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Hello in a Handbasket: A 3D-Printed Business Card
Well, we butchered the locution, but only because the product at hand is kind of confounding in and of itself: business mavericks and mavens alike can now introduce themselves and distribute their...
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Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club - Blacksmith Arnon Kartmazov of...
Core77's Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is absolutely thrilled to bring you Arnon Kartmazov of Portland's Bridgetown Forge who will talk about his extensive experiences hand-forging Japanese chef's...
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A Novel Way to Solve Clothing Inventory: New Aether Retail Space Replaces...
You're shopping in a store, and see something close to what you'd like to buy. "Do you have this in red," "an 8 1/2," or "a size medium?" you ask. "Let me check in The Back," the clerk says. Customers...
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Seen Overseas: Products over Materials. Services over Products.
In my travels, I've seen a lot of crap for sale. Every point of interest has at least one spot that is crammed with some sort of object to entice you, the visitor, to spend money. Invariably, these...
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From Shipping to Seating: Balzer + Kuwertz's Upcycled Pallet Chairs
Following yesterday's spelling lesson, here's a quick tip to remember the difference between the three homophonous words that are pronounced "PAL-it": palate, which most closely resembles 'plate,'...
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Tandem is seeking an Industrial Design Intern in Newport Beach, California
Industrial Design Intern TandemNewport Beach, CaliforniaTandem is currently looking for an Industrial Design Intern with potential to hire. The ideal candidate has a great sense of form and passion for...
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Thomas Larsen Roed's 'Linjen,' a Proposal for a High-Speed Rail Line to...
For his M.A. thesis in industrial design, Norwegian designer Thomas Larsen Røed worked with a forward-looking transportation initiative known as the Scandinavian 8 Million City. Backed by governments...
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Killer Mockumentary by Till Nowak on Physically Unlikely Amusement Park Rides
People go on amusement park rides not because they're amusing, or fun. Board games are fun. Amusement park rides are meant to be thrilling. Whatever's on your mind is temporarily displaced by...
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More High Speed Rail: Alfred Twu's U.S. High Speed Rail Map. (It's Just a...
I love trains, and I've ridden some of slowest and fastest trains in the world. On the Hanoi-to-Hue it seemed dogs were loping past us, and on the lightning-fast Kyoto-to-Tokyo bullet train my brain...
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Check Out the Entries in ISUDA's Mobile Bike Share Design Competition and...
I wish James Thomas had reached out to us sooner: as the brains behind Bicycle Design, he laments the regrettable shortage of entries in the recently closed Bike Share Design contest, a joint effort...
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How to Make It in America: Shinola Sets Up Shop in Detroit
In one of the more coherent brand launches in recent memory, a new venture called Shinola is poised to capitalize on the trend of American manufacturing with products ranging from bicycles to watches...
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Tomas Kral's Homework Desk: Drawerless, with Drainage
Switzerland-based designer Tomas Kral's Homework Desk is unusual: Made from cast aluminum sandwiched between two sheets of ash, it contains a sort of gutter that runs around three edges. Rather than...
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Disney Interactive is seeking a Sr. Interaction Designer in Glendale, California
Sr. Interaction Designer Disney InteractiveGlendale, CaliforniaThe Disney Interactive Family group comprises a portfolio of online products that marry exceptional content with engaging tools covering...
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'Curious Rituals' Examines Technology-Induced Gestures & Posture
We've all seen it: the teenagers with one earbud in, feigning interest in conversation; iPad users brandishing the device like a radiation barrier to snap a photo; the veritable hypnosis of the "cell...
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American Craftsman J. Leko to Recreate the Oeben Mechanical Desk
Remember the wicked Oeben mechanical desk we showed you back in November? If you don't, let us refresh your memory:In the original post, we expressed our hope that someone like Brian Grabski would take...
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Update on the Orp: Now This is How You Run a Kickstarter Campaign
After gaining good blog traction, the Orp bicycle horn (which we wrote up here) recently surpassed its Kickstarter target of $90,000, and is on the way to 100 large. We're following it up here not only...
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Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Jiwon Choi's Chair+Chair=Bench
Last week, we covered Jiwon Choi's Tyvek Vase in an effort to connect her with a potential manufacturer for the minimalist product. Lest she become known as a one-hit wonder for a polyethylene vessel,...
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More Eye Candy from the Past: The Shorpy Archives
Refrigerator shopping in 1941.All images via Shorpy Archive/Juniper Gallery.If you liked the old photos from the Detroit News Archivist post, you'll also dig Shorpy's offerings. Shorpy is an...
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Hand-Eye Supply Valentine's Day Selection for Lovers
As you walk hand in hand with your loved one, we know that you have only one thing on your mind: that project you left behind in your shop while you went on your walk. Well, stop it. Focus. What does...
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And Now, a Tiny Japanese Roomba... for Your iDevice Screen
Although it seems that we've been soliciting your opinions with a simple "Yea or Nay" quite a bit lately—regarding this and this, for starters—we just as often herald instances of "hell in a...
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