We love watching our competitors and admiring what they do and how they do it. This keeps us humble, on out toes, and...
The R2B2 is a wonderful green kitchen appliance concept designed by Christoph Thetard and showcased at the recent Milan Furniture Fair. It uses a sustainable human powered flywheel to drive the spinning...
I'm not sure why. And I don't even own an iPad! Perhaps it is the first time that an accessory did not just extend the usability of a product, but instead, changed its archetype....
My good friend Marcus, design entrepreneur and founder of Sumajin, was kind enough to let me play around with his iPad 2 over lunch today.
Interestingly enough the first thing I did was to flip it...
Click image for a larger view. Source: Black Country Museums.
I just had to stop my client work to share this wonderful design with you. ...
The chaps from Nowhere Else has graciously compiled all the iPhone 5 rumors in one place for easy viewing, and added a slick infographic to boot! They have done all the work, for the benefit of time strapped people like myself, from hunting...
Check out the Samsung Series 9, a 13.3" Macbook Air “fighter” that boasts a thinner and lighter chassis, and a more up to date processor. (Samsung’s i5 vs. MBA’s Core 2 Duo.)
It should be just...
Paula Antonelli indirectly answers the question "What makes good design?” by sharing some of MoMa's selection criteria.
Branca is inspired by wooden branches that turn, twist, meet and branch off. The result is comfort to the eye, to the body and to the hand.Juriaan Booij has created a wonderful video on the creation of the Branca chair, designed...
2 Sugars is a wonderful little iPhone app by visual communications designer Gareth Hughes. It is perfect for when you are tasked to do that dreaded coffee run for the entire office. Great App for interns...
This is probably one of the best uses of Augmented Reality I've seen in a long time. It is a nice mix of real and virtual elements combined in a...
Check out this awesome digital camera showcased at CES 2011. It has a huge viewfinder display (5" AMOLED, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels) on its slim camera body that seconds...
I'm actually rather impressed with the industrial design of the Fling game controller by Ten 1 Design. It is one of those products born from a beautiful fusion of design and engineering....
It does look like the designers of the new MySpace logo tackled the same issue as I did with my Spaces for Ideas brand. How do you represent a negative (or empty) space...
Christmas comes early for all Design Sojourn readers! It is indeed the season of giving, but more on that...
What a nice little pencil hack for workshop junkies!...
I'm sure most of you would have probably heard of Scott Wilson's little entrepreneurship adventure on Kickstarter, the TikTok and LunaTik iPod Nano watch? FastCo Design, then Cool Hunting and Gizmodo picked up the project...
You know the kind of products I'm talking about.
The type of product that contains design elements (like that speaker grill) that you spent the last 7 years as a designer...
I'm pretty impressed with the Klhip Nail Clipper. The product is testament that "Form Follows Function" can produce beautiful (instead of boring) products. I love the mechanical design and how it folds up tightly...
I'm not sure how I missed this!
Some months ago, Boing Boing ran an interview with Jens Martin Skibsted on the industrial design of the Terrafugia flying car. Skibsted, a Danish industrial designer, is better...