Living Switches imagines turning some of the most common screen touches and taps into physical interactions with tangible objects. There’s a sliding switch reminiscent of the toggle used to mark (more…)
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Cake’s Anti-Poaching E-Moto
Swedish brand Cake has created an electric motorbike specifically for use in the remote South African bush that is “super-efficient” at catching animal poachers. (more…)
Bicycle, Almost
Here is what happens when the public is asked to draw a bicycle from memory, and an industrial designer translates those drawings into “reality.” (more…)
Core77 Design Awards
The final deadline for entering the 2016 Core77 Design Awards is tomorrow. If you don’t know about the C77DA, you may be too late to enter this year. But you (more…)
Stella Chair – Luca Nichetto
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has just released the Stella chair, one of five pieces of a new collection for Portuguese brand De La Espada. (more…)
Massive E-Waste
How Can Product Designers Help Solve The World’s Massive E-Waste Problem? “I think that’s what strikes me most from running a design agency. I know how sophisticated production methods are. (more…)
Gillis Lundgren, RIP
Gillis Lundgren, IKEA’s fourth employee, who helped invent flat-pack furniture, has died at 86. Three years into his post at IKEA, inspiration struck when he detached the legs of a table (reports (more…)
Daniel Streng
Interesting conversation with design leader, Daniel Streng about the design process and bringing design to the world stage. (more…)
Procedural Textile Design
Fascinating experiments in procedural textile design by Berlin-based Zeitgeised. (more…)