There is a huge opportunity for UI designers to create better financial software | Continue reading
After a lifetime in the city, what surprised me most about country life is that neighbors will share their most prized and expensive possessions. Down here everyone has a truck (and uses them like trucks), and when a neighbor's truck goes down, another neighbor lends them theirs. … | Continue reading
Every creative has been in several brainstorming sessions where great ideas emerged--but for some reason or other, the follow-through just never happened. Why, and how can you avoid this? In this video, veteran industrial designer Michael DiTullo explains the intelligent system h … | Continue reading
You might never get used to seeing steam coming out of a cooking pot and streaming downwards, but you could surely get used to not having to clean a range hood. Check out the X Pure, the latest cooktop from German manufacturer Bora. The sleek, minimal, flush-mounted induction coo … | Continue reading
Linvisibile can do convex or concave, left- or right-hand, swing-in or -out | Continue reading
In a space-tight apartment, the only space to hang-dry laundry might be on a rack mounted outside of your window. This introduces the problem of reach: How long are your arms? An Israeli company called Rav Hevel addresses this with their Easy Clothesline. It captures ten individu … | Continue reading
The other night we were watching Gosford Park, a 2001 murder mystery set in an English country estate in the 1930s. There's a scene where a kitchen maid is tasked with collecting knives, and she pulls out a trio of knives that were sticking in this thing: I | Continue reading
The raw, artist-constructed DUMBO loft I lived in in the '90s had a pocket door for the bathroom. The "handle" was simply a hole drilled completely through, and capped on either end with a small metal piece that looked like the smaller of these: That thimble-like piece was barely … | Continue reading
The Lono is made with "tree yarn," castor beans and algae | Continue reading
Pop Chart is a company that gets commissioned to create infographics for the likes of The Today Show, The New York Times, Bloomberg and The Economist, to name a few. But their main business is creating and selling fantastic posters that document the forms of objects and structure … | Continue reading
Justin Myers is the owner, designer and engineer of R.A.E. Gear USA, an Illinois-based manufacturer that has moved thousands of units on Etsy. What Myers has correctly identified a market for, then designed and fabricated, is a series of metal sheaths for popular multitools made … | Continue reading
The dreams • design + life Founder & 2021 Core77 Design Awards Jury Captain | Continue reading
Here are my names for some recent design trends in electric vehicles: "Used bar of soap with arbitrary swoopy surface changes" "Clay model was damaged during shipping" "Teutonic-Aggressive" "Draw what Techno music sounds like" "Draw what Techno music sounds like coming out of a p … | Continue reading
The snow roller was used right into the 20th century | Continue reading
Embracing radical designs can reshape our ideas of what is possible | Continue reading
FLOX Studio Founder Sloan Leo will be sharing more about their "Community Design for Leaders" Summer Intensive at SVA on Wednesday, February 17th at 10:30 EST | Continue reading
Topsider Homes reckons the shape is more efficient, without the hassles of a circle | Continue reading
"German pubs used to have it all over the place back in the day" | Continue reading
This is the kind of ID student work I love to see: It doesn't involve the IoT or smartphone apps, but tackles a real-world problem that's as widespread as it is unaddressed. Sam Sheckells hails from Baltimore, Maryland but is studying product design at the Royal College of Art | Continue reading
Ikea reckons there are 2.5 billion gamers worldwide, and sees them as "a diverse group united by their love of e-sports and gaming – and by being an overlooked group from a life-at-home perspective." Eager to serve a market that large, the Swedish furniture giant has branched out … | Continue reading
REDEN creator Nelli Kim cut her teeth at Anthropologie, Bergdorf Goodman, and Diane Von Furstenburg—until chemotherapy made designer shoes unbearable to wear. | Continue reading
You can't see/feel it vibrate, but it "breezes through an amazing array of materials" | Continue reading
The Hunter Correctional Centre in Australia had a problem: Too many prisoners coming in, not enough capacity. They could either overcrowd the cells, which would be inhumane and/or illegal, or they could build a new wing of cells, which would take years (and a budget) that they di … | Continue reading
The product-hacking content creator known as The Q, whose product hacks often involve bicycles, decided he wanted to ride a bike across a frozen lake. His solution was to replace the wheels with sawmill blades: If you don't want to watch the build, but want to see what | Continue reading
Rolls-Royce typically doesn't do concept cars, but four years ago they rolled out their first, the 1030EX Vision 100: Automotive customization shop West Coast Customs became enamored of the design. After producing a series of renderings… …and following "years of R&D, we created | Continue reading
