Design Ideas for the Balcony (NYC Translation: Fire Escape Furniture)
German manufacturer Rephorm produces this line of nifty balcony-based products. Designed by Berlin-based Michael Hilgers, they're meant to bring some liveability to your balcony—here in New York, well,...
View ArticleOakley is Looking for a Rule-Breaking Design Engineer With Innovation Flowing...
You're tired of being a cog in the machine. You don't play by the rules. Why should you be judged by them? Innovation flows through your veins and your current company could care less. Tick tock, tick...
View ArticleJaasta: Is This E-Ink Keyboard (Finally) The End For Time-Honored Design...
There's a certain respect afforded to the rare designer who has reached the highest levels of keyboard shortcuttery—a masterfulness attained only when the self and the software (be it CAD or Adobe)...
View ArticleVideo Game Art Imitating Life: Using Madden NFL to "Correct" the Super Bowl's...
To our non-American fans who don't follow (our version of) football, I need to briefly explain what happened last Sunday during our little Super Bowl contest. With 26 seconds left in the game, Seattle...
View ArticleThe Pon: A U.S.-Made Combination Pushpin/Paper Clip
Last year we saw the Pinclip, a combination paper clip/thumbtack, which allows you to affix papers to a corkboard without actually puncturing the paper. Alas, it was Japanese-market only. But now...
View ArticleWhat Would an Alessi Standing Desk Look Like? UPenn Students Learn a Lesson...
Design education is a crucial topic these days as the boundaries of product design shift to encompass an increasing set of skills and experiences. As we've discussed extensively (See examples from...
View ArticleHarvesting Sea Salt Creates These Crazy Multicolored Ponds
Wikimedia CommonsSea salt is harvested by evaporating brine, i.e. ocean water, then scraping up the white bits. Obviously to industrialize this harvesting, you need to have your processing facility...
View ArticlePop Quiz, Hot Shot - Want to Be the Industrial Design Lead at IDEO?
IDEO (pronounced "eye-dee-oh") is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate and grow. As...
View ArticleA Tool That Needs Designing: Something to Get Snow Off of Roofs
Last winter we looked at the Schneestop, a European roof-mounted invention for preventing snow buildup from falling off of a slanted roof. Because you don't want to be standing under it when this...
View ArticleTools for Taking Notes (No Matter Where You Are)
Remembering all the important thoughts we have during the day is next to impossible, so organizers will advise using some sort of note-taking tool. That could be an app on a smart phone, but many...
View ArticleHave a Hands-On Valentine's Day
At Hand-Eye Supply we believe that gratitude, listening and mutual inspiration are key to lasting love. Valentine's Day is the perfect time to make time for your favorite creative thinker or tinkerer....
View ArticleFaux Vintage Drafting Tables That Expand
In our vintage drafting tables post, we ended by lambasting a poorly-thought-out modern-day copy. Which is not to say that all contemporary takes on older designs are horrible; one interesting modern...
View ArticleIf the Terminator Were Re-Programmed as a Naval Firefighter
If you had to design a robot to fight fires on a ship, what form factor would you go with? The peculiarities of both ship architecture and fighting a fire present some unusual challenges that...
View ArticleBe Vital in Your Career. Join Johnson & Johnson as a Senior Industrial...
Johnson & Johnson's Global Surgery Group Industrial Design and Human Factors team is seeking a multi-faceted, exceptionally talented, user-centered Senior Industrial Designer who is passionate...
View ArticleSteffen Kehrle's Beautiful Tabletop TRAY
Munich-based designer Steffen Kehrle has created these gorgeous tabletop wood pieces, simply called TRAY.The materials listed are "solid oak or ash," meaning these things are actually monolithic, i.e....
View ArticleWatch This Surprising Way to Quickly Quarter a Sheet of Glass
Jack Storms' glass sculptures may take months to complete, but he's an artist. Below we see two tradesmen, guys for whom time is money, working glass at a decidedly faster pace. Watch as they use a...
View ArticleJapanese Soldiers Forced to Build Enormous Darth Vader Out of Snow
Okay, sorry for the sensationalist headline. While it's true that members of the Japanese military are conscripted into building gigantic snow sculptures, it's viewed as a team-building exercise, not...
View ArticleThere is a Bowl Trapped Inside This Flat Sheet. Just Add Glue
One way to make a wooden bowl is to turn it on a lathe. Another way, for those with more patience, is to use a scroll saw to cut sections out of a sheet, then glue them together.If you've got extreme...
View ArticleBetter Ways to Scribe
When you're installing a surface that needs to sit flush against a wall, and that wall is not straight, you need some way to trace the wall's contours onto your workpiece. There are companies that make...
View ArticleDock 312's Magnetically-Joined Flatpack Endtables
Magnetically-joined furniture doesn't have a very long commercial history. We first saw Eveline Pieters' Green Tuna Design brand and Joene Verschuren's BARkwadraat table in 2011, and Benjamin...
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