Word: redesign
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hope to create a one stop destination for college students to plan holiday trips with their project, GetOutOfCambridge. The pair snagged one of the three $15,000 McKinley Family Grants awarded last night, which, Corty said, would be put to use hiring programmers to redesign the group’s sight. Smith said he hoped that their Web site, originally conceived as a project for the popular undergraduate course Computer Science 50, will help students make savvier travel decisions. Currently, he said, students tend to make their travel plans “too late, at too high a cost...
...Kennedy Center, six years ago it announced plans to completely reinvent its setting. The $650 million redesign, by the prominent architect Rafael Viñoly, envisioned a four-square-block fountain plaza built over that tangle of roadways, two sizable low-rise buildings that would face the center from across the new plaza, and a long boulevard of reflecting pools. The idea was to make the place more like part of an ensemble of pavilions, less like the lonely white palazzo that it remains - and will remain for some time. Two years after the expansion plan was unveiled...
...with enough determination and inspiration - and reliable financing - transformation can happen. The proof is that this month, in the first part of a $1.2 billion, multistage redesign of its 16 acre (6.5 hectare) campus, Lincoln Center will reopen Alice Tully Hall, its chamber-music auditorium, in a building ingeniously reconfigured to announce to anybody passing by, Come in, we're here, make yourself at home...
Amazon today unveiled Kindle 2, the next iteration of its pioneering e-reader. While fans clamoring for a radical overhaul will doubtless be disappointed - the first-gen Kindle was awkwardly designed and limited by its black-type-on-gray E-Ink display - Amazon has given the device a modest redesign that appears to address some of its more glaring problems. (See the top 10 gadgets...
Muji develops products in two distinct ways: from scratch or with the intent to improve on an existing one. That latter approach shows up in Muji's "undesign" redesign of chairs and tables by the German brand Thonet. An "anonymous" brand is particularly challenged in health and beauty, a category with products that people generally like to have fun with and buy to pamper themselves, says category manager Madoka Nagamoto...