RESMO: Making Delayed Flights A Little More Bearable Through the Power of...
Last week, we spotted a couple of airplane interior designs from Paperclip Design LTD—aircraft armrests to seating concepts)—which address just a couple of the countless travel-related annoyances. But...
View ArticleTrue I.D. Stories #25: The Accidental Designer, Part 7 - Chairman of the Board
Editor: Accidental Designer and his wife have gone all in, and run into a major production roadblock just weeks before filling some major orders. Find out how it all ends here in the exciting final...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes at FINEX: The Future of Fine American Skillets
Like many innovative products, FINEX is a new-old idea. Take something beloved, assumed to be a terminal stage of evolution, and find the threads of dissatisfaction and tinker until it's the product of...
View ArticleCut Your Teeth in the Real World of Design Consultancy with an Internship at...
THRIVE is a design and innovation consultancy who collaborates with leading companies to create new products and experiences that resonate with customers, strengthen brands, and improve market share....
View ArticleThe Amazon Dash: An Object to Help You Get More Objects
Since Amazon made their name selling books, it made perfect sense when they came out with their own physical object for reading, the Kindle. It enabled them to get a piece of the e-book action. And now...
View ArticleCreative Minds: Fashion Designer Rakel Solvadottir on Icelandic Style,...
Rakel is yet again one of the creative minds whose development I've been following for a while now. What is it with people coming from Iceland? It seems like they all have been sprinkled with...
View ArticleAlmost Live from Struktur, the First Creative Conference for the Outdoor...
Billed as "the first creative conference for the active outdoor industry," the inaugural Struktur took place in Portland last week. In case you missed it, check out our recap of Day One, then read on...
View ArticleHulk Smashes. But G.E. Blasts, Crushes and Smashes
G.E. might bring good things to life, but sometimes they'll also take a moment to destroy the things you love. To promote their Global Research Center in New York, they took a bunch of everyday items...
View ArticleThe First Stain on Super Material Graphene: It May Be Toxic
In the world of material science graphene might be considered its Superman, Einstein and Edison combined. In the lab, it has proven itself to be nothing short of magical and amazingly useful time and...
View ArticleHow to Make Anything Less Intimidating (Including Surveillance Cameras): Put...
There's nothing inviting about a surveillance camera. Closed-circuit cameras invariably raise the question of security at what cost, and while the devices are pivotal to many movies, I'm more reminded...
View ArticleWatch Ford and IDSA's 'Designing Innovation' Panel Discussion Featuring Yves...
Content sponsored by the Ford Motor CompanyThe time has come! Ford and IDSA have teamed up to bring you "Designing Innovation"—a panel discussion on design featuring Nathan Shedroff of the California...
View ArticleCreative Minds: Fashion Designer Rakel Solvadottir on Icelandic Style,...
Rakel is yet again one of the creative minds whose development I've been following for a while now. What is it with people coming from Iceland? It seems like they all have been sprinkled with...
View ArticleDrive Innovation For the Most Technically Advanced Motor Sport Apparel...
KLIM Technical Riding Gear is a relatively young company with a rich history built on the values of hard work, sacrifice, and determination. Klim has risen against all odds to become one of power...
View ArticleCommunity. Design. Initiative., by Zahra Ebrahim of archiTEXT
The Community. Design. Initiative. is a project located in one of Canada's most at-risk and diverse neighborhoods, facilitating a conversation about architecture's responsibility to engage across not...
View Article'Maker Dad': The Book Us Grown-Up, DIY-Inclined Daughters Wish Our Fathers...
Who better to create a book focused solely on the wonderful DIYs that can come from a father-daughter relationship than the MAKE magazine Editor in Chief / founder of Boing Boing? No one. Mark...
View ArticleLightweight Tools of the Future: CarbonLite's Carbon Fiber Wrenches
When I think of carbon fiber, I think of its automotive applications, like F1 guys making monocoques out of the stuff. But it never occurred to me that carbon fiber could be used to make the hand tools...
View ArticleDesigning for Desk Organization
As I work with clients to organize their offices, I often see them scramble to find everyday things such as pens, paper clips and sticky notes. That's one of the first things we fix, since it's a basic...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Before Pantone, Color Aficianados Got Their Fix From This...
Long before the days of annually featured colors with quirky names, there was this monster of a book by a mysterious artists that goes by A. Boogert. It comes in around 800 pages and features every...
View ArticleDo the Right Thing, Have Fun and Play to Win as a Senior Package Designer...
Are you known for your creative, innovative and keen eye? Do you have experience setting a strategy and executing on the plan? Do you see retail goods and wish you could have designed the packing? Do...
View ArticleHow Airplane Emergency Inflatable Slides are Made, and How They Work
While we hope to never have to see one of these in real life, we spotted this mesmerizing video of airplane emergency slides deploying over on DoobyBrain:The question is, how the heck do they design...
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