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Denon celebrates 100th birthday with new line of products
High-end audio equipment manufacturer Denon is celebrating their 100th Anniversary this year. To commemorate a century in business they're releasing a special Anniversary Series line of products, like...
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SCAD's two-for-one creative conferences in October
Killing two birds with one stone, the design way: In October the Savannah College of Art and Design will be hosting two conferences at once, studiously arranging the schedules "so that attendees from...
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Haberdasherylondon is seeking an Industrial Designer in London
Haberdasherylondon Industrial DesignerLondon, UK Haberdasherylondon is a next-level art and design consultancy looking for a lead industrial designer. Haberdasherylondon produces a wide variety of...
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Steven Heller on the Mona Lisa
New magazine Design Bureau posted a mini-Q&A with one of our favorite design experts, Steven Heller, on the old and new with a nd to Rick Meyerowitz's 1971 piece Mona Gorilla, pictured above....
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Picnic 2010: Redesign the World
Picnic 2010 is coming up fast, happening in Amsterdam from the 22 through the 24th of September. The festival, now six years in the running, brings together creative and business leaders to work...
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Stefan Sagmeister at the Levi's Workshops
This summer, Levi's kicked off a new initative to open a series of production shops, starting with a community print studio in San Francisco's Mission District. There, they taught classes on...
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Big Ad Gig Deadline Extended 'til Midnight!
Attention Coroflot job seekers: Our friends at The Big Ad Gig alerted us that they have extended the deadline to their creative ad agency competition until midnight tonight. It's a career opportunity...
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Emily Rothschild's Medical Glassware
New York-based designer and Pratt graduate Emily Rothschild is interested in making the ritual of medication both more convenient and more beautiful. Her carafe and glass set, called Medical...
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New from the Designers Accord: Education Toolkit
We're thrilled to announce that an amazing resource for design eduction just went live: Integrating sustainability into design education: The Toolkit. You'll recall that last October, over 100 design...
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1 Hour Design Challenge Highlights: Play-Doh Kicks
Vibram 5Finger KSO by Kershaw We're excited to see so many entries rolling into to our newest 1 Hour Design Challenge, Play-Doh Kicks, where we ask you to recreate or reinterpret your favorite pair of...
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Bad news--medication we take goes through our bodies and enters environment...
[image via Natural Resources Canada] Nowadays more people than ever seem to be on meds, which makes the following fact just so, so gross: Apparently when we take medication like mood stabilizers and...
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Apple's desktop-to-touchscreen patent presents some industrial design challenges
When I'm typing, I can't physically touch my screen without leaning forward. Not exactly a layout conducive to touchscreen interfaces. If you were wondering how touchscreens could be ergonomically...
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Craig Skaggs' fun footwear designs for kids
Coming hot on the heels (pun intended) of our One-hour Play-Doh Kicks design challenge: From Sponge-Bob slippers to Transformers kicks to Batman sandals, designer/illustrator Craig Skaggs has got the...
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GIFs that explain basic mechanisms
This is so freakin' rad: The World of Technology blog has posted a series of GIFs showing how common mechanical mechanisms work. I'm in awe of whatever genius developed the Maltese Cross mechanism,...
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Open for Branding Week 5: Concepts Presentation
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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350 Rough Rider Wheelchairs delivered to Haiti
With help from The Walkabout Foundation, Whirlwind Wheelchair International, who have been designing tough, durable wheelchairs built and used in developing countries since 1979, have delivered 350...
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This Friday: The last Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt of the season
If you're in NYC this week, be sure to check out this season's final Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt on Friday, August 27th. Cocktails and light fare will be served in "New York City's largest private garden,...
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Travel expert Doug Dyment and former parachute riggers Red Oxx collaborate,...
Doug Dyment is a travel and packing expert who runs OneBag.com, a website dedicated to promoting "The Art and Science of Traveling Light." Dyment's site is not so much a blog, but more a "reference...
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Travel expert Doug Dyment and former parachute riggers Red Oxx collaborate,...
Aside from collaborating on bag designs, travel expert Doug Dyment and luggage company Red Oxx also produced this helpful diagram on how to efficiently "bundle-wrap" your luggage, turning your clothes...
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For better or worse, designer fragrance package designs always get to push...
I freelanced in the structural package design department of a conservative consumer products company for years, and learned that if you want to have fun with bottles, you'd better move over to...
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