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An Actively Transforming Table from MIT's Self-Assembly Lab
Welcome to the age of active furniture. For Salone del Mobile 2015, MIT's Self-Assembly Lab is debuting a prototype for the first self-transforming table. A collaboration with the material manufacturer...
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The Sad Reason Why Vertically-Shot Videos are Catching On
Television and movies both hew to the fact that our eyes are next to each other, not one over the other. A horizontal image more closely aligns with our natural field of vision. Yet the scourge that is...
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Furniture Designer/Builder Jory Brigham's Unusual Path to Success
The path to becoming a successful furniture designer is rarely a straight line. It zigzags between talent, blind luck, hard work, twists of fate and opportunity. There are times in your career when...
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Design Forever: The 5th Annual WantedDesign Workshop Invites Students to...
How often you do just throw something away? As conscious as we all are of opportunities to recycle, reuse and repurpose every day objects, some things simply reach the end of their useful lives and are...
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Organizing the Leftovers
When designers tackle food storage, they need to consider a number of factors: the sealing mechanism (how easy it is to use and whether it's leak-proof), durability, stain resistance, ease of cleaning,...
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Video Illustrations of "The Twelve Rules of Animation"
Of the many technical skills an industrial designer must master, the first is sketching. And there's a reason why, as college freshman, we're thrown into Foundation courses alongside those who will go...
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Dominic Wilcox's Hilariously Bizarre Inventions
Reverse Hearing device: The left ear hears only what the right ear would, and vice versaAt last month's Design Indaba conference we were charmed by the creative musings and sketches of the wonderfully...
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Better Living with Uncertainty: Insulin Angel Releases Medication Tracker on...
According to the American Diabetes Association in 2012, more than 29 million Americans were living with diabetes. Of that group, 1.25 million were living with type 1 diabetes, a number that is made up...
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A Better Way to Steam Wood for Bending: Use a Plastic Bag!
To bend wood, you need steam. The typical way to do this is to build a steam box that fits your part-to-be-bent inside. But there are three drawbacks to this method: The box must be sized to fit your...
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Urbanproduct's Beautiful Wood Designs
Stephen Lindsay and James Banos are the designers behind Toronto-based Urbanproduct, a/k/a UP. Since 2009 UP has been killing it in the furniture, product and interior design arenas, fielding clients...
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Microapartments Designed by Italian Prisoners
You know how jail cells feature a combination toilet/sink? Years ago I joked that if Milan had a prison, their toilets would look like this:Silly joke aside, it turns out there was an unusual project...
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A Quick Q+A With Designer Anna Joyce
We recently visited designer-author Anna Joyce to see her beautiful studio and test out our new Fog Linen workwear. After snooping around and watching her work, we asked her a few questions about her...
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Tony Swatton Forging Jon Snow's Sword
Game of Thrones starts up again this Sunday, so we swung over to Tony Swatton's website. We last looked in on Swatton, the California-based master blacksmith, when he was making Thor's hammer; more...
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Unleashing a Monster (Hopefully)
Growing up, Joshua Ben Longo was plagued with terrible night terrors—often waking up in the middle of the night to see ghosts, trolls and forms of smoke tormenting him above his bed. "Sometimes the...
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Meet Daniel Hundt: HTC's New VP of Industrial Design
When we interviewed Scott Croyle back in 2014 at the launch of the HTC One (M8) in London, fanboys said 'best just got better,' critics said 'unexciting minor design evolution.' The then SVP for...
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Using Plastic Cups Like Animation Cels
The advantage to a drinking vessel being transparent is that you can see the contents. Redditor toper-centage takes advantage of this by nesting ordinary plastic cups, then using them like animation...
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U.S. Congressman Wants to Build a Bridge Out of Aircraft Carriers
Shortly after the invention of the airplane in the early 1900s, some military-minded maniac tried to launch one off of a ship. The experiment worked, and soon the American, British and Japanese navies...
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Another Revolutionary 3D Printer: The Unibody Tiko Costs Just $179!
When we think of FDM 3D printers, we think Cartesian; the print head always rides along rails in the X- and Y-axes, and the machines are cubic in form. But the developers behind the stunningly low-cost...
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A New Bicycle Form Factor Wins on Kickstarter—Again
It's not easy to reinvent the bicycle, and it took architects Martin Angelov and Mihail Klenov five years--the first time they did it. The duo's Halfbike, which got rid of the seat and much of the...
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BMW's R&D Reportedly Yields Functioning AR Goggles
Those eyeglasses were designed by BMW Designworks, and they're not just for fashion. The folks over at BMW's R&D division tapped the design branch to help out with a left-field concept for their...
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