Bugatti has unveiled their Royale, which is not a car, but a set of home speakers. The luxury automotive brand has partnered with Tidal Audio, a German manufacturer of high-end sound systems, but even established automotive magazines have confused them with Tidal, the Norwegian s … | Continue reading
America does an extraordinarily poor job of recycling, made worse by poor communication. There is no coordinated nationwide strategy for recycling, nor any education on how recycling machines actually work. At my local recycling drop-off center, there's a gigantic sign saying "NO … | Continue reading
Waterproof, 100x stickiness, can be used in hot or cold weather | Continue reading
Two auto manufacturers whose designs cannot be accused of "following the pack" are BMW and Lexus. That being said, I'm not sure what either design team is doing when it comes to front ends, in particular. These parts of their cars now look like they were designed under heavy stim … | Continue reading
We all want to believe our spouse understands the role of packaging, or has a basic grasp of how appliances work, or simply knows how to hang objects meant to be hung. But an entire community of people on Reddit have given up on that notion, and simply documented the | Continue reading
A functional electric utility vehicle that's actually designed for the working class | Continue reading
Fifteen years after bringing the art form known as "gift guide" to the Internet we are reaching into our back catalog for a classic edition to remix. In 2012 we introduced *The Seven Designer Phenotypes* to the world both online and in a pair of pop-up stores. Now, we're turning … | Continue reading
From pineapple leather to AI-enabled birdhouses, these are the projects that caught our attention in 2020. | Continue reading
How long do you expect your design career to last? Staggeringly, toy designer Eddy Goldfarb has been at it for over 70 years. His story is pretty nuts. He designed his first three toys while underwater--in a submarine during World War II, where he was serving as a radar technicia … | Continue reading
I recently learned there's two different ways to make rubber bands: A capital-intensive extrusion method, and a low-tech method similar to candle-making, where simple PVC tubes are dipped into liquid latex like wicks into candle wax. Here's the first version: I found the second v … | Continue reading
Potential dream job - Sketching new product ideas while working remotely | Continue reading
After studying product design at Art Center, it took over a decade before industrial designer Dan Klitsner found serious success--but when he did, it was huge. In the '90s he conceived of a kinetic toy for kids--something like a cross between a tool and a game--that would provide … | Continue reading
According to the University of Portsmouth, scientists have discovered the fossils of a previously unseen dinosaur with an unusual feature. "The new species, Ubirajara jubatus, was chicken-sized with a mane of long fur down its back and stiff ribbons projecting out and back from i … | Continue reading
How permanent of a scar do you think COVID will leave on our design sensibilities? Just a year ago, the design of Amazon's Zoox autonomous taxi startup vehicle would've looked appealing. The bi-directional robotaxi boasts generously-spaced ingress/egress, and seats that face each … | Continue reading
Studies revealed "moderate toxicity in human lung cells" with <9-year-olds at higher risk | Continue reading
Mark your calendars: Early Bird begins on January 7th, 2021 | Continue reading
Is it time to bring them back, to avoid package theft? | Continue reading
These battery-powered rides by Moonbikes Motors look like snowmobiles cut in half | Continue reading
The founders of Launch Studio want to help independent designers launch their product on crowdfunding platforms—they have some advice | Continue reading
The biggest shopping day in the world is not Black Friday, nor even Cyber Monday. The distinction belongs to Singles Day, a/k/a 11.11 (November 11th) in China, essentially a twist on Valentine's Day when Chinese retailers hold sales to goad lonely bachelors and bachelorettes into … | Continue reading
If you're building a tiny house on a permanent site, you can build or buy whatever size you can afford. But for the true nomad who plans to pick up stakes in the future--indeed, part of the appeal of tiny home living is ease of relocation--your square footage is limited | Continue reading
Starting with this simple sketch, which features a plane unfolding at different points to reveal increasingly larger images… …Nendo has developed a strange "Slide-Phone" concept for a smartphone that hinges at multiple points, revealing different parts of its screen. The device s … | Continue reading
For those of you seeking to further your industrial design education, applications are now being accepted for the second wave of Advanced Design's Offsite program, which offers "real-world design skills taught by industry professionals." "Offsite is a 12-week online pilot program … | Continue reading
