Behind every classic of design lies some innovation in materials or fabrication. So what materials will tomorrow's brilliant new products be made from? Material Connexion, a materials library for designers, has just unveiled its inaugural MEDIUM awards, for the best materials of the year. Here's an exclusive sneak peek of a few of those mind-bending innovations.READ»
Bricks are hot these days, thanks to new feats in technological wizardry. And this week, you can finally see one of the world's most interesting technologies in New York's Chinatown: A computer-controlled brick-laying machine, which ...READ»
Rapid prototyping is slowly moving from being the preserve of design engineers into the public domain, and RP company Shapeways just announced an amazing breakthrough: It can print your 3-D models in stainless steel.
The process is ...READ»
Radiolaria is designed by Shiro Studio architects, and it's a pretty cool free-form structure that will act as a pavilion. But perhaps the coolest thing about it is that its designer is using the worlds largest rapid-prototyping ...READ»
You don't realize it, but you probably own several things that are CNC milled. I'm typing right now on a computer with a metal case made using the technique. But its creative possibilities are still being explored by designers, as ...READ»
At a recent London screening of the new documentary about industrial design, Objectified, Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive joined Marc Newson to introduce the film. The event wasn't exactly a love-note to contemporary ...READ»
Marloes ten Bhömer is just 26, but she's been reinventing shoes her entire life. As a child, she started off by dismantling her mother's shoes, coating them in papier-mache and producing entirely new, exaggerated forms. ...READ»
3-D printing is still crazy expensive. But as it gets cheaper, it's spawning a wave of bizarre tsotchkes. Here's an early candidate for Garden Gnome of the 21st Century: A model of your unborn child.
For about $1,700, a clinic in ...READ»
