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Wrap Your Head Around This One: Potentially Immortal Bacteria That Eat...
One of the stranger (and little known) facts of nature is that our living cells are electric, or can carry electricity. Every thought, feeling and movement we have comes from an electric spark. And we...
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Fabrique-Hacktion: Making Public Inconveniences Easier to Handle, One Boldly...
When it comes to shared spaces, amenities such as public charging stations aren't necessarily a priority when there's tax money to be spent. So, like any designer looking to contribute to the greater...
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Watching Cakes Being Mass Manufactured is Mesmerizing
We think of factories producing iPhones, IKEA flatpacks and Infinitis, and as ID'ers we have an idea of what those production lines look like. But chances are you've never been inside a factory that...
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Welcome to 'Things I Would Not Want to Render By Hand,' Starring Marcello...
In a previous life, I rendered bottles for a living, and as I was doing it without rendering software, I was always happy when the assignment called for glass and bummed when it called for PET. PET...
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Looking for a Large, Inexpensive, Glare-Free Display? It's Right Under Your Feet
So your kid draws all over your expensive carpet with a handful of Sharpies. You're so infuriated that after giving him a time-out, you need to go outside to carve some sand patterns in your Zen garden...
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Bottlass Designers Respond, Claiming Product Does Work and Is In Production
Last week, we published a piece on the Bottlass packaging design in which I was critical of the concept. We were since contacted by Kyung Kook, the Vice President of Bellevue-based Innovative Design...
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More Than Meets the Eye: A Bicycle That Transforms into Its Own Lock, Yea or...
When it comes bicycles, we're often inclined to say nay. Call us snobs/cranks/grouches or what have you, but we are generally of the opinion that you don't go reinventing the proverbial human-powered...
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Designing for the Organized Traveller: Chargers & Adapters
Being an organized traveller involves packing just the right stuff—and for most end users, that involves electronics. After deciding which devices to take (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) the...
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littlebits is Looking for a Superstar Maker to be Their Design Intern in NYC
littleBits is looking for an energetic, creative and talented Design Intern to work with them in New York, NY. The right person for this opportunity is a superstar maker with a great sense of aesthetic...
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Students/Grads, We Want Your Photos! Send Us Shots of Your Design School Days
Last day of the semester at SVA, photo by Jeffrey ZeldmanWith the start of the fall term just around the corner, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils (er, stylii?) is in the air. While there's no...
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Deborah Sussman: A Super Graphic Life
We're sad to note the passing of bold designer Deborah Sussman, who died on Wednesday at the age of 83 after a long battle with cancer. Sussman was a Brooklyn-born artist of many interests, known for...
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Clever Trick Makes Physical Lego Calendar Sync to Online Calendar
We gave you a brief look at this awesome Lego Calendar project earlier in the year, but this is worth a closer look. The UK-based design studio formerly known as Vitamins (now called Special Projects)...
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Art & Craft: The Story of an Art Forger Whose Artwork Replication Isn't...
Let me just start off by saying that I don't condone illegal forgery or theft—but I do think that someone who can put the art world in a tizzy with his own look-alike art without breaking any sort of...
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Rite in the Rain's Waterproof Paper and Tough Mechanical Pencil
It rains a lot in the Pacific Northwest, which sucks if you're outside and are trying to write something on paper, as loggers once needed to. So in the 1920s, well before ruggedized tablets were...
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In the Details: Translating Contemporary Illustrations Into Traditional...
Illustration by Ian StevensonDesigner Célia Esteves first fell in love with the Portuguese tradition of rug weaving at an exhibition in her hometown of Viana do Castelo, in the north of Portugal. There...
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Women Engineers Pakistan: Introducing Pakistani Girls to the Field of...
A few months ago, I was contacted by an organization called Women Engineers Pakistan, which introduces girls to the field of engineering and technology. Just reading the name made me curious. For those...
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Beaming Free Info from Space: Geoff Baldwin On 'Outernet' and Why Code And...
If you care about the power of free information, you may have heard of Outernet, an ambitious new project aimed at ending information inequality, eliminating censorship, and bringing data to distant...
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To Make an Emmy: The Surprisingly Old School Process of Creating the Statuette
Although the trophy itself is but a symbol for the prestige of the award, the statuette certainly provides a covetable physical artifact for those in the television industry. While you may not be...
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The Morphalite: A Flashlight Designed to Provide a 180-Degree Beam
When most folks think of improving the design of a flashlight, they think of making it brighter or smaller. It's easy to overlook the average flashlight's central flaw: They emit a limited, circular...
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Silo's Mesh Card Re-thinks the Wallet
I've solved the wallet thing for myself, I've got the perfect wallet for me. So whenever someone comes out with a new ultraslim wallet, I'm unmoved. But I just gave the Silo Mesh Card wallet a gander...
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