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Nicole Lavelle
Director of Creative Projects for Pinball Publishing in Portland, Lavelle elevates creative projects with smart observations and a sharp wit.

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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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What Country Has the Best Higher Education System?
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
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Sleep Better: 4 Ways to Manipulate Your Melatonin Levels #30DaysofGOOD
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A Place in the Sun: 5 DIY Projects for Summer Lounging
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

What woman would actually sleep with a pickup artist? One who hates other women.

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A new book acknowledges the unique feats and fortitude required in modern relationships as a series of 40 hilarious medals.

A new exhibition, "13.3%" is a conceptual art reply to those who say there are no women making architecture.

SFO's new T2 is designed by San Francisco-based Gensler to calm travelers during what has become a high-stress, high-security period.
A group of Austin designers is helping students at a local high school recreate their campus. design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power...
Update: Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED to June 20, 2010 at 11:59pm PST. How can better design help teachers, parents, volunteers and students...

A 20-year-old self-taught web developer from the U.K., who never went to college, recently delivered a keynote address that brought the house down.

In the second part of our series, we share the process and tools that helped a group of designers create ideas for an underserved urban community.

Dezeen and the kitchen appliance brand Scholtès recently joined forces to explore "the cross-pollination between the worlds of food and design."

Target's ClearRx prescription bottle design won the Design of the Decade award for its fresh, smart, and commonsense approach.

Dan Goods, a designer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, helps explain the vastness and complexity of space to an eager audience.

Our next GOOD Design event takes us back to New York City, where five design teams will present their solutions for urban problems at a live event.

For the past five years, Michael Bierut has been giving his students a simple assignment: Perform a "design operation" and repeat it for 100 days.

Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone, offers advice on finding your dream job. Tell us about yours, and we'll help make it happen.

Women designers are out there, and it’s in everyone’s interest to recognize their work.

Design writer Alexandra Lange has compiled a list of smart, sturdy toys that kids won't toss in favor of a cardboard box.

The Society of News Design has named a Portuguese publication as the world's best-designed newspaper. Print has never been so alive.

What might seem a "basic" or "boring" approach to branding is much deeper than meets the eye.