Tony Fadell invented the iPod. Okay, he didn't do it singlehandedly--but the former Apple executive conceived it, got Apple on board, and then went on to shepherd the development of 18 (!) generations of the company's signature ...READ»
Do you ever wonder if there's a heaven that obsolete package designs go to when their parent corporations do a brand refresh? Okay, fine, only a design blogger would wonder that--but as it turns out, there actually is such a place. ...READ»
We need to get better at predicting the paths of hurricanes, because god knows we're only gonna see more of them as the 21st century wears on. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that "anthropogenic warming [i.e., ...READ»
The well-deserved attention paid to the design of Apple products has tended to obscure the creative energy Steve Jobs invested in designing other elements of Apple. So what can we learn from Steve Jobs, Teacher? He was a great designer, all right. But his talent only began with the design of the product. READ»
First, a little background: We’re three undergrad industrial design students at the University of Cincinnati who teamed up for an experiment in education. We set out to partner with our university, a high school, and several ...READ»
I adore my vacuum. It might seem strange to express affection for an unsophisticated piece of technology -- it’s no Dyson after all -- but it’s served me well for more than 10 years. Should it break down, however, I wouldn’t ...READ»
Maybe it takes something as banal as a hair dryer: Why do they all look the same? The sturdy handheld bathroom standby has undergone endless iterations of the same plastic-handled, round-backed and -barreled device since it was ...READ»
During a blackout, earthquake, or other scary emergency, aesthetics are likely to be the last thing on your mind. But that doesn't mean they don't still serve an important purpose, as Eton's Turbodyne series of American Red ...READ»
Amateur Charles and Ray Eameses of the world, rejoice! A pair of designers calling themselves Diatom Studio has created an open-source app called SketchChair that lets you conjure up the chair of your dreams -- and fabricate it in ...READ»
Jinseok Hwang, a senior industrial designer at Frog, has sent us images of a great personal project: his impossibly cute Lobot task lamp.
A skinny anodized aluminum body topped by a pair of LED-studded eyes, the lamp was ...READ»
Office-furniture designers love to talk about their products as if they were competing in floor exercises at the Olympics. We hear about "flexible desks!" and partitions designed for "ultimate mobility!" All of which is clever ...READ»
Steven P. Jobs is sick again. Which reminds us that even titans of industry are, yes, mortal. But in the meantime, designer Charis Tsevis has built a graphic monument to Jobs that hammers home his giga-influence on computers and ...READ»
Even if you've got a passion for modern design, it can be hard to see anything new in the works of Charles and Ray Eames. Endlessly imitated, knocked off, resold, and referenced, their genius hides in plain sight, thanks to its ...READ»
Somewhere deep inside every creative professional lurks the spirit of a Willy-Wonka-style nutty inventor or Dr. Evil-esque mad scientist. (Or both.) And Inventables.com -- an online warehouse of weird materials like "shape memory ...READ»
Today, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the winners of the 2010 National Design Awards. Just over a decade old, the awards are the closed thing the country has to a Nobel Prize in design; the nominees were drawn ...READ»
From the Dutch design firm Studio Wieki Somers come household objects made out of human
ashes. Yes, human ashes. As in John Steegman (b. 1939, d. 1985), who is now a
vacuum cleaner:Pietertje Vos (b. 1942, d. 2007), now a scale:And ...READ»
