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Microsoft's physically-innovative touch mouse changes shape
Rumor has it Microsoft will soon be releasing the inchworm-like Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse, which folds flat for storage, then bucks into ergonomic shape when it's time to work. (more...)
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"Drainspotting" with Remo Camerota: Documenting Japan's creative manhole covers
One of the things I love about Japan is the unexpected places where creativity pops up. As an example check out Drainspotting, a photography book by artist Remo Camerota that documents creative and...
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Sergio Garcia's mind- and frame-bending tricycle
US-based artist Sergio Garcia's 50"-tall tricycle is the kind of thing you give to your kid after they've been bad, as a sort of psychological punishment. What would be really awesome is if your...
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Nike's "Pro Combat Gear" interface design is pretty killer
After hearing it was fantastic, I started watching Friday Night Lights--and the recommendations were right. I have little interest in American football and the show still sucked me right in. Watching...
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Open for Branding Week 4: The Calm Before the Storm
Continuum continues their series Open for Branding, where they are sharing, from start to finish, their latest branding project for the new, nomadic Design Museum Boston. They're asking for your...
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Sukkah City winners are announced!
The 12 winners of the Sukkah City design competition have been announced, with their designs to be built at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn and then moved to Union Square in Manhattan for public...
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"The Definition of Self" exhibition at Design Sight, Tokyo
Privacy is a hot topic. It wasn't long ago that Facebook was being dragged through the papers as Zuckerberg and Co. scrambled to bring their policies up to scratch. Now it seems that Google are...
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Humanscale is seeking a Design Engineer in New York City
Humanscale Design EngineerNew York City Candidates must possess a strong willingness to learn in a fast-paced production environment. While it in not necessary to have a high level of experience in...
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Pilot's headphones have different design needs than ours
As city-based consumers, what we demand of our rinky-dink headphones is simple: "Block out traffic noise so I can make a phone call and be heard." Worst-case scenario, your girlfriend thinks you said...
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Bulthaup's painfully beautiful "tool cabinet" for kitchens
I live in a converted sweatshop with two dogs, and it is a lot less cool and lot more rough than you think. One particular sore spot is my "kitchen," a pathetic and cobbled-together assortment of...
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Sundara Rug Collection by Donna Wilson for SCP
UK-based SCP launched the Sundara rug collection this week at the New York International Gift Fair. Designed by Donna Wilson, who has a penchant for thick-spun, hand worked woolen textiles, the richly...
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Compete live at the Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament 2010
We're proud to be a media sponsor of 2010's Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament. This is the third edition of this international design tournament, unfolding over the next few months in 9 cities...
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Dumper by Sam Johnson for Thorsten Van Elten
We love Sam Johnson's Dumper toys for Thorsten Van Elten, made from a solid piece of birch and (this is the best part), an off-the-shelf plastic stacking bin, probably very familiar to you if you've...
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Furniture inspired by Brigitte Bardot
Women have served as muses for artists ever since, well, the time of the Muses. But now Calliope has a somewhat surprising addition to her sisterhood, and not for the fields of painting or poetry:...
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KIX's chemical-cut steel eyeglasses
We all know what laser-cut steel is, and you've probably heard of steel cut by waterjets as well; but an even cooler way to cut steel is chemically, whereby you mask off an outline and use etching...
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Rejuvenate cities
In a long paper, Reon Brand of Philips Design presents a holistic approach to systemically transform cities into places that positively contribute to human personal development, social harmony and...
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Dan Hill on the World Design Congress in Beijing
In a seven part series, designer and urbanist Dan Hill, research leader at ARUP and author of the acclaimed blog City of Sound, reports at length on last year's World Design Congress in Beijing. 1 2 3...
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Jason Stevens' "Say Something" project engages designers to help kids aspire
The Say Something Poster Project from DesignIsMyThing on Vimeo. I first came into contact with Jason Stevens when he was working on his "Design is My Thing" project, a series of micro interviews with...
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Professor's solar-panel breakthrough wins Millenium Technology Prize, could...
The sun is like a big spender at a casino, throwing wads of energy-money at the spinning roulette table that is the Earth, most of it turning into losses. The amount of solar energy hitting our planet...
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Making "the little sh*t better:" Nixon Watches
We're digging the unusual form factors coming from Nixon Watches, as evidenced here by their Zona, Spree, and Tribella models. The 12-year-old California-based company sponsors skaters, surfers,...
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