This Stitch Work project is by Alison Tooze, done while studying Product Design at Australia's University of Technology, Sydney. It's a series of templates that teaches you to sew by hand:"Stitch Work is an interactive, educational, and practical activity kit that teaches differe … | Continue reading
Toyota's design team deserves credit, for being some of the few that don't copy the Range Rover with their SUV designs. This was demonstrated with their latest Sequoia, and this week they unveiled the return of its stablemate, the venerated Land Cruiser.Coming back to the 'States … | Continue reading
Today Pininfarina revealed to the press their Pura Vision design concept, a vehicle they're calling an e-LUV (electric Luxury Utility Vehicle). "Clients will recognise it as a Pininfarina with its beautiful body, timeless proportions and technical lower body detailing," says Dave … | Continue reading
This multi-charging device doesn't look like it was designed by Apple, and it wasn't. But tech products company ESR designed it for Apple users. Specifically, Apple users that want to charge six iThings at the same time. The device, which has received Apple certification, feature … | Continue reading
I can't fathom why, but a company called Triangle Notebook makes, well, guess.The hardcover notebook has 160 ruled pages and runs $33.Even more bizarre is this Sidekick Notebook they offer: It's also hardcover, but features 160 dot-grid pages and runs $24. I guess it would come i … | Continue reading
This week British Formula E team Envision Racing unveiled the Recover-E, a driveable Formula E car made entirely out of electronic waste. "Annual e-waste production is on track to reach a staggering 75 million tonnes by 2031, with the UK generating the second largest amount of e- … | Continue reading
This Unimo project was done by Winson Cheng, while studying Product Design at Australia's UTS (University of Technology, Sydney). It's not so much a singular design as a concept for how to provide wheelchairs to underprivileged people in remote areas."Unimo (Universal Mobility) c … | Continue reading
A company called Nex Computer unveiled this NexMonitor, which Bauhaus fans will probably love. It's designey, assymetrical and stark-looking."By providing video, audio, data and charging over a single cable – when paired to a USB-C equipped laptop – NexMonitor delivers a clean an … | Continue reading
Attention practicing industrial designers and ID students: Today marks the start of the National Week of Injection Molding, held by the Society of Plastic Engineers. Every day this week, from 9am to noon Eastern time, injection molding experts will deliver online presentations on … | Continue reading
An aerospace engineer by training, Steve Nichols' real dream was to design Formula One cars. Nicholas spent the 1970s designing rocket engines for Hercules Aerospace, gaining valuable experience working with carbon fiber. His knowledge of the material allowed him to join McLaren' … | Continue reading
Everything is bigger in Texas. Except for this tiny electric truck, by Texas-based startup Ayro. Even the name suggests shrinkage: It's called the Vanish."The Ayro Vanish addresses a market that falls between full size trucks and golf and utility carts," the company writes. "With … | Continue reading
Here's what we looked at this week:Elon Musk changed Twitter's logo to "X" overnight. He plans to turn Twitter into an "everything app" of the sort popular in China.This CU11 chair, by Karimoku Furniture, was designed for the elderly to use at entryways. To save space (it's from … | Continue reading
This should be of interest to practicing industrial designers who aren't yet familiar with VR workflows and applicability.Industrial designer Bob Henshaw is co-founder of Formation Design Group, an ID consultancy that focuses on human-centered design. They've worked on everything … | Continue reading
This aluminum Block Table Lighter is by Seth Rogen's Houseplant brand of weed paraphernalia. It features an ashtray built into the lid.It's a starkly attractive objet d'esign, right down to the fact that it prizes looks over functionality; you'd have to clean the ashtray before r … | Continue reading
In Poland, a lavvu is a tipi-like tent. Traditionally they've been part of Polish military kit, and each lavvu can sleep two.One inconvenient part of the design is that it requires a center pole for support. This obviously affects how you can use the interior.To avoid this, a UK- … | Continue reading
Lucid, a Spain-based industrial design and engineering consultancy, designed these Dom light switches for manufacturer Fontini."The lever mechanism is an ergonomic and highly intuitive solution that simplifies the daily action of turning the lights on and off. A chrome-plated bra … | Continue reading
