Paying homage to a design luminary and his seminal book "By Design" | Continue reading
PRIMER 2020's conference pivoted from a physical to virtual design event in a matter of weeks—here's how their team did it | Continue reading
"Getting our economy moving again requires all of us to adapt to a new normal," writes VYZR Technologies, a Canadian startup. The "new normal" they're suggesting we adapt to is the BioVYZR, a gigantic helmet that encompasses your shoulders: I only have, like, a | Continue reading
Design professor Hector Silva asks the roundtable a huge question posed by a viewer: Have you ever been discriminated against in the workplace, and if so, how did you resolve it? Once again, designers Spencer Nugent, Jasmine Kent and Kevin Bethune reveal that the answer is compli … | Continue reading
To explain why many design organizations lack diversity, it may be helpful to examine the pipeline that supplies those organizations with workers. Along those lines, design professor Hector Silva asks the pointed question: Does our society make it difficult for minorities to lear … | Continue reading
These won a 2020 DNA Paris Design Award and are making the rounds. Call me crazy, but I don't see the point. | Continue reading
If you've watched Part 2 of this series, you've hopefully noticed that when you're black in America, a seemingly simple question can elicit a multifaceted answer filled with information that might surprise a non-person-of-color. Here in Part 3, the jumping-off point is "At design … | Continue reading
Spencer Nugent, Jasmine Kent and Kevin Bethune reveal what their academic experiences were like. From learning about design "late," to being the | Continue reading
Over the weekend, ID professor Hector Silva livestreamed a Zoom meeting with black industrial designers to discuss design and race. On the call was Kevin Bethune, Founder and CCO of think tank dreams • design + life; Jasmine Kent, Run Apparel Designer for Under Armour; and Spence … | Continue reading
"COVID-19 will very much influence the way we design our cars in future," Karim Habib, Kia's new design chief, told Car Magazine. Specifically, it might halt what was previously a foregone inclusion: "For the last few years we have been talking about a sharing economy, shared mob … | Continue reading
"My wife was running her food truck, The Coop, while I was finishing my degree in mechanical engineering," writes Michael Newman. "I had to go and fix things for her regularly, so I began to carry more tools on me, trying to make quick fixes and get back to studying. | Continue reading
All designers can compare their current salaries against the Core77 Salary Guide, to see how they stack up. What's not so easy to measure, if you're a woman and/or a minority, is whether you're being underpaid compared to how much a white male would be compensated for your positi … | Continue reading
Last weekend I dug some fence hole posts for a new garden bed--and the amount of garbage I found, about one to two feet down in the soil, was disturbing. A bicycle tire, an old bed sheet or dress, a doorknob, a rusty car part, shredded plastic film crumbling into | Continue reading
Vector Go is a fly type fender designed for urban bike riders. It is designed with a universal form and with a flexible silicon rubber body making it go along with any urban bike be it a hybrid, mountain bike, or an endurance bike. It is equipped with two flexible | Continue reading
I remember tearing money in half, back when things were all cash, when you needed a guarantee that someone would wait for you. I'm not sure if this was a New York City thing or if they did it in your town too. For example, let's say I took a | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of Burger King's sombrero-like social distancing crown marketing gag, an art gallery in Paris has implemented something similar, but far less effective. As Reuters reports, visitors to the 59 Rivoli gallery are given absurd-looking "winged" hats with a bizarre hi … | Continue reading
"If I'd hired someone to do it, I wouldn't have learned anything" | Continue reading
Ohio-based candy company Esther Price sells boxes of chocolates with a red ribbon tied around them. Those ribbons have traditionally been tied by "long-tenured seasonal workers" who can do three to four boxes a minute, according to Packaging World. That's an acceptable pace, but … | Continue reading
In Oakland, as in many cities across the country, storefronts are boarded up to protect against looters. This week Redditor mtweiner put out a call for local artists to help prettify them with murals, and the response was tremendous. "We have had tons of families come out in the … | Continue reading
Alex Daly, a/k/a the Crowdsourceress, is using her skillset to help protestors and BLM | Continue reading
"We don't want the message of the protests to get lost" | Continue reading
Here's what you can do to support the Black Lives Matter movement | Continue reading
