To me, Oakley is to eyewear what Bang & Olufsen is to audio equipment. Both companies lavish heavy, boundary-pushing design attention on objects at high cost, and while their aesthetics don't appeal to me--they seem to target superheroes or supervillains--I'm always interested to … | Continue reading
Google has developed a new videoconferencing technology that presents each party in 3D. Called Project Starline, you won't be installing it on your laptop anytime soon; it involves an array of cameras, computer vision and machine learning software and "a breakthrough light field … | Continue reading
Italian inventor Veronica Crisafulli has created a workable pair of telescoping high heels. You can quickly change their height to 5cm, 6cm or 7cm, and "this flexibility allows women to embrace fashion and function in a single shoe," Crisafulli's company, Trilly, writes. "No extr … | Continue reading
This looks like an ambitious ID student Prototyping class project, but in fact it's a finished product that's on the market. The Wanderr, by outdoor equipment company OME Gear, is a five-function object that provides multiple seating configurations and serves as a sort of hand tr … | Continue reading
Google has developed a new videoconferencing technology that presents each party in 3D. Called Project Starline, you won't be installing it on your laptop anytime soon; it involves an array of cameras, computer vision and machine learning software and "a breakthrough light field … | Continue reading
This week Apple announced AssistiveTouch, a radical system for controlling your Apple Watch without touching it. Aimed at users with limited mobility and limb differences, it very cleverly utilizes features already built in to the Watch to provide new ways of interacting with the … | Continue reading
A popular type of bread in Turkey is Trabzon, named for the region in which it's made. Baked in stone ovens, the loaves are large and circular: As you slice closer to the middle, a slice of Trabzon will not fit in a regular toaster. Thus Turkish manufacturer Arzum | Continue reading
Also, an explanation of the difference between Design/Build, Design-Bid-Build and CMAR | Continue reading
Last night Ford unveiled their electric F-150 Lightning, heralding a major shift for Detroit and, if uptake is what they think it will be, the country. America loves trucks, and trucks burn fossil fuels. For the makers of America's bestselling vehicle (for over 40 years!) to rele … | Continue reading
There is nothing like a crisis to demonstrate the importance of creativity. To date Covid-19 has cost the global economy over $16 trillion, cost millions of jobs and lost working hours, killed at least 2.6 million people and restricted travel for everyone. Considering the enormou … | Continue reading
The two innovation consulting firms come together to create a coast-to-coast organization that benefits clients and staff | Continue reading
Google unveiled their redesigned Android 12 operating system at this week's I/O 2021 developer conference, which runs through tomorrow. Visually speaking, they're sticking with the flat design approach, but have moved away from the vibrant, in-your-face colors of Android 11 and a … | Continue reading
Fischer is a German company that manufactures handmade precision weather and climate measuring instruments. One of their product categories is the weather station, which combines a barometer, hygrometer and thermometer. These are pretty sober-looking instruments: They've got just … | Continue reading
For those looking to further their industrial design education, you've got nine days left to apply for the next wave of Advanced Design's Offsite program. Conducted online, the summer session is broken into two cohorts, depending on your experience level: Cohort 01: Breaking Into … | Continue reading
The Ostra project considers the environment, the supply chain and the economy | Continue reading
Made from sawdust and mimicking specific species, it's pretty darn convincing | Continue reading
Furniture startup Hoek Home is branding their new flatpack designs as sustainable, but there appears to be an issue. The company's approach is to use recycled HDPE sheets that have been CNC-milled into a chassis and a set of four legs that nest within the overall shape. These leg … | Continue reading
Now that we know COVID is spread via aerosol rather than fomites, having clean air is of more concern than clean hands. Automaker Ford, working together with fan manufacturer Lasko, is addressing this with their design of a simple air filtration system centered on a common box fa … | Continue reading
Huel, a company whose name is a portmanteau of "human" and "fuel," manufactures a plant-based meal replacement formula that comes in bar form, as a ready-made shake, or delivered as a powder for making shakes yourself. For the latter application, they've come up with this very de … | Continue reading
Ergonomics-obsessed Michael Chou's Midnight Slice is his second crowdfunding victory | Continue reading
The low UV output draws "significantly fewer insects than other light sources" | Continue reading
Lacking internal combustion engines, electric cars are naturally silent, yet they need to produce a noise for both driver feedback and pedestrian awareness. BMW's designers are especially concerned with the former for their M-branded electric vehicles; the high-performance M-seri … | Continue reading
