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Enzo Mari on Film: Artek's Short Documentary of Autoprogettazione
"Cheap, high quality, long lasting." These are the words that Enzo Mari bluntly lists as main goals for his Autoprogettazione project. That, in addition to, "If someone tried to build something, they...
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My Ford Touch Driver Interface: An Interview with Iain Roberts and Gary Braddock
Guest post by Russell Maschmeyer. On the final afternoon of Adaptive Path's UX Week, Iain Roberts (Partner and Co-Leader of IDEO Chicago) presented his team's remarkable work on My Ford Touch, Ford's...
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Full Circle's two-part dish brush gets a handle on the waste problem
Hammer 1.0 was a rock. Hammer 2.0 was a rock attached to a piece of wood, and the caveman that came up with that one must have been pretty pleased; he was the first ergonomicist. Today we have tons of...
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It's Official: Rama Chorpash to direct Parson's Product Design Program
After an eight month international search, Core-fave Rama Chorpash was selected to join Parsons The New School for Design School of Constructed Environments (SCE). He'll be taking a tenure track...
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Fripp Design: The medium is the message (even when the medium is a shipping...
This is pretty nuts-and-bolts ID, but I believe we're looking here at an early, primitive version of a design that we'll see more refined versions of in the future. The Pallet Sign, by U.K.-based...
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Las Vegas carpets offensively designed to keep your eyes off the floor?
These days there are high-end hotels in Las Vegas that will sell you new versions of the luxurious sheets, pillows, and even toiletries that they stock their rooms with. But the casinos on their...
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TokyoFlash design competition for unusual timepieces
TokyoFlash, that manufacturer of eye-catching, bizarrely-complicated timepieces, is seeking new watch design concepts through their Design Challenge. The language is murky as to whether or not winning...
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London Design Festival Preview: Trays from Around the World at the Jasper...
This year at the London Design Festival, the Shop at Jasper Morrison's studio, full of super normal household objects, will display a selection of trays from around the world— a selected few are...
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PACT + Creative Growth's New Underwear Collection
We love the new collection released bye eco-friendly undies line PACT in partnership with the Creative Growth, a contemporary art center in Oakland that "focuses on unlocking the creativity of adults...
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One month left to enter the Buckminster Fuller Design Challenge
You've got one month left to enter this year's Buckminster Fuller Design Challenge, witha monster prize of $100,000 each year for "comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and...
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Ovale: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's New Tableware for Alessi
Guest post by Phil Patton. Surprisingly self-effacing among the high profile wit and higher profile designers of Alessi, the new Ovale line of tableware from Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec may sum up the...
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Continuum and PepsiCo Announce Innovation Fellowship Program
This fall, you could be one of six clever individuals working side-by-side with 24 top PepsiCo leaders, helping them rethink and work through key business challenges. The company has partnered with...
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Open for Branding Week 6: We Heard You!
Continuum continues their series Open for Branding, where they are sharing, from start to finish, their latest branding project for the new, nomadic Design Museum Boston. Wow. Last week, we posted our...
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Mobile-building interaction in Linz
Alexander Wiethoff of the Department for Informatics at LMU Munich (and a former Experientia intern - disclosure) has developed with the Univeristy of Saarbrücken a mobile device application that...
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I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review Party
ID Magazine may have shut its doors this past year , but, as promised, the Annual Design Review stayed put, celebrating the best of design with its 2010 awards at the AIGA center in New York. Nicely...
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Charles Pyott's designs spin records and wheels in new ways
L.A.-based designer Charles Pyott's been getting lots of blog love lately for his portable Linos record player concept, above; another lesser-known project of his worth checking out is the DAWS...
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Helping people in making their homes more energy efficient
The Design Council has recently run a design workship with the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to look at how to encourage the adoption of home insulation and other low-carbon home...
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Studiobility debuts new products at today's Maison et Objet show in Paris
Studiobility, the Icelandic design studio headed up by Gudrun Lilja, has launched a new partially-eponymous brand: Bility. Today at the Maison et Object design show in Paris, Lilja will take the wraps...
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This innovative house design is great for Shimane, Japan. It would never fly...
If you live in Brooklyn, the bane of your peaceful residential existence (or the source of your entertainment, depending on your disposition) is noisy teenagers hanging out on the stoop. So here we...
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Videos of home-computing-in-the-future concepts
Here's a couple of interesting videos done by Austin-based design studio Zoticus Design, displaying computing-of-the-future concepts that demonstrate client Freescale's networking prowess. In the...
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