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Watch Ford and IDSA's 'Decoding Design' Panel Featuring Robert Tercek, Jane...
Content sponsored by the Ford Motor CompanyNo afternoon is complete without a good dose of design inspiration. Ford Motor Company and IDSA have brought Robert Tercek (interactive content creator), Jane...
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A Brief History of Unusual Objects Designed to Kill People from Far Away,...
[Images by Fiddler49]By mastering the assembly of compound materials, the Mongols had created an incredibly powerful bow, as we saw in the previous entry. But the way that they used it, which differed...
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Our Brains are Built to Like Curved Screens
There's a good reason we are experiencing the rise of the so-called "visual web." Our minds were destined to be attracted to visuals over text—since most of our brain real estate is devoted to sight....
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Material ConneXion's New Book Series Offers a Handy Guide to the Latest and...
Clockwise from top left: Glider, Kammok; Curface composite panels, Adam Fairweather; Microbial Home Probe, Phillips Design; Bogobrush, photo by Mike GlinskiWhile the Internet is a seemingly limitless...
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Designing Disruptive Innovations: Don't Miss the RKS Lecture Series Featuring...
If you haven't heard about why the Tesla name has been all over the news lately, perhaps it's time to discover what makes this company so innovative. On July 1st, you have the chance to get the inside...
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This Week in Statues: Stone Selfie Snappers and Groins of Disapproval
A statue is supposed to be forever, and we're all lucky that Michelangelo's David has survived for over five centuries. But a recently unveiled statue in the Kazazh city of Ust-Kamenogorsk lasted just...
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Introducing the Nerdiest Flower Bouquet You'll Never See (Without a Microscope)
Flowers are great—until they wilt after a couple of days and find a new home in the trash can. Harvard research fellow and chemio-"botanist" Wim Noorduin has found away to capture the same beauty of a...
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Designing for Large Filing: Blueprints and More
We've talked about filing solutions for normal office papers—but what if the papers the end-users are dealing with are blueprints, maps or other large items?Flat files are one obvious solution. They're...
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Maddox Takes on Incompetent Lifehacks
The easiest thing in the world is to be a critic on the internet. But the hardest is to be an internet critic who's funny. Internet personality Maddox, who first cracked me up with his brutally honest...
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Badass Birthday: Barcodes Turn 40
Today in Things-We-Take-for-Granted history: Barcodes turn 40! The now ubiquitous barcode has a slightly convoluted origin story—automated checkout was first proposed way back in 1932 by Wallace Flint,...
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Brookstone Wants You Design Their Products and Develop Their Brand in...
Brookstone is one of the nation's most exciting specialty retailers, known for its high-quality, innovative products and gift ideas. They are currently searching for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to...
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Recapping Ford and IDSA's 'Decoding Design' Panel Discussion: Appealing to...
With any career, there are a lot of details that get lost within a job title. Someone looking in from the outside can have a hard time knowing exactly what a designer does when it comes to "deciding"...
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IKEA Russia Annexes Instagram to Promote Its New PS 2014 Collection
Speaking of IKEA hacks, the Russian division of the Swedish brand has cleverly 'repurposed' Instagram to transform a profile page into an online catalog for their new collection. Developed by ad agency...
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A Brief History of Unusual Objects Designed to Kill People from Far Away,...
Since the Mongol bow we've seen a lengthy list of advances in long-range killing. Guns, machineguns, artillery, bombs dropped from planes, and Germany's famous V-2 "flying bomb," which is featured in...
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Good 'n' Useful: PatchNRide Fixes The Fluster of Flat Tires
They say, not unfairly, that the only upper body workout cyclists get is having to pump up their tires. That's certainly one reason fixing flat tires is such a bummer. To give your feeble T-Rex arms a...
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Mid-Century Music Piracy: Soviet Russia's 'Bone Music' Bootlegs Are Way...
Bootlegged jazz records might be one of the last things that comes to mind when you think about Soviet Russia. But decades before the tape recorder made its groundbreaking debut, oppressed Russian...
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A Brief History of Unusual Objects Designed to Kill People from Far Away,...
As we saw in an earlier post, part of what made the Mongols so militarily successful is that they had an unstoppable weapon that they learned to fire from horseback, providing both mobility and...
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Data Cuisine Lets You Have Your Data and Eat It, Too
"Take it with a Pinch of Salt!" (a dish exploring the street noise levels in Barcelona throughout the day)Last week, BoingBoing picked up on a TL;DR study that validated the value of artistic...
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Project 42: A Summer School for Tweens to Explore Potential Futures
Schools kill creativity. This simple message was the point of Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, now the most viewed of all time. Robinson challenges the way we view education in todays society, and...
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Google's "Material Design" Approach to Interface Design, and the Hell of...
An interface design is not successful just because you can figure out how to work it. The true test is whether you can explain to your parents, over the phone, how to work it. For any of you who have...
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