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Steelcase's Flexible Verb Line of Instructional Furniture
Think back to when you were in grade school: Did you like the furniture? The stuff filling the schools of my youth was so crappy and unremarkable that I can barely remember what it looked like.Perhaps...
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Say Do Svidanya to the Portyanki: Russian Troops to Get Sock Upgrades
Whether Axis or Allied, there wasn't any army that had it easy during World War II. But I just learned an astonishing fact that hadn't come up in any of my go-to WWII history books: The Red Army did...
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A Chicago Building with a (N)ice Interior
Photo courtesy of Perkins + WillYou'd probably never guess what the inside of that building above looks like.As it says on the side, that's the Fulton Market Cold Storage Company, essentially a...
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A Smartphone with a Flexible Display Remains a Concept... for Now
We'll give you just one hint as to designer Christian de Poorter named his latest project, a concept for a phone with a flexible display: it begins with "i" and ends with "flex." The Milan-based...
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Design Management Institute is seeking a Content & Communication Manager in...
Content & Communication Manager Design Management InstituteBoston, MassachusettsDMI is seeking an experienced, high-energy content manager and communication professional to work with the President...
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Tidy Up Your Life: An Homage to the Vitsoe 606 Universal Shelving System
The Vitsœ 606 Universal Shelving System is arguably as close to perfection as an article of furniture can possibly be. Designed by Dieter Rams in 1960, long before the lowercase "i" became the de facto...
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Holy Cow: Quirky's Moldable Sandpaper
Call me cheap, but I hate the design of the rubber sanding block, mostly because I can't stand that one-third of each sandpaper strip is wasted in the ends that you have to tuck into the spikes. I save...
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The U.S. Army's Mobile Digital Fabrication Lab
Politically speaking, the war in Afghanistan may be winding down; but technologically speaking, things are ramping up. Earlier this month a shipping container was quietly deployed to a remote outpost...
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A Look at Tactical Tailor, Part 1: The Company's Genesis
When it comes to designing for the military, there's not a huge distinction between industrial design and apparel design: Gear is gear. Whether it comes out of a sewing machine or an injection molding...
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Noble Desktop Job Board Launch - Powered by Coroflot!
It is with great excitement that we introduce the newest member of our expanding Job Board Partner Network: Noble Desktop. For over 22 years, Noble Desktop has been training students in computer...
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A Look at Tactical Tailor, Part 2: Current-Day Factory Tour
Military gear manufacturer Tactical Tailor has gone from being one guy with a sewing machine in a barracks to a 55,000-square-foot design and manufacturing operation employing hundreds of people....
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Red Dot Award-Winning 'Saddle Lock': Yea or Nay?
Not to be a hater, but my number one concern with the "Saddle Lock" concept by Lee Sang Hwa, Kim Jin Ho and Yeo Min Gu is that it's a design for not only the seatpost and saddle but the frame itself....
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Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is seeking an Instructor, Jewelry...
Instructor, Jewelry Manufacturing Arts Gemological Institute of America (GIA)Carlsbad, CaliforniaGIA is seeking an Instructor, Jewelry Manufacturing Arts with CAD/CAM experience who will be responsible...
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Putting Things into Perspective: Space Exploration in Fact and in Fiction
Image via WikipediaThe Internet is a pretty big place, a veritable universe of ideas and images, at once an inventory of just about everything that exists in the natural world and an ever-expanding...
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After the Mayan Calendar, Fernando Romero's You Are The Context
In the midst of the Mayan calendar predictions, prophecies came and went and on 12-12-12 in New York, the Mexican architect Fernando Romero released his book You Are The Context at the Guggenheim...
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8 Tips for Designing Windows Phone Apps + Lightning Design Reviews!
To help all of our App to the Future entrants create stunning designs, we've asked the Lightning Design Review team to send us their favorite tips for designing Windows Phone Apps. SIGNUP BY TUESDAY...
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MoMA PS1's 2013 Young Architects Program Winner CODA's Party Wall, a...
Per its progressive mission, the Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 is a perennial celebration of experimental urban architecture, a design-build complement to their beloved summer event series...
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Eric Standley's Laser-Cut, Hand-Assembled Paper Art
We've seen the insanely complicated things people can do with paper by painstakingly folding it (Matthew Shlian) or cutting it by hand (Bianca Chang). It was just a matter of time before another OCD...
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Points for Creativity: MONIKER Bicycle Handlebars by Taylor Simpson
What's in the box?At risk of overexposing conceptual bicycle components today, this reader submission was too good not to post. Taylor Simpson is one short semester away from completing his...
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Maison Objet 2013: 'Pots' by Benjamin Hubert for Menu
We've seen plenty of furniture and lighting from prolific designer Benjamin Hubert, as well as the 'groovy' minimalism of the "Plicate" watch, but it's always hard to predict what to expect when a...
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