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For Black History Month, Target is launching a video campaign to honor four remarkable individuals. The campaign is Dare.Dream.Do and it highlights the stories of Malaak Compton-Rock, Steve Stoute, Marc Morial, and Marcus Samuelsson — four black entrepreneurs who are all inspirations in their fields. Check out the great video shorts Target produced for the campaign.

Through this inspirational campaign, Target hopes to help people see beyond racial barriers and to pursue their passions despite obstacles. The company has also partnered with the Smithsonian Institution, offering free lesson plans, resources, and activities for educators of elementary through high school-age students to encourage participation in Black History Month.

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The Top Ten Awe Inspiring Designs of 2009:

1. The Bloomframe Balcony on Demand is an ordinary window that turns into a balcony - clearly a very sturdy one as pictured below!

To watch the transition from window to balcony, click here.

The architecture firm One World Design designs and builds sustainable living spaces, exclusively.

Oooh, even their logo is crunchy, I dig it.

On their website they list the key elements that make their homes Eco-friendly:

Today's post is a celebration of a room in everyone's house that is most likely the least celebrated: it's not a place to host your cocktail party or to conduct a serious debate. But it is a place in which you can pamper yourself and luxuriate in beautiful design: the bathroom!

My favorite blog (besides Zoom In), Design Trendsetter, consistently finds the most innovative and awesome designs to share with its audience; true to form, I found this today while searching their website:

Scientists at Stanford University recently reported that they have successfully turned paper coated with ink into a "paper battery."

It's the sexiest night on television, but the word fashion in Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2009 is used too loosely.

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2009 and TV Special aired on December 1, 2009, with a repeat showing last night, December 9th.

The Converse Red Collection helps fight AIDS in Africa. The newest edition to the collection is an adorable pair of doodled sneakers by Lisa Mayock.

Australian animators, Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett, put their creative powers (and nerdyness) into recreating the famous bullet-dodging scene from The Matrix.

Are you interested in pursuing design as a career? Here is my list of top design programs in NYC.

New York City is the cultural center of the world, and, by extension, the best place for burgeoning creative individuals to get started. If the process of finding the right school/program is a daunting one, use this blog as your guide!

The School of Visual Arts offers a two week masters workshop in design and more!

Here's the pitch:

House Industries' (fonts, objects, clothing) font Neutraface inspired a group of fabulously nerdy and beardy men to create the funniest video I have ever seen.

Fossil's "I Wish For" contest asks you to design a collage about your number one holiday wish. You could win a box full of Fossil vintage merchandise!

Behold, the personal bathroom system for men:

Carnegie Mellon has expanded the option of majoring in design to include a interdisciplinary education and research effort to make an impact on environmental quality through green design.

LUMAS Art. Design. Editions Gallery, located at 77 Wooster Street, is having a December Art Sale.

The owners Stefanie Harig and Marc Ullrich, a married couple who reside in Germany, are devoted to representing creative individuals at an affordable price. They say:

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) steps up their game with their Design Store SoHo and the current exhibition Tim Burton.

Thanksgiving is a heavenly, but hectic, day.

One question, for which there is a fun and creative design-answer, is, how do you keep the kids happily distracted? With crafts!!

Thursday is Thanksgiving, day of plenty!