The folks over at Freethink have put together a killer video on Jonathan Ward's Icon. This one isn't just drooling over the cars and Ward's legendary attention to design detail; instead they ask the larger question, what if this level of thought, design, future-proofing and craft … | Continue reading
It's been nearly two years since I gave up my 2,000-square-foot loft in SoHo, in a building I'd lived in for twenty years. I was born in New York and figured I'd die in New York. But I knew I'd peaked--if I stayed in New York, I'd never do better | Continue reading
"Not just a show-and-tell piece," this is Justine Haupt's primary phone | Continue reading
In my apartment, there is a small mountain of plastic bags that my roommates and I continue to reluctantly build upon. Desperate to deal with these wasted bags, I am regularly trying to find different opportunities to reuse them. Of course, I alone will never find ways to reuse a … | Continue reading
The BunkTrunk is an elevated locker designed to be integrated with your average dorm room single bed. I appreciate the thinking behind it: It can be "installed" by simply shoving the base under a mattress, it's elevated so as not to interfere with your feet, it works on | Continue reading
Framlab's proposal aims to transform the food deserts of Brooklyn | Continue reading
The same organizers who brought you The 24 Hours of Lemons, an endurance race between shit-box cars, also has an answer to the Concours d'Elegance: The Concours d'Lemons. This annual event is where you can witness such beauties as... A stretch limousine Corvette; A Volkswagen Bee … | Continue reading
…which means that drinking beer is now your civic duty | Continue reading
Work on the full range of product development for this high end kitchen appliance brand | Continue reading
...as well as workshops on how to craft a "selfie bed" | Continue reading
The survey goes back to the 1920s and aims to create "serious discourse" around the discipline | Continue reading
Just yesterday we were musing about how passengers would sit in a flying wing airplane. Today Airbus revealed their take on the concept, a "blended wing" aircraft that's sort of shaped like an apple turnover. As with KLM's concept, Airbus' MAVERIC ("Model Aircraft for Validation … | Continue reading
Will Arnett not only voiced the Batman role for the LEGO movies, he's now the host of a LEGO-based primetime TV show. Fox's LEGO Masters, a reality competition show, pits two-person teams of builders against each other to vie for a $100,000 prize. Arnett explains the show and his … | Continue reading
Here's a tool you're not likely to find in the average DIY'ers toolbox, but which electrical contractors will have in their truck: The knock-out punch tool (also called a slug-out driver or a knock-out driver). Below is an example by Panasonic, which features an articulated head … | Continue reading
This government auction site sells everything from cop cars to plasma cutters | Continue reading
The Cove addresses some UX issues I'm surprised others don't | Continue reading
Never mind Ford v. Ferrari and your childhood dreams of competing in Le Mans; it's out of reach for most human beings. But there is a competing and much more accessible endurance race in America called "The 24 Hours of Lemons," where your team can consist of two to four | Continue reading
I was just thinking about those "flying wing" airplane concepts like this one, where the plane is shaped like a V because that apparently improves fuel economy, and wondering: If these things go mainstream, what are the interiors going to look like, in terms of seat orientation? … | Continue reading
This electric vehicle company is focused on fundamentally re-engineering vehicle architecture | Continue reading
Starting a couple days ago, everyone from major news organizations to design blogs began reporting that Bill Gates purchased a $646 million hydrogen-powered superyacht. People are even congratulating or criticizing him on Twitter. Only problem is, Gates didn't really buy it. Noti … | Continue reading
Japan is a super-safe, orderly country, but petty theft and a form of littering are surprisingly common there. When I lived in Saitama, a safe suburb outside of Tokyo, my bicycle was stolen from in front of my building--twice. And in Tokyo proper, I observed that passersby would … | Continue reading
The $120 TOWNEW Trash Can seems flawed to me, but generates rave reviews | Continue reading
I'm currently in the market for a used pickup truck for the farm, and seeking something that's 4WD. Imagine that I buy one--and then the original manufacturer decides to magically delete the 4WD capability because I didn't pay full sticker. That's essentially happened to a guy na … | Continue reading
"If they look weird, it's because they're made of trash" | Continue reading
More than a dozen openings available at colleges and universities around the world | Continue reading
The London-based design duo experimented with balloons to yield a neat effect | Continue reading
For years I've bitched that car designers don't take certain aspects of real-world use into account. Case in point are these stupid aftermarket bumperguards I'd always see when I lived in New York, to avoid scuff marks from parallel-parking contact: For suburbanites who often par … | Continue reading
One of the more surprising things that happened in my high school: There was a kid I'll call Sal who was a jock through-and-through, athletic, competitive, football star, his dad was one of the coaches. Junior year Sal badly injured his knee and was out for the season. Sal would | Continue reading
With so much news out there these days, I think a lot of people just scan headlines, skip reading the actual articles, and consider themselves informed. That's dangerous. Consider these headlines from yesterday, starting with the New York Times: Draft Executive Order Would Give T … | Continue reading
Japan-based writing utensil manufacturer Pilot struck upon a cool idea: Why not make pens out of recycled water bottles? Their resultant B2P (Bottle-2-Pen) units come in both gel and ink varieties, made from 89% and 86% recycled plastic bottles, respectively. There's no mention o … | Continue reading
We've all seen our share of home renovations on TV, but you've never seen anything like this. In the Italian countryside lay a ruined, ancient village known as Ghesio, first settled in Roman times and built up in the medieval era. Abandoned sometime in the 19th century, nature re … | Continue reading
Here are three rings of a Venn diagram: - A company solving its own problems, not yours- Dumb design- Relying on an end user's vanity for free promotionRight at the intersection of this "Budweiser's new #SelfieBud, a special edition bottle featuring a backwards label, designed to … | Continue reading
Design products, produce CAD drawings, renderings, and study models in this fast-paced design studio | Continue reading
A design response to evolving focus of urban planning and transportation preferences. | Continue reading
There's a fairly funny meme going around started by Jimmy Fallon called #AddaWordRuinABook. It's similar to those wordplay contests periodically held by The New Yorker, and here are some examples: I can't top any of those, but I thought I'd at least give the treatment to design b … | Continue reading
"Masquerade:" Regular people pulling off low-tech special effects through group coordination | Continue reading
When we covered these Under the Weather Pods a few years ago, I had mixed thoughts and asked Yea or Nay. But the products have proven successful in the marketplace, and inventor Rick Pescovitz expanded his product line-up with the StadiumPod. It's not clear if this is a gag | Continue reading
Wanna see what they really like drinking out of? Dig a hole in the ground | Continue reading
Greg Moore and Dan Barber utilize the parts of an animal normally considered waste | Continue reading
Honesty, Discipline and a Spreadsheet Can Help Keep You Fed | Continue reading
Watch this short film and panel discussion on “waste-led design” from the 2020 Study Hall sustainability summit in New York City | Continue reading
"A spacesuit is an individual spacecraft that must meet all of the same requirements as the International Space Station but in a miniaturized and human-shaped p | Continue reading
The Ritz-Carlton in Charlotte has 100,000 winged employees who…generate buzz | Continue reading