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The Colorful, Clever World of Oscar Bolton Green
Oscar Bolton Green may just be the most prolific illustrator his age. At 23, he's produced more illustrations, graphics, ads, animations, books and book covers than I can digest in a week's worth of...
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Specialized Bicycle Components is seeking an Industrial Design Lead -...
Industrial Design Lead - City/Urban CategorySpecialized Bicycle ComponentsMorgan Hill, California Specialized Bicycle Components is seeking a City/Urban Bike Industrial Design Lead, who will support...
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CAD versus Sketching, Why Ask? by James Self
Image Courtesy of Michael Ditullo A continuing issue in industrial design education is when to allow students to move from sketch work to 3D CAD modelling during studio practice—or whether to let them...
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Science-Themed Furniture Design: Theo Gray's Periodic Table Table
Theo Gray is the co-founder of Wolfram Research, and as a science geek he's commissioned a rather unusual piece of furniture for himself: A Periodic Table that is literally a table, with samples of...
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Safety Maps: Printable Preparation for the Apocalypse
In 2001 the Gujarat earthquake hit India. It lasted for more than two minutes and reached a magnitude of 7.7. It killed 20,000 people, injured another 167,000 and destroyed nearly 400,000 homes....
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Flotspotting: Igor Lobanov's Mind-Bending Wormhole Chair
This may be the most creative and unique design for a flat-pack chair I've ever seen. It consists of two identical, racetrack-shaped frames each supporting an elastic material and with zippers running...
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Red Dot Goodness, Part 1: Biomimetic Pushpins and Unforgotten Keys
Igor Lobanov's Wormhole chair won a Red Dot Award in the Home Furniture category; taking a look at the other categories, we find Lobanov's in good company, with a host of clever designs ranging from...
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Announcing the 2nd student-led Designers Accord Town Hall Meeting in Chicago...
The AIGA student chapter at School of the Art Institute of Chicago will be hosting Design Overflow, the second student-led Designers Accord Town Hall Meeting. This event features designers speaking...
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Now Available: 2010/2011 Feltron Biennial Report
Information designer Nick Felton probably needs no introduction here: besides his current dayjob at Facebook, his perennial reports have offered a unique window into one particularly astute designer's...
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Red Dot Goodness, Part 2: Easy-Clean Whisks and Drop-Down Emergency Lights
A kitchen whisk is a great tool for mixing everything from pancake batter to plaster, but depending on how viscous your mixture is, cleaning the gunk off the insides of the wires can be a real pain....
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Red Dot Goodness, Part 3: Germophobic, Minimalist Sink Faucet/Lever and a...
I actually think it's good to eat with dirty hands once in a while, to keep your immune system up to snuff. I have two friends who were raised in germophobic households, fastidiously kept indoors away...
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Seymourpowell is seeking a Junior Product Designer in London, United Kingdom
Junior Product Designer SeymourpowellLondon, United Kingdom Seymourpowell, one of the world's leading design and innovation companies, is seeking a confident and proactive Junior Product Designer for...
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In the Studio with Hyperakt
Hyperakt's founders Deroy Peraza and Julia Vakser Zeltser describe their design team as a family, and if you visit their cozy, exposed brick studio in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens it's easy to see why....
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Healthcare Innovation: Time for Design(ers)
The overall cost of healthcare in the U.S. has reached a whopping $2.6 trillion, up from $256 billion in 1980, and $724 billion in 1990. In many ways, it seems that the rate of innovation in...
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Build Your 100-mile Dream Home
You've heard of the locavore diet: only eating what's available within 100 miles of you. Now there's loca-arch (yeah, we're still looking for a catchy name), a movement that supports new building with...
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Fast Track to the Mobile App: car-pal+ and Blackbelt update
Reporting by Yin Ho The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona started this week, with three of our winning apps, car-pal+, Cash Hound and Social Mints, on display as a part of the Microsoft showcase. They...
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Thing of Beauty: Sneak Peek at Ferrari's Forthcoming F12berlinetta
The abstract nature of dearly departed Bill Fogler's 3D Industrial Design class at Pratt Institute, circa early '90s, would have seemed bewildering to anyone without an art school background. We spent...
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Johnny Selman designs all the news in a day in BBCX365
According to The Washington Post, "American citizens know little about current events in general and even less about overseas events." This isn't a recent phenomenon. Designer Johnny Selman points out...
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Tasty, Sustainable Tacos with Manila's First Designer Food Truck
Guactruck is Manila's first designer food truck. They're a staple in New York City, Portland and much of California, turning up in urban centers across North America by the day (at least come summer...
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Architect Jack Woolley salvages a run-down carpenter's workshop
Last summer, London-based architect Jack Woolley completed the renovation and expansion of a run-down carpenter's workshop, salvaging as much existing construction as possible to convert it into a...
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