How long does it take for petroleum-based plastics to break down? Some say 500 years, but no one knows for sure. The scary truth is that they never completely disappear. But if you must consume plastic, you might as well put it to ...READ»
The visual programming language Processing is one of the coolest design tools out there, and I write about it all the time. But have I learned the language myself? No: because I have yet to stumble across the perfect "onboarding" ...READ»
I've been loving Ludwig Zeller's science-fiction-as-product-design experiments lately, and his latest brainchild, called "Introspectre," is quite the capper. Like his other works, Introspectre imagines a future "digital native" with ...READ»
We take all kinds of dangerous activities for granted, thanks to our faith in industrial designers and engineers: we roar across the skies at 30,000 feet, wield hand-tools capable of turning us into hamburger in an instant, put ...READ»
Science fiction is usually the province of filmmakers and novelists. But designers can get in on the action too, imagining products and services to meet needs that don't quite yet exist, but could soon. Ludwig Zeller has done exactly ...READ»
Here's one thing that Andy Samberg was unlikely brag about in his SNL Digital Short "I'm On A Boat": a design based on "a special kind of decomposition of a metric space determined by distances to a specified discrete set of objects ...READ»
No chance of burying the lede on this one: Yes, Royal College of Art student Julijonas Urbonas has designed a roller coaster that kills people on purpose. No, it's not real (yet). Is it a joke, a reductio ad absurdum of the arguments ...READ»
Great user-interface design doesn't kill complexity, it clarifies it. But even so, there's a fine line between empowering users and infantilizing them. Last week, Bloom's president railed against "the urge to make everything into one ...READ»
If Australia beats Obama to a high-speed rail system, that's just going to be embarrassing. But they are discussing it down under, and Australian design firm Hassell took the initiative to draw up an idea of what the trains themselves ...READ»
If digital fine art is going to get the respect it deserves, it needs to look as good on the wall as a Monet or Picasso. But because most video or interactive art requires a large screen, its "frame" is often a tacky looking monitor ...READ»
To me, there’s something about a modern, high-end kitchen that seems unobtainable. It’s not that I think I’ll never be able to afford one (OK, it’s a little bit of that) but rather the complete absence of stuff -- the long ...READ»
New York bike thieves don't play. They have Mission: Impossible-level skills and enough balls to steal your wheels in broad daylight... while being filmed. So when Savannah College of Art and Design student Jaryn Miller was told to ...READ»
There has been a long history of less-than-successful kitchen gadgets, from the automatic potato peeler to Internet-enabled refrigerators. Many of these design concepts fail because they either miss the mark or because they assume ...READ»
Any executive for whom Sun Tzu's The Art of War is the perfect encapsulation of their business philosophy might like industrial designer Alex Marshall's office toys. There's a Post-It gun, designed, apparently, for "extreme ideation ...READ»
The Scion Fuse was first introduced at the 2006 New York International Auto Show. According to Scion, this sports coupe concept is supposed to be Scion’s sports coupe icon.The exterior of the Fuse creates a strong performance ...READ»
So your smartphone is a very neat bit of tech, serving up your cellphone, portable gaming and MP3 needs...but have you ever wondered if it could be designed to be more friendly?CIID students Kevin Cannon and Tobias Toft definitely ...READ»
Dumbphones are giving way to smartphones, which are becoming more like mini computers. But how will this trend extend into the future? Japan's KDDI has imagined the next next-gen device.
This smartphone has evolved to become even ...READ»
Audi just gave a new spin to rumors it's got an electric car ready to unveil at the Frankfurt Motor Show by launching a teaser Web site. How's the German car-maker whipping up an alt-fuel frenzy? With videos of ...READ»
The rumors surrounding Apple's tablet/netbook PC have worked up into a storm, far more than the drips and drops we've seen before. The various details suggest that it's really coming, it'll be great, and thus you will buy ...READ»
Next year's iPhone 4G has just been revealed--it's a familiar shape, with a twelve megapixel camera and it records 720p video. Fabulous! But it's not Apple's phone.
Confused? It must be an iPhone! Look at the shape! Look at the core ...READ»
