Tenok aims to give a second life to discarded vacuums | Continue reading
Here's an object I would not have imagined could gain any traction before the pandemic: A portable espresso machine designed to plug into your car's 12V socket. Surprisingly, these machines existed long before COVID; European manufacturer Handpresso debuted them in | Continue reading
This is more of a mobile shop hack: Your standard in-bed pickup truck toolbox sits snug against the cab. The trade-off there is that you preserve some bed space, but sacrifice convenience; fishing around in a chest-style toolbox can be unergonomic, to say the least. Farmer Derek … | Continue reading
Called shimmering, it has to be seen to be believed | Continue reading
Let's say you can only afford a single-nozzle FDM 3D printer, but you want to print a multimaterial part. You can stop at each material transition point in the process and swap out the spools, but this pause-and-resume approach comes with challenges; most notably you may need to … | Continue reading
In 2016 Caspar Schols, who was then a physicist, built this "garden shed" for his mother. As she was someone who loved the great outdoors, he created the structure to open up to the elements: Now, four years later, Schols has gained a degree in Architecture and upgraded his | Continue reading
I'll be speaking with the Lucid Motors VP of Design tomorrow | Continue reading
This year features 3 online sessions, each focusing on a different convergence in the program. | Continue reading
To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To Scandinavian foundry Skeppshult, everything in the kitchen--not just frying pans--looks like something they can make out of their cast iron. For instance, look at this spice mill with a walnut handle. There is a | Continue reading
Also: The word "ballot" comes from the Italian word for marbles | Continue reading
"Hog panel" is a type of wire fencing used for, you guessed it, hogs. Now that I'm living in farm country, I've learned that everyone down here (including us) has some of it lying around in a shed or outbuilding. Here are some farmer hacks for putting hog panel to | Continue reading
A bizarre accident in Holland yesterday: A train approaching the end of an elevated track failed to stop, smashed through a stop block and jumped the end of the platform. The only thing that prevented the leading car from taking a 10-meter nosedive was a fortuitously placed sculp … | Continue reading
We've all seen tons of flying car prototypes and concepts, but video of them actually flying--including take-off and landing--are pretty rare. Well, KleinVision has just released footage of their supercar-like Aircar taking its maiden flight, which looks pretty darn compelling: I … | Continue reading
85% of the ACG Holiday collection contains 90% recycled content | Continue reading
My wife cooks a lot, and it's my job to handle the cleanup. I've tried all kinds of kitchen cleaning implements and found them unsatisfactory for heavy scrubbing--bristled items don't have enough oomph, and scouring pads work well but get gross quickly. So I finally found the per … | Continue reading
Michael Gildersleeve runs a cabinet shop in Illinois, and has an impressive self-built system for setting up shop on a jobsite. Composed of multiple components and designed around an arsenal of Festool products, he's thought out every detail from where you stow the saw between cu … | Continue reading
Question for you cyclists: Do you use a smartphone (for non-navigational purposes) while you ride? Question for designers: To what extent should design compensate for human misbehavior? The Netherlands may be one of the world's safest places to cycle. But even bike-friendly city … | Continue reading
One of the world's premier mobility design competitions, the Movin'On Challenge Design, now in its 21st year, recognizes the unique role that the design and creative communities play in envisioning solutions that address future mobility needs. We invite designers, creatives, and … | Continue reading
If you don't want to DIY it, they're training a network of dealers to make the swap | Continue reading
Hanspeter Weidmann's high design from the time of "Miami Vice" | Continue reading
Tired of earbuds and cans? I hope you like stickers | Continue reading
If you don't want to DIY it, they're training a network of dealers to make the swap | Continue reading
NASA is headed back to the moon in 2024, with the eventual goal of setting up a base there. Because their eggheads are busy working on a spacecraft that will get the astronauts there and back safely, they haven't spent much time working on a crucial design feature of the | Continue reading
"People are out there playing the game, gathering degrees, but whether one is going to be successful requires they have internal drive to do something with it." | Continue reading
"People are out there playing the game, gathering degrees, but whether one is going to be successful requires they have internal drive to do something with it." | Continue reading
