Ariane Prin, a Masters student at RCA, shares her thinking and conceptual process behind her Air Hair Project: hair dryer for hairdressers.
Steelcase, together with IDEO, has launched the Node Chair, an awesome seating solution that either solves or fulfills a number of needs found in a common school environment.
In our world of technology influenced and managed solutions, it is nice to see the sensitivity and handiwork of a craftsman come back into the fold.
Nicholas Negroponte's 3rd Generation OLPC (not surprisingly a table PC) is on the way with a prototype out this year and a product launch at CES 2011. The target retail
I’m sure most of you have heard of the Microsoft Kin by now. Furthermore you would probably have moaned about how this product lacked innovation and how it was a failure in strategy to
This packaging concept by Patrick Sung might force postal organizations to review their methods of calculating shipping costs as you can now save on empty air space. The only disadvantage is you lose the stacking
Gizmodo, in probably their scoop of the year, has written an interesting industrial design analysis of Apple's supposed iPhone generation 4 prototype that some poor Apple employee (probably now fired) left behind.
This does sound like a joke, but I don't think so.
It often happens that first world ideology is used in an "I know what’s good for you, and you should listen to me" manner and end
The world is all in a frenzy with the launch of the iPad. Even I could not help but get caught up in the madness. I have been reading a whole host of articles
Less and More is a Dieter Rams retrospective and traveling exhibition that recently made a stop at the Design Museum London. By the way it's a great museum to visit; the last time I was there they ran a similarly theme exhibition on
I recently went for a walk-about at the Lasalle College of the Arts here in Singapore. This local design school has an amazing
Check out this clever lamp idea that made me smile. The RGB Lamp, or mischlichtRGB (in German?), seems to be inspired by RGB color theory and the mixing of Red, Green and Blue into a
Looks like there is a big problem with the ultra sleek Magic Mouse. Even though it has kick ass design, it apparently gives people wrist aches. Will, a racecar part designer over at MMFixed,
A Lifehacker reader, frustrated with every headphone wire management solution in the market, decided to design his own dead simple solution that I dare say rivals any professionally designed consumer solution! I do wonder why
A colleague recently shared with me an interesting product proposition he purchased. It's not really a product proposition as such, but an
What a well-designed and choreographed TV ad that tells a meaningful, heartwarming and simple story by just showing us enough information and getting us to fill in the rest. This is the
To celebrate the launch of the iPad, the team at Frog design went to their design archives and dug out a tablet PC concept that frog founder Hartmut Esslingner developed for Apple in 1983. Looking
The GoGirl Female Urination Device allows women to go standing up, thus avoiding annoying pitfalls like heavy clothing, dirty bowls, grassy environments or creepy crawlers etc.
I like to add one more point to this cool list.
I so love this beautifully elegant and simple "Mast" humidifier. Made of Japanese cypress (hinoki), it was designed by Shin Okada and crafted by Masuya Koubou.