GRAND Studio Ltd. is seeking a Technical Apparel/Product Designer in Zurich,...
Technical Apparel/Product Designer GRAND Studio Ltd.Zürich, SwitzerlandGRAND Studio Ltd. is currently seeking a Technical Apparel / Product Designer. The ideal candidate is a highly talented...
View ArticleForum Frenzy: 20 Years of Mobile Phones in Japan
Tokyo Designers Week wrapped up a couple weeks ago, but NTT Docomo's remarkable 20th Anniversary Exhibition Future lives on online, supplemented by Japan-based forum member designobot's brief...
View ArticleDesigning a Vivarium for the Natural History Museum (And What Is a Vivarium...
The Natural History Museum really does come alive, and not just at night: one of New York's most well-known museums is home to live and stuffed animals alike. After admiring the massive mammoths, you...
View ArticleWhat Can ONE PRODUCT Do for Our Economy? A Quick 'Cupdate' from Aaron Panone
We've seen plenty of projects from Boston-based designer/engineer Aaron Panone in the past, from CNC Sharpie drawings to an experimental desk lamp (I have yet to mount my 144#47 chainring... it looks...
View ArticleFrom the Holy Cow Department: Pop-Up Lego Architecture
Just when you think you've seen it all with Lego, along comes this guy. A Japanese Lego builder going by the YouTube handle "talapz" has rendered both Todai-ji and Kinkaku-ji, two World Heritage sites...
View ArticleID Student's Nest Urban Hen House
It's pretty brutal for older female actors in Hollywood, who seem to have a de facto expiration date stamped on them; beyond a certain age there are simply no good roles that Meryl Streep hasn't...
View ArticleMust-See Video: Finally, an Everyday Use for Optical Camouflage Tech
As if we haven't seen enough "Holy Crap!"-worthystuff from Japan lately, today's second tip from our forums was too good to pass up: a Keio University research team led by Professor Masahiko Inami have...
View ArticleIn the Studio with Chen Yaoguang of Hangzhou's DBDD
Chen Yaoguang is the principal and founder of Hangzhou-based architecture studio Dianshang Building Decoration Design Co. Ltd., DBDD for short. Over the past two decades, Chen has established himself...
View ArticleRadio Flyer is seeking a Senior Designer in Chicago, Illinois
Senior Designer Radio FlyerChicago, IllinoisRadio Flyer is seeking an outstanding Senior Designer with 7 to 10 years of experience in consumer product design. This person will play a key leadership...
View ArticleThe 12 Most Significant Cars of All Time?
If I asked a group of designers, or engineers, or marketers, to name the 12 Most Significant Cars in automobile history, each group would likely provide very different answers. But meat-eating Harley...
View ArticleKeeping It Local: Losantiville, Cincinnati's Industrial Design Collective
Traditionally, one of the challenges faced by creative communities in a Toronto or a Cincinnati has been brain drain: Talented designers are lured away by bigger cities like New York and San Francisco,...
View ArticleHow to Prevent Subway Flooding: Materials Science and a Big-Ass Plug
Fifty billion dollars is the Hurricane Sandy damage estimate for the New York region. Which is nuts; it means if we spent $49.5 billion on defensive measures, we'd still be $500 million ahead.Of...
View ArticleFrom Seedling to Sprout to Product: Pod 'Fogponic' Planter Concept
Yesterday, we saw a 'retirement home for chickens'; today we have yet another urban agriculture project by a group of students from New Zealand. "Pod" is a household 'fogponics' gardening concept by a...
View ArticleThe PhantomX Hexapod Marks a New Era for Robots and Doom for the Rest of Us
It's been a while since I wrote a damning piece about robots, because there hasn't been anything robotic to scare me witless in quite some time. Well that's changed now, thanks to the Trossen Robotics...
View ArticleMore 3D-Printing Photo Booths: MakerBot's NYC Store
Bre Pettis: Actual Size, S, M, LNo sooner do we finish covering Tokyo's Eye of Gyre 3D-printing photo booth, billed as the first in the world, when another company swoops in with a similar product and...
View ArticleFlotspotting: Bike Bad-assery, Part 3: Saline Airstream
It's been a minute since we saw the last badass compressed air-powered motorcycle, so seeing as digital designer / 3D modeler Pierrick Huart finally got around to uploading the Saline Airstream to his...
View ArticleESPN is seeking an X Games Senior Designer - Digital Media in Bristol,...
X Games Senior Designer - Digital Media ESPNBristol, ConnecticutESPN Digital Design seeks a Senior Designer to join the X Games team that is dedicated to establishing and enforcing design and brand...
View ArticleA Tumbleweed-Inspired Minesweeper: Mine Kafon by Massoud Hassani
Designer Massoud Hassani hails from Qasaba, Kabul, amid a landscape ravaged and weaponized by landmines that still lurk in off-limits regions. Although the "Mine Kafon" dates back to 2011, when he...
View ArticleLaunching Airplanes from Catapults, Part 1: Steam
A reconstruction of the Wright Brothers' airplane catapult, sponsored by the Ohio Bicentennial commission and The Ohio Historical SocietyIn their efforts to create a flying vehicle, the Wright Brothers...
View ArticleMore Hydrographics: Dip Coating Works on More Complicated Surfaces Than You'd...
Remember the camo-dipping technique we looked at last month? To refresh your memory, it's a good way to get a complicated pattern (provided you can acquire the material) onto a complicated surface....
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