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IKEA to Discontinue the Expedit
Auf WiedersehenWhen we say Ikea has two furniture lines for the record books, we mean they've got one for the records and one for the books. While the Billy is the world's best-selling piece of...
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From an Abandoned Sony Plant in Pittsburgh: The Battery of the Future?
The big challenge for renewable energy is storage: Energy captured by solar or wind power will never be much good if there isn't a cheap way to store it. Lithium batteries are just not up to a...
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Baby's First Butchery Set
Play is educational... some times more than others. Help your junior (or senior) get acquainted with the reality of food origins using a model tuna that breaks down into its sushi composites. The set...
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What Happens When You Play a Record Player That's Submerged in Water?
Part performance piece and part product abuse, California-based artist Evan Holm's "Submerged Turntables" installation does, well, what it says on the tin. Holm built a sort of woodland-themed...
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Bert Loeschner Twists and Turns Monobloc Garden Chairs Until They're...
From left to right: "Waterproof," "Hitchhiking" and "Rocking Chair"Bert Loeschner has a thing for garden chairs. You know, the ones we buy, use for a couple of family get-togethers and eventually leave...
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DICK'S Sporting Goods is Looking For an Associate Technical Designer with a...
At DICK'S Sporting Goods, they ensure ultimate customer satisfaction by employing an exceptional team of associates, who truly "live" their brand. The designers they hire demonstrate a combination of...
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Joris Laarman's Latest 'Anti-Gravity' 3D Printer Basically Conjures Metal Out...
About nine months ago, we got a first look at a freely articulating 3D printer, developed by Joris Laarman Lab in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). By...
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Membership-Only Streetside Bathrooms Coming to NYC
To be able to shower in a train station might not sound luxurious, but that's what I felt it was after dropping a few guilders at Amsterdam's Centraal Station to rinse the travel grit off and stow my...
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A Simple Trick for Getting 3D-Looking Results from Moving 2D Images
Watching movies in 3D is fun, if you can stand the splitting headache those headsets give you. For now they're the moviemakers' way of tricking your eyes into feeding your brain a false sense of depth...
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Throwback Thursday: Intricately Designed Victorian Calling Cards of the 1800's
It's shocking how far communication has come since, let's say, the 1800's. What is now a quick text (or even more succinct emoji) was once a painstakingly designed piece of paper that relied on analog...
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Bellerby & Co. Globes: Paper-Covered Balls That Will Leave You Breathless
No matter how modern, chic or technologically-forward you may be, everyone loves maps. Innate sense of navigation, likelihood of travel, and taste in worldly-looking decor have little to do with it—we...
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Designing for Knife Storage, Part 1: Blocks and Wall Racks
When I work with clients to organize their kitchens, knife storage is one of the issues we tackle. Everyone has different needs and constraints—but fortunately, designers have given us numerous options...
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Near Future Laboratory Presents Design & Fiction (A Near-Past Event Recap)
Here, for your edification, is a video of Near Future Laboratory's "Design & Fiction" event in full. On October 24, 2013, IDEO hosted the panel discussion, moderated by Wired's Cliff Kuang,...
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Forum Frenzy: Wheel Talk (and the Future of the Automobility)
Maybe I should have known better, but I sort of expected a discussion board thread entitled "Greatest Wheels" to be a survey of forumites' favorite automobiles, but—this being an industrial design...
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Staying Relevant in a Digital Era: Fujifilm Opens Wonder Photo Shop in Tokyo
It's hard to believe that Fujifilm and Kodak were once competitors. Whereas Kodak declared bankruptcy in 2012, following one business failure after another, Fujifilm should be a business school case...
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In the Details: Making a 3D-Printed Product Line That Doesn't Look Like It...
While desktop 3D printers have made rapid prototyping at home as easy as the push of a button, that accessibility comes at a price—a much lower level of quality than with traditional manufacturing...
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Autonomous Termite-Based Robotic Construction Crews
Termites are not usually known for their construction. However, if you've ever seen a termite settlement that wasn't house-bound, you'll know that they can build elaborate structures, sometimes over 40...
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Holy Papercuts: Stephen Sollins' Tyvek Patchwork Quilts
"Untitled (Return to Sender, after Mary Jane Smith, 1865) 2010" detailMost of the quilts I've seen in the past year have been hanging on walls as artwork in a museum or studio. After all, spending...
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For the Cyclists Among Us
Not sure how I missed this when Oli Firth first posted it to our discussion boards three months ago (when it first hit the web), but "Road Bike Party 2"—great title for bike porn, as far as I'm...
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Like a Deer in the Headlights
It's not a perfect hybrid of these fluorescent felines and trophy handlebars, but close enough. The Finnish Reindeer Herder's Association is reportedly testing a special spraypaint to increase the...
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