'Form Follows Function' vs. Whimsy: The LaCie-Christofle Sphere is a Hard...
"Form Follows Function" is how you design a wrench, or a toboggan, or a kitchen mixer. But as we move into this increasingly dematerialized era, the keyboard and mouse are the only parts of our...
View ArticleThings That Look Like Other Things Update: You Can Now Buy the Shark Lamp by...
If you're one of those people who love a good ironic product (like this office-supply inspired bag we had our eyes on last April), there's a good chance you'd be able to find a place for a shark fin...
View ArticleMakerBot is Looking for UI and UX Designers to Join Their New York Team
MakerBot is looking for passionate and talented UI and UX designers to create human-friendly, clean and effective consumer experiences for their desktop software, the Thingiverse web community, Mobile...
View ArticleGabriel: The One Guardian Angel Keychain You'll Want to Ivest In If You Have...
Much like the life-saving iPhone app we featured last March, the Gabriel car set was created in a bit of an unconventional way. Similarly so, the idea that was unveiled can help prevent a multitude of...
View ArticleIn the Details: An Unusual Wireless Speaker, in More Ways Than One
Bang & Olufsen's new BeoPlay A9 wireless speaker is unusual in a couple of respects. First, there's its strange saucer-like form, with a 2.3-foot-diameter disc perched on a wooden tripod. But...
View ArticleThe Future Mundane Revisited
A few months ago, our columnist Fosta sent me the text of his bi-monthly column, in which he proposed a design philosophy that he dubbed "The Future Mundane," which was among the more though-provoking...
View ArticleWhere are These Ice Spheres in Lake Michigan Coming From?
Here's my oversimplified explanation of how the universe forms planetary bodies: There's a bunch of stuff floating around in space. The stuff crashes into other stuff, and sometimes that stuff sticks...
View ArticleDurr, the Vibrating Watch From Skrekkogle That (Sort Of) Tells Time
There's no shortage of rad watch designs—just have a look see at our features on Eone Time, Minus 8, Analog Watch Co., Mr Jones Watches and Ziiro (to name just a few). In the name of simplicity,...
View ArticleKnoll Thy Enemy: Combatting Chaos with Carefully Arrayed Items
To some, an art form. To others, common sense. To the messy outsider, pointless de-jumbling. As a savvy designer or design enthusiast, you're most certainly familiar with the principles and outcomes of...
View ArticleGetting Hired: To Land a Job at LUNAR, Be Authentic, Ask Follow-Up Questions...
For Switch, LUNAR helped develop a liquid-cooled LED bulb that casts a warm glow and draws only 13 watts.This is the first post in our Getting Hired interview series. We'll be publishing a new...
View ArticlePEBBLE Steel gets Smart at CES
There were no shortage of smart watches at CES this year, but PEBBLE seemed to be the only maker who evolved the industrial design of the smart watch beyond a mini smartphone stuck on your wrist. It...
View ArticleFurniture Designer Michael Yates on the Most Personal Project He's Ever Taken On
Photos via Dark Rye magazineIf there's one kind of design that no one enjoys, it's coffin design. However morbid it may be, it's completely true. Austin-based furniture designer Michael Yates quickly...
View ArticleComing Soon to the Theatre of the Mind: A Miyazaki Film Never Made
Hayao Miyazaki is leaving us, and there's a new (old) reason to be upset. Socially speaking, it is common law that you must enjoy Miyazaki. This is not optional. Doesn't matter if you're "just not into...
View ArticleProduction Methods: Old School Wood Manufacturing Jigs and Fixtures in Hungary
At eight-minutes-plus, this production methods video is longer than the average internet denizen's 2.5-minute attention span, but anyone who makes things out of wood will find it fascinating. This...
View ArticleIt's a Chandelier... It's an Installation... No, It's a Map!
The Global Data Chandelier—a big name for an equally sizable installation (physically and in theory)—is more of an infographic of sorts than anything else. Created for the Center for Strategic and...
View ArticleReinier de Jong's MODULAR Shelves
Time for our annual check-in with Reinier de Jong (see complete list below). The Rotterdam-based designer's REK expandable bookcase design is amazing enough that since its 2008 launch, it's experienced...
View ArticlePhilips Figures Out How to Make a Cheaper LED Bulb: Go Skinny
In design school in the '90s, they taught us that products about to become obsolete change their form factor to imitate their successors shortly before dying out. In other words, the lesson went,...
View ArticleAnthro Corporation Wants You to Build the Future of Furniture Technology in...
Anthro Corporation is a lot of things, including profitable since 1984, voted one of the best and greenest places to work in Oregon, plus an award winner for their innovative designs in technology...
View ArticleEngineering Company Modernizes an Obsolete Production Machine: The Beastly...
We human beings enjoy making things rectilinear, which is why you're reading this on a glass rectangle while sitting at a wooden rectangle in a rectangle-shaped room that you entered by passing through...
View ArticleGetting Hired: To Work at IDEO, Skip the Suit, Tell a Compelling Story and...
Designers prototyping concepts for Brand New IDEO, the company's recent brand explorationThis is the second post in our Getting Hired interview series. Yesterday, we talked to the VP of design at...
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