these very fine umbrellas! 

These come from Chicago-based designers Materious. Have a look at their other clever ideas here.

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Friday, 28th October, 2011 / Posted by: Ciara

Stars of the small screen

We're on the telly! Franco-German TV, but still. Channel Arte filmed recently at the Merck Sharp and Dohme plant in Carlow and our work was featured in the background. The world map graphic was just one small part of an extensive environmental graphics programme designed and produced by Fire. We were delighted to get incredibly positive feedback on the work from MSD, and the planning for the second phase of this interpretive, placemaking project is already underway here in the design studio. Keep an eye on our Hot Projects as we'll be posting pics of the entire project in the near future.

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Friday, 9th September, 2011 / Posted by: Catriona

Have an ‘Inkling’

Tis witchery I tell thee, behold the new Wacom Inkling. Illustrators prepare to salivate, get thee a kitchen towel because with this new digital sketch pen with ballpoint tip you can sketch while the device captures a digital likeness of your illustration (faint). Hours spent scanning in a darkened room listening to the dull hum of your flatbed scanner can be reclaimed! You can even open the scan in photoshop and illustrator, plus it creates vector paths for you to work from. This is definitely number one on my want list!

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Tuesday, 16th August, 2011 / Posted by: Catriona

Burd-Haus

I saw this over on design milk today. Burd -Haus is the brain child of Nathan Daniels his goal is to; 'create modern shelters for our fine feathered friends.' This one really made me laugh in a good way, it's so bauhaus, except for birds. If you want to see more or indeed buy one you can find them over on etsy.

via: design milk

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Tuesday, 28th June, 2011 / Posted by: Catriona

The Solar Sinter

A 3D printer that makes stuff...out of sand, I kid you not. Markus Kayser is the man behind the Solar sinter a 3D printer that uses the suns energy to produce glass objects. It made the bowl in the picture above. I know unbelievable right!

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Tuesday, 7th June, 2011 / Posted by: Catriona

Alfabot

I love, love, love Alfabot! It's a website dedicated to robots created by a dutch designer living in s-Hertogenbosch Holland. All of the Alfabot family are made from recycled material collected from flea markets and charity shops. This one called 'Quinten' was made from an very old Albert Heijn sweet tin, some springs and that break bar thing you should have on your bike.

via: Prina

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Tuesday, 3rd May, 2011 / Posted by: Catriona

Engaging Environments

What an amazing teaching and learning environment the staff and students of St. Mary's Primary School in Greensborough, Victoria Australia have. Designed by the Australian Architects smith+tracey in 2010 it's colourful, playful and adventurous design definitely beats the beige interiors of my old primary school.

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Tuesday, 8th March, 2011 / Posted by: Ciara

About Time

I love venn diagrams. I love clocks. So this timepiece, designed by Louie Rigano, is pure catnip to me. With the second, minute and hour hands being represented by rotating coloured circles, it makes telling the time a bit of a challenge but I don't care, I love it. In fact I'm struggling to find anything on Mr. Rigano's website that I don't love.

via fastcompany

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