Australian industrial designer Tom Skeehan set himself the following challenge: "Create a folding chair with the form and experience of a traditional timber chair."Skeehan started by sketching mechanisms that would make the concept work: The end result was his Hup Hup chair."The … | Continue reading
This handsome Taut table is by Klemens Grund, a designer and master carpenter based in Switzerland.The elegantly-thin stretchers mate with the legs using a blind dovetail through-mortise, and lock into place when the wedges are tapped in."This table is inspired by the laws of cla … | Continue reading
London-based industrial designer Tomoko Azumi designed this René to look less utilitarian than your average wall-based bike mount.The steam-bent arms are joined by three dowels, with a fabric shelf slung between the top two dowels. Four different fabric colors are offered. It's s … | Continue reading
32 design students from ArtCenter College of Design (USA), CENTRO (Mexico), École Boulle (France), École Camondo (France), Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera (El Salvador), Pratt Institute (USA), and Tec Monterrey (Mexico) gathered at Camp David, Industry City, Brooklyn from … | Continue reading
Though billed as a "magazine rack," this Recce Sideboard would be perfect for storing vinyl records. The angled cabinet doors have a lip on the bottom and are sized to hold LPs, meaning you can leave favorites on deck while the rest live inside. The cabinet doors open in the mann … | Continue reading
Sway, done by Xueyu Ji as a Product Design student at Italy's Istituto Europeo di Design, is a measuring cup for the blind. The concept is good, but there's a central flaw in the design that I'm surprised no instructor picked up on:"It translates visual information into auditory … | Continue reading
It's been seven years since the Pokemon Go craze. Now Taito, the Japanese company that brought us Space Invaders 45 years ago, reckons they can pick up the AR mobile game mantle. This month Taito released Space Invaders: World Defense as a mobile app.Yes, the pixelated monsters h … | Continue reading
Because homes in Japan are tiny, every square centimeter of space counts. This CU11 chair was designed with no back; instead it's meant to be placed right up against a wall, letting the wall provide the backrest.The chair was specifically designed for elderly users, to provide se … | Continue reading
32 design students from ArtCenter College of Design (USA), CENTRO (Mexico), École Boulle (France), École Camondo (France), Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera (El Salvador), Pratt Institute (USA), and Tec Monterrey (Mexico) gathered at Camp David, Industry City, Brooklyn from … | Continue reading
This unusual Branche(r) USB power strip was designed by Romain Thouin, while studying Industrial Design at France's ENSCI – Les Ateliers. Thouin started by considering the ugliness of existing power strips:Next, "I made an analogy between botanical and electrical," Thouin writes, … | Continue reading
1960s astronauts may have received Corvettes for (practically) free, but AMC Theatres is charging $35 for this one. It's being sold at their concession stands at theaters showing "Barbie: The Movie," and is a "highly detailed" replica of Barbie's ride…designed to serve as a popco … | Continue reading
Your average ATV leaves quite the footprint, both in terms of emissions and the tracks left behind. With this in mind, Finnish startup 18 Wheels is developing a zero-emission ATV that leaves the ground as undisturbed as possible.Their first prototype demonstrates serious outside- … | Continue reading
I'm not a cruise ship person, but it's hard not to be impressed by their sheer audacity, from a design and engineering perspective. This here is Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, which is set to launch next year (and has received a flood of pre-bookings, according to the compan … | Continue reading
Australia-based inventor Mike Ando describes himself as a "professional geek." Inspired by Gehn's Holographic Imager, an object that appears in the Riven videogame……Ando invented what he calls the Andotrope, an omnidirectional display that presents a holograph-like image. If you … | Continue reading
While some prefer to build their own tracks, a Hot Wheels enthusiast from Holland gained access to a closed waterpark. Said enthusiast also owns one of those Hot Wheels cars made to hold a GoPro:The enthusiast then set up a number of races in the slide, along with the GoPro car i … | Continue reading
Because billionaires can do whatever they want, Elon Musk has changed Twitter's logo with lightning speed. On Saturday, he sent out a Tweet announcing the company would now be called "X," and sought logo suggestions; by Sunday the new logo was being projected onto Twitter HQ in S … | Continue reading
