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What Are the G-Mark and Good Design Award?
Since 1957, the Good Design Award has taken place in Japan to evaluate, encourage and promote design in industry. The products and services awarded receive a "G-Mark," a note of distinction that...
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Highlights from the 2014 Good Design Award Exhibition in Tokyo
This is the second part of a two-part recap of the 2014 Good Design Awards; see Part 1 here.While the historic design exhibition represented a museum-worthy look at decades worth of design, this year...
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Desktop CNC Milling: The Point Cutting Roundover Bit [Core77 ShopBot Series,...
Rounding edges over is a common part of many a woodworking project. But the bearing-guided roundover bits you'd use in a router are not suited to a CNC mill. Instead you'll want to use what's called a...
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Birding the Flip: Max Kessler's Curious Coin-Toss Contraption
Well, here's a rather fun self-proclaimed "stupid pet project"—a literal brief if there ever was one—by SVA IXD student Max Kessler. As a kind of analog random number generator, "Coin Flip" is rather...
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Jellyfish Barge: StudioMobile's Masterpiece of Waterborne Self-Sufficiency
Photos by Matteo de MaydaArchitects Antonio Girardi and Cristiana Favretto of StudioMobile in Treviso, Italy, have created what has been dubbed a "floating agricultural greenhouse" that produces food,...
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Standing and Texting Turns You Into an Emotionally Weak Loser with a...
There was no time to stop before the tall man slammed into me. I was slowly carrying two fifteen-pound, nine-foot-long tubes of photographic backdrops from the supply house to my studio (it looked like...
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Expectations and Empathy: The Future of Product Design
A "product" today is rarely just physical, but consumers' expectations for meaningful product experiences are greater than ever. The challenge for designers is to bring empathy and sensitivity to their...
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World Against Toys Causing Harm, the Watchdog Org Trying to Keep Toy Design Safe
When children fall victim to a gunman, that generates press interest. But the media being what it is, eleven children dying because of a toy does not get much ink. Eleven is the number of children that...
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Designing for Gift-Giving: Consumables
As a professional organizer, I often recommend that gift-givers consider consumables—things that will get used up, and won't become clutter. There are many ways to design a normally mundane item so...
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Decorate Cookies Like a Pro This Holiday Season
During the holiday season, there's something about being a creative industry professional that makes you a prime target for delegation of certain tasks requiring an appreciation for the visual and...
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VetiGel: A Plant-Based Polymer That Stops Bleeding in Seconds
I once got stabbed in the head with a wooden knife. It was an accident that occurred during a martial arts training exercise. I'd heard that head wounds bleed badly, but as I waited for the taxi to...
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Clever DIY Solution for Sorting Loose Hardware
I'm cheap, so I save all hardware and fasteners that aren't bent out of shape or stripped. As I disassemble one DIY project and prepare to move on to the next, all of the old screws and such go into...
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Big Ass Lights: How Direct Sales Can Lead to Better Product Design
We've periodically covered Big Ass Fans (here and here), the Kentucky-based company that shrewdly changed their name from High Volume Low Speed Fan Company. Due to their no-nonsense marketing approach,...
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In the Details: Bringing the Classic Leather Armchair Into the 21st Century
When Poltrona Frau turned one hundred in 2012, the Italian furniture maker decided it was time to rethink its classic armchair, which had been around since the very beginning. An overstuffed wing chair...
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Visually Arresting GIFs and Next-Level Cinemagraphs
It was on the photography-based PetaPixel website that I first heard of what are called cinemagraphs. While cinemagraphs are uploaded as GIFs, in essence a cinemagraph is to a standard GIF what color...
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The Johnson & Johnson's Global Surgery Group Needs a Talented Industrial...
With annual sales of $11 billion, the Johnson & Johnson Global Surgery Group is the world's largest, most innovative surgical company. The strength of the Global Surgery Group is illustrated by the...
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Gaza Parkour: A Positive Ripple Effect Amongst the Ruins
Yasser Fathi QudihSome projects can create a surprisingly extensive ripple effect. They can inspire the creation of new projects or light a spark of curiosity within a single individual. In this case,...
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Wack Hacking: You've Been Doing Lifehacks COMPLETELY WRONG!
It's easy to hate those lists of obviously untested "lifehacks" and bluetooth-strapped "innovations," but if you do nothing to combat them aren't you effectively condoning them? The Stupid Shit No One...
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MFA Products of Design: Open House Video & 14 Reasons to Apply
If you missed last week's Open House/Info Session at the MFA in Products of Design at SVA, the videos have been posted online. Allan Chochinov, Chair of the program, says that "We've divided up the...
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Come 2016, You'll Be Able to Charge Your Phone in 30 Seconds
Last week I upgraded my cracked-screen iPhone 4S... with a 5S. I think the iPhone 6 is pretty, but it's simply too big for me. I tried one out in the store and decided I don't want to double-tap the...
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