WET® is seeking a Designer in Sun Valley, CA
DesignerWET®Sun Valley, CA WET® is the leader in creating environments and experiences worldwide through the primary medium of water and in the development of innovative design and technology. WET®...
View ArticleVacu Vin's PopSome: Like Tupperware with a pop-up spout
We like to see designers really exploring the properties of the materials they use in their product designs, and Netherlands-based Vacu Vin has put silicone to good use with their PopSome Candy &...
View ArticleAsus' seriously unusual laptop design is for someone with a big-ass lap
The name of Asus' media center laptop is as unwieldy as the actual machine: The NX90JQ-A1 is a 9.4-pound beast with Bang & Olufsen speakers that stick out of the side like ears. The screen is an...
View ArticleHerman Miller updates an Eames classic
Herman Miller's Select line has recently reinterpreted the Hang-It-All, the iconic coat rack by Charles and Ray Eames. The Eameses originally designed the Hang-It-All in 1953 for children's rooms,...
View Article28 years later, World's First Laptop still looks freaking cool; Bill...
That's the GRiD Compass, the first clamshell computer anyone had ever seen, designed by Bill Moggridge for his very first California client, GRiD Systems. Before anyone had coined the phrase "laptop"...
View ArticleFast Co. interviews Astro Studios on the design of the Boxee
If I told you you had to design a two-sided remote control, how would you deal with the problem of accidentally pressing buttons on the bottom while you're trying to interact with the buttons on top?...
View ArticleFiskars' Cuts+More has so many different sneaky little functions, it's almost...
If I could've had just one pair of scissors back in my design school days, when we all needed to work with a great variety of materials in a single day, it would've been these Fiskars' Cuts+More...
View ArticleDesign Compendium is seeking a designer in Brooklyn, NY
Project Manager / Visual Merchandiser / Designer Design CompendiumBrooklyn, NY We are a multidisciplinary design/build firm located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, specializing in custom fabrication,...
View Article"Relics" by Cody Hamilton: Classical Grecian 80's Retro
Back in August, as you may recall, many an aesthete's fantasies were shattered by the news that Grecian statues, the beacons of elegance and sophistication that we so love and cherish, were in fact,...
View ArticleDesigners Accord NYC Town Hall: Reflections and Photographs
Written by Nepal Asatthawasi Images by Natalia Argüello and Colleen Rae Smiley The theme of the Designers Accord Town Hall on October 28th, 2010 - organized by interactive design studio More Than Us...
View ArticleA belt for the handy
Here's a pretty interesting way to always have certain essential tools on hand: Technical apparel company 686 Enterprises offers this tool belt, which isn't meant to hang tools from, but contains its...
View ArticleConstruction innovations: MEM's plug-and-play elevator system
In a bid to reduce expensive construction downtime--specifically, the delays required in submitting elevator design and engineering plans for safety approvals and inspections, and the back-and-forth...
View ArticleTypography-lover Sighn's "What Wood You Say" project
He definitely has patience. Check out these wood pieces by Chicago-based artist Sighn: A member of the Multi Polar Projects art collective, Sighn has a passion for both typography and wood, and he's...
View ArticleDesigNYC: Last Call for Submissions TODAY!
Today is the deadline to submit your project ideas and design service forms for DesigNYC, an organization connecting non-profits with pro bono design services. To learn more, read the coverage we...
View ArticleArtem Zigert's "Mechanical Perspective" chair
Remember the good old days, when you'd sit for hours at your drawing board, losing yourself in a sea of converging lines, wide-eyed with satisfaction as a third dimension sprung from the 2D page?...
View ArticleWell-designed gun storage cabinet is an awesome rotating carousel of death
I myself don't own a gun, partly because it's illegal in New York City and mostly because I drink too much for it to be a good idea; but I still find gun safe inventor Bruce Pendleton relatable when...
View ArticleCooper Open Studio: Social Media for Social Good
If you're in San Francisco next Wednesday (Nov 17th), be sure to drop by acclaimed strategy and design firm Cooper, as they host an open studio event with Jennifer Aaker, co-author of The Dragonfly...
View Article"Oyster" chair by Kawamura Ganjavian
You might have come across Madrid based studio Kawamura Ganjavian before with their weird and wonderful experiments with objects to amplify the sense (on Core77 here) or their recent "Binpan". Studio...
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