Parents teaching you how to tie your shoe is a vivid image in everyone's memory. What does it mean to tie a shoe? Why does it need to be tied? What does a shoe need to do to function as a shoe? If all a shoe needs to do is | Continue reading
The toy business within the growing pet industry makes up about $2 billion in annual revenue. Bark wants grow their own brand within this space and bring their ideas to market in a smart and impactful way. To start, Bark is looking for an experienced leader in toy design and prod … | Continue reading
Sappi North America's Ideas that Matter program supports designers partnering with nonprofit organizations to bring social impact design campaigns to life. Sappi, a maker of high quality printing papers, packaging, release papers and dissolving wood pulp, has offered this program … | Continue reading
Upon leaving school, not many people find themselves at a crossroads with career signs pointing to either priest, architect, stockbroker or furniture designer. But then again, John Makepeace doesn't easily fall into a single category. I've gotten to know John over the past few mo … | Continue reading
Komoru is a material solution to a technological problem: smartphone addiction and signal interception. Cohda has adapted the principles of Michael Faraday's Cage by replacing the rigid structure with a sea of conductive microspheres capable of stopping electromagnetic signals re … | Continue reading
Poster House's inaugural exhibitions explore the work of Alphonse Mucha and East Berlin design collective Cyan | Continue reading
Brought to you by MAKO Design + Invent, North America's leading design firm for taking your product idea from a sketch on a napkin to store shelves. Download Mako's Invention Guide for free here. Navigating the world of crowdfunding can be overwhelming, to put it lightly. Which p … | Continue reading
Rob's new book is perfect for designers, design students, and anyone who wants to change their point of view. | Continue reading
The furniture line ORTO by zweithaler is based on a structural design principle, which results in structures that are stable without any connectors. The horizontal MDF boards of the shelf ORTO 53 are held up and locked by skewed wooden poles, which allow for flat pack delivery an … | Continue reading
Developed in collaboration with Skyline Design, their range of glass panels debuted at NeoCon and won Silver in the Architectural and Decorative Glass category | Continue reading
As happy crafting with a humble chisel as conducting a 6-axis CNC robotic arm as if it were his own limb, Gareth Neal makes the most of, well, everything at his disposal as a designer and maker of contemporary furniture. Whether he's using the "waste" wood of a tree, | Continue reading
Developed in collaboration with Skyline Design, their range of glass panels debuted at NeoCon and won Silver in the Architectural and Decorative Glass category | Continue reading
What will bathrooms look like in 2025? How will they function? | Continue reading
'The Coral' is an indoor micro-algae farm designed to rebuild a relationship with algae, critical for sustainability yet less appreciated, in our everyday lives. This wall-mounted bioreactor proposes a daily ritual for algae consumption for a sustainable alternative of nutritiona … | Continue reading
Michael DiTullo tells the story behind his new initiative to balance industrial design's social media representation | Continue reading
Merging plants with our digital electronics to create a radical new interface might sound like the premise of a Black Mirror episode, but it's exactly what researchers at MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group are exploring. Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes started their research … | Continue reading
Recently, we wrote about Virgil Abloh and Vitra's homage to Jean Prouvé's work, but we felt the collection wasn't original enough: it lives more in the artist's edition realm than the re-interpretation one. So today, we were excited to see that industrial designer Joey Zeledón (S … | Continue reading
When considering data as the oil of the 21st century, each of us is sitting on a small ground treasure – a resource that is being discretely mined by the most valuable companies in the world. As users of modern services and products, we have long become habituated to trade-offs | Continue reading
Nostalgia at its finest: Nickelodeon Velocity is seeking an Executive Producer to join their team. The Executive Producer is involved in the creation of branded and non-branded advertising content in support of Sales, Marketing Partners and External Clients. Work closely with Vic … | Continue reading
To celebrate the 2019 Core77 Design Awards announced last Wednesday, Core77 threw a celebration on the rooftop of Kickstarter headquarters in Brooklyn, New York on the evening of June 12th to recognize and toast to the designers who took home honors in this year's awards. The par … | Continue reading
Best known for their sculptural wood clutches, the designers behind Tesler + Mendelovitch have progressively increased the scale of their work. Taking their innovative process to the next level, the latest product launch from the Tel Aviv-based studio provides sculptural solution … | Continue reading
Sometimes design opportunities are right in front of your very eyes. For instance, I bet anyone living in an urban setting is familiar with the below image: The classic orange barrier, otherwise known as the plastic Jersey Barrier, are an iconic symbol of urban construction in th … | Continue reading
