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Today, we were given a challenge rather than a presentation: with a bag of spaghetti and a roll of duct tape, build a structure that extends from a table. Prizes were awarded to the greatest horizontal reach and the best aesthetics.

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Our team won the horizontal category, with 58 inches. I highly recommend you try this at home.

We are looking for presenters for future Design Thursdays. All interesting projects and people are welcome.

I haven’t really said much about the Nokia Design team that I’m part of here in San Francisco, but here’s the whole lot of us! From left to right: me, Raphael Grignani, Rita Parada, and Carrie Chan. Jan Chipchase took this photo.

Nokia Design has offices in Helsinki, London, and Los Angeles. Our office kicked off in August and represents Nokia’s effort to be more involved in the Bay Area design community. Within Nokia Design, we fall within Nokia’s new Service and User Interface Design (SUID) group.

I’m still trying to understand how SUID fits into Nokia Design, and what Nokia Design’s relationship is to the rest of Nokia, so don’t ask. ;)