I find this object attractive, but extremely peculiar. The Vas Wood Diffuser, by Norwegian aromatherapy company Vörda, is like an inverted, turned wooden chalice made from Hinoki (a type of Cypress found in Japan).Apparently you use it as a storage lid for a jar of essential oil, … | Continue reading
In Japan, certain practices like meditating, mourning, praying or participating in a tea ceremony can require spending long stretches in seiza, a formal kneeling position. This can be uncomfortable even if you've grown up doing it. I did not, and during my time living in Japan I … | Continue reading
Belgian designer Sander Nevejans, who designed that crazy-thin Hong Kong Chair, has applied similar thinking to a desk. His Sane Desk is quite sturdy, but made from "industrial-grade aluminum," yet folds down to just 4cm thick: Rubber feet prevent the table from marring your floo … | Continue reading
Do you have any idea what this crazy thing is?So that's a vehicle drainage rack (!) made by Seda, an Austrian company that makes machines used to dismantle automobiles. You've probably seen a video of a car being crushed. What you may not have realized is that prior to crushing i … | Continue reading
A decommissioned Swiss fire engine was transformed into this designey motorhome by Collectief Soepel, a six-man creative collective from the Netherlands."A family of five will live permanently in this 4×4 Mercedes Vario, a former Swiss fire engine," they write. "The interior was … | Continue reading
"The concept of lightness is very interesting to me," writes Spain-based architect/designer Andrés Mariño Maza. "I equate lightness to efficiency; for example the structural efficiency required for a bird to take flight, materialized in a hollow, highly optimized skeleton." In hi … | Continue reading
Orcam is an Israeli tech company with an incredible product: The MyEye, a diminutive AI-driven device that magnetically attaches to eyeglasses and can read to the visually impaired. It can also recognize faces and objects, announcing them on request (i.e. "What's in front of me?" … | Continue reading
People have been trying to use quadrotor drones to change light bulbs for years, shattering bulbs in the process. Removing the bulb is apparently easier than installing it.In this video below, an anonymous drone pilot in Madrid succeeded in getting the bulb screwed in (though the … | Continue reading
There's nothing quite like the ergonomics of the low-slung Adirondack chair.We looked at the chair's history here, and all of its iterations have one thing in common: They use a fair bit of material, and are certainly too heavy to tote around.If you're a fan of the form and wish … | Continue reading
When Pelican wanted their smaller utility cases to appeal a wider market, they paired their engineers with industrial design consultancy Lifestyledesign. "Broadening the user appeal of the micro-case was fundamental," writes LSD, as they style their acronym. "The primary developm … | Continue reading
A startup called AutoMount has designed, patented and Kickstarted a roof rack that can be mounted or demounted in just 20 seconds. Called Knotix, it consists of two bars that each fold in half, making it easy to stow in the trunk. By popping the roof rack off whenever it's not in … | Continue reading
While working for Grasshopper Manufacture, a Tokyo-based video game developer, concept designer Tony Holmsten created this fanciful flying cruise ship:Independent content producer and science enthusiast Hashem Al-Ghaili liked the concept so much, he commissioned 3D modeler Alexan … | Continue reading
Designed by Dutch designer Bertjan Pot and manufactured by Arco, these Slim tables are so thin, they're practically optical illusions:The tops and legs are just over an inch thick, and that's actual wood (or at least veneer) surfacing them. The structure that allows these tables … | Continue reading
Earlier we looked at LG's DualUp Monitor, a large, square monitor that essentially serves as two rectangular ones, vertically stacked.LG's DualUp Monitor LG's DualUp Monitor The arrangement makes more sense to me than having two monitors side-by-side. And LG notes that it "reduce … | Continue reading
(I confess I don't know how to spell "jujj.")A company called DormCo sells products and furniture for jujj'ing up a dorm room. The jail-cell aesthetic popular during my own college years is no longer acceptable, so DormCo offers things like fancy headboards designed for dorm bed … | Continue reading
Amsterdam-based designer Jair Straschnow designed this Flip Chair, which quickly converts from dining to easy configuration:"The final version is milled out of a single material (european birch ply) and has a locking mechanism that makes use of the material's inherent flexibility … | Continue reading
I'm in the American South, where contractors drive around in enormous, gas-guzzling pickup trucks. However, the mobility solution that Citroën designed for tradespeople in European cities is opposite to that, in every possible way.Citroën's My Ami Cargo is an adorable (I'm sure t … | Continue reading
Here's an interesting concept designed by Lenovo's in-house industrial design team: A laptop with no screen—but a built-in projector:"MOZI is a smart notebook that displays the image by projection with a low ratio of blue light. It consists of the computer unit with a fully exten … | Continue reading
Hyundai has revealed their Ioniq 6 EV, with a design language they're calling "Electrified Streamliner." The company's design department has continued to deliver on their promise of "no visual consistency between models;" where the IONIQ 5 is all angles and facets, the IONIQ 6 is … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Design Education Initiative category honors projects that utilize the ideals of design thinking in the course of developing an educational initiative. Programs can be part of a formal educational institution, or come from corporate, non-profit or oth … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Consumer Technology category honors consumer software or hardware products for the home or personal use that are screen-based, tech-enabled, or Internet-connected.This year's Core77 Design Awards Consumer Technology team was led by David Lipkin, Mana … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Furniture & Lighting category honors furniture and lighting products or systems for private, public, commercial or industrial use. Examples include: home or public furniture and seating, office systems, lighting, workstations, etc.This year's Core77 … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Home & Living category honors consumer products or services designed for use in a domestic setting. Examples include home accessories, appliances, home electronics, smart home products, security systems, etc.This year's Core77 Design Awards Home & Li … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Interaction category honors interactive content and user interface design for websites, mobile devices and experiential installations. Examples include: software, mobile apps, interactive projections, products with embedded user interface, animations … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Health & Wellness category honors consumer products or services designed to aid users in matters of health or in achieving an enhanced sense of well-being.This year's Core77 Design Awards Health & Wellness team was led by Christina N. Harrington, Ph. … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Packaging category honors graphic design, branding and structural designs related to the packaging of products. Examples include: primary or secondary packaging for Fast Moving Consumer Goods or premium brands, promotional packaging and gifting progr … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Personal Accessory category honors consumer products intended for personal use in daily life. Examples include handheld products, luggage, desktop toys, jewelry, handbags, apparel, water bottles, etc.This year's Core77 Design Awards Personal Accessor … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Service Design category honors all projects entailing the organization of communication, transactions, end-users, infrastructure, institutions and organizational systems for greater efficiency and ease of use. Examples include: distribution or delive … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Sports & Recreation category honors consumer products or services created to encourage play, movement, or learning. Examples include toys, games, athletic equipment, athletic wear and accessories, outdoor gear and equipment, etc. This year's Core77 D … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Speculative Design category honors projects, whether physically or digitally produced, designed for the purpose of cultural commentary, intervention, or exploration, or created as speculative design for a client or educational institution. Examples i … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Sustainability Prize, sponsored this year by Sappi, honors one outstanding project demonstrating the most innovative, exciting, and impactful solution pointing to a brighter, restorative era of design.This year's Core77 Design Awards Sustainability P … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Strategy & Research category honors projects or products that predominantly utilize design research and strategy. Examples include: brand strategies, product and project strategies, research methodologies such as surveys, interviews, studies, observa … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Tools & Work category honors products or services designed for individual use with the intention of improving efficiency and productivity. Examples include: hardware tools, photography and audio equipment, productivity applications, educational tools … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Transportation category honors vehicles, systems or modes of transportation used to get people or objects from one place to another, for private, public, commercial or industrial purposes. Examples include: planes, trains, automobiles, buses, bikes, … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Visual Communication category honors all visual and graphic design, branding and identity projects for print, digital or physical environments. Examples include: logos and identity systems, environmental graphics, signage, typefaces, infographics, mo … | Continue reading
German lawn equipment manufacturer Stiga has a push-mower handlebar called the Fulcrum that looks, well, overengineered: That's because it performs a couple of neat tricks. It's of course height-adjustable, but can also be made to tilt to the side for when you're mowing right up … | Continue reading
This must've been a fun, and challenging, project to design for. The Stargaze, by outdoor gear manufacturer Nemo Equipment, borrows elements from the hammock, the rocking chair and the folding chair to deliver a different way to sit.The legs and frame can be used on uneven ground … | Continue reading
On a trip to Hawaii, I was surprised to see that pineapples actually grow out of bushes; I'd naively thought they grew in the ground like potatoes, with the crown sticking up out of the ground.By Suniltg at Malayalam Wikipedia - Transferred from ml.wikipedia to Commons by sreejit … | Continue reading
The Arch bench, by ex-Bang-&-Olufsen industrial designer Shinya Oguchi, is perhaps the most minimalist design for a bench I've ever seen:"The steel thickness is just 3.2mm. It is very thin but it is steady thanks to the arch structure. The converged points of the arches become le … | Continue reading
Free to enter, The Design Intelligence Awards offers a $750K prize fund and provides a platform to accelerate international trade, increase connectivity, and open commercial opportunities for design entrepreneurs. The DIA entries are open to two distinct groups allowing work at e … | Continue reading
AirBNB has announced a design competition to create a kooky rental structure—that they'll fund, to the tune of $100,000, for you to build and rent out on their platform. They're pledging $10 million in total, so "One hundred people with the craziest ideas will receive $100,000 ea … | Continue reading
Here's some outside-of-the-box thinking from French industrial designer Alexandre Picciotto:"Unit is modular furniture that uses pressures against the floor and ceiling. It allows you to build a desk or shelves without tools and permanent [installation]." This reminds me of the a … | Continue reading
This year Ford of Europe's design team was handed what Design Director Amko Leenarts calls "a dream opportunity:" To design a racy, futuristic and green version of Ford's iconic Transit van.A little background: In 1971, 1984 and 1995 Ford produced promotional "Supervan" vehicles … | Continue reading
Bloomberg reports that Apple is preparing to release a "flood of new products" in late 2022 and early 2023: New iPhones, Apple watches, Macs, iPads, AirPods Pro, HomePods and their first mixed-reality headset. Buried at the bottom of the article is a small mention: They've also f … | Continue reading
Those who work in offices know the universal temperature settings rarely please everyone. With this in mind, UK-based industrial designer Tony Elkington of Studio Elk conceived of this Stratum – Workplace Thermal Comfort concept:"Stratum is a desk mat that gives office workers co … | Continue reading
Another #vanlife UX problem tackled by German manufacturer Froli. Space is tight when you're living in a camper, and your cupboard has to be as compact as possible. But putting glassware together in a jostling vehicle presents problems: At best there's an annoying and constant cl … | Continue reading
Barcelona-based industrial designer Titus Lotgering developed a quirky chair concept that "reclines through a somewhat experimental method inspired by the famous air-filled sneakers," he writes: Mindful of Beaverton-based lawyers, he never mentions the inspirational brand by name … | Continue reading
Glass is infinitely recyclable, and in Europe 90% of it gets recycled. In America, the number is a disappointing 33%, with the rest going in landfill. Why? In a nutshell, we Americans can't be bothered to properly separate glass for recycling, making it impossible to harvest. It … | Continue reading