Word: plasticism
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...paid subscribers on the Kindle from the start. But since the device's E-Ink display technology doesn't handle color, let alone high-quality photos, the Kindle has been more of an experiment than a revenue gusher for magazine publishers. E-Ink, which is also on the upcoming Plastic Logic e-reader - its display measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches - is reportedly nearly two years away from full color...
...Oriental Museum officials, who confirmed that they owned the original. When Niet went back to the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts to complain, "they told me that I painted two paintings and that I had sold one to Russia," he says. Sitting by her husband's side on a plastic stool, Niet's wife says she wishes that were true. "If he did paint copies," she asks bitterly, "would we be this poor?" (See pictures of the China-Vietnam border war, 30 years later...
Known as "red devils," these graffiti-covered relics offer one of the few relics of Panama City's origins. Now a glitzy swirl of modern high-rise apartments, shimmering financial towers, cocktail parties and plastic surgery, the city was once just another of the squat and unpretentious capitals that dot Central America - almost all serviced by aging Bluebird buses, handed-down to the countries by U.S. school districts looking to dump their old fleets for newer models of transport. See pictures from Panama's historic 2006 vote on the canal...
...leather even when It bags boosted the bottom line, were regarded as slightly off-kilter. Just three years later, McCartney's profits have increased 600%, companies as diverse as eBay, Tag Heuer and Ligne Roset are making huge strides in their sustainable designs and policies, and consumers are rejecting plastic for paper?or better yet, cloth?when they shop. With the environment top of mind nowadays, it's not such a stretch anymore to single out the Green Design 100: the people, companies, products and ideas behind today's most influential and sustainable design...
...Française watch was allegedly inspired by a tank used in World War I? Or that some of Cartier's most brilliant jewelry designs came from orders placed by American clients? It's further proof that consumers, whether they're buying fine jewelry or using paper bags instead of plastic, will inspire future design...