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Innovation at the Intersection of Design and Music: An Interview with Ravi...
From healthcare and sustainability solutions, to lifestyle accessories and housewares, RKS Design has a history of solving complex and wide-reaching problems by paying close attention to user behavior...
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Smartphones That Get Bent: Is This a Design Issue or a User Issue?
Dude STOP BENDING IT!When it comes to smartphones, thin is in. But it should be of interest to product designers that as ubiquitous as these skinny devices are becoming—Apple sold 10 million iPhone 6...
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The Resurgence of Typewriters? Part 3 - Transparent Bodies for Prisoners
So it's the 1980s and you're running a company that makes typewriters. Sure, some of your customers are switching over to these new things called computers, but overall business is pretty good, and...
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What Makes Sugru Stick, Both Socially and Materially?
Just over a decade ago came a great innovation in a staple design material. The kind you'll come into contact with during your first year at design school. And that is an air-cured, hand-formed rubber...
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Animated Music Video that Moves Across iDevices
OK Go is known for making visually complicated music videos, which we've posted about here, here and here, that require a fiendish amount of coordination. These videos are shot in the real world and...
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London Design Festival 2014: Highlights from Tent London
Tent London—and its sister event Superbrands—took over the long retired Truman Brewery (interestingly the old beer may be making something of a rival) once again for London Design Festival exhibiting...
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With Its Diminutive, Ammunition-Designed Cube, Polaroid Moves into Low-Cost...
Once wielded by everyone from impatient partygoers to crime scene detectives to insurance inspectors, Polaroid used to be synonymous with instant image capture. With that advantage long since...
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The Innovative Design, and Design Story Behind, Blackberry's New Passport
I love seeing the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to design you normally see in a product category's infancy. That state before the form factor is set, when designers throw all kinds of crazy...
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Aerospace Engineer Designs the Perfect Ice Cream Scoop
If only all industrial designers paid as much attention to ergonomics as this engineer.Michigan-based Michael Chou is a dad who loves ice cream, and has scooped a lot of it out for his kids. Here's the...
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Hyper-Functional Housewares Concepts for the Ironic Design Connoisseur in Us All
If you were a fan of KK Studio's Uncomfortable Series—you know, the one where the took everyday products and made them impossible to use with irritating design bugs features—this will also be right up...
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Organizing the Art Supplies with ArtBin
Design students often need to carry lots of art supplies: pencils, markers, pastels, paints, brushes, sketch pads and more. ArtBin has been serving students for years, and now has quite a collection of...
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Beijing Design Week 2014: Long Time No See
As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we're pleased to be media partners with Beijing Design Week for the fourth year running, since its inception in 2011. The ever-expanding celebration of Chinese...
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London Design Festival 2014: Global Color Research x Giles Miller Studio 'Ten...
Color trend research agency Global Color Research took over the green outside Shoreditch station last week at London Design Festival, collaborating with material and surfaces specialist Giles Miller to...
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Budapest Design Week 2014 to Take Place from October 3-10
Contemporary Hungarian design, what is it? - that was the question roaming around my mind when I headed down to Budapest a little while ago. In order to gain a greater understanding and overview of...
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Total Percentage of Bent iPhones Reported: Less Than 0.000001%
As our debate over whether iPhone bendage is a design issue or a user issue continues, yesterday an Apple spokesperson released an interesting fact: "Through our first six days of sale, a total of nine...
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London Design Festival 2014: Ernest Wright & Son Scissormakers on Shoreditch...
What with all the pomp and ceremony, prolonged exposure to design shows and festivals these days can, on occasion, cause a slight feeling of disease— a symptom perhaps of a perceived detachment from...
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In the Details: Making a Suitcase That Can Weigh Itself
Anyone who has had to empty out the entirety of her suitcase's contents on the floor of airport check-in knows the plight of overweight luggage. Sure, you can buy suitcase scales and other devices, but...
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Radinn's Electric Powered Wakeboard Lets You Go Surfing Without the Waves
With the goal of "revolutionizing the watersport industry," Swedish company Radinn has released their first product: an electric powered wakeboard. The carbon fiber craft carries onboard lithium...
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Why Would Walmart Make Continuous 53-Foot-Long Carbon Fiber Panels? For Their...
Everyone loves to bash corporations, but few talk about how much good they can do in this world. Their immense fortunes and longevity means they can undertake radical, expensive experiments that...
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"Wear It Loud" At NYC Meatpacking's R|R Gallery
Artist Hanna Hedman wearing her own work, Loss. Photo: Sanna Lindberg"Wear it Loud," a bold contemporary art jewelry exhibition at beloved Reinstein Ross's new R|R Gallery in New York's Meatpacking...
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