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From Japan, a Brilliant Notebook Hack for Organizing Your Notes
My notes are a mess. I desperately wish I could carry just one notebook, but every time I've tried it, I can never find the information I need at the moment I need it. So I've resorted to doing...
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The MicFlip: Reversible USB and Micro USB for Better Last-Mile Ergonomics
You have a beautifully-designed phone/camera/gadget/etc., and a beautifully-designed computer to plug it into for charging. But every time you grab the cable, you first have to spend a second squinting...
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Frederick McSwain on Conquering the World of Corporate Gifting
Name: Frederick McSwainOccupation: I recently signed on as the chief creative officer of LR Paris, a 50-year-old promotional product and custom gifting studio. My background is in industrial design,...
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Husband-and-Wife Team Designs a Better Way to Store Clothes
Furniture designers have not kept pace with the way we store our clothes—and the sheer amount that we have. Consider how antiquated the chest of drawers is, and what a poor solution it provides in the...
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Boston's Disgusting Urban Snow Farms Have Finally Melted
New York City's horrifically humid summer is here, making me miss writing prior posts about snow. In February we looked at implements to get snow off of roofs and a better design for a snow-clearing...
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Engineer Uses Hydraulics to Develop a Safer Weightlifting Bench
Here's another "design hole," a problem in need of a solution, this one spotted (pun intended) by engineer and fitness enthusiast Dave Vorozilchak. As weightlifters know, maximum gains are achieved by...
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What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 1: Drawing Implements
In the entry about the Manual Labor of Design, we see the on-camera designer wielding the former tools of the trade. This gave me a flashback to the sheer amount of items I had to purchase, carry and...
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Awesome: Nike Designs Sneakers for the Differently-Abled
Earlier we told you about Steven Kaufman, the father that designed easy-on/easy-off shoes after his son was diagnosed with scoliosis. Kaufman deserves all the credit in the world because he undertook...
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Organizing Baseball Caps
Some households have an abundance of well-loved and well-used baseball caps. And as the baseball cap collection grows, there's an increasing need to consider how the caps are stored.The Cap Rack from...
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When Design, Art, Tech and Business Collide: 5 NEW INC Collaborative Projects...
Artwork courtesy of Philip Sierzega. Sugar Crystal Graphics designed by Philip Sierzega as part of Cotton Candy Theremin installation for NEW INC's Showcase at Red Bull Studio's New York. With less...
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A Camera Bag that Lets You Surreptitiously Take Photos: Yea or Nay?
While the Cloak Bag seems to have won universal praise, I have mixed thoughts about it. First off, take a look at what it does:Okay, harmless enough, right? The inventor bills its design as anti-crime,...
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What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 2: Drawing and Drafting...
In Part 1 we looked at all of the things industrial design students had to carry, just to make marks on paper. Chances are a lot of that list overlaps with modern-day ID students' EDC. However, this...
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Is It Time To Ditch Drag-And-Drop And Finally Learn To Code?
Is it just me or is Squarespace everywhere you look these days?As if the sheer proliferation of the distinctive image-rich and luxuriously white-spaced templates wasn't enough, it seems that barely a...
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Bringing Back the Art of Drumming with Sensory Persussion
Despite all the advances made in electronic musical instruments over the years, the drum has yet to find and fill it's 21st century potential. Current electronic percussion systems offer flat,...
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Marshall Develops Smartphone Designed Like One of Their Amps
The most famous movie scene demonstrating a user-interface design has gotta be from This is Spinal Tap. Christopher Guest shows his Marshall amplifier off to Rob Reiner, pointing out that while other...
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The Catzooka: A Bazooka that Can Clone and Launch Attack Cats
Sometime in the past year, California-based Byron Gatt made the startling discovery that his cats have superpowers. Between the two of them they can hover, fire laser beams from their eyes and exercise...
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What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 3: Paper
Sketching, rendering and drafting are such huge parts of industrial design, and all three used to be done on paper. As ID students at Pratt we had to stock a lot of the stuff, and you'd see us riding...
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The Path to Global Design Director
Whether you just landed your first industrial design internship, are a Junior designer, or managing a small army of industrial design talent, you've probably wondered how high you'll climb the...
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Lighting the Way
It's been a while since a public-art project on Kickstarter held our attention, but The Wabash Lights initiative has us looking up. The ambitious site-specific installation—the brainchild of two...
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Ford Developing Second Set of Headlights that Independently Track and...
In separate instances I've seen deer, a brown bear, and a family of turkeys all crossing the road in upstate New York. Nothing is worse than driving around a curve and suddenly seeing something furry...
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