CheapOldHouses.com is a website that lists, well, guess. Targeted at folks on a budget who want to get out of the city and are willing to move to small towns across the country, the site finds listings that are under $100,000, though some of them have a catch, as you'll | Continue reading
On a farm, the amount of things you need to hang on a wall are absurd. What I really need are several dozen cheap utility hooks, but I somehow fell down the rabbit hole of looking at wrought-iron and cast-iron wall hooks at this antique hardware dealer. While they | Continue reading
Generally speaking, wine and beer come in green and brown bottles. The tinted glass prevents UV rays from oxidizing the wine and skunking up the beer. Image credit: Oscar Nord on Unsplash However, there's no reason beyond brand identity to put Sprite in green-tinted plastic bottl … | Continue reading
Each year the National Association of Home Builders highlights a New American Home, the design of which is meant to indicate upcoming trends in living styles. This year's selectee is a three-story residence located in Orlando, Florida, by Phil Kean Designs, and it's certainly a c … | Continue reading
For strict adherents of Judaism, Saturdays can be tough days. On Shabbat, whish lasts from sundown each Friday to sundown on Saturday, Jewish law (Halacha) prohibits melakha, which loosely translates to "work;" in practice it means one cannot push an elevator button, turn an appl … | Continue reading
If this doesn't put a smile on your face, you're an AI | Continue reading
Hot glue guns are great for quick-'n-dirty work, and you can practically buy them with spare change. But a company called FastenMaster produces a high-end glue gun precise enough for finishing and repair work, aimed at the pro contractor market. "The HB220 is not your typical glu … | Continue reading
Pattern Project aims to remove the biggest barrier to entry for making your own clothes | Continue reading
As incredible as tiny smartphone cameras have become, they simply can't compete with the relatively massive amount of glass in a real camera lens. And as user-friendly as digital cameras have become, they're not as easy to use as smartphones. Hence London-based startup Alice Came … | Continue reading
In the Shepherds Bush neighborhood of London, an unusual five-storey building is up for sale. And while AFP reports that it's just 5'6" wide at its narrowest point, British realty company Winkworth, which is handling the sale, has rounded it up in the description. "…Despite its s … | Continue reading
Gjenge Makers pavers cost just 83 cents a square foot | Continue reading
"Easy to manufacture and very low cost," should arrive by spring | Continue reading
So many possibilities as positions continue to open up over on Coroflot. | Continue reading
Dirty Labs Co-Founder and CEO David Watkins tells his story and shares advice on creating a product that transcends the current "greenwashing" phenomenon | Continue reading
The most annoying things to clean have vents or louvers, like air conditioner fascias. Cleaning the industrial-sized one in the photography studio I used to run took forever. Had I known about this trick, I'd have used it. Here it's used on a windowsill, but I believe it would ap … | Continue reading
Nuke multiples without splattering, pouring lips in the corners, easy open lids, etc. | Continue reading
Check out this 6:1 toaster concept by Peter Morgan, done when he was a Product Design student at Ireland's National College of Art & Design, Dublin. Morgan asked: "How much of our appliances are actually essential? By weight, one sixth of a conventional toaster actually makes toa … | Continue reading
Auto designer Chip Foose is an outside-of-the-box thinker. After graduating from Art Center in the early '90s, he had a job offer from Ford, and another from Boyd Coddington's hot rod shop. Foose eschewed the establishment and went with Coddington, eventually becoming president o … | Continue reading
To address people's COVID-based button-shyness, Singapore-based design firm Stuck Labs has created "kinetic touchless" buttons: "Kinetic Touchless is a new interaction for touchless lift buttons that mirror your finger movements to recreate the tactile response of pushing a butto … | Continue reading
From Germany comes the Qool, a vacuum-insulated cooler that can keep its contents at temperature for up to 10 days. Ice cubes, the Qool company says, will last even longer at 21 days. The secret sauce is the company's "Temperature Elements," which are some type of proprietary | Continue reading
It never occurred to me that you could once smoke in prison (and still can in some regions), but that you don't necessarily want prisoners walking around with lighters and matches. Thus prison supply companies still sell wall-mounted cigarette lighters to be used in common areas. … | Continue reading
Fascinated by yesterday's look at objects designed for prisons, I started looking at furniture and fixtures in the category. Whereas the objects must be designed with anti-smuggling features, furniture and fixtures must focus on anti-harm while fulfilling their original function. … | Continue reading
My scout came across the Bob Barker Company, which has nothing to do with the famous game show host, but is instead "The nation's largest detention supplier." What that means is, they sell objects that are used in prisons by inmates or staff. Designing objects for prison use mean … | Continue reading