This year's Sports & Recreation Design Awards Jury was led by Katie Becker of Arc'teryx | Continue reading
This year's Strategy & Research Design Awards Jury was led by Emily Privot McNamara of Amazon | Continue reading
This year's Service Design Awards Jury was led by Emily Privot McNamara of Amazon | Continue reading
This year's Tools & Work Design Awards Jury was led by Minali Chatani & Veronica Becchetti of Wild One | Continue reading
This year's Commercial Equipment Design Awards Jury was led by Jon Grossman of Verily Life Sciences | Continue reading
This year's Built Environment Design Awards Jury was led by Alda Ly of Alda Ly Architecture | Continue reading
"Take a look at this box," writes Ukraine-based design/manufacturing firm Handcrafted Workshop. "This box has not been opened for 25 years. These are untouched IN-16 lamps, which were stored in a closed military warehouse. It is a complete success to find several boxes of these l … | Continue reading
The Otis Rack is designed as an add-on to slab desks | Continue reading
Did you know they paint recycled paper with white ink to brighten it? | Continue reading
Designing a packaging box to fit a flatscreen TV, a smartphone or a laptop is pretty straightforward. Then there are products with trickier shapes, like Sony Electronics' Sound Bar line, which consists of a long bar speaker and a separate box-like subwoofer. Those two forms don't … | Continue reading
Startup Nuro gets to take a fresh crack at auto design | Continue reading
Startup Nuro gets to take a fresh crack at auto design | Continue reading
The next frontier for design is right under our nose | Continue reading
Researchers at the Australian National University have developed a thin film "that allows people to see clearly in the dark" when they look through it. The film contains nanometre-scale crystals that enable the magic-like feat. Dr Rocio Camacho Morales "We have made the invisible … | Continue reading
Ikea's SYMFONISK speaker range currently includes lamp and bookshelf speakers. This week they announced they're releasing a picture frame WiFi speaker, designed in collaboration with Sonos: "The new SYMFONISK picture frame WiFi speaker also serves a piece of art that seamlessly b … | Continue reading
The company's Original Blended Material is recyclable and has multiple applications | Continue reading
How Shine Turbine's Cat Adalay designed a portable energy generator that charges devices in a fraction of the time of solar panels—and is collapsible to the siz | Continue reading
Lucy Braun and Lars Schiwietz are freshly-minted product designers, having recently graduated from Germany's Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Their simple, modular Greenwall design caught my eye: "Greenwall combines room separation with useful planting. Primarily de … | Continue reading
How Shine Turbine's Cat Adalay designed a portable energy generator that charges devices in a fraction of the time of solar panels—and is collapsible to the siz | Continue reading
Scott Seelye conquers glass-filled polycarbonate to produce durable string instruments | Continue reading
"Basically just the same as you'd find in a hardware store or to make furniture" | Continue reading
Good news for homeowners, bad news for masons and rough carpenters | Continue reading
They're teaming up with Wallpaper magazine for the first one | Continue reading
After the pandemic, what are businesses and institutions going to do with all of the plexi shields they put up? Plexi (a/k/a Plexiglas, or acrylic) is a No. 7 plastic, like nylon, which is not easily recyclable and often ends up in landfill. "Ayodeji Oluwalana, recycling and spec … | Continue reading
Italian styling house Pininfarina is expanding their transportation design wheelhouse to include "micro-mobility." The company has partnered up with Helbiz, an Italy-based company that produces eco-friendly scooters, e-bikes and mopeds for app-based rental in cities in the U.S. a … | Continue reading
David Hockney has nothing to prove, being in the "Most expensive artwork sold by a living artist" club; His Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold for $90 million a few years ago. So I'm glad to see he still has the drive to continue sketching. In | Continue reading
They've kept the best features and added some new ones | Continue reading
As rotor-based drones continue to be weaponized, particularly in swarm forms, military and police organizations will need a way to knock them out of the sky. In April we saw energy products company Epirus showing off their anti-drone microwave zapper: DARPA's Mobile Force Protect … | Continue reading
