On the one side are riot police armed with tear gas cannisters. On the other side, unarmed protestors wielding common household items and now a groundskeeping tool. As the Hong Kong protests stretch into their fourth month, resistors have developed a | Continue reading
Green credentials aside, I think Pufferfish may have missed the mark | Continue reading
Bespoke versus universal fit has always been a problem in the product design space. A glaring, recent example of this is how Honda engineers retrofitted some of their minivans with anti-COVID partitions, in order to better protect drivers while transporting sick passengers: Honda … | Continue reading
How a failed shopping trip for their mum inspired Suse and Anne Costello to launch an elder-design revolution. | Continue reading
As the Nazis occupied France and commandeered production at the Citröen factory, Citröen's design team was still secretly working on their own projects. One of those was the iconic 2CV economy car. Another was an equally quirky-looking but very different sort of vehicle … | Continue reading
Part 1: Ignoring War and Sabotaging Nazis on Their Way to Producing Funky, Iconic CarsDo you think it was harder, or easier to design cars when your main competition was horses and carriages? Whichever you believe, imagine you're a car designer or engineer and this is the brief y … | Continue reading
The key characteristic of a Military-Industrial Complex is that armaments manufacturers want wars to keep going, so that they can keep making profits. Thankfully for the human race, not all industrialists are willing to propagate this system. France's Andre Citröen, an engin … | Continue reading
People buy almond and oat milk in stores because it's easier than making their own. The team behind milkpress designed a product to challenge that misconception | Continue reading
As face mask adoption grows among the sensible, innovative designs like this will emerge | Continue reading
Last year Electrify America, an electric vehicle advocacy group, applied to the Unicode Consortium to have their design for an EV charger added to the emoji lexicon: The design was rejected, and no wonder; it's terrible. At emoji scale the thing on the right simply reads as a gas … | Continue reading
Fans of the original Ford Bronco have been waiting for years for the model to return. This week Ford finally unveiled the new design they've been working on, and they absolutely knocked it out of the park. To me, the design of the 2021 Bronco perfectly pays homage to | Continue reading
Hello Robot's Stretch, aimed at researchers, shows that we're still in the infancy of robot assistant design | Continue reading
These four obviously work in Structural Package Design, but no one vibes ID | Continue reading
For the past three years the annual Hue Design Summit has been an informal and creative un-conference providing a safe space for Black creatives to talk about their experiences, their desires, and the obstacles facing people of color in the design profession. The gathering typica … | Continue reading
This printing service idea offers t-shirts and other products that can be recycled and reused thanks to a removable ink | Continue reading
Coat hangers are not something I struggle with, which is why I often made fun of designey ones in the Design Roast. And while I'd never buy this one here, it's at least an interesting take: That's the Mozu Hanger, made from bamboo or bioplastic made from | Continue reading
A small Danish company created the most compact, lightweight and durable portable chair. The high back seat (43cm 17") is a feature not found in any other super portable chairs, while it weighs less than a kilo! | Continue reading
Starting at $1,299 for pre-order, this sounds too good to be true | Continue reading
Chowbotics' "Sally"invention is the size of a vending machine, and a design improvement in several areas | Continue reading
Manufacturer LuxCreo says their LEAP 3D printing method is "100x faster" | Continue reading
I've always wondered how food packagers hit precise weights with multiple items that are different sizes. For instance, if you buy a 12-oz. package of unsliced mushrooms, they're not all the same size--does somebody have to sit there and randomly take different mushrooms in and o … | Continue reading
Two Points , a design studio based in Barcelona and Hamburg, was approached by Nike to design a custom font. Intended for use at a shop in London's Chelsea Football Club Stadium, the brief was simple, according to Eye on Design: Essentially, says [Two Points cofounder Martin] Lor … | Continue reading
Pentatonic, a design and technology firm that's self-dubbed as "The circular economy company," has designed a line of eco-friendly portable cutlery called the Pebble. In addition to the utensils being made from recycled polypropylene, polycarbonate and steel, "The case is 'made f … | Continue reading
This is like a design school graduate thesis, but it's real | Continue reading
Originally designed for rain, Under the Weather's products have been adapted for COVID-19 | Continue reading
The family-friendly Fritz's Railroad Restaurant in Kansas City is way ahead of the social distancing curve. Even prior to the pandemic, the procedure there is you order your food by telephone, and it's delivered not by a waiter, but by an overhead train and an open-air dumbwaiter … | Continue reading
It will likely override any Instagram selfie restraint that you have | Continue reading
"Decimal & Mercury," which kind of sounds like an '80s cop show | Continue reading
The Rolls-Royce Wraith Kryptos spot puts the crazy in "crazy rich" | Continue reading
Our grand prize winner will receive a cash prize of $500 | Continue reading
"Dining is something that we usually take for granted," writes Singapore-based industrial designer Jexter Lim. "However, for the visually impaired, simple tasks like eating and pouring can be extremely challenging. "For the visually impaired, they cannot gauge the amount of food … | Continue reading
The famed cartoonist reveals "the results of my journey into the world of digital art" | Continue reading
Stephanie Gamble of School of Visual Arts' design hopes to put work "manterruptions" to an end | Continue reading
A collaboration between Fictiv and Jabil enables "product introduction without the risk" | Continue reading
Blade Runner was set in 2019 Los Angeles, and last year Rob Beschizza recut the intro with footage of L.A.'s actual 2019 wildfires. It was an eerily good fit. Last weekend KTLA News captured helicopter footage of L.A.'s decentralized and illegal Fourth of July fireworks celebrati … | Continue reading
Sony is now producing a portable, wearable personal air conditioner. Called the Reon Pocket, it comes with a dedicated undershirt with a pocket sewn below the nape of the neck; the smartphone-sized cooling unit sits in this pocket, and a "heat dissipation mechanism" sucks heat of … | Continue reading
If everyone stinks, you're more likely to wear your mask correctly | Continue reading
Michael DiTullo briefly covers the history, then demonstrates with a sneaker sketch | Continue reading
Product developer Hans Marvell reveals pitfalls and how to avoid them | Continue reading
Product developer Hans Marvell reveals pitfalls and how to avoid them | Continue reading
Amidst the pandemic, Philadelphia's Wilma Theater has been trying to figure out how they'll stay afloat; how do you put on a play for 300 people in the age of social distancing? After brainstorming with dozens of creatives and administrators, they've come up with a solution that … | Continue reading
Shut Your Mouth hopes the feature will encourage folks to keep those masks on | Continue reading
"I'm learning KeyShot 3D," industrial designer Burkay Gursoy wrote in an Instagram post, "and I like trying interesting things while learning." Thus he rendered up a fanciful design for a Copic marker with RGB sliders: Gursoy meant it as a joke, writing "I think this design solve … | Continue reading