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Anirudha Surabhi's cardboard bicycle helmet
Recent RCA grad and industrial designer Anirudha Surabhi's final school project was the Kranium, a sturdy and recyclable bike helmet made from cardboard. The concept was good enough to win a 20,000...
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SAYL: Fuseproject's Brand New Chair for Herman Miller
The Golden Gate bridge provided the inspiration behind fuseproject's new SAYL chair for Herman Miller—its unique, frameless back mimics the tectonics of suspension bridges, providing ergonomic support...
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Vienna Design Week 2010: A public bench that grows longer over time
The development of the Everybody's Bench At the beginning of the Vienna Design week, Milan-based collective Esterni began a ten-day intervention on the streets of Vienna. Specialising in developing...
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This Just Inbox: Patrick Hyland's Copper Phone Uses Heat for Power
Patrick Hyland is working on creating a "charger-free cell phone future." This means that, in addition to lowering electricity consumption, we won't have to mess with annoying chargers anymore and can...
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Germany's Young Talent Design Prize 2011 Shortlist Announced
Communication designers Kerstin Finger, Stefan Groom, Tobias Röttger and product designers Sebastian Herkner and Jacob Rochus have been named as thfe five finalists for the Federal Republic of...
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Still getting space-saving furniture right: New Resource Furniture video!
We were excited to get a call from Resource Furniture, the purveyor of truly well-designed space-saving furniture, saying that they had new product in. (And judging by the 2-million-plus hits our last...
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Core77 announces Powers of Ten Video Response Design Competition!
On the occasion of Powers of Ten Day (10/10/10), Core77 and the Eames Office are proud to launch the Powers of Ten Video Response Design Competition—a new design competition inviting designers to...
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Aston Martin "Cygnet" concept city car to go into production
You may have seen Aston Martin's concept for a luxury city car kicking around a few months ago. Today the British manufacturer have announced that the concept will become reality when it goes into...
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Pratt's Experimental Design Laboratory, circa 1952
Interior Design's Larry Weinberg has dug up an interesting article by Alexander Kostellow from a 1952 issue of Interiors. Kostellow was then the head of Pratt Institute's ID department, and in the...
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Jorre van Ast and Nikolai Carels win design prizes for Royal VKB
We love the topographical-map-lookin' Dish Drainer Geo, designed by Jorre van Ast. The Geo, along with the Boomerang Wok designed by Nikolai Carels, won manufacturer Royal VKB not one but two Grand...
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Lyle Owerko documents the beautiful, unabashedly-'80s designs of boomboxes
Artist Lyle Owerko's "The Boombox Project" documents different examples of the "gargantuan conglomerations of electronics, lights and chrome-plated gadgetry" that was synonymous with urban street...
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Julia Landsiedl & the Snowglobe Maker
Top: What if you put a toy gun into the Utopian world of a snowglobe? Bottom: How many Eiffel Towers does it take to make a memory? As part of the Passionswege component of Vienna Design Week, Julia...
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Vienna Design Week 2010: Vandasye collaborate with Chronometrie Sulzberger
Vandasye, top, in front of their concept store installation, pictured bottom. A nice concept for the Passionswege component of Vienna Design week (see earlier post about Mark Braun's collaboration...
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Tri Terasu's LED bulb designers get creative
In the movies or on TV, a room lit by a bare lightbulb is often visual shorthand for poverty and misery, being used by set designers to illuminate fleabag hovels or interrogation rooms. The design...
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Giant Balloon Animals by La Bolleur
La Bolleur, the Dutch design collective behind the fantastic mini-golf installations we've seen around Milan and Eindhoven, just sent us their latest project, a series of monstrous balloon animals for...
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Elbit Systems' chunky, ruggedized military handheld computers
That's probably the only PDA you can order with a night-vision-goggles filter. A company called Elbit Systems manufactures ruggedized PDAs and handheld computers for the U.S. Army like the aluminum...
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Elasticbrand's AudioWear: Musical Instruments meet Jewelry
For the past two months, New York's Elasticbrand has been working on AudioWear, a series of porcelain musical instruments. Though not officially unveiled, you can peek at some of the results in the...
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Lexus' wickedly huge driving simulator, "World's most advanced"
This 56-foot-diameter pod sits on a tiltable turntable resting on tracks that can move in both axes, like a huge CNC router; but it's not a manufacturing device, it's Lexus' insanely complex new...
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NYMag on Different Homes for Different Families
For New York Mag's Home Design 2010 special feature,they celebrate anything but the nuclear family, documenting how different kinds of families live in New York right now. We'd love if they had...
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Designers Accord NYC Town Hall : Thursday October 28, 2010
Design + Sustainability + Profitability We've all known for a while now that it pays to be green. But beyond the deployment of green values in publicity and marketing, what are the hard and real...
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