Welcome to the website of Matt Decker, an Industrial Design student at Virginia Tech. Below is my blog hosted by tumblr.; it includes posts by myself as well as an RSS feed from core77's design blog. Feel free to visit as often as you like.
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London Design Festival 09: Korea Design at 100 Percent Design
The London Design Festival is now over and in the next few days we will publish numerous posts to present what was going on for all those who were not able to make to London this year….
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Coroflot Design Job of the Day: Consumer Insights Analyst, Ziba, Portland, Oregon
Sr. Consumer Insights Analyst
Ziba Design
Portland, OregonWe’re looking for a senior design and trends researcher to join our Consumer Insights and Trends team in Portland, Oregon. This…
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Jon Kolko: The End of an Era
Jon Kolko, just back from the IDSA Conference in Miami, has some provocative ideas about the future of industrial design and the IDSA. Here’s the start:
I’ve just returned from the IDSA…
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Cursor kites fly over Brooklyn, pointing to what?
The Red Arrow Project, a kite installation by Jennifer Fisher and Christian Cerrito, made its debut at the Art Under the Bridge Festival in DUMBO this weekend. The kites are large red…
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This Just Inbox: A swing for grown-ups
Christina Fesmire has created the Fugle Swing, which seeks to create “a more playful present” in adult life while taking cues from mid-century Scandinavian design and functionalism. Made…
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Save the Garment District!
images by Damon Winter via NYTimesNew York City’s Garment District is in danger of becoming another manufacturing-community-turned-commercial-district, threatened by Mayor Bloomberg’s plan…
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Emil Jacobs' innovative airplane interior layouts, part 1
When it comes to layout, the typical airplane interior is no different than the earliest movie theaters: Unimaginative, mindless rows of seats. It’s hardly an efficient use of space, and does…
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Emil Jacobs' innovative airplane interior layouts, part 2
Here are a couple more configurations of inventor Emil Jacob’s Flex-Seat designs for airplane interior layouts. The Business-Flex 2 configuration is a tweak on the first set-up we showed…
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Big Idea Group "open source innovation company" helps bring products to market
New-England-based Big Idea Group, yet another organization that seeks to let the common man/woman come up with an idea for an innovative product and get it on the market, has their latest…
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Emil Jacobs' innovative airplane interior layouts, part 3
Last up in inventor Emil Jacob’s Flex-Seat designs for airplane interior layouts is his Economy configuration. I was worried Jacobs would give us non-Business-fare-paying common men the…
