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PES Comes Up With a New Style of Animation
The inventive filmmaker/animator known as PES has created a fascinating new short for Honda. Given the complicated task of unfurling the company's long history only through visuals, PES conceived of a...
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Say Hello to the Form 2: A Bigger, Better, More Reliable New Desktop SLA...
As hype cycles go, the interest in 3D printing has been waxing and waning since, say, Martha Stewart got her hands on a MakerBot. As other manufacturers have been struggling to find their footing, the...
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Rolf and Mette Hay on Making High-Quality, Affordable Design Objects
Names: Mette and Rolf HayOccupation: Founders of the Danish design company HAYLocation: CopenhagenPortrait by Osma HarvilahtiCurrent projects: Rolf: We have just launched a big outdoor-furniture...
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What Does Apple's Strange New Emoji Mean?
Jeremy Burge is the founder of the Emojipedia index, so naturally he'd be the man to discover this: Apple has designed a rather weird emoji, as yet unreleased, but tucked away in the developer preview...
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Why is Samsung Making TVs Thicker?
I'll never forget a design professor telling us students about the dematerialization of objects. Technology, he said, would enable certain objects to get smaller and others to virtually disappear. Our...
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Lustron, The All Steel House
The years after World War Two were a hectic time for the housing market in the United States. Virtually no housing had been built in nearly twenty years as the country transitioned from the austerity...
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Nendo's Expandable Nest Shelf
Remember Reinier de Jong's expandable REK bookcase? The Rotterdam-based designer's super-chunky construction made the nesting function visually obvious:Reinier de Jong's REKNow Japan's Nendo has...
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If Smartphones Were Designed Like Power Tools
As I've said time and again, I hate that talented smartphone designers produce beautiful glass rectangles that we have to bury inside bulky protective cases, obscuring the design details they slaved...
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Unusual Door Designs from Brazil, Part 2: Garage Doors with Style
Breaking News: Americans have, like, totally lame garage doors.Brazilians, on the other hand, have awesome ones.Here's your typical American garage door:Bor-ring.Down in Brazil the garage doors have...
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Professor of Sustainable Design on Why Students Should Take Existing Products...
Following the hullabaloo around the now-infamous Beats teardown debacle, we're excited to announce we've got our own teardown series in the works—this one done by a seasoned industrial designer! We're...
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Phil Patton, 1952-2015
Photo by Daniel Byrne, Car and DriverIt is with unbelievable sadness that we share the news of Phil Patton's passing. He was one of the most prolific and respectful writers on design, cheerleading its...
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15 Designs for Organizing Boots
People with a collection of boots—dress boots, Wellingtons, riding boots, work boots, etc.—need a good way to store those boots. Most regular shoe racks just won't work, but there are many other...
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Nexcare Nana Takes on Her Latest Challenge
Earlier this summer, Nexcare Brand set the tone for adventure-filled days with a humorous contest, "What Will Nana Do Next?" The campaign featured their gutsy heroine, Nexcare Nana, as she considered...
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How to Lift Heavy Objects By Yourself: Replace Your Truck's Bumper With a...
Pickup trucks are great for hauling heavy gear, but loading and unloading heavy/bulky objects is nearly impossible for the lone worker. One solution is to get a boom crane installed in your truck bed,...
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More Drills-Vs.-Apples and Other Fruit-Peeling Contraptions
The drill-wielding apple peeler was a silly bit of fun. But it turns out there is actual market demand for an object that will quickly peel apples. One product reviewer on Amazon writes of needing...
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Infento Self-Built Vehicles Empower Children to Be "Makers Instead of...
Photographer Spencer Rutting was volunteering for a youth organization when he had an activity idea: To organize a race where the kids would build their own self-powered vehicles. It was a success, as...
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3 Projects to See at the 2015 World Maker Faire
The fascinating world that is Maker Faire will open its doors in New York City this weekend. Since its founding in San Francisco in 2006, the self-proclaimed "greatest show-and-tell in the world," has...
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A Lightbulb That Helps You Fall Asleep?
Do you sleep well at night? Studies increasingly show that many of you don't. Part of the problem can be diet—I found that since I stopped drinking coffee in the afternoons and cut down on processed...
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Lightweight, Plug-and-Play Portable Wind Turbines are Coming
This is astonishing. The guys over at sustainable product company Janulus have developed a portable, 12-inch, 1.5-pound wind turbine that can suck energy out of the air and charge your iPhone—three to...
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Enter Our Workspace Photo Contest!
Not all of you reading this are designers, but all of you have workspaces. And we want to see yours! Whether it's a desk, a studio space, a workshop, a laboratory, a kitchen, et cetera. Send us some...
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