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Flotspotted Eye Candy: Renderings by Kevin Boulton
Kevin Boulton is a Northampton, UK-based 3D Modeler and Animator who is a few years out from Uni, pursuing independent projects under the moniker Studio Scarlet. Frankly, he can call himself whatever...
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IDSA Gets New Executive Director
The search is over, and the ISDA has found their new skipper: Starting today, Daniel Martinage takes over as the new Executive Director.Martinage is what's known as a CAE, or Certified Association...
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Detroit: Autorama High School Design Competition 2013
This image is not related to the competition.It is, however, related to Kevin J. Chun's awesome Coroflot pageWhen we hear "Detroit" in the news, it's often followed by depressing text about abandoned...
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More Interactive Restaurant Tables: Clint Rule's Cafe Tabletop and Inamo's...
The forthcoming Touchscreen Cafe Table we posted on has had some good follow-up, and unsurprisingly, Moneual aren't the only ones to have visualized such a thing. Fans of the seminal '90s Japanese...
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From Visibility Vest to Accented Accouterment: Sputnik Zurich's On-Site...
Sputnik Zurich isn't your average a mobile repurposed apparel and accessories outfit: much as Joshua Zisson did with his retroreflective bicycle, they've developed a stylish visibility solution for...
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Less Is Moire: Chair by Ton Haas for Workware / Harechair
Fun fact: Ton Haas reportedly listened to 50's Cuban singer Benny Moré for a bit of oblique inspiration while creating his latest chair for sister companies Workware/Harechair. The Moiré chair takes...
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Nike, Inc. is seeking a Design Director - NSW Footwear Materials in Portland,...
Design Director - NSW Footwear Materials Nike, Inc.Portland, OregonNike is seeking a Design Director - Nike Sportswear Footwear Materials who will leverage materials to deliver a premium, recognizable...
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Attention Tableware Designers: Color Affects Perceptions of Taste
In earlier days I worked on tons of bottle designs for consumer products, and never once got to spec the color out. It was all decided by marketers privy to the unassailable Focus Group Results. They...
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'Creative Reuse' Author on Why 'Recycling Sucks!'
Garth Johnson runs the irreverent ExtremeCraft website, "A compendium of Art masquerading as Craft, Craft masquerading as Art & Craft extending its middle finger." He's also the author of 1000...
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Definitive Technology Sound Cylinder for iPad and MacBook
CES has kicked off in Las Vegas and we're covering the show this year to bring an ID perspective to the usual fan boy tech banter. One project we have been tracking to its debut at CES this week is...
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Quentin Debaene's Dyson-Powered Invisible Umbrella Concept
Amid the veritable downpour of CES coverage this week, we were interested to see a gadget that is tentatively set to launch in 2050. Quentin's Debaene's hypothetical "AIRBLOW 2050" umbrella concept is...
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The Quest for an Affordable Dust-Collecting Cyclone, Part 1: Which to Buy?
I'm sick of sawdust. I use a circular saw and a router by Hitachi with hacked-on plastic ports that I can attach to my Ridgid shop vac, and frankly speaking, the dust collection sucks. The problem is...
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The Quest for an Affordable Dust-Collecting Cyclone, Part 2: J. Phil Thien's...
If you've ever seen a dust-collecting cyclone in person (I checked one out in Dino Makropoulos' New Jersey shop), you'll be surprised at how simple and jeez-I-could-build-wunna-these it...
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...And We're Live from CES 2013!
Today we're in Vegas at at the opening of CES, the electronic geek Mecca of all trade shows. There's a good 150,000 people expected to converge on this year's event, piling into blimp-hangar-sized...
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CES 2013: Polaroid Must Be the Best Place for an Industrial Designer to Work At
While we got sucked into the Polaroid area by the iDevice lens add-ons display above, it was what we saw deeper inside that really caught our eye: They've gone into Bluetooth speakers in a major way....
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From the Holy Cow Department: A Self-Propelled Track Saw
This is officially the craziest woodworking tool I've ever seen. German power tool manufacturer Mafell makes a track saw called the PSS 3100e. You say, big deal, Festool makes a track saw, Eurekazone...
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Hallmark Cards is seeking Creative Interns in Kansas City, Missouri
Creative Interns Hallmark CardsKansas City, MissouriHallmark Cards, Inc has multiple creative internships available including Sculptor, 3D Product Designer, Animator, Video Production, Graphic...
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Things That Sound Like Other Things: LOUD Bicycle Horn Emulates Automobile...
In my experience, the strain of road rage that afflicts cyclists is entirely unlike that of motorists: easy though it may be to satirize or dismiss our sense of self-righteousness, the underlying truth...
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CES 2013: Samsung's HUGE, Elegant TVs Wow the Crowd
The largest CES crowd we saw so far, generating an audible buzz, was dogpiling into the huge Samsung section. What we saw there was astonishing, in a way that the photos probably don't accurately...
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CES 2013: Retro Music Players Galore
Fighting the sleek, modern Bluetooth-speaker-aesthetic here at CES are a few companies going the retro route. For starters, Sylvania's got a model that looks like a traveling salesman's record player...
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