When Giorgetto Giugiaro was hired to design Hyundai's first Pony, back in 1974, here's what he came up with: It looks well similar to the DMC DeLorean that Giugiaro would later design in the early '80s: I suppose that if Hyundai was ready, they | Continue reading
Talk about good timing. In October 2019 Wing, a drone delivery service and subsidiary of Alphabet, gained permission to start running trials in Christiansburg, Virginia. Residents of the town, population 21,000, were initially skeptical. "It sounded unrealistic," said Cassie Brug … | Continue reading
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Industrial design grad Charlie Ransford's Songbird is designed to teach others to 3D print | Continue reading
A modern-day camera lucida, and David Hockney's controversial theory about old masters | Continue reading
In Japan, birthplace of sushi, an unnamed inventor is developing a case to carry live fish. You can use it to "Bring the fish you caught or the live fish you bought at the market to your home!" "Katsugyo" | Continue reading
In 1976 Herman Miller launched the Modular Sofa Group, by British furniture designer Ray Wilkes. Wilkes was a proponent of a production method Herman Miller started using in 1974, for Don Chadwick's Modular Seating line: Injecting foam into a mold to produce whatever shape the de … | Continue reading
Swiss "tech minimalist" product design firm Rolling Square has an enormous hit on their hands: Edge, a "modular work from home kit" that allows you to attach your phone, a light (for videoconferencing) and a wireless charger to your laptop, tablet or monitor. | Continue reading
In 2019, Belgian engineer Andreas De Smedt designed the Notadesk, a portable standing desk that can perform a neat trick: While it can be used like a simple laptop riser… …it's got a suction cup, so you can stick it to a window: | Continue reading
Ryan Colwick hopes to spread Protocycling beyond the ID department | Continue reading
Step on PressDrain and it cuts the hair into little bits | Continue reading
The newest release from Portland, OR's GrowlerWerks brings hard seltzer on demand, just in time for picnic season. | Continue reading
The Lift takes up a minimal amount of space and will hoist 200 lbs | Continue reading
The Gerber Shard must've been fun to design, because there's no established form factor for a multitool like this. It appears to have been designed as a companion piece for those who already carry a simple pocketknife, and would like the additional features offered by the Shard w … | Continue reading
It'd be interesting to see a design sketch shot like this | Continue reading
Here's a handy product design from the why-didn't-I-think-of-that category: Mammoth Grips. They're just a simple pair of plastic doohickeys shaped like E.T. declaring victory. Simple as they are, they offer great utility: | Continue reading
On the opposite end of the spectrum from Victorinox's massive Swiss Champ XXL are their nifty Mini Tools: The cleverly-designed tools tuck away in the corkscrew of your Swiss Army Knife, giving you the ability to work on tiny stuff: The set of 4 | Continue reading
PET bottles are barely (less than 30%) recycled in America, a country that has the infrastructure to recycle it. In developing nations that don't have recycling technology and equipment, yet are awash in PET bottles, an environmental disaster looms. In Uganda, for instance, "plas … | Continue reading
The U.S. Army has released stunning footage of their new night vision technology, demonstrated by the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B). It has to be seen to be believed: The previous generation of night vision featured a greenish glow, because the images were gener … | Continue reading
A startup called Catham.city has designed a chair with an attached treadwheel for cats called The Loveseat. I cannot fathom why these two things must be attached. The company's justification doesn't make any sense to me: "Pet products are made to serve pets but are | Continue reading
To provide evenly-distributed illumination, Czech model painting enthusiast Matyáš Hošek DIY'ed one of the more innovative LED task lights we've ever seen: A similar form has been adopted by the (unaffiliated) Bowio Book Light, "designed and engineered by readers for readers": Th … | Continue reading
Brett Lewis got in early on the "van life" trend, is now featured on a Discovery show | Continue reading
Hell in a handbasket, but at least the basket doesn't have Cheeto dust on it | Continue reading
Planning officials in Rowan County, Kentucky were faced with an unacceptable amount of car accidents at the intersection of Routes 60 and 801. "We're looking at a way to reduce the severity of crashes that this intersection has a history of," Allen Blair of the Kentucky Transport … | Continue reading
Predominantly Western, but the India and China sites are bound to fill up too | Continue reading
Here's the Swiss Champ XXL. Don't drop it on your foot | Continue reading
If we carnivores all hunted our own food, that would be better for the planet than factory farming. Yet every hunter I've seen down here drives a gas-guzzling truck, offsetting the carbon savings. At least one hunter in Texas, however, has decided to reduce their footprint with t … | Continue reading
Depending on how old your first used car was, it might've come with two different types of keys: One to unlock the door/trunk/glove compartment, the other for the ignition. (Incredibly, luxury brand Lincoln once offered three keys, separating the door and trunk locks.) As for why … | Continue reading
The New Yorker has long been known for their covers, which feature trenchant observations of society. Illustrator Tomer Hanuka, who teaches at SVA on the side, figured that would make a great assignment--and he was right: Zoe Stengel Penni Xiaoyi Peng Amy Young | Continue reading
Italian cutlery manufacturer Maserin has been in business since 1960. They produce literally hundreds of different models, from "Gentleman's knives" to multitools, designey cutlery to military models. While there's no stylistic consistency across models--each one's product page s … | Continue reading
Amusing and insightful: Dutch designer Niek Pulles, whose HEYNIEK studio counts Nike's Special Projects division among their clients, has put together an Instagram account of photo comparisons of quirky cars and their spiritual sneaker siblings: | Continue reading
Architect/Photographer Jeffrey Milstein gained special permission to shoot the book | Continue reading
Early data storage: The IBM 2401 was a magnetic tape unit first released in 1964. Image: IBM It could store a maximum of 45MB on 2,400 feet of tape; rewinding the tape on the Model 1 took a full three minutes. Image: Erik Pitti from San Diego, CA, USA | Continue reading
As first-year Industrial Design students in Production Methods 101, the easiest method for us to grasp was extrusion: The professor just said "Play-Doh Fun Factory" and all of us got it. But it wasn't until well after graduation that I learned the material being extruded was not … | Continue reading
People do say, not to put Tupperware in a microwave | Continue reading
Orbital Marine Power's O2 looks like a cross between a pencil and the Starship Enterprise | Continue reading
Here's a list of Kickstarter projects that not only went into production, but which were deemed good enough to be sold in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Store. "These standout alumni projects," write the curators, "illustrate how designers are able to build a practic … | Continue reading
The Arrow-Fix has something in common with a certain Japanese pencil sharpener | Continue reading
Looks super handy, but does not integrate with the tool when folded up | Continue reading
WATG's "Green Block" visualizations for turning famous urban areas eco-friendly | Continue reading
The most interesting new design I saw in yesterday's Apple presentation was not their new computing devices (thinner, faster, blah blah blah) but their redesigned Apple TV remote control. As a non-TV-owner, my experience with remote controls has been limited to (pre-pandemic) vis … | Continue reading
A new EU safety regulation yields better protection for unseen bikes | Continue reading
Betting that the microfactory will be more profitable than the assembly line | Continue reading
Today's Earth Day, and here's a bit of good news for the planet. Keter, one of the world's largest producers of resin-based outdoor furniture (they sell in over 90 countries and have 21 factories worldwide), is going to start making their products out of garbage. Not in its garba … | Continue reading