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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Capsule Video: Billes Products International Design Contest 2008 by Cool Hunting Video
For the inaugural video in our new series of mini-episodes, we're pleased to present a document of the New Orleans-based Billes Architecture's first-ever design competition. We were honored to be invited as a judge and, as you'll see in the video, the results are nothing less than stunning and—perhaps—harbingers of the design future.
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