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Excellent Industrial Design Student Work: Sapna Tayal's Quilted Furniture
This Quilted Furniture project is by Sapna Tayal, an Industrial Design student at Carnegie-Mellon University. I'd give her an "A;" Tayal has imaginatively harnessed production technology, collaborated...
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A Fold-Flat Aluminum Chair that Fits in a FedEx Box
This FoldSeat is by Aidan Reinhold. The NYC-based furniture designer moves a lot, and tasked himself with designing an easy-to-transport chair. Furthermore, he wanted the chair to be monomaterial for...
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Industrial Design Case Study: A Communications Analyzer
Freedom Communications is an American manufacturer of communications gear. To create their R-9000 analyzer, they turned to industrial design consultancy Mixer Design.Freedom R-9000 Communications...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-21-25 to 4-25-25)
Here's what we looked at this week:Why tariffs can be tricky: The Honda Ridgeline is a more "American" truck than a Ford F-150.Three Humanscale solutions for neatly delivering power to your...
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"Anti-Tesla" Slate to Offer Sub-$20,000 Modular EVs
Who would've guessed that U.S. automaking would turn into an expensive playground for billionaires? As Elon Musk's Tesla goes into decline, a startup called Slate—backed by Jeff Bezos—is betting they...
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Spacetop for Windows: AR Glasses that Provide a Virtual, Private 100" Display...
Spacetop, which we covered in 2023, was supposed to be a laptop with no screen. Instead, AR eyeglasses provided the visuals:Two years on, the company has ditched the hardware and pivoted towards...
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Smart Design: Pelican's Reconfigurable, Infinitely Reusable Foam Inserts
Having a hard case fitted out with foam inserts to hold your gear is satisfying—until your gear changes. Now that precisely-shaped protection is worthless. To address this, Pelican produces this Re-Set...
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Verge's Hubless Wheels for Production Vehicles
Verge Next, a subsidiary of Estonia-based Verge Motorcycles, invented this Donut Motor. It's designed to drive a hubless wheel. Although once seen as something that simply looked cool in renderings,...
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The Design Evolution of Mailboxes
For most of the 20th century, U.S. mailboxes looked like this:They hewed to the principle of good design and form follows function. As with the USPS' blue mail deposit boxes, the top is rounded to shed...
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"Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024" Book
The original Mac's debut in 1984 launched the desktop publishing revolution. A parallel debut of equal importance was the launch of Emigre, a digital type foundry, the same year. Founded by designers...
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Mercedes-Benz's Over-the-Top Luxury Limousine EV
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled their Vision V concept, a top-of-the-line minivan EV that targets the executive transport market. Envisioned as a "private lounge" on wheels, the cocoon-like interior is...
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Nite Ize's Carabiner-Based Detachable Keyrings
To the person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In outdoor gear manufacturer Nite Ize's case, carabiners are their hammer.Between battery-powered car key fobs and biometric locks, you'd...
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From China, Solar-Powered Pergolas
In my rural area, you can buy ready-made sheds. You still need to prepare a foundation, and site the shed in an area accessible by the truck that will deliver it, but it's a popular-enough option that...
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An Airbrush That Doesn't Require a Compressor—or Cleaning
The build quality on this product looks like a sophomore ID student project, but that hasn't stopped it from being funded on Kickstarter. This Versa Air Sprayer from China is an airbrush that requires...
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An Alarm Clock with the Simplest Shut-Off Mechanism
Here's a wonderful piece of physical design from industrial design studio DesignWright. The London-based firm created this Flip Alarm Clock, which has no pesky "off" button to fumble for. Instead you...
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