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And Speaking of Sustainability...

Proceedings of a 2003 seminar about Timeship, a visionary project designed by Stephen Valentine for storing the frozen remains of people awaiting reanimation.

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Where's the Beef?

Excerpt from May 1936 Fortune magazine article, "The Wonders of Diet"

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Design Observer Party: Memphis, October 9

This year's Design Observer party at "Make Think: AIGA Design Biennial Conference" in Memphis is at The New Daisy Theatre. Friday, October 9 from 9:00pm to 2:00am.

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Change Observer: How, and Why Now

Change Observer's mission as a website devoted to design and social innovation

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Desperate Times/Desperate Measures

Invitation for social activists to participate in viral marketing campaign for Ford Fiesta. Unedited email as received at Winterhouse...

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On Comments

Reader comments are an important part of our site, with many visitors enjoying them as much as the original articles. So keeping the discussion as interesting as possible is to everyone's advantage. Here are the rules for comments at …

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Design Observer 3.0

Today we begin a new chapter in the story and evolution of Design Observer: a vastly reconceived site encompassing new channels (Observatory, Change Observer, Places and Observer Media), new partners, and expanded archives.

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Books Received: July 2009

New books have been piling up again at Design Observer. For July, we thought we'd share some of the many recently published titles we have received. Maybe you'll find a surprise or two...

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Design Observer Audience Survey

Design Observer would like to know more about our readers — where you are, what you read on our site, what you like. We've put together a simple (and confidential) questionnaire in SurveyMonkey: we'd like to hear from as many readers as …

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13th Annual Webby Awards

We are pleased to announce that Design Observer has been nominated for two Webby Awards, for Best Culture Blog (our third consecutive year in this category) and Best Writing (second consecutive year). This year, we’re proud to be in …

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Books Received: Summer 2009

New books have been piling up again at Design Observer. For the summer, we thought we'd share some of the many recently published titles we have received over the past couple of months. Maybe you'll find a surprise or two...

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