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Design Excursion: Marin County
Kristina and I have always taken design excursions to meccas like the Philip Johnson Glass House , The Walter Gropius House, and Palm Springs. This weekend we took a long overdue trip outside of San...
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"Klhip" nail clippers: Redesigning the mundane
Objects can often become so ubiquitous that we no longer question their form. The testimony of time shields such relics from the scrutiny and skepticism that we subject new products to. Nail clippers,...
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Design Museum Boston's "Creative Capital" Exhibit
We've been following Design Museum Boston's progress since their first kick off fund raiser earlier this year and through their open source branding process with Design Continuum. The group's first...
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High Chairs getting high design
HighChairStation is an e-tailer that scours France, Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavia to find the most designey chairs and booster seats a baby could ask for, some of them well-considered, others...
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The Zip Bed
Remember the movie The Patriot, where Heath Ledger's character climbs into a bed that is promptly sewed shut to avoid improprieties with a female house resident? That's what Florida Smart Italian...
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How to do a "flip-book animation" using a fast car and drawings printed on a...
When approached to do a commercial for Subaru's powerful WRX STI rally car, creative agency DDB Canada had an unusual idea: Do a flip-book animation--by adhering 760 individual and precisely-spaced...
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The Embrace Infant Warmer
Humans do not have kangaroo pouches, and it's a fact that society laments when babies are premature, especially in developing countries, where over 450 low-birthweight and premature infants die each...
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California College of the Arts' forthcoming Interaction Design program makes...
The California College of the Arts' forthcoming ID program doesn't stand for Industrial Design, but Interaction Design. Writes Dr. Mark Breitenberg, CCA's Provost, "We're leveraging our Bay Area...
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Tiger Stone brick printer lays roads like carpet
The humble brick road might be set for a come back. This impressive bit of kit by Dutch manufacturer Tiger Stone could make this paving technique of days gone by a viable option for even the most cash...
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Applied Minds is Seeking a Graphic Designer in Glendale, CA
Graphic Designer (Temporary/Contractor Position) Applied MindsGlendale, CA Applied Minds is looking for a Graphic Designer with 2+ years of experience creating graphics, illustrations and...
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Core77 Gallery: Bangkok International Gift Fair 2010
Subtitling itself as "Soul and Style of the Orient", the annual Bangkok International Gift Fair (BIG) and Houseware Fair (BIH) presented a total of 600 exhibitors, mainly from Southeast Asia. Core77...
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USB Battleship: A Visual Weight for Chaotic USB Cables
The USB Battleship is a new 5-port USB hub by design duo giffin'termeer. Not just a pretty hub, the device was designed to visually anchor the cable chaos surrounding most of our workspaces, with a...
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Polyprop designer Robin Day passes away, leaves behind huge-selling legacy
Humble, simple, lasting, ubiquitous, flying out of the factories, and a monster seller: That's the Polyprop stacking chair designed by Robin Day, who passed away earlier this month. Inspired by the...
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R2B2 - Christoph Thetard's Human Powered Kitchen Appliances
With an interest in sustainable energy solutions, Berlin-based designer Christoph Thetard shares his latest graduate thesis project for the kitchen titled R2B2. Presenting it's mechanical beauty and...
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Bo Reudler Studio contemporary bathroom restoration
Dutch designer Bo Reudler and company were recently invited to take part in a restoration project in a 19th century house near Amsterdam. The designers were challenged to bring a touch of contemporary...
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Evolving European design policy
SEE, a network of eleven European partners exploring how to integrate design into regional and national innovation policies, has just released the fourth of six project bulletins, exploring matters...
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As design catches up to robotics computing, mechanical arms get cooler
If I asked you to sketch the archetypal industrial robotic arm, you'd probably draw something like a swing-arm lamp: Straight members connected by elbow-like joints, perhaps on a rotating base like a...
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Dyson is Seeking a Design Engineer in Wiltshire, UK
Design Engineer, Industrial Design Dyson Wiltshire, UK Dyson offers a unique opportunity for talented and passionate individuals who wish to invent, design and develop exceptional products for the...
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The Mack Truck Syndrome: How replaceable are designers?
I stopped pursuing corporate design work years ago, because the lowly rungs I occupied allowed little individual creativity. "If I got hit by a bus tomorrow," I told friends, "and they replaced me...
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Design That Matters' NeoNurture turns auto junk into human life
Two years ago we read a report on Treehugger about the Massachusetts-based nonprofit Design That Matters' endeavors to create an infant incubator out of recycled car parts. The thought that dead...
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