Here's what we looked at this week:A startup called Cleana has invented toilet seat hinges that automatically raise or lower. They do this without any electricity.Designed by architect Martin Jochman, this "earthscraper" is a luxury hotel built in an abandoned quarry. The lowest … | Continue reading
This cleverly-designed NPseal Negative Pressure Wound Therapy patch is by industrial design and engineering consultancy Goddard. It's a surgical dressing with a user-powered integrated pump; pinch it a few times and it establishes, and maintains, negative pressure. This draws flu … | Continue reading
This circular object is by Jacob Cuesta Wolf, an Industrial Design student at Germany's Burg Giebichenstein University of Art & Design Halle.Paired with these aluminum tubes… …and some plywood, it becomes the basis for different pieces of furniture:Wolf designed this Hulot system … | Continue reading
This unusual-looking AK 2 object is by industrial designers Uli Budde and Ivan Kasner.It's a workspace divider with a built-in lamp, available in both hanging and free-standing versions.The shell is made from PET Felt, which is PET bottles that have been recycled into felt and pr … | Continue reading
Talk about specific use cases. A company called Falcona Wild makes this Golf Cooler, a slim insulated bag designed specifically to smuggle booze onto a golf course. The stealth cooler can carry a six-pack of 12-ounce cans, or four tallboys, or two wine/champagne bottles. Two incl … | Continue reading
Range Rover has so nailed the proportions of an SUV that everything else in the class simply mimics it. This week Hyundai unveiled their newly-upmarketed Santa Fe, which at first blush resembles a Range Rover with rectilinear surfacing to distinguish it:However, in profile we do … | Continue reading
This Tower shelf, by Japanese manufacturer Yamazaki, provides a little more storage space in the bathroom. The no-installation design simply piggybacks on the towel bar:I do think the hooks in front are a bit much, as they'd interfere with removing/replacing the towel. Without th … | Continue reading
While this might look like a statuette of Darth Vader helping to back up a truck……in fact it's a purposeful storage object: The amusingly-named RageQuitters Etsy account sells these 3D-printed game controller holders in the shape of a variety of characters, for $30 to $45 a pop. … | Continue reading
Several years ago French company Bumpair invented an inflatable helmet. They partnered with a scooter share company in France, and offered this wild feature: When you unlock one of their scooters, you hit a button on the app and the helmet auto-inflates!That was version 1.0 of th … | Continue reading
Starting with "an audacious, extreme concept sketch," according to McLaren, their designers created their Solus GT hypercar for the PlayStation game Gran Turismo Sport in 2017.The Gran Turismo series is known for scanning real-world cars into the game and imbuing the 3D models wi … | Continue reading
No, it's not a defective Dungeons & Dragons die. This special Milikeshi Rubber Eraser, by Japanese stationery manufacturer Kokuyo, is for people who take their erasing precision seriously."The Kokuyo Milikeshi is an innovative eraser with 5 edge sizes in one implement! Using just … | Continue reading
Here's an example of a product invention that does a lot with a little. The Jeri-Rigg is a polyester webbing strap that terminates in a hook or an eye, your choice. The strap can be looped around anything and the hook or eye drawn through the slit in the strap, creating a tie-dow … | Continue reading
We live in a crazy age where if you buy a "smart" TV, it comes with built-in ads from whatever platform the manufacturer's gone with. So you're really paying for the TV twice, once with cash, and in an ongoing manner with your attention.If it wasn't for that fact, I'd call this p … | Continue reading
To date, no human being has been intentionally killed by a humanoid robot. But companies around the world are working hard to achieve this inevitable future. Our main question is, what will these robots look like, what will the last thing we see be, as they squeeze the life from … | Continue reading
Dutch e-bike manufacturer VanMoof has declared bankruptcy. Referred to by some as the Tesla of e-bikes, over the years the company's sleekly-designed €2,000 offerings were plagued by quality control problems ranging from faulty brakes to wobbly wheels to error codes that disabled … | Continue reading
"In an era of advancing digitization, there has been a renewed fascination with pixel nostalgia," writes Italy-based footwear designer Andrew Kostman. "While brands like Loewe and Vuitton have embraced this trend in clothing very recently, no one has yet succeeded in creating a t … | Continue reading