We've all known that iPad prototypes of every shape and size reside inside Apple's design lab, but few of us believed we'd ever see one on store shelves.
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The idea is the brainchild of two Singaporean design students who won top honors at the recent International Electrolux Design Lab awards in Stockholm for their "Airwash" washing machine.
It created an Innovation Design Lab as an in-house school for promising designers, and it sends people on internships in industries as diverse as fashion and cosmetics to gain new ways of thinking.
Keep in mind that the above image only shows the flowchart that the kids at the eico design lab are using to concoct all their fantastic new transitions and animations, and not the interface itself.
We first met Chul Bae Lee -- VP of LG's mobile design lab -- in Seoul last fall and were lucky to spend a few minutes with him in the company's booth at MWC.
"If you can stamp it, you want to stick with steel or aluminum, " Mark Verbrugge, director of General Motors' Materials and Processes Lab, told Design News magazine earlier this year.
John Maeda of the Rhode Island School of Design (formerly of the MIT Media Lab) and Jon Gebbia of AirBnB sat down together to talk about creativity within business.
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In 1996, he returned to MIT, serving as the director of research at the Media Lab and taught courses on art and design.
He and his co-founders took their research from a Cambridge engineering lab where they were working on a microchip design and turned it into a business.
Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the Lab will address issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse.
Dundee UNESCO City of Design hosted their counterparts from Mexico City last month for a Small Society Ideas Lab.
It acquired a research lab in India from Swedish telecom titan Ericsson and a telecom-chip design firm in Austria.
Developed in collaboration with MIT's famed media lab, Mindstorms is a 700-odd piece Lego set that lets would-be engineers design, program and build robots.
Finally, Google could continue creating jobs as it research, design, and manufacture the systems close to its current operations in Mountain View and the secret Google X Lab believed to be in the Bay Area, where the autonomous cars were developed.
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