Stunning Drone Show: King Kong Climbing the Empire State Building
Denver-based Studio Hock is a drone light show production company with two decades of experience. They recently pulled off this impressive display in New York, coordinating their drones to resemble...
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Design Needed: These Mad-Max-esque Solar-Powered Bikes and Trikes
Chinese mobility company YongLe Risheng makes these unlikely-looking solar- and wind-powered vehicles:The two-wheeler CG model is roofed with 250W solar panels and a wind turbine to generate juice....
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Reader Submitted: YKS1 One - Single-Seater Electric Car
Did you know: 85-90% of car journeys are made by only one person per vehicle. Big, heavy cars, taking up a lot of space on our roads, creating congestion and environmental issues. What if a car would...
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Hyundai's Gaming-Inspired Insteroid Concept
This unassuming-looking vehicle, which most Americans haven't seen……is the Inster, a compact EV that Hyundai rolled out in their home market of South Korea last year. For an EV, it's not particularly...
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Industrial Designer Sebastian Bergne Upgrades the Studio Applebox
As a staple of photography studios and production sets, appleboxes are a supremely useful piece of kit. Typically made of ½" plywood, they serve as both stools and stepstools. They're durable,...
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The Flying Sun: Persistent Overhead Emergency Lighting, Delivered by Drone
After dark, crime scenes, accident sites, infrastructure repairs etc. require lighting be set up so workers can see what they're doing. By necessity, these portable light sources aren't much taller...
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Reader Submitted: The Sinking Chair
The Sinking Chair—a striking fusion of modern design and haunting symbolism—appears to descend into a pool of vivid red, evoking both unease and introspection. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining...
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Studio Lugo's Anachron Series: Agriculture-Inspired Furniture
While I typically dismiss what might be called "art furniture," this Anachron series, by Istanbul-based Studio Lugo, really caught my eye. It's as if they mashed up elements from Gerritt Rietveld, the...
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At the Salone, a Library of Light to Celebrate Books
For publishers like Barnes & Noble and Italy's Feltrinelli, things looked horrible in the mid-2000s. The Kindle came out in 2007, making e-books available to the masses. For the next five years,...
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Victor Manuel's "Geometric Chimera" Style of Furniture Design
Portugese furniture designer Victor Manuel picks up where Postmodernism left off. Manuel refers to his style as "Geometric Chimera—a bold fusion of furniture that challenges the norms of symmetry and...
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A Focus on UX, and Texas History, Inform the Design of Igloo's Party Bar Cooler
From a designer's standpoint, it could be argued that the functionality of the humble drinks cooler was perfected decades ago. Insulated walls to keep ice cool, a drain for the melted ice water,...
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"A New Category of Personal Mobility:" Robot Horses
As it stands, Kawasaki's off-road bikes can traverse challenging trails. But the company reckons that tackling truly gnarly terrain requires something beyond wheels. They're thus developing this CORLEO...
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If Dremel Went Designey? Hoto's SNAPBLOQ Precision Toolkit
Dremels are great at what they do, but I've always found their carrying cases to be chintzy afterthoughts with poor interior organization. In contrast, with the competing SNAPBLOQ line of precision...
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Reader Submitted: KIIR – A Sculptural Desk Organizer for Creative Workspaces
KIIR is a modular, sculptural desk organizer designed to enhance mobile and creative workspaces. Built from irregular, interlocking metal triangles, it offers a flexible and elegant solution for...
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GM Opens New Design Studio, Tasks Several with Corvette Concept Work
It's lousy timing: You open a new design studio overseas to help expand into that market--just as a tariff war potentially kills access to that region. But that's the world we live in, and now GM,...
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