The process utilizes a FDM printing defect to create flexible textile samples and 3D printed clothes | Continue reading
Lebanon-based design firm Post Industrial Crafts created these Tripod Lamps using recycled 5-gallon water bottles and a unique production method: "The Tripod Lamps are an extremely simple, and iconic, assembly of three legs, one handle, and one shading cone. They are ground and t … | Continue reading
Someone actually came up with a way to make them easier to use | Continue reading
With Munich IAA Mobility (formerly the Frankfurt Auto Show) in full swing, I've been wading through a lot of kooky concept car renderings, trying to find a single design element with actual substance. For instance, BMW's i Vision Circular is a compact car designed around the conc … | Continue reading
"Its digital technology speaks directly to the needs of young target groups" | Continue reading
This project is super-impressive, and I'll go ahead and call this kid a genius. Akaki Kuumeri speaks Finnish, Japanese and English, works in business development for a security company in Tokyo, has a degree in engineering, flies drones and RC airplanes as a hobby and designs and … | Continue reading
After gaining my Bachelors of Industrial Design, many years ago, the diploma went into a box somewhere. I'm not even sure where it is in my house. And any ID job I ever held, no one ever asked to see the degree. Why do we still print them out on | Continue reading
Mercedes-Benz and Geely are two unlikely automotive parents, but their child, Smart, has turned out surprisingly well. There's a lot that could've gone wrong here, aesthetically speaking, but somehow these two brands have collaborated on a design for the Smart Concept #1 that is … | Continue reading
The i Vision AMBY knows what kind of road you're on, and caps the speed accordingly | Continue reading
Stuttgart-based designer Stephan Henrich describes his firm's specialty as "Robotic-design and architecture in physical realisation and speculation." Given that description, perhaps it's unsurprising that his concept for an all-wheel-drive bike is pretty outside-of-the-box: "The … | Continue reading
Mosaic Manufacturing's Palette 3 Pro is a filament splicer that allows you to print up to eight colors with your existing single-nozzle 3D printer. It doesn't require modifying your printer; instead you feed the differing filaments into the Palette first, and it splices them toge … | Continue reading
Gen Z isn't really into cars, and now at least two European automakers are working out ways to court them. First we saw Opel targeting teens with their diminutive SUM. Now BMW—or more specifically, their Motorrad division—is wondering: If not a car, can we interest you in somethi … | Continue reading
By incorporating it in the new Aeron Chair, the company is diverting hundreds of tons | Continue reading
Here's a handy way to get up and over a difficult-to-access engine: Video source That's the Elevated Creeper, made by Nomad Manufacturing. While it was invented for working on trucks, I could also see this coming in handy for architectural modelmakers working on sprawling diorama … | Continue reading
As the "Design Within Copy" account shows, there are even knock-offs of knock-offs | Continue reading
Forget Ikea's pictographic instructions. Instead every bookshelf should be designed to be assembled in this manner, while you hum a certain tune: By Guille Cameron Mac Lean. | Continue reading
Is it a marketing ploy to harvest e-mail addresses? Maybe. But few can resist the lure of winning an expensive tool for free, so this announcement by Festool is sure to have many applicants. "Become a product tester for our Cordless Impact Driver TID 18! We are looking for ten | Continue reading
A German EV startup called Adaptive City Mobility has developed a tiny, utilitarian electric car with some nifty features. Called the City One, it kind of looks like it was designed by Samsonite. The roof rack is for holding extra batteries. Because while you can charge the | Continue reading
"Most plastic beverage bottles are made of PET," observes Guillermo Cameron Mac Lean. "This material can be shrunk by applying heat." The architect and furniture designer, who hails from Argentina, began experimentally cutting the tops off of bottles, filling them with a random o … | Continue reading
Plex lounge furniture, designed for Herman Miller by Industrial Facility (a/k/a the duo of industrial designer Sam Hecht and architect Kim Colin), is a modular system of six pieces. Apparently designed for offices and institutions requiring flexibility, it's handsome enough that … | Continue reading
With both Masters and undergraduate degrees in design, Linus Hultgren likes to operate "in the borderland between art, design and interior architecture," he writes. If that sounds dry, a his Instagram Toilet-House project reveals he's got a sense of humor. Also known as the Peepo … | Continue reading
ID student Bernhard Sobotta has put 1,000km on it, with more to come | Continue reading
