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Yikes! 2011 Brit Insur­ance Design Awards

January 19th, 2011
Short­l­ist for Brit­ish Design Awards includes YikeBike. Show­cas­ing a year in design, the fourth annual Brit Insur­ance Design Awards fea­tures an inter­na­tional short­l­ist of innov­at­ive and enga­ging designs from around the world and across seven cat­egor­ies (archi­tec­ture, fash­ion, fur­niture, graph­ics, inter­act­ive, product and trans­port). Final­ists include Yves Behar’s Swarovski Chan­deliers, con­crete Emer­gency Shel­ters designed in Wales, [...]
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Cover Story: Issue 104

January 26th, 2010
The Penny Drops Will this buzzy bike, one of TIME Magazine’s 50 Best inven­tions of 2009, become a Kiwi icon? Words Michael Smythe. From ProDesign issue 104, with addi­tional images. It’s unlikely that a focus group ever said, “Bring back the penny farth­ing!” But it’s that flash of recog­ni­tion that puts instant smiles on turned heads when a Yike [...]
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