It also attracts young fashion enthusiasts who might buy one and cherish it, eventually repeating that pattern up the designer price ladder as she earns and spends more.
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Although Marriott International has its own luxury subsidiary hotel brands like the Ritz-Carlton, it has teamed up with hotel designer Ian Schrager to launch its first boutique brand later this year.
The company has come up with a designer thermal salt that can hit temperatures in the 700 degree Celsius range, or far hotter than the 500 degree Celsius temperatures possible with ordinary salts.
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Tesla announced that it will release a new, cheaper electric car in 2016 or 2017, and Renault teamed up with British designer Ross Lovegrove to design the flashy Twin'Z Electric concept car.
Rather than having to pick a single designer up front and pay regardless of the outcome, clients could review dozens of design concepts produced by dozens of designers, and then select their favorite.
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Say a product designer comes up with an idea for a pedometer armband.
Having a designer or someone with some knowledge of design is a key part of a founding Internet start-up, said Garry Tan, designer-in-residence at Y Combinator and co-founder of blogging company Posterous.
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When the "Princie" came up for bid a couple of days later, a model in a pink designer-ball gown held up the stone for one final glimpse in the saleroom.
Perhaps he was like a graphic designer who packed up his portfolio and took it with him.
And France's Christian Dior , the apparel and fashion designer, is up 51%.
At worst a designer can end up losing control of his own name.
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He co-founded and helped launch Hommage in 2004 as the chief product designer and came up with the name for the firm while poolside in Martinique.
It sounds strange when you consider this is fashion we're talking about -- a notoriously stodgy industry predicated upon its historical archives -- but then again, this is the very same designer that teamed up with MakerBot for his fall 2012 collection.
Well one of those poor souls must have grown up to become a product designer bent on saving future generations from such cruel torture, and the result is a portable "bonfire" that you can fold up and slip into a knapsack or strap onto your pack mule.
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Israeli designer Nitsan Debbi cooked up a batch of working electronic products made of bread.
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Designer Adam Duffy set up Kings of Neon when he realized there was a demand for customized sneakers.
Givenchy designer Ricardo Tisci punched up his beaded, Art Deco gowns with exposed zippers, chains and lots of leather.
Bobby Hillson, a prominent fashion artist and designer, had set up the St.
The challenge was taken up by David Herbick, a designer whose rsum includes stints at Newsweek and Business Week and the art director's job at PC Magazine and Civilization.
Throughout the series, Ms. Wright is neither overly made up nor dressed up in the luscious furs and designer kit that normally grace the type of character she represents.
Roitfeld and Testino later teamed up with U.S. designer Tom Ford during his first years as creative director at Gucci to reinvigorate the brand with an innovative advertising campaign.
The rest of the cast is worthy of the exalted standard set by Ms. Bowie and Mr. Henry, and Paul Tate dePoo III, the set designer, has conjured up an apartment so shabby that you can all but hear the cockroaches scurrying through the living room.
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This spring, the designer offered playful monkeys climbing up the front of cotton dresses, and bright, digitized Navajo patterns on pant sets, cotton sweaters and full-skirted frocks.
"We feel very fortunate to be in Charlotte, where things have held up so well, " says graphic designer Phil Evans, who works from his 2, 600-square-foot, two-story home.
So, when searching Google for a graphic designer and all that comes up are a few design companies, classes for designing and Wikipedia pages, that social connection feels a whole lot more reliable.
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These figures provide a grim counterpoint to the glitzy high-rises and designer shopping malls that have sprung up throughout the country's major cities.
The designer, Sacha Lakic, got up and said that he was indeed inspired by 1960s American dune buggies, which he probably saw in period beach blanket movies starring Annette Funicello.
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As they began to think about forming a business, Galeotti and Armani toyed with the idea of teaming up with Walter Albini, then an Italian designer who was becoming famous for his luxury women's sportswear.
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