Move Over Jambox: Vintage via 3D Printer in "Sway" Portable Speaker
Photos courtesy of Greer Garner We've seen plenty of decent portable speakers over the years—as one of many iDevice peripherals that designers continue to revisit, "Zooka" speaker bar for iPad and...
View ArticleBeyond the Looking Glass: A Seeing-Eye Camera by Mimi Zou
Like Hannes Harms, Mimi Zou just completed her MA/MSc at RCA's Innovation Design Engineering program. Her project, "IRIS," is "a biometrics enabled camera controlled by your eye [that] understands who...
View ArticleReLine Recycled Tableware by Anna Bormann
One of the best things about design museums is that they usually have the best gift shops. I'll admit that there are a few museums whose shops I visit without stepping into the museum itself, and if I...
View ArticleSebago is seeking a Graphic Designer in Rockford, Michigan
Graphic Designer SebagoRockford, Michigan Sebago, one of Wolverine Worldwide's footwear brands, is seeking a graphic designer for their marketing team. The Designer creates and executes concepts,...
View ArticleToday's a Hot Day, So This Post is Dedicated to Ice
Female readers, I'm not sure there's an equivalent experience to this for you. But male readers, remember the first time you walked into a bathroom at a restaurant where their policy was to fill the...
View ArticleSteve McQueen's Bucket Seat Design
We all know Brad Pitt yearns to be an architect, but are there any Hollywood stars with industrial design leanings? (And I'm not talking about Lady Gaga "designing" a pair of headphones; something...
View ArticleThe Camera Form Factor of the Future
It's no GoPro, and it's badly in need of stability control, but earlier this week Pivothead released some new footage shot by their Durango video recording eyewear. Have a look: The tiny...
View ArticleThe Back to the Future Hoax Strikes Again
"Why would somebody do this, Doc?""Because people in the future are idiots, Marty." Yesterday quite a few people were taken in by this image, which went full viral on Facebook and Twitter: It...
View ArticleFlush with Power: An Energy-Generating Toilet
Every time you flush the toilet, you waste liters or gallons of water, and the waste goes to a costly sewage treatment facility or a septic tank that needs to be periodically emptied. That's not a...
View ArticleLisa Ling's New Home Pioneers Sustainable Design in Los Angeles
The entrance to Punchouse 234 features a sunken playspace. The lawn is made from synthetic turf that requires no water for maintenance. On a quiet street in Santa Monica this past week, Marco DiMaccio...
View ArticleAn Eames Idea That Didn't Fly: The Expanding Airport
Here's a gem from the MCM archives (via Visual News): "'The Expanding Airport' was created for the presentation of the new international airport for Washington, D.C. in 1958. Through familiar sounds...
View ArticleDwell on Design 2012: Folding Furniture
All photos by Carren Jao Furniture that folds and hides away is always a good idea. These two companies have taken completely different directions, borrowing on the same core principle of space saving....
View ArticleRock, Paper, Scissors: Three Things that Fit in a Handbasket You Can Carry...
It has now come to my attention that the same guys working on sensor-equipped robots, who are clearly hellbent on our destruction, are now developing them so that they can consistently defeat human...
View ArticleMore Than Meets the Eye: "LumaHelm," a Gesture-Controlled, LED-Embedded Helmet
A nod to Daft Punk? Don't be fooled by the pictures, this light-up headgear is more DIY tech than discotheque. The brainchild of Wouter Walmink, Alan Chatham and Floyd Mueller of RMIT's Exertion Games...
View ArticleUnilever is seeking a Packaging Design Team Manager in Birkenhead, United...
Packaging Design Team Manager UnileverBirkenhead, United Kingdom Unilever is seeking a Packaging Design Team Manager for their Personal Care Design Group to shape the future development of packaging...
View ArticlePhotosynthetic Glassware: "The Energy Collection" by Marjan van Aubel
One more from the graduating class of RCA: Marjan van Aubel, "a product designer with an inquisitive, almost scientific perspective," presents "The Energy Collection," a set of solar glassware that...
View ArticleBest of NeoCon2012: Maharam's new textile patterns
You can always count on the exceptional fabrics from Maharam to breathe some life into NeoCon's mostly commercial and contract offerings. This year the company debuted an eye-catching line up of brand...
View ArticleUniqlo Unfurls (and Executes) Plan to Take Over Pinterest
While we're new to the infinite scroll game ourselves, Pinterest is perhaps the best example of the tiling effect known as masonry, in which images can be neatly arrayed regardless of dimensions....
View ArticleFlotspotting: New Balance "Aneka" Shoe by Matt Pauk
Coroflotter Matt Pauk is a footwear design pro: he's been at New Balance for the better part of a decade, and it shows. As Senior Designer in the Innovation - Wellness category, he's pleased to...
View ArticleInternational Conference on Food Design 2012: Thrill Engineers, Healing...
Image courtesy Food+Design Lab The inaugural International Conference on Designing Food and Designing For Food kicked off yesterday at London Metropolitan University. Presenting research, discourse,...
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