Their AirShield system would create "blades" of air around each passenger | Continue reading
As an industrial designer and UX designer from South Korea, Minwook Paeng has already worked for that country's most well-known brands: Samsung, LG Electronics and Hyundai. But nowadays Paeng is in London, pursuing his Masters in Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College … | Continue reading
Erik de Laurens now runs his own company producing Scalite | Continue reading
"I spent years designing high-efficiency wood and charcoal cookstoves for developing countries," writes Ben West, founder of Spark Grills. "I learned a lot, and I'm proud of our impact. Today, about 30% of Rwandans use one of our cookstoves, which helped reduce the energy consump … | Continue reading
A clever way of saving resources for residents while solving companies' needs | Continue reading
Gary Pohty earned his Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, which "was never my passion," he writes. Degree in hand, he spent a few years working as a project coordinator for a local electronics firm. But then he "discovered these small things called logos," … | Continue reading
The lockdown means folks had plenty of time to work on 'em. Here's my two faves | Continue reading
It gives you 15 minutes to get the hell out of Dodge | Continue reading
As I mentioned in the post on the Leica S910, I think laser measuring tools will die down in popularity as drone photogrammetry becomes easier. And that revolution is already underway. Yesterday autonomous drone manufacturer Skydio rolled out 3D Scan, an adaptive scanning softwar … | Continue reading
Finding clever ways to minimize potential exposure to COVID-19 continues to be a hot topic worldwide | Continue reading
Measure roof pitches and other far dimensions without having to get on a ladder | Continue reading
RSVP to join and celebrate this year's best in design | Continue reading
A collaboration between Takram and Hitachi Design wraps up in this final exploration of cultural shifts as a result of COVID-19 | Continue reading
Violaine Buet's multidisciplinary materials research has yielded wonderfully surprising results | Continue reading
There's a reason the EEW Yarn Counter has clocked $130k-plus on Kickstarter | Continue reading
As we've discussed here, internet routers are freaking ugly and seem to follow bizarre design principles. Thus Etsy sellers have popped up with craftsy objects designed for the sole purpose of hiding a router. This seller offers books that have been hollowed out, allowing you to … | Continue reading
An antique Chinese design for a folding chair, likely used by royalty, sold for $8.5 million at an auction held by Christie's Hong Kong last week. "Though folding horseshoe-back armchairs are seen in Ming-dynasty woodblock prints and in Song-dynasty paintings," says the descripti … | Continue reading
Designed in 1989, Casio's iconic F-91W is an affordable digital watch with a long-lasting battery. Millions of units were sold and they're still being produced today, with a retail price of under $20. Unfortunately, like the Toyota Hilux the F-91W became ensnared with images of t … | Continue reading
If you look at this series of ideograms, printed on a bubble wrap envelope and posted by industrial designer Oscar Diaz, how long did it take you to puzzle out what it all means? It took me a few, particularly because I thought the wine glass was | Continue reading
Bricknics, invented by product designers and Eindhoven grads Timm Donke and Leif Czakai, are bricks that are actually "modular cooking tools." Their "Build-and-eat" concept calls for loading the two-part clay bricks up with food, stacking them into an oven shape with a group of f … | Continue reading
Pendant lighting is free-floating and static, whereas adjustable lighting is typically attached to a jointed arm. Berlin-based industrial design firm Studio Flaer subverts this arrangement with their Piuma light fixture, which hangs like a pendant, but can adjust its angle by mea … | Continue reading
Sold to both military and civilian customers as well as fleet owners, Go Treads are a simple-seeming traction-adding device for freeing stuck vehicles. "I designed Go Treads to be simple to use by virtually anyone - no tools needed - no attaching to the tires," writes | Continue reading
This reminds me a lot of those tape cassette adapters many of us once had in our cars. ReVolt is a system for powering battery-operated devices using USB power instead. "One end is battery-shaped and goes into the battery compartment of the device you want to power, | Continue reading
While studying business at Pompeu Fabru University in Barcelona, Josep Bergadà had a problem: He was itching to play the piano during his downtime, but the instrument was sitting in his parents' house, 40 kilometers away. After graduating, Bergadà partnered up with Jorquera Piano … | Continue reading
My wife and I use this contraption to get the last drop of toothpaste out of the tube: They sell them on eBay for less than ten bucks. Painters use them for paint tubes. There's a fancier version called the Big Squeeze, below, that looks more ergonomic, but they | Continue reading