FarmPlast, a/k/a MilkCratesDirect.com has tons of coloring and branding options | Continue reading
As rotor-based drones continue to be weaponized, particularly in swarm forms, military and police organizations will need a way to knock them out of the sky. In April we saw energy products company Epirus showing off their anti-drone microwave zapper: DARPA's Mobile Force Protect … | Continue reading
Made from aluminum extrusions, they borrow a trick from the window industry | Continue reading
A rotating silkscreened disk lets you literally dial in the brightness | Continue reading
Turns out those sneeze guards that seemingly every business installed last year don't actually prevent COVID transmission. Now that both the CDC and the WHO have confirmed that the virus spreads through aerosols, i.e. particles that float around and can easily pass over or around … | Continue reading
This Multi-Point Illumination system is designed for rooms with just a single overhead light socket, like a garage. It consists of a central hub that screws into the socket, and four satellites that can be mounted up to nine feet away from the hub. The | Continue reading
Back when canals were the easiest way to move cargo, horses provided the motive power for the cargo-laden barges. These horses walked along an established towpath alongside the canal, pulling the barges by rope. Due to geography and logistics, sometimes the towpath had to switch … | Continue reading
I think of gaming hardware company Razer as, well, a gaming hardware company. So I was surprised to learn that they've not only established a $50 million venture capital fund for sustainability-focused startups, but have also lent their industrial design team and engineering team … | Continue reading
If you're doing any kind of mechanical work, a parts washer (and on a smaller scale, an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner) is a handy thing to have. But once you remove your now-grease-free part, you're left with a sloppy sludge of solvents in the tank that can't just be poured down | Continue reading
A UK-based custom motorcycle builder who goes by the handle Ziggy Moto has designed this unusual one-off, which looks something like a Ducati that crashed through Raymond Loewy's studio and burst through the other side looking like this: The concept was reportedly designed | Continue reading
Here's something your neighbor would mock you for owning…but would probably ask to borrow a week later: That's the Komatsu PC01-1 Mini Excavator. Puts out 3.5 horsepower, weighs about 840 pounds, and can dig to a maximum depth of 3.5 feet. According to Komatsu it's designed for g … | Continue reading
Here's something your neighbor would mock you for owning…but would probably ask to borrow a week later: That's the Komatsu PC01-1 Mini Excavator. Puts out 3.5 horsepower, weighs about 840 pounds, and can dig to a maximum depth of 3.5 feet. According to Komatsu it's designed for g … | Continue reading
The designers studied the way people hack their truck beds, and have made it easier | Continue reading
While I'm not part of this demographic, I can appreciate the design. This funnel by plastic organizer manufacturer Wowhouse is designed for protein-powder-mixing gym rats who make their shakes on-the-go, and don't want to spill powder all over the place. And it's available in dif … | Continue reading
Ford has announced the Maverick, a tidily-designed compact pickup truck that appears set to reignite that market. While trucks have steadily gotten bigger and more bloated, Ford is betting—accurately, I believe—that there are plenty of folks who'd like the convenience of hauling … | Continue reading
After seeing that footage of Marines flying around using Gravity Industries' jet suits, I figured personal human flight now had its form factor. But an Australian company called CopterPack begs to differ. Their design approach is "an electric backpack helicopter with a self-level … | Continue reading
After seeing that footage of Marines flying around using Gravity Industries' jet suits, I figured personal human flight now had its form factor. But an Australian company called CopterPack begs to differ. Their design approach is "an electric backpack helicopter with a self-level … | Continue reading
Learn more about sustainability-centric idea behind the WantedDesign Schools Workshop and RSVP for the students' final presentations on June 11th | Continue reading
$20 to make your mouse cord weightless, when millions are on the line | Continue reading