Now that applications are open for Offsite's second cohort of industrial design students, we asked Advanced Design's Hector Silva to explain the program, why they started it, what's on offer, and who should apply. (They've also sent us some samples of student work from the first … | Continue reading
Alex Tremulis' Gyro-X went the way of the Tucker 48 | Continue reading
Stromer's ST5 ABS prevents you from going over the handlebars | Continue reading
The fanciest windows we've seen use electrochromic glass, and can go from transparent to opaque at the touch of a button. Now take that a bit further, and imagine if every window around you was actually a screen that could display video, text and images at high resolution. | Continue reading
Eggshell-based 3D prints, red clay cornstarch leather, leaf-based bioplastics and more | Continue reading
1016 Industries designs and manufactures aftermarket upgrades for exotic cars. Their forthcoming Vision Widebody kit for the McLaren 720s consists of carbon fiber body panels that widen the body by 110mm, while still maintaining the original design aesthetic--no small feat on suc … | Continue reading
For furniture designers, color is primarily about aesthetics; the designer chooses colors they like, or that they feel will have market appeal. But the designers at HomePro, a Thailand-based retailer of home goods and DIY supplies, realized that color could play an especially imp … | Continue reading
Matthias Wandel's prototyping process is as impressive as the finished project | Continue reading
British actor/writer Jamie Wilkes has been looking for an apartment in London, which is at least as hard-pressed for space as New York or Tokyo. Which explains this creatively-integrated staircase/entryway in an apartment he viewed: | Continue reading
Toyota's new 2021 Mirai, which went on sale yesterday in Japan and comes to the U.S. later this month, has a neat trick: Unlike gasoline-powered cars, the hydrogen-fueled Mirai leaves the environment cleaner as it passes through it. The car is equipped with Toyota's "Minus Emissi … | Continue reading
This year's 2nd online session focuses on Design for Social Innovation. | Continue reading
Below are examples of 50 different written languages. Unless you're Indiana Jones, I doubt you'll recognize more than a handful. However, of these 50 scripts, five of them are contrived 20th Century creations. Two of them are shorthand-style phonetic alphabets designed for Englis … | Continue reading
Pills designed to solve one person's problem can become problems for others. Who's to say your teen isn't pilfering the pain meds that make your back pain bearable? Up to no good Help is here from the SafeRX pill bottle, designed to be, well, teen- and adult-proof. "Drug addictio … | Continue reading
The original "Star Wars" was the first film to successfully market an affiliated toy line, leading to an industry now worth billions. "The Mandalorian," Disney +'s hit series set in that universe, is continuing the trend with Hasbro's reproduction of the titular character's fork- … | Continue reading
A collaboration between Takram and Hitachi Design explores multiple futures influenced by the cultural shifts as a reaction to COVID-19 | Continue reading
In October we showed you a 12-foot skeleton that people went nuts for; the $300 item sold out rapidly, as pandemic-crazed homeowners competed to have the most eye-catching lawn display for Halloween. Turns out taking the thing down, and storing that many linear feet of bones, isn … | Continue reading
In this video, veteran industrial designer Michael DiTullo offers hard-won and practical portfolio advice for ID'ers seeking to get a job. To illustrate the points, he uses his own portfolio from way back in 2003, which landed him a job at Nike. You might be wondering: What good … | Continue reading
Today Apple unveiled the Airpods Max, their $549 over-the-ear wireless headphones with active noise cancellation. From a design standpoint, there are plenty of visual cues that this is an Apple product: The earcups are anodized aluminum; parts of the form recall the Apple Watch; … | Continue reading
Happiness is a Warm Arc Welder — Deep within Layers of safety gear and sturdy clothing the heart of our Workshop Workhorse yearns for the singe of soldered metals and the redolent crunch of wood shavings underfoot. From doo-dads to high design, there's no telling what might emerg … | Continue reading
Different cultural preferences: In Europe and America, dishwashers are large boxes that we integrate into base cabinetry. In Japan, they're smaller boxes that sit atop the counter. A new type of dishwasher, designed by a Chinese company to cater to Chinese preferences, takes a th … | Continue reading
Be the first to design the Yeti for this space | Continue reading
Core77's Internet mercantile has the vintage 2015 vibes for you or a loved one. | Continue reading
As an industrial design student years ago, I'd never have guessed that our basic studio tools--rulers, circle templates, glue guns--would one day be remade as expensive, overly designey "luxury" items. But it's happened. There's that fancy $84 Stria folding ruler, the $120 Iris c … | Continue reading
Stilride's Tue Beijer is using the origami approach for more efficient production | Continue reading
East Germans used to make cars out of the stuff | Continue reading