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Bold's F. Light: Not Your Average Three-Way Lamp
William Boujon and Julien Benayoun are the principals of Bold, the Paris-based design studio behind the F. Light. Intended as a triple-duty object, the F. Light is a wall light, a task light or even a...
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Chinese Manufacturing, Part 1: Getting It Wrong
Capitalism says that competition will yield the best results for consumers. I like that concept and can get behind it, even at the expense of my own country, the U.S., since playing that game well is...
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Boxmaker Offers Up His Checkered Past(ime)
One of the odd things you derive pleasure from as an industrial designer is knowing how various things are made. You see an ornate table leg and you picture the lathe; you choose one metal product...
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Solid Edge for Rent? A New Subscription Program through Local Motors
Solid Edge is a MCAD package that has been serving the engineering community since 1996 and has been offering levels of functionality that are in many ways equal to its main competitors Solidworks and...
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The Boxx Scooter Gets Ready to Roll
Though not as relentlessly rectilinear as Joey Ruiter's wicked Moto Undone motorcycle, designer Eric Vaughn's Boxx scooter is an innovative transportation design with a similarly unconventional shape....
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TWO Weeks Left to Enter the IDSA IDEA 2012 Awards
Only two weeks left in the regular entry period for the 2012 IDSA IDEA Awards. Since 1980, the IDSA has been honoring design excellence through their international awards program. This year, the...
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Proto Labs Awarding $250,000 Worth of RP Services in Europe
Global company Proto Labs, which bills itself as "the world's fastest provider of CNC machined parts and injection moulded parts," runs an award program called "Cool Idea!" whereby they award...
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TRAIL$: A Modern Parable, by Dot Samsen
Architect-turned-interaction-designer Nitipak "Dot" Samsen first caught our attention a couple years ago, when he'd just completed his MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. For the...
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Designers Accord Town Hall London Recap
The second UK Designers Accord Town Hall was held on January 19 at The Design Council offices in London. The event was organised and facilitated by Engage by Design, with sponsorship from The Design...
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Spotify is seeking a UI Designer in New York, New York
UI Designer SpotifyNew York, New York Spotify is looking for exceptional designers to make the Spotify of tomorrow beautiful, usable and inventive. Working from our brand new New York office, the UI...
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Design in the Wild: EAT Category Winners and PLAY Open for Submissions
We are so hungry after perusing the Design in the Wild entries from the EAT category! Incredible readers from around the world submitted beautifully designed everyday objects that help them prep,...
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Side Effect of Technological Advancement: Children Not Recognizing Fairly...
I read an article about a summer camp where one of the activities was showing the kids a bunch of old pieces of technology, and having them play around with them. The astonished author reported that...
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Flotspotting: Auto Designs & More, From Someone Barely Old Enough to Drive
Terschelling, Netherlands-based Bart de Graaff has got good hands and an imagination to match, as evidenced by the copious renderings in his book. With expressive work spanning graphics,...
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Ikea's Latest, Part 1: High-Gloss Kitchen Goes 180 From Last Year's...
At last year's Interior Design Show in Toronto, Ikea pulled the sheets off of their bold country kitchen look, an aesthetic departure from the blonde-wood kitchens with which their showrooms had...
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Ikea's Latest, Part 2: Two Striking Pendant Lamps, and Their Design Origins
Ikea has just introduced two LED pendant lamps, both so new that at press time they were not yet posted to Ikea's website. We were excited to get an early look at their VASTER (first shot above), made...
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Chinese Manufacturing, Part 2: Getting It Right
While the last entry saw me complaining about an example of shoddy Chinese manufacturing, now we'll look at an example of Chinese manufacturing might. In this six-minute video currently making the...
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MFA Products of Design Summer Program in France!
Applications are now open for the Summer Workshop of the new MFA Products of Design program. Held at the beautiful Domaine de Boisbuchet in Southwestern France, this year's workshop will run for 10...
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Malika Favre Takes On the Kama Sutra for Penguin
We first picked up on graphic designer Malika Favre's remarkably expressive vector artwork last year and she's pleased to present her latest project, the cover illustration for the forthcoming Penguin...
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Reinier de Jong's Expandable REK Coffee Table
At least once a year Reinier de Jong designs a new piece that catches our eye, and for 2012 he's graced us with the REK coffee table, related to his expandable bookcase design of the same name. The...
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Accidental Biomimetic Design: What Do Theaters, Solar Farms and Sunflowers...
Before stadium seating, the design thinking behind staggered seats in theaters was to provide line of sight. Better to view the stage partially obscured by two people's shoulders than stare squarely...
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