In hopes of reducing germ transmission, Seacon Square, a shopping mall in Bangkok, has rewired their elevators with foot pedals. Tweet Translation: "Easy and worry-free! Foot pedal elevators at Seacon Square. Simply press the foot pedal one time in front of the | Continue reading
In hopes of reducing germ transmission, Seacon Square, a shopping mall in Bangkok, has rewired their elevators with foot pedals. Tweet Translation: "Easy and worry-free! Foot pedal elevators at Seacon Square. Simply press the foot pedal one time in front of the | Continue reading
On the Core77 Discussion Boards you can find gems like this one, a show-and-tell by industrial designers with footwear experience. It was kicked off by ex-Nike-designer Michael DiTullo who, on lockdown, began catching up on documenting past designs that had gone into production. … | Continue reading
Motor Trend called Frank Stephenson "one of the most influential car designers working in the industry." Car & Driver referred to him as "one of the most successful car designers of his generation." Designer of the McLaren P1, the (21st Century) Mini Cooper, the BMW X5 and countl … | Continue reading
The UIC Year End Show presents a collection of design work by the graduating seniors from the University of Illinois at Chicago. The show includes works of furniture, graphic design, product and interaction design. The campus, located in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago … | Continue reading
A marketing gimmick from 1935 has produced extremely durable car bodies | Continue reading
When it comes to power tool brands, did you know that Bosch owns Dremel? That Milwaukee and Ryobi are owned by the same company? That the same company that owns Festool also owns Sawstop? How about this absurd fact: Stanley Black & Decker now owns DeWalt, Stanley, Black + Decker, … | Continue reading
The Hitch design sounds silly at first, but makes sense | Continue reading
For the able-bodied among us, changing a duvet cover is merely a pain in the ass. For Luke Gray's aging grandmother, the task became impossible. Gray and friend Ben King--both of them industrial designers who'd worked together at Joseph Joseph--resolved to come up with something … | Continue reading
The College of New Jersey Graphic Design program is pleased to present Outside The Margins. The exhibition includes design work from undergraduate designers completing a BFA in Graphic Design and includes illustration, branding, interaction design posters and magazines. The schoo … | Continue reading
Even the NIMBY folks approve of Urban Electric's disappearing design | Continue reading
Eli Harris built his portable battery company hoping to support humanitarian projects. To make that scalable, he developed a product that's useful for anyone. | Continue reading
It's starting to seem like designing a fancy litter box for cats is a surefire path to success. This is the third one we've seen in the past four months that's struck crowdfunding gold. The Aimicat "Automatic kitty litter cleaning companion" rotates like a cement mixer that drops … | Continue reading
Creative director Andrew Kessler must feel like a psychic or visionary right now. In 2013, he struck upon the idea of developing scarves and bandannas that contain woven carbon filters that can "achieve a 99% efficiency rate for filtering viruses, bacteria, and pollution." Today … | Continue reading
LuxMea Studio may have cracked one of the central problems with facemasks | Continue reading
The School of Design Innovation aims to enable students to imagine, challenge, create and participate in the creation of new ways and new futures. This gallery illustrates student work from the three Masters' programs offered - Masters of Design Innovation, Masters of User Experi … | Continue reading
Have some extra time on your hands? Here's how to make your project descriptions dynamic and digestible. | Continue reading
MakerBot has announced the Method Carbon Fiber Edition, an upgrade to their Method 3D printer. As the name suggests, the machine has been modified to handle carbon-fiber-reinforced nylon, which "allows users to print stronger and more accurate parts in carbon fiber-reinforced nyl … | Continue reading
In episode 1 of this series, Jaguar Chief Creative Designer Dominic Najafi sketched up their I-Pace. In episode 2, Chief Exterior Designer Matthew Beaven turned the sketch into a rendering. Here in Part 3, Senior Alias Modeler Chris Scholes turns the rendering into a 3D model wit … | Continue reading
Gaining high traction on social media is this proposed restaurant add-on meant to keep diners safe from one another. And I don't think it makes any sense. I get that the designer, a visual merchandising designer from France, is trying to do something positive and make something b … | Continue reading
An Israeli company called Avtipus Patents and Inventions has, well, invented and patented a facemask with a hinged mouth. It's designed for people who want to go to restaurants during the pandemic. The idea is that you hold onto a clamp that actuates the hinge, leaving just one h … | Continue reading
