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David Benqué's Acoustic Botany
RCA graduate David Benqué proposes a future where genetic engineering and synthetic biology are used to not only to address vital issues like the environment, health and the food supply, but also to...
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2010 NYIGF Faves: Brinca Dada's Emerson House teaches kids early design...
Barbie's Dream House is freakin' hideous. You know it and I know it--that woman has terrible taste in both architecture and interior design. When little boys play with toy cars, they're almost always...
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Church: Evolution in Days.
George Church, who helped start the Human Genome Project, doesn't need a millennia for evolution... just a few days. He and his Harvard Medical research team invented a table-top machine that speeds...
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2010 NYIGF Faves: AIAIAI's Tracks headphones
AIAIAI's beautiful Tracks, by Kilo Design, are based on the classic Walkman headphones. A single piece of bent metal holds the ear cups, which slide up or down for size adjustability. You can even pop...
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Video of Nokia's new X3 phone interface and physical form
The first half of this video shows the new interface for Nokia's X3 phone, which combines a physical keypad with a touchscreen, and it looks like they've done a nice job incorporating touch. The second...
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Money can buy happiness (if you know how to spend it)
It's a well-accepted notion that money can't buy happiness. Sure, sometimes we imagine how great our lives would be if we had a little more disposable income, but deep down no one wants to believe...
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Sandow Birk's American Qur'an
Sandow Birk is in the middle of transcribing the entire Qur'an into English, accompanied by illustrated narratives set in the familiar American landscape. In American Qur'an, bucolic farm scenes,...
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Griffin Technology is seeking a Senior Industrial Designer in Nashville
Griffin Technology Senior Industrial DesignerNashville, TN Griffin Technology is looking to hire an experienced Senior Industrial Designer to help fuel our continuing business growth, particularly our...
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Appetite: A Reciprocal Relationship between Food and Design
Between September 14th and October 9th, the Cooper Union is hosting Appetite: A Reciprocal Relationship between Food & Design, "charting the landscape of how we encounter food-related design in New...
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2010 NYIGF Faves: Phase Design's "Illuminate" candle project
Earlier this year Reza Feiz, principal of L.A.-based Phase Design, invited four of his favorite designers/design firms to join him in solving the same problem: Design a candleholder made from a 12" x...
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Submit your Recipe to Readymade's Community Cookbook
ReadyMade is producing a Community Cookbook, inspired by the yellowed, spiral bound booklets of your grandmother. The mag is not only looking to the nostalgic qualities of these publications,...
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2010 NYIGF Faves: The DBA 98 pen is better for the environment
As a designer and writer, I amass and burn through an absurd amount of pens, and it pains me to think that each and every one is bad for the environment. That's right, those little plastic cylinders...
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1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks Deadline Extended to Sept. 25th!
It seems that Play-Doh can be a bit intimidating to grown men and women, so we've extended the deadline for our 1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks to September 25th. Your task is to recreate or...
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2010 NYIGF Faves: Black + Blum's Bento Box, Fuccillo Design's Bin
London-based Black + Blum shrinks their Box Appetit lunchbox to sushi/pasta/rice size. The Bento Box (not yet added to their website at press time) is made from the same BPA-free polypropylene and...
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Tocky, a Rolling Alarm Clock with a Touchscreen
You may have seen or even own Clocky, Guari Nanda's first rolling alarm clock that runs from you in random directions to get you out of bed. Now, 4 years later, at the New York International Gift...
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Infographic: Can We Date?
This morning in The Morning News column The Non-Expert, generalist Erik Bryan tries to answer the embarrassing question, "are we allowed to date?" addressing everything from the cousins of in-laws to...
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Materials & Manufacturing: Liquidmetal can be processed like plastic
Now it's becoming a little more apparent what can be done, from a manufacturing perspective, with the Liquidmetal material that Apple has recently licensed. And we couldn't be more excited. Back in May...
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2010 NYIGF Faves: Alessi's new cutting board and oldie-but-goodie classic clocks
I'm digging Patrick Jouin's chunky bamboo cutting board for Alessi, new for Fall/Winter 2010. Dubbed the Chop, it's extra-thick and features a concave groove around the rim so you can slide a plate...
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2010 NYIGF Faves: Acme Studios' graphically bold objects add pop to your...
To commemorate their 25th anniversary and add some serious pop to ordinarily bland objects, Hawaii-based Acme Studios enlisted the services of industrial designer Arik Levy and fashion designer Sue...
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With Electric Pop concept, Kia continues to distinguish itself via design
It's a promising sign that plucky upstart Kia is trying, in a crowded market, to distinguish itself through design. Its Electric Pop concept looks like it's just an ambitious rendering, but apparently...
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