Ceha Ideatorium Designs Restaurant Built from Factory Scraps
Ivan Christianto is an Indonesia-based designer obsessed with product re-use. The self-described "sustainable materials specialist" and his firm, Ceha Ideatorium, seek out discarded objects—preferably...
View ArticleExcerpts from Now-Gone Smithsonian Exhibit on Four Stages of Design Drawing
The Smithsonian Institute archives what seem to be a tiny fraction of the exhibitions they hold. One of the older shows lucky enough to get a webpage is Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial...
View ArticleAutodesk Cloud is Here
Autodesk is not new to the cloud concept—their Buzzsaw software-as-a-service has been hooked up for over a decade—and on Tuesday they announced Autodesk Cloud, officially bringing together over a...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival 2011: "Whackpack" furniture at Tent London
Forget flat-pack, the future of self-assembly furniture is clearly in "Whackpack"—a range on show at Tent London this week. By Be Benny, the stools and tables are put together entirely without nails...
View ArticleIkea Interior Designers Demo Small Space Solutions
IkeaMalaysia has started posting a series of videos featuring their interior designers giving tips on how to squeeze every last inch—sorry, centimeter—out of a living space. It's no surprise the...
View ArticleCore77 Design Award 2011: The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Runner-Up for...
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the...
View ArticleHerman Miller x House Industries: Limited Edition Eames Low Table Rod
MCM fans are certainly already clamoring over House Industries' recent collaboration with Herman Miller Asia-Pacific, a custom Eames Low Table Rod (LTR), unveiled at Herman Miller's Reach exhibition...
View ArticleFord's New Door Protector System
Several times I've driven Mini Coopers through ZipCar, and one feature that takes getting used to is the "whoosh-click" noise that happens a millisecond after you close the door. That rather unique...
View ArticleBeijing Design Week 2011: The Exquisite Corpse of Ernesto Bones
A lot can happen in 24 hours. Ernesto Bones was once thought to be a "super sensitive, dapperly dressed, dandy—a poet, a creative optimist, a lover of life and of all things bright and beautiful." A...
View ArticleCore77 Design Award 2011: ALEX Bottle, Notable for Products / Equipment
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the...
View ArticleNike, Inc. is seeking a Industrial Designer - Digital Sport in Portland, Oregon
Industrial Designer - Digital Sport Nike, Inc.Portland, Oregon As the Industrial Designer - Digital Sport at Nike, you'll craft market leading digital product experiences; from creating the vision for...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival 2011: Fumi Gallery: Studioware
Gallery FUMI exhibited newly commissioned work from three different design studios during the London Design Festival. Under the name of Studioware, they curated an exhibition showcasing solid wood...
View ArticleSugru Bonds to Most Materials
This isn't the first time we've posted about Sugru, and hopefully it won't be the last: (more...)
View ArticleAnnouncing the Clorox Maker Challenge
Clorox is pleased to announce their first foray into the wonderful world of design competitions through their new online community Clorox Connects. The brief for the Clorox Maker Challenge is fairly...
View ArticleWoodgrain Post-it Stack: How the Heck Do You Think They Made This?
It never occurred to me that if you printed a woodgrain cross-section on a piece of paper, and the ink bled enough to appear on the paper's edges... ...and you stacked those sheets into a solid brick,...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival 2011: Dezeen Space: Moments in Time
When visiting our friends from dezeen in their "pop-up gallery, store, video studio and micro-event space" during London Design Festival, we were particularly intrigued by these Moments in Time,...
View ArticleCore77 Design Award 2011: Herman Miller Compass System, Notable for Interiors...
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the...
View ArticleWell-Designed 911 Dispatch Program by Electronic Ink
My favorite part of MoMA's current Talk to Me exhibit, although out of place amongst the "high concept" media pieces, was the 911 Command Center Radio Control Application. Designed by...
View ArticleWould You Kickstart a Bench? Maybe the Second Time's the Charm...
A few months ago, we picked up on Dario Antonioni's Kickstarter campaign for "Botanist Minimal," an article of furniture that may or may not have needed crowdsourced funding. Just over a month after we...
View ArticleCore77 Design Award 2011: Chilote House Shoe, Notable for Design for Social...
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the...
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