The brutal and senseless murder of George Floyd by a group of police officers in Minneapolis should disgust every American citizen. The fact that the death was directly caused by a white officer kneeling on a black man's neck is symbolic of the history of racial oppression and di … | Continue reading
It's tough for there to be any one best cable management solution, because everyone's needs are so different. In this case industrial designer Eric Strebel needed something to hold the necessary cables in his sound recording booth, so he designed and built his own. During the vid … | Continue reading
Definitely not a vehicle I thought I'd see on Jay Leno's Garage: The Tesla Cybertruck. Here Elon Musk and Tesla designer Franz von Holzhausen present it to Jay to evaluate himself, with a test drive around L.A. They even drive it through Musk's | Continue reading
Unlike cars, lawn mowers and wood chippers often have their drain plugs in inconvenient places. On both my riding mower and chipper, I've had to rig up DIY funneling devices out of plastic sheets to keep the draining oil from pouring all over the place. But YouTuber Chris Notap h … | Continue reading
Officials in Negrar di Valpolicella, an Italian village midway between Milan and Venice, have made a startling discovery several meters below a vineyard: A perfectly preserved mosaic floor dating back to the 3rd Century A.D. In 1922, hints of a Roman villa had been discovered on … | Continue reading
Printed menus are dumb. I hope this QR code idea persists, post-pandemic | Continue reading
Printed menus are dumb. I hope this QR code idea persists, post-pandemic | Continue reading
How does a priest baptize a baby while adhering to social distancing? Industrial designer Joshua Skirtich observed the new trend of using squirt guns loaded with holy water. It's obviously disturbing to see an adult pointing any type of firearm-like device at a baby, and it would … | Continue reading
If you've got a 3D printer and you're organizing your home/shop/garage, you could probably use some of these: The files for these customizable latching tool handle holders have been posted to Thingiverse by Australian engineer and Prusa user Greg Frost. And you can obviously scal … | Continue reading
This might be the best DIY jig I've ever seen | Continue reading
Design-build firm Variant Spaces has taken several steps to hide the washing machine | Continue reading
Mechanical engineer Brian Ignaut is the guy who designed SpaceX's unfolding solar arrays, then branched out into designing and building origami-like unfolding furniture under his own company, Degrees of Freedom. While prototyping a new design for an expanding table, he discovered … | Continue reading
Lynx represents the research in the simplicity of form through the use of a few elements. A single panel of mdf wood, finished with a particular laser technique, and a single fixing element to maintain the shape. Few components to create an attractive, elegant and modern object. | Continue reading
Lynx represents the research in the simplicity of form through the use of a few elements. A single panel of mdf wood, finished with a particular laser technique, and a single fixing element to maintain the shape. Few components to create an attractive, elegant and modern object. | Continue reading
King's Landing in "Game of Thrones" had nothing on this place | Continue reading
Why do I feel like we're not taking this seriously anymore | Continue reading
Burls Art is the handle of a YouTuber who makes custom guitars, not to sell them, but purely as art pieces. In a recent experiment, he made a guitar out of carbon fiber and documented the process. | Continue reading
Industrial designer Christopher Armstrong is releasing an expanded edition of his book The Maker's Field Guide, billed as "The No. 1 book on industrial design." Judging by the trailer and images on the Kickstarter campaign page, I assume that refers primarily to the prototyping a … | Continue reading
This show is a collection of work from 2020 Purdue Industrial Design seniors showing examples of product design, furniture design, interaction design, toy design, service design, and user experience design. A few projects from the show are below. See the entire show here. Aria Ch … | Continue reading
Dutch firm Addmio has condensed 5 years of experience into 3 days | Continue reading
If you've got an Apple Pencil and you find it too slippery, and the tip too crayon-like for your tastes, here industrial designer Eric Strebel shows you how he fixed both issues. In the video he touches on a subject familiar to prototypers, where you often have to make | Continue reading
If you've got a bored teenager at home, this might be the ticket | Continue reading
The Fish Tales restaurant in Ocean City, Maryland is experimenting with these bumper tables for observing social distancing: The tables were designed and produced by Baltimore-based Revolution Event Design and Production. Here's footage of them delivering the tables, where you ca … | Continue reading