This is the most bizarre sanding solution I've ever seen. Called the Sandsall, it consists of two separate handheld power tools, and the sanding element is connected between them: This gives you a better look at the system, and different elements you can swap in: Outside of the | Continue reading
ID student Bernhard Sobotta has put 1,000km on it, with more to come | Continue reading
Heartwork makes them in a variety of colors, both solid and perforated | Continue reading
Audio engineer James Demer worked in TV production for years, most recently serving as the sound recordist for shows like Survivor and Vice News. Often on-set in remote locations, Demer wanted a portable sound system that could survive his job's demanding travel conditions. With … | Continue reading
The professional tool company seeks a creative leader to find problems and solve them | Continue reading
Fun to watch, but has to be murder on the joints | Continue reading
When students figure out both the object and the system | Continue reading
With current technology, folding displays can either fold inwards (i.e. mating the screen surfaces) or outwards (mating the back surfaces). Either operation effectively doubles the screen real estate. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 Huawei Mate Xs No manufacturer can yet make a screen tha … | Continue reading
Inspired by a broken Noguchi Akari lamp, designer Sean Kim created a more durable shade using 3D printing | Continue reading
Memobottles are the unusually-shaped, paper-dimension-sized water bottles we looked at last year. The innovation was simply to make the bottles flat, to better fit into bags. Now the developers, product designer Jesse Leeworthy and former financial analyst Jonathan Byrt, are foll … | Continue reading
As industrial designers, we've designed things that have rolled off of assembly lines. But something few of us think about are the actual conveyor belts. Medium- and heavy-duty conveyor belts are driven by what the industry calls round chains, as opposed to bicycle-like roller ch … | Continue reading
All you need is a fine gouge, some patience, and a flexible definition of success | Continue reading
German auto manufacturer Opel has designed a vehicle with an unlikely target market: Not just urban denizens seeking more mobility, but also "Youngsters from 15 years of age." Those teens with Germany's AM license--essentially a scooter license--can legally drive the Opel Rocks-e … | Continue reading
Lucas Couto is a bi-hemispherical industrial designer, hailing from Brazil but currently based in Norway, where he works for Microsoft on UX in mixed reality. "As an Industrial Designer I constantly have to work with physical UIs," he writes. "I wanted to explore more of these in … | Continue reading
Who couldn't use an extra foot in height? Maybe not the always-hilarious artist Dominic Wilcox, who himself is tall, but that doesn't mean he's not sympathetic to the vertically-challenged. "I was standing at a gig and turned to see a small woman dancing away but unable to see th … | Continue reading
The Erif Outdoor Gas Boiler runs on two LPG canisters | Continue reading
Rather than hairpin legs, you could call these paper clip legs. Designer Jakob Schenk's Tick Large are a set of metal table legs that exploit the material's properties to form an easy-on, easy-off connection to the tabletop: Admittedly, I can't think of a situation where | Continue reading
Who couldn't use an extra foot in height? Maybe not the always-hilarious artist Dominic Wilcox, who himself is tall, but that doesn't mean he's not sympathetic to the vertically-challenged. "I was standing at a gig and turned to see a small woman dancing away but unable to see th … | Continue reading
Different types of videogames could benefit from different types of physical controls. For example, a dial to zoom in with a rifle scope: Or a spring-loaded switch for notching and firing an arrow, or shooting a pool cue: To combine controls like these with the standard D-pad con … | Continue reading
The theory is that murder hornets arrived in France in a shipment of pottery, from either Southeast Asia or China, sometime in 2004. They first appeared near the port of Bordeaux. With no natural predators, they spread like wildfire; today they've conquered nearly all of France a … | Continue reading
From Japanese retailer Dinos comes this oak dining table designed for cat lovers. "For cats who want to relax more," the company writes, "we also offer cushions for the shelf (sold separately)." The table retails for ¥151,525 (USD $1,377). | Continue reading
I've got an ID school buddy whose father was in the NYPD. Worked his way up from patrolman and retired as a detective. Despite what you see in the movies, he did his full tour without ever firing his gun once, except at the range, and his career spanned the | Continue reading
Thoughtful construction and UI has made WorldVent a gaming changing product in the fight against COVID | Continue reading