Looking for an extra way to beat the summer heat? Hunter Fan Company is looking for a Lead Industrial Designer with consumer product experience to manage multiple projects at various stages of the design process. Responsibilities include conceptual development of ceiling fans and … | Continue reading
620 pages and over 500 images celebrating the best design from 14 Latin American countries | Continue reading
This week, Uber unveiled an updated look at the future of its flying taxi service, Uber Air. At the third annual Uber Elevate event on Tuesday, chief Eric Allison claimed that Uber Air will eventually make it "more economically rational for you to fly than for you to drive." With … | Continue reading
Hop is the suitcase that gives children independence. As a step stool and suitcase in one, hop makes destinations kid-accessible. This adds ease to travel and puts the focus back on making memories while staying the weekend at grandma's or spending the night at a hotel. | Continue reading
Are you a UX designer that also happens to hate household pests? Look no further than this opening at PestRoutes. PestRoutes is a cloud-based, mobile friendly software for managing pest control offices. With this position, you'd have the chance to fight the good fight through the … | Continue reading
Long a staple of Mexico's gastronomy, the country has historically been home to over 60 species of native corn in a range of colors, from dark purple to soft cream. Industrialization and the advent of genetically modified seeds have led to many of these species becoming endangere … | Continue reading
Brought to you by MAKO Design + Invent, North America's leading design firm for taking your product idea from a sketch on a napkin to store shelves. Download Mako's Invention Guide for free here. Navigating the world of crowdfunding can be overwhelming, to put it lightly. Which p … | Continue reading
Luna is a lamp, a wireless charger and has Alexa built-in, equipped with a high-quality 7W speaker. The first of its kind, Luna Smart Lamp brings Italian Design into a new generation of multi-functional Smart-Home devices. | Continue reading
"It's arguable whether we will even have a need for furniture by 2035" | Continue reading
Hydro Flask is on the hunt for a Design Engineer who will lead projects through the Design Engineering cycle, working closely with the design team (industrial designers, manufacturing engineers, product managers) to ensure products meet Hydro Flask performance standards, quality … | Continue reading
This year's Consumer Technology team was led by Jordan Nollman, CEO & Principal at Sprout Studios. Joining him on the panel were Bill Valls, designer, Matt Day, Industrial Designer at Google[x], Michel Alvarez, Global Design Manager at Drinkfinity, and Monique Chatterjee, Princip … | Continue reading
This year's Design for Social Impact team was led by Bryan Lee Jr., Founder of Colloqate. Joining him on the panel were Marquise Stillwell, Founder and Principal of openbox, Mike Ford, Founder of Hip Hop Architecture, Paola Aguirre, Founder of BORDERLESS, and Pascale Sablan, Foun … | Continue reading
This year's Design Education Initiative team was led by Jenny Rodenhouse, Director of the Immersion Lab at ArtCenter College of Design. Joining her on the panel were Ramon Tejada, Independent Designer & Assistant Professor at RISD, Rose Piccioni, Associate Provost of Online Educa … | Continue reading
This year's Health & Wellness jury team was led by Linda Jiang, Lead Industrial Designer at Google. Joining her on the panel were Bernie Wildner, Director of Design at Amazon, Kelly Custer, Founder & Creative Director at Knack, and Mike Simmons, Director of Product Design at Play … | Continue reading
This year's Crowdfunding team was led by Oscar Lhermitte, Co-founder & Director of Sidekick Creatives. Joining him on the panel were Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Director at designswarm, and Craighton Berman, Founder and Creative Director of Manual. | Continue reading
This year's Home & Living team was led by Jordan Nollman, CEO & Principal at Sprout Studios. Joining him on the panel were Bill Valls, designer, Matt Day, Industrial Designer at Google[x], Michel Alvarez, Global Design Manager at Drinkfinity, and Monique Chatterjee, Principal Ind … | Continue reading
This year's Furniture & Lighting jury team was led by Gabriel Tan, Founder of Gabriel Tan Studio & Creative Director of Ariake. Joining him on the panel were Kilian Schindler, founder of Bureau Kilian Schindler, Kim Weckstrøm Jensen, CEO of Le Klint, Signe Hytte, Furniture & Prod … | Continue reading
This year's Commercial Equipment Jury Team was led by Cormac Eubanks, Product Development Consultant. Joining him on the panel were Erik Askin, Associate Design Director at NewDealDesign, Greg McNamara, Founder of Mast, and Natasha Margot Blum, Founder and Principal Director of B … | Continue reading
This year's Packaging jury team was led by Daniela Garza, Partner at Anagrama. Joining her on the panel were Alex Center, Founder of CENTER, Cristie Stevens, Art Director & Editor of Studio A/C, Daniel Martinez, Art Director & Partner at Futura, and José Bernabe, Designer, Letter … | Continue reading
This year's Personal Accessory jury team was led by Linda Jiang, Lead Industrial Designer at Google. Joining her on the panel were Bernie Wildner, Director of Design at Amazon, Kelly Custer, Founder & Creative Director at Knack, and Mike Simmons, Director of Product Design at Pla … | Continue reading