...and the Etch a Sketch Revolution, as it's called, only costs $10! | Continue reading
Air New Zealand's prototype sleeping pods were designed for the New-York-to-Auckland long haul flight | Continue reading
Smithsonian Open Access features nearly 3 million files and offers an incredible level of detail | Continue reading
While Motorola and Samsung's folding screens flame out, LG is playing it safe with their latest folding phone. Announced today, the unwieldily-named V60 ThinQ 5G with LG Dual Screen features two discrete 6.8" screens attached by a hinge. LG is betting the dual screens will appeal … | Continue reading
Originally scheduled to take place from April 21 to 26, the fair will now be held from June 16 to 21 | Continue reading
Zak Group has designed the exhibition graphics for Beazley Designs of the Year, the Design Museum's annual exhibition that presents the most inspiring and critical design from the past year. We used the exhibition design as a platform to present the work of six type designers who … | Continue reading
I'm generally down on new ideas for watches, which I often find too enamored of technology, but this here is a novel approach that I'm curious to get your take on. An object called Prompt, which its creators are branding an "anti-watch," is for those who need to be somewhat | Continue reading
"In the future, one will not be able to differentiate or separate between the natural and the artificial, for good and for bad." | Continue reading
Growing Pavilion at last year's Dutch Design Week photo by Eric Melander This past November the growing popularity of the fungal building material called mycelium was made manifest by the Growing Pavilion at Dutch Design Week. A collaboration between designer Pascal Leboucq and t … | Continue reading
My wife and I recently leased a vehicle for the first time. I spent a lot of time studying the paperwork in the dealership's finance office. I cynically assumed I'd get screwed somewhere, but I wanted to make sure I got screwed in a clever and devious way, not because | Continue reading
Whether you love or hate his stuff, the sheer range of Philippe Starck's career has got to be the envy of every industrial designer. He's worked on everything from $300 million superyachts to wind turbines, from furniture | Continue reading
Also: Stop signs used to be yellow, because red paint faded too quickly | Continue reading
For years now in America, our cars, houses and people have been getting bigger. I'll let others debate why this is happening and what it means; I'm purely interested to learn that furniture designers have had to design some additional options for contract furniture, as waiting ro … | Continue reading
Last year a car-carrying ship called Golden Ray capsized off the coast of Georgia, in the St. Simons Sound. All 24 crew members managed to escape, but the cars inside (a mixture of Kias and GM vehicles) did not. Yahoo News says there are nearly 4,000 vehicles on board. | Continue reading
The time-obsessed design duo's new watch only lasts 10 years and won't keep accurate time. That's the point. | Continue reading
After much debate, I just leased a new Tacoma for the farm. The one I could afford has cloth seats, which will not jive well with the dirtiness of farm life. To avoid getting screwed on the lease terms, I want to protect the seats with a durable, washable | Continue reading
Rita Ebel is spearheading an effort to build wheelchair ramps out of Legos | Continue reading
Twitter has apparently been experimenting with a new feature, and someone leaked screenshots of it to NBC News. The new feature adds "brightly colored labels directly beneath lies and misinformation posted by politicians and other public figures," and it looks like this: Twitter … | Continue reading
Now that Chief Design Officer is a thing, are we as a society seeing the benefits of having design thinking instituted at the top levels of powerful organizations?Not yet, as it turns out. "Despite the number of design leaders in executive positions doubling over the past five ye … | Continue reading
Years ago I visited the workshop of a guy who did furniture restoration. Amidst the expected shop tools I spotted something unusual: A box filled with coins, rocks and a chain. He explained that these were his "weathering tools," for when a new piece of wood had to be integrated | Continue reading
A moderator over at the DataArt subrebbit put together this data visualization of U.S. population growth from 1790 to 2010: I couldn't help but notice it looks like an animation of a virus spreading. Of course, that's probably (and in some cases literally) what it felt like to | Continue reading
In the videogame arcades of the '80s, the rank-and-file games were pushed up against the wall. But in the middle of the room were the special ones--larger, immersive cabinets that you climbed into, paying 50 cents rather than 25 for the privilege. For an extra quarter you got to … | Continue reading
Erle P. Halliburton wasn't an industrial designer, but he was both an industrialist and a designer. In the 1930s he traveled to various oil fields in America, implementing the new method of oil well cementing he'd invented; the frequent travel led him to design his own suitcase, … | Continue reading
I just read a classic "design fail" story whose three stages you'll find familiar: 1. Concept is unveiled, everyone loves it2. Upper management committee gets involved, requests conflicting design changes3. Revised design is a visual disaster, project gets canceledWe've all heard … | Continue reading
