You know those dudes who walk around with hands-free Bluetooth headsets jammed into their ears all day? Maybe their twittishness isn't a character flaw, but an unintentional emergent effect of poor product design: let's face it, those ...READ»
What's the difference between Crank 2: High Voltage and Rushmore? Depends who you ask, and there's no accounting for taste. (I love both, for what it's worth.) But what if there were a way to quantify the pure cinematic DNA of any ...READ»
What's the difference between Crank 2: High Voltage and Rushmore? Depends who you ask, and there's no accounting for taste. (I love both, for what it's worth.) But what if there were a way to quantify the pure cinematic DNA of any ...READ»
NYC Parks & Recreation has tapped students in a design-build program at Parsons The New School for Design to recondition a solid, if not terribly sexy, public pool in Washington Heights. The Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center was ...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 waxed ecstatic last week about a type-design program that had the courtesy to show beginners the ropes while they used it. Now comes Typography Insight, an even better (and at $1.99 in the iTunes App Store, much realer) iPad app ...READ»
Here are two statistics that are interesting on their own but scary together: 40% of the world's population relies on fish for food, but every year, 7 million tons of dead fish are tossed back into the ocean because they were too ...READ»
Everyone knows jetpacks will never be practical. But personal helicopters? Maybe. A team of 50 students at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering spent two years attempting to design and build a helicopter, ...READ»
Alessi, Italy's venerated purveyor of high-end home wares, tapped the best and brightest from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne recently to produce a set of stunningly simple concept office accessories.
The results are ...READ»
Israel isn’t known for churning out great flocks of designers like, say, the Netherlands or Switzerland, where design is something approaching a national religion. But that’s starting to change, as an excellent exhibit at Milan ...READ»
People love to jaw about the so-called "death of print" brought on by the Internet, but from where we're sitting, book design has never been more interesting. And Maria Fischer's "Traumgedanken" ("Thoughts on Dreams") goes one step ...READ»
Every year, young American design grads flock to ICFF with hopes of parlaying a few thousand dollars spent on booths and new works into a full-blown design career. It works for just enough people to keep the dream alive for the next ...READ»
DesignBoom has just announced the results of Intelligent Hand, an international design competition on theme of modern craft. Here's a small sampling.READ»
