FakeID: A Preview of Pratt's MID Thesis Presentation 2015
To look at our class of 22 Masters of Industrial Design (M.I.D.) degree candidates who will graduate from Pratt Institute this May, one would see a collage of designers from a large span of...
View ArticleThe End of Product Failure
What are the odds a new product will still be around in two years' time?If you ask the Product Design & Marketing Association, they're not good: between 25 and 45 percent of consumer goods in its...
View ArticleBuy It Now: The World's Last Mobile Cinema Is On EBay
Even the most romantic school bus to camper conversion pales in comparison with the Bedford SB3 Mobile Cinema. This sort of streamlined British bus-cum-theater is the only remaining survivor of seven....
View ArticleOrganizing the Dirty Stuff
Toilet brushes and plungers are items best kept close to where they're used. Not every bathroom has a nearby under-sink cabinet with room to stash this stuff—and not everyone would want to store these...
View ArticleIndia Mahdavi's Bold Bisazza Tiles are Cement, not Ceramic
Bisazza may be known for their glass mosaics and ceramic tiles, but lately they've branched out into a new material: Cement.Their new Mahdavi Collection, created by Paris-based designer/architect India...
View ArticleMeet an Industrial Designer Who Ditched ID for Something Better
Ben Cramp is a man who had a career in industrial design, and ditched it—twice. The lure of the shop was too strong to keep him behind a desk, and while he still designs, now it's for himself, for...
View ArticleArt Lebedev Studio's Valikus Patterned Paint Roller
Leave it up to Art Lebedev Studio to recast something as basic as the paint roller in an entirely new light. Their Valikus roller is made from silicon and embossed with a floral pattern. Behind it sits...
View ArticleThe Avengers: Age of Technical Difficulties
The latest installment of The Avengers opens today in the 'States. As usual, the most unbelievable part of the movie will not be a man in a flying iron suit, an angry oversized emerald doctor or an...
View ArticleForming a Hardware Habit: The Story of MOTI and Google's 30 Weeks Program
When is the last time you drank the recommended 8 glasses of water a day? Did you remember to exercise today? Habit formation—or rather the difficulty of habit formation is an issue to which most...
View ArticleHow to See if Someone's Infradrunk
Image Credit: Nadya Peek / CC 2.0 via PopSci Some folks hide drunkenness well, giving no indication that you ought take their car keys. A breathalyzer would give them away—if one were handy at all...
View ArticleAdventures in Laser Kerf Bending
When Shaun Crampton designed a bentwood housing for his self-built radio receiver, he didn't go with steam-bending. Instead the software developer went the lasercutter route, cutting accordion lines to...
View ArticleDesigners & Books Bringing Back "Perfect Reprint" of Iconic Graphic...
The folks over at Designers & Books got their hands on a rare, largely unsung design classic: Ladislav Sutnar's Visual Design in Action, "one of the most beautiful and thought-provoking books on...
View ArticleTemplates Are Dead: 5 Ways Scalable Design Will Change The Way We Build...
Websites, like works of art, are best at their most original form. But as templates continue to dominate the space, designers are left to wonder: how can we work to stop promoting the uniformity and...
View ArticleSpraypaint-Wielding Drone Helps Pioneer a New Type of Vandalism
Last year street artist Katsu caused a stir with his Drone Paintings. Last week he caused a stir by turning the technology against advertising with a public act of vandalism.The technology in question...
View ArticleCircular Wave Pools for Research—and Maybe Olympic Surfing
Last year Edinburgh University got a new pool. But it wasn't for the co-eds to take dips in; the circular 30-meter tank is ringed with 168 controllable paddles, enabling the precise creation of waves,...
View ArticleMaking a Drip-Free, Car-Friendly Umbrella
Anyone who has grappled with a slick, wet umbrella on a rainy day knows the struggle. Collapsing the thing, you're either going to poke someone in the eye or drench yourself in the very raindrops you...
View ArticleTonight At Curiosity Club: Calm Technology with Amber Case
Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club we welcome thoughtful writer, innovator and tech-head Amber Case, giving the talk "Designing Calm Technology." Starts 6pm at the shop and streaming on the...
View ArticleAn Architect's Special Lego Storage Room
Jeff Pelletier is one of those guys who "has known since he was two years old that he wanted to be an Architect," according to his bio on the website of BOARDandVELLUM, the architecture firm where he's...
View ArticleA Bird That Perfectly Mimics the Sound of Power Tools
Earlier we showed you the amazing structures that bowerbirds build, like little avian architects, to attract mates. But this other bird's mating display is even crazier.To woo females, male lyrebirds...
View Article"True" Mahogany is Getting Harder to Come By
In guest writer Rob Wilkey's excellent series on Wood Species, he ran down nine popular breeds that any designer working with wood ought to know. One of those species was of course mahogany, and you...
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