The EDC space is fun to watch, because it's got a fanatic base of customers and no shortage of companies attempting to satisfy them with new design twists. The offerings range from innovative to useless, from clever to hilarious; it's one of the few categories I can think of wher … | Continue reading
I recently had my Volkswagen Golf Alltrack at the dealership for routine maintenance. As a courtesy, this dealership will give you a loaner car if you pre-request it. This time they gave me a new Atlas, their largest SUV model. This was just before the gas crunch hit, but fuel | Continue reading
I recently had my Volkswagen Golf Alltrack at the dealership for routine maintenance. As a courtesy, this dealership will give you a loaner car if you pre-request it. This time they gave me a new Atlas, their largest SUV model. This was just before the gas crunch hit, but fuel | Continue reading
Binder jetting is a 3D printing process that uses inkjet print heads to deposit a liquid binding agent onto a powder bed. A thin layer of powder is spread across the build platform, and the printhead makes a pass over it, squirting its goo with precision. Then the build | Continue reading
This week Mattel launched PlayBack, their initiative to recover and recycle used toys (of their own manufacture). Whether unwanted, outgrown or simply broken, the company will e-mail you a free shipping label for them. You ship the toys back to them as-is--no cleaning necessary-- … | Continue reading
I've seen rolltop breadboxes before, but never an object like this, where the drawer operates the rolltop: This video is floating around the interwebs with no attribution. If you know who the original poster is, or better yet who made it, please drop a line in the comments so | Continue reading
Rated for 1,000 pounds, I have no idea how sturdy this Keter Folding Work Table actually is, but it certainly has the most unique breakdown method I've ever seen: | Continue reading
Outside of Gothenburg, Sweden is the Repslagarmuseet ("Museum of Rope Making"). The museum is in fact a functional factory where they manufacture rope in the old-school manner, in this case rigging lines for the Galeas Gurine, a restored sailing ship in Norway. Teaser: The full v … | Continue reading
Aiming for family fun, it comes with an electric skateboard | Continue reading
Smart hackers figured out how to hit them where it hurts | Continue reading
Cadmio, a product visualization app for the iPad Pro, is still in private beta. If you're curious about what it can do, industrial designer Eric Strebel got his hands on a copy, and runs it through his paces in this review: You can request access to the beta yourself | Continue reading
You could be forgiven for not knowing what the heck these are for: That's a knife specifically designed for mushroom foraging. The bristles are to clear debris to expose the stem for slicing, and to dust off the cap. The versions above and directly below are made by Italian | Continue reading
Present & Correct jokingly refers to these as "halfway houses:" Domiciles that have been split down the middle and divided between two families in Ruhr, Germany, a region once dominated by the coal mining industry. Photographer Wolfgang Fröhling documented a number of them in his … | Continue reading
Ever since making a splash at IMM Cologne in 2014 with his Kleinergleich5, an ultra-lightweight table, Ruben Beckers has established Tischlerei Beckers, a design/build firm in North Rhine-Westphalia. One of the non-client-based projects he's produced is Kante (German for "edge"), … | Continue reading
Fits in an elevator, can haul 396 pounds of cargo | Continue reading
Here's a fascinating proposed solution to the displaced Hmong population in China, whose farming communities are being displaced by modern planning. Xiangshu Kong, Xiaoyong Zhang and Mingsong Sun envision tall, skeletal structures built in the countryside, with farmhouses lifted … | Continue reading
While pills are all the rage in America, in Europe "children and elderly people often get medicine prescribed in the form of drops," writes Hélène Fontaine, "because they are easier to take than pills." Fontaine is an Industrial Design student at Germany's Burg Giebichenstein Uni … | Continue reading
The building will be recycled in its entirety on May 17th | Continue reading
Pick your next camera with help from a panel of global design experts | Continue reading
The Pizza Canister 1.0 is jerry-can-based and contains a stone slab | Continue reading
How many useful objects can you make using simple basket manufacturing techniques? | Continue reading
Call me a traitor, but I prefer the graphic designer's solution here | Continue reading
Design Within Reach has expanded their 15% off sale to include the Eames Lounge Chair (the previous sale didn't). On DWR's site, the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman in the classic walnut and black leather, which they normally sell for $6,995, is going for $5,945.75--a savings of o … | Continue reading
I'm digging Toronto-based industrial designer Keillor MacLeod's simple Show Lamp: "Show Lamp is a table light intended for discreetly illuminating surfaces and precious objects on cluttered shelves and desktops. "The thin aluminum armature houses dimmable LED strips and pivots at … | Continue reading
At $300,000, this pool table costs more than a pool | Continue reading