In circumstances like last month's Iranian missile attack the design may reduce brain trauma | Continue reading
What do you guys and gals do when you encounter Designer's Block? Mexico-based architect Alejandro de la Vega Zulueta, who designed the Antigua high-rise apartment building you see above, has a go-to trick that he presumably picked up in Foundation: He | Continue reading
"The beauty of real food is that it gets ugly," reads new ad copy for Burger King, who is now "rolling out a WHOPPER that is free from artificial preservatives." To prove it, I guess, they've released what you see below with the tagline "Isn't it beautiful?" The video | Continue reading
A PSA for students who are eager to get out of the classroom and into the field | Continue reading
Personal question: As you get older, do your designs get more simple, or more complicated? Arne Jacobsen designed his iconic Egg and Swan chairs in 1958, in the middle years of his career. But the last chair he ever designed, called the Lily, was "perhaps his most elaborate," say … | Continue reading
Dezeen has been following the work of Japanese architect Yo Shimada, and his penchant for multi-level interior construction, for quite some time. Shimada's Kobe-based firm, Tato Architects, made a splash in 2013 with their House in Itami, which features an interior composed of mu … | Continue reading
As someone who hates carrying a large-screen phone, but enjoys using one, I was excited by the idea of the Motorola RAZR. It promised the best of both worlds, folding to a compact size for carrying but offering a large screen when open. Sadly, the RAZR is already crashing and | Continue reading
An SUV gets stuck in a snowdrift. A guy with a tractor helps by pulling him out, but minor disaster ensues. The tractor driver seems upset afterwards, but I blame the driver of the SUV here 100% for not paying attention: Tractor guy, it wasn't your fault. No good | Continue reading
The collection will debut at the International Home + Housewares show in Chicago on March 14 | Continue reading
When I was younger I drove an ambulance, and even though we wore latex gloves at all times, during our training a senior EMT went over handwashing protocol: Thoroughly soap and rinse every square inch of your fingers, palms, back-of-hands and wrists. We were also instructed to hu … | Continue reading
As someone who hates carrying a large-screen phone, but enjoys using one, I was excited by the idea of the Motorola RAZR. It promised the best of both worlds, folding to a compact size for carrying but offering a large screen when open. Sadly, the RAZR is already crashing and | Continue reading
Kim Buckminster's path as a craftsperson was shaped early: He was "introduced to needle and thread by my mother at age four," he writes, "with many people influencing me in upholstery, arts, craftsmanship and education." Today he runs Buckminster Upholstery, a Nebraska-based busi … | Continue reading
I've seen this circulated as news (thanks, social media) but I'm pretty certain this is an artist having a laugh. A website called Face ID Masks claims that they make "N95 respiratory masks that work with facial recognition software. Our masks are custom printed with your face ma … | Continue reading
A couple of years ago we spotted the work of Dina Amin, an industrial designer who ran into a paradox: "I realized that I am not very fond of a huge part of Industrial Design," she writes, "the part where we consume insane amount of resources and energy to design | Continue reading
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft features a neat trick: After being launched into space, it deploys massive solar arrays that unfold from the rocket body (video here). These arrays suck up the sun's delicious juice, providing power for the craft's sensors, communications systems, and h … | Continue reading
Justine Haupt, the polymath behind that killer rotary cell phone, has a lot of other tricks up her sleeve. On her projects page I found this concertina (an accordion relative) that she 3D printed, as you can tell by looking at it: However, the finished product rather convincingly … | Continue reading
At this point Amazon, FedEx and UPS have all put in orders for electric delivery vans. FedEx was actually the first to make the news, ordering 1,000 vehicles from Chinese manufacturer Chanje back in 2018: Stylistically it's a mess, particularly that front end, where it looks like … | Continue reading
Justine Haupt, the polymath behind that killer rotary cell phone, has a lot of other tricks up her sleeve. On her projects page I found this concertina (an accordion relative) that she 3D printed, as you can tell by looking at it: However, the finished product rather convincingly … | Continue reading
Fascinated with the intersection of industry, science and architecture, British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper has visited his share of factories and industrial facilities. His website is loaded with photos revealing his capacity for capturing the almost terrifyingly organize … | Continue reading
Researchers at Switzerland's EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) have invented a new 3D printing method similar to stereolithography, but with far faster results. The similarity between the two systems is that both use photosensitive resins cured by lasers. Where they … | Continue reading
The Liebherr LTR 1220 is a piece of construction equipment that builds itself | Continue reading