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App to the Future: One Week Left to Design the Future
Alright app designers—you've got one week left to review, finish up and submit your App to the Future designs! The FINAL Lightning Design Review before submissions close is next Thursday, February 7th...
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If You Can Guess What This Repurposed Wood Item was Used to Manufacture,...
You could be forgiven for assuming this jewelry display rack was purpose-built. But look a little closer: It's obviously an antique, and if you look at the channels cut into it, you can see that they...
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Paper Chase: Help Jiwon Choi Find a Manufacturer for Her Tyvek Vase
Recent RISD grad Jiwon Choi reached out to us about her recent travails in finding a manufacturer for her Tyvek Vase. "Since it is a relatively new material, no one is willing to experiment with it....
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More Wooden Products Used in the Cigarmaking Process: Drying Boxes
Another interesting wooden object I've recently come across is this cigar drying box. After cigars were hand-rolled or removed from their mold, they were once placed in these primitive objects and left...
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Military Airdrops, Part 3: Montague's Paratrooper Tactical Folding Mountain Bike
We first looked at bike manufacturer Montague's Paratrooper Tactical Folding Mountain Bike a few years ago, but now the bikes are available for sale to the general public. The 2013 24-speed Paratrooper...
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Klaffi: Individually Folding Shelves
These individually folding shelf units are making the blog rounds, but I object with how they're being billed by other design blogs as "space-saving" units. While I like the pieces and think they're...
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Garmin International is seeking an Industrial Designer in Olathe, Kansas
Industrial Designer Garmin InternationalOlathe, KansasGarmin International, the world leader in Global Position System (GPS) technology, seeks an industrial designer for our Outdoor/Fitness team. He or...
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Want a Free 3D Printer? Good-- Design One
That's supposed to be a 3D-printed question markYou could spend three or four figures buying a 3D printer of your own—or you could design one, have a machine given to you for free, and take home $2,500...
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Battling the Elements: Umbrella Innovation, Part 1
When a new product called the Brolly turned up in the inbox, I couldn't help but think of Sruli Recht's "Umbuster," a more explicitly 'weaponized' umbrella concept. The Icelandic designer's concept...
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Etch A Sketch Inventor Andre Cassagnes Passes Away
Andre Cassagnes, the man who invented the Etch A Sketch, has passed away. In the 1950s Cassagnes, a French electrical technician, was installing a light switch at the factory where he worked. The...
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Literally the Sweetest Lamp You'll Ever See
Designer Alexander Lervik is pleased to present Lumière au Chocolate, his latest project in the Lervik 100 collection, which he is presenting at this very moment in his current home of Stockholm,...
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Social Engineering: Grand Central Sets Clocks Wrong for Public Safety
This clock is lying. And that's why you don't have a broken ankleIt was the advent of railroads and the Industrial Revolution that really pushed the clock into widespread usage. Timekeeping devices had...
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Battling the Elements: Umbrella Innovation, Part 2
Image via MetroRegarding the previous post, I was curious to see that the four-finger grip design invariably alludes to brass knuckles, whether it's made from aluminum or ABS. But the handle is perhaps...
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Renaud Marion's Suh-weet "Air Drive" Flying Car Photos
This is the future we were promised! Flying cars, baby. Anyone in the 1950s would have surely thought we denizens of 2013 would be whipping around in them, but we are not. And the simple reason why, is...
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Nothing Fancy: A Minimal Wallet by Chieh Ting Huang
The ongoing quest to design the most minimal wallet ever is something of a race to the bottom: my colleague hipstomp, for one, has resorted to using a Japanese train pass holder, and we see so many...
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Bresslergroup is seeking an Interaction Designer/Analyst in Philadelphia,...
Interaction Designer/Analyst BresslergroupPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaBresslergroup, a leader in integrated user interface & industrial design, is seeking a hybrid information architect/usability...
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Non Sequitur: On the Proper Spelling of 'Skeuomorphism'
Ok so this is sort of just a pet peeve, but it's relevant enough in this day and age of push-button journalism and SEO to warrant a quick post here: As an editor and former philosophy student, I have...
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Seeing the Forest for the Beach: An Evergreen Post-Sandy Recovery Effort and...
Photo by Ozier Muhammad for The New York TimesCliché though it may be, it's hard not to describe it as anything less than a gift that keeps on giving: still from the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, a...
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'Damaged' as a Product Aesthetic: Yea or Nay?
In high school we were taken to meet a guy who made "antiqued" furniture. It was all freshly made in his shop, but he had an array of objects—chains, bottlecaps, and even carefully-selected rocks—that...
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Team 7's Elegant Flaye Extendable Table
Team 7 is an Austrian outfit that manufacturers furniture out of (gasp!) natural wood, using walnut combined into three plies. Led by experienced wood designer Jacob Strobel, they've created a...
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