The Temporary Services art collective was friends with a guy named Angelo, who was locked up for the long haul in a California prison. As it turns out, Angelo had drawing skills, and TS asked him if he would illustrate a book of the various inventions he and fellow prisoners | Continue reading
The Temporary Services art collective was friends with a guy named Angelo, who was locked up for the long haul in a California prison. As it turns out, Angelo had drawing skills, and TS asked him if he would illustrate a book of the various inventions he and fellow prisoners | Continue reading
Calgary-based inventor Andrew Konesky has developed the Air Wrangler, a simple system for storing air tools, regardless of the specifics of the manufacturer's quick-connect plugs. The one-handed operation does indeed look efficient: The 8-tool-capacity Air Wranglers are going for … | Continue reading
Car blogs are a'twitter with images of this custom Boat Tail, designed and handbuilt by Rolls-Royce's Coachbuild program. The Boat Tail is essentially a one-off droptop with a picnic service in the trunk, an umbrella for shade and a built-in champagne 'fridge that can nail 6 degr … | Continue reading
Aurrigo Auto Shuttles are rolling out in Cambridge. They'll be hard to miss | Continue reading
From Europe, where there's less chance you'll be shot by police over a misunderstanding, comes this designey pump-action water gun. That's the Devilfish Incog, designed by outdoor gear company Team Magnus. "In line with modern kids' gadgetry styling, it offers MI5 style stealth," … | Continue reading
One of my regular ID gigs was in "structural package design," i.e. bottles. I've worked on all kinds, and I think laypeople would be surprised to see how many different materials go into your average pump bottle. They're typically primarily polypropylene, but feature other herbs … | Continue reading
The OzAutogate lets your vehicle's weight do all the work | Continue reading
The JoyFous is an alternative to curtains or glass walls | Continue reading
The first Sustainability Deep Dive from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), held online in June 2020, drew nearly 600 designers, students, and educators from more than 25 countries. Back for a second year, IDSA's Sustainability Deep Dive 2021 (June 9-10) will cont … | Continue reading
Philipp Aduatz creates the Thanatos Furniture Collection using marble waste. Inspired by morbid forms and structures this project should demonstrate a possible application of waste in experimental furniture design. | Continue reading
Fits in your pocket, can expand up to 34 inches | Continue reading
Ironically, I now live out in nature but deal with way more plastic than I ever did in the city. Country life requires a lot of stuff, and every neighbor I've visited down here, whether a disaster prepper or not, has multiple plastic bins and buckets of stuff in the | Continue reading
Spokesman: "It's a nifty way of getting around a real hurdle for car production" | Continue reading
A new report from car industry analysts AutoForecast Solutions reveals that at least 875,000 cars have been pulled out of production in America due to the microchip shortage. Detroit is bearing the brunt: Ford alone is estimated to have canceled production of a planned 324,616 ve … | Continue reading
European company Sixay Furniture manufactures this beautiful SIXtematic series of drawer chests, which feature tons of flat, A4-sized drawers. While the Kommode line above features straight legs, the SIXtematic2 line gets a little more playful with the base | Continue reading
Way back in 2010, Rob Cockerham of the Cockeyed blog was obsessed with his then-new Eyeclops Bionic Eye Camera, a sort of toy microscope that hooks up to a television set, providing extreme 200x macro images. He turned the Eyeclops onto the seals of Ziploc-style sandwich bags to … | Continue reading
Should've seen this coming: The trend of fancy drawing implements has now collided with the EDC market. A Taiwanese design firm called TA+d has successfully Kickstarted the ONE 3, a tactical architect's scale with an integrated pen or pencil, your choice. You know the drill: "Aer … | Continue reading
A green initiative and an emphasis on aesthetics over functionality backfire | Continue reading
A year ago we were in the grip of a worldwide pandemic where tests, if you could even find one, involved shoving a Q-Tip up your nose and waiting days for the results. Now a Singaporean company called Breathonix has developed a COVID test that's much easier to take, is | Continue reading
A year ago we were in the grip of a worldwide pandemic where tests, if you could even find one, involved shoving a Q-Tip up your nose and waiting days for the results. Now a Singaporean company called Breathonix has developed a COVID test that's much easier to take, is | Continue reading
The latest crowdfunding smash on Kickstarter may also be the simplest object ever sold on the platform. The Misen Oven Plate is just a 10" x 13.5", 6mm-thick piece of steel with rounded corners. And it just shot past the $1-million mark. Cooking utensil company Misen says that yo … | Continue reading
Superleggera In an effort to top Gio Ponti's Superleggera ("super lightweight") chair, Swiss designer Oskar Zieta used two production methods Ponti could never have dreamed of in 1957: Laser-cutting and FiDU. FiDU is a German acronym for Freie Innen Druck Umformung, "free interna … | Continue reading