For the past eleven summers, Beam Camp has commissioned distinguished artists, designers, and architects as Project Master, to conceive the Beam Project, the large-scale centerpiece of each session at camp.

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FEATUREDRESEARCH: Stacking + Totems. Since NOTCOT is where all my inspiration lives, here's the first (ever evolving) NOTlabs Research post as i dive back into the archives and around the internet on things i'm thinking about for experiments/projects!

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VIDEODomino's AnyWare - Apparently Domino's is overly embracing every tech driven way to connect with them and order pizza as easily as possible... be it emoji text, tweet, smart tv, connected car, smart watch, voice and more...

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VIDEOAn Instant Guide to Making Coffee - beautifully animated piece from &Orange Motion Design. From pour over to chemex to french press, areopress, vacuum pot, and moka pot.

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Poritz & Studio Tool Boxes - handmade from reclaimed hardwood in walnut or teak, tool boxes with a smart stacking design (upper tray and lid slot seamlessly through the handle) and all fused with finger joints!

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Sabrina Kaici latest print release is a gold foil Full Moon available in a limited edition of 300, each signed and numbered by the artist.

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Claude is a rocking-chair created by benjamin Lina, a young french designer student at Ecole Bleue. 4 positions to work, read, play with your smartphone.

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North For The Summer Andromeda Lighting Series is part sculpture and part lamp. Intricately woven string criss crosses between a wooden frame making colorful geometric patterns.

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Splatter painted french macarons - so easy to make with edible food paint!

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Brooklyn-based Xiwi Electronics aka Brendan Byrne manufactured a very limited run of 50 of these custom-made MIDI controllers using unfinished walnut for the sides and acrylic faceplates for the top and bottom.

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