This gallery illustrates the broad variety of work coming out of the University of Kansas Industrial Design program. The student work includes consumer electronics, soft goods, furniture, medical devices, outdoor products, systems design, CMF, and other areas of Industrial Design … | Continue reading
From time to time, we'll post about crowdfunding smashes here--not because we're endorsing the product, but to make you design entrepreneurs aware of what's selling. If you can keep your finger on the pulse, so to speak, you'll have a better chance of launching your own successfu … | Continue reading
Designer Matthew Beaven shows you his process for turning a pencil sketch into a tight rendering | Continue reading
It's called a section liner or spacing parallel. Here's a rare example | Continue reading
The first round of shows in our online guide to student design exhibitions is now open | Continue reading
This week industrial designer Michael DiTullo returns to sketching tutorials, tackling one of his most-requested topics by viewers: Line weight. "When you look at a finished sketch, it can be hard to decipher [the decision-making process behind putting] light and heavy lines in t … | Continue reading
Image by Etienne (Li) Bugatti is not known for their restraint on style, lavishing what some would say is excessive design and engineering attention on their supercars. Turns out the same goes for their factory--sorry, atelier, as they refer to it--in France, where they used to b … | Continue reading
The final installment of Takram's "Pendulum Thinking" design series tackles how to ask the right questions | Continue reading
Designer Dominic Najafi talks you through the pencil sketching phase | Continue reading
From time to time, I'm going to post about crowdfunding smashes here--not because we're endorsing the product, but to make you design entrepreneurs aware of what's selling. If you can keep your finger on the pulse, so to speak, you'll have a better chance of launching your own su … | Continue reading
Their insanely detailed scale models of exotic cars sell for five figures | Continue reading
Filmmaker and tinkerer Matthew Scott Hunter wanted an autonomous vacuum with more personality than your average Roomba. Using the Force (and a lot of paperboard), he created R9-D9, R2-D2's more useful cousin: | Continue reading
If COVID-19 outbreaks persist and masks become seasonal, I'm guessing folks will get tired of wearing cut-up T-shirts and Etsy projects on their faces. And a subset of people will want something designey, so there's an opportunity here. What might they look like? These AirWaves c … | Continue reading
As a kid, I thought the fun of building a couch fort came from figuring out the engineering yourself. Russian marketing agency Instinct, of whom Ikea is a client, disagrees. According to AdWeek, Instinct put together this quarantine-time campaign for Ikea Russia: The fact | Continue reading
Image by Etienne (Li) Bugatti is not known for their restraint on style, lavishing what some would say is excessive design and engineering attention on their supercars. Turns out the same goes for their factory--sorry, atelier, as they refer to it--in France, where they used to b … | Continue reading
Norman, Birsel and John Zapolski will explain why "Old people are cool, design for them sucks" | Continue reading
Primitive manufacturing know-how at its finest. If you've ever wondered how ancient, pre-industrial churches were able to have gigantic bells with perfect rotational symmetry made for them, here's your answer: | Continue reading
So this is hilarious. The PumPix is a wrist-mounted device that you load with hand sanitizer, and then you can squirt it from your wrists at will, like Spider-Man's webs. The thinking is that you'd spray it not only on your hands, but directly onto whatever object | Continue reading
In 1935, quarry workers at Porthmadog, North Wales were transported to the top via cable car, which required energy. To get them back down to the bottom at end-of-shift, a no-energy means was devised: A peculiar-looking board with a single large wheel mounted beneath, two smaller … | Continue reading
This is one of those things that's kinda gross, but probably useful, if it works as advertised. The Bebird Smart Visual Ear Cleaning Rod has a tiny HD camera near the tip, so you can see exactly where to clean inside your ear canal; the footage is wirelessly transmitted to | Continue reading
While it's been widely been assumed that folding screens would be the next evolution of the smartphone form factor, LG is trying something else: Two screens stacked like playing cards, and where the topmost screen swivels upwards 90 degrees, revealing the smaller, square screen b … | Continue reading
If all companies did this, think of what it would mean for the economy (it's not good) | Continue reading
60 no-nos condensed into 3 minutes. It's enough to make you hate all contractors | Continue reading
Also, here's why they make other trucks with two steering wheels | Continue reading
During the lockdown, Garrett Benisch and Elizabeth Bridges grew a prototype microbial cellulose mask in their kitchen | Continue reading
Eric Strebel's new workflow: iPad Pro with Sidecar, Affinity (contains some NSFW language) | Continue reading
Also, here's why they make other trucks with two steering wheels | Continue reading