Manage the team and work flow at a fast-paced creative studio | Continue reading
It's like having a Felder table saw that fits on your kitchen counter | Continue reading
Graef's Manuale H 1920 is all-metal and ready to crank | Continue reading
You've probably seen the gross phenomenon where someone takes a bite out of something, and as they pull the food away from their face, a long spit-bridge is temporarily stretched between their mouth and the food. Something like this happens in FDM 3D printing, too; let's say you' … | Continue reading
Rain Prisk's Artstation page is populated with over 200 fanciful car renderings. The Estonia-based designer likes to create automotive what-ifs, like station wagons/shooting brakes from Ferrari, Porsche, Chevy, and 1960s-era Ford: A Subaru BRZ in roadster trim: BMW's M1 with an o … | Continue reading
This guide will appeal to novice and pro packaging designers alike, and includes links to helpful manufacturing guides and resources for finding sustainable packaging materials. | Continue reading
The Torsus Praetorian will get your kids to school, come hell or high water | Continue reading
It makes sure you're paying attention, and stops the car if you ain't | Continue reading
A research team from Germany's Goethe University, working with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, has taken a hard look at bioplastics and come to a depressing conclusion: The stuff is just as toxic as conventional plastics. Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels The s … | Continue reading
It's called the Serial 1. There's lots of photos, but few details | Continue reading
This is a successful children's game waiting to be marketed | Continue reading
]Good gosh. So this "Elon Mask" concept is essentially a publicity grab by the British car leasing company that commissioned the "design." Supposedly inspired by what a mask designed by Tesla would look like, here's how it's supposed to work: My analysis of the features: Heavy ch … | Continue reading
Check out this sketch, drawn in 1967 by designer Paolo Martin. Can you tell what it is? It's a car. Martin worked for styling house Pininfarina, and this sketch would be realized as the Modulo, unveiled at the 1970 Geneva Motor Show to great acclaim. If you think | Continue reading
Burger King is the world's second-largest hamburger chain, but they're aiming to beat top dog McDonald's in the area of sustainable packaging. The monarchy-themed fast-fooderie has decreed that reusable packaging shall be rolled out in the royal cities of New York, Portland and T … | Continue reading
With The Garage Learning, anyone can turn everyday items into dynamic visual masterpieces. | Continue reading
After losing four fingers on his left hand, and fabricator Ian Davis learned his insurance wouldn't cover the cost of a prosthetic. "To be eligible for a prosthetic you would have to lose your palm as well," he was told, according to Interesting Engineering. Davis then embarked o … | Continue reading
Dutch inventor Boyan Slat was just 18 years old when he founded The Ocean Cleanup, a massive system for pulling plastic waste out of the world's waterways. By targeting both the Pacific Garbage Patch and the rivers that feed into it, Slat's specially-designed boats and garbage-co … | Continue reading
Parking spaces for cars have a universally-accepted design: Two painted lines on the ground. Those designing bike racks have it much harder, as they're typically working within tighter space constraints and have to take anti-theft provisions into account. And I'm all for a variet … | Continue reading
Never mind that the Tropicfeel Shell "modern day backpack" has become a crowdfunding smash, with $1.3 million in funding at press time; what's notable here is not just the bag's design--which appears to be quite good--but by what is omitted in the presentation video. See if you n … | Continue reading
I was amused to see that companies like U-Line and others make these "No Stack" pyramids to be placed atop packages: Image source: RatMan00 The idea is that package-senders pay extra to have one of these affixed atop their packages, and throughout the entire shipping journey, no … | Continue reading
Exploratory designer Kate Strudwick currently works at the Google Creative Lab in London. But even when she was still a student studying Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College and Royal College of Art, she formulated insights that would steer her towards work that comb … | Continue reading
When my father-in-law's beloved Volvo began running roughly, he brought it into the shop. The technicians discovered rats had been chewing through the wiring. This puzzled my father-in-law, as over the years he'd parked other cars in his driveway, and none of them had attracted r … | Continue reading
The Nightmare on Hanover Court is open to the public | Continue reading