Wouter Scheublin, in cooperation with the Dutch research institute TNO, designed this wonderfully minimal pull back car made through 3D printing.
As you may know from our last post, we worked with ETPL (the technology transfer arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore) to develop 10 wearable prototypes for the Next to the Skin Technology Showcase.
What was
Post originally published on May 27, 2006. Edit 1: Updated with new written copy, updated links, and images. Squiggle by Damien Newman Years ago
I often like to get myself into a spot of teaching, collaborating with and critiquing students. I find it enhances and consolidates what I have learned in my career in Design. I do recommend that designers, especially the senior ones, take some time
"An introduction to formgiving in Chinese product design" is a research article, written by Vigleik Norheim from the Department of Product Design from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. It gives some interesting insights on the cultural influences that impact the form-giving methodology
Image from Flickr
Sometimes there comes a design so simple and so clever that I just have to share it with all my readers!
Donn, a former student of mine, and an Intern at Gro Design recently sent me notice of a very cool foosball (link to what is foosball?) project he was part of. Finally someone is sitting up an taking notice!
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In the same spirit as Visions of the Future Project, Philips generously shares with us their research findings of what our possible lifestyles could be in the era post 2020. Called Design Probes it is:
PSFK posted an article on their blog about Starck feeling that "Design is Dead" and is also shamed for all the excess he has created in his designs. Well it was sometime ago he spoke about his distaste for design and a
Image Source: SMH. Photo by Andrew Meares.
Damien Savio, an Australian Industrial Design student, designed for his final year project, a window panel that can absorb sunlight during the day, and at night become a light. Apparently his design is
Image by pmorgan
There often comes a time when designers gather around, give each other hugs, pass the tissues, and say farewell to the fruits of their labor. Saying farewell to designs that did not make it.
Kidding aside, this is one
Image collage from Modu
Recently we covered Bug Lab's modular mobile phone, where it was essentially a CPU "brain" that you can attach modules that you would purchased as you require it. Modu's modular mobile phones takes this same
Image by: KAREN TAPIA-ANDERSEN / Los Angeles Times
With, over 35 Million sold with just as many copies I'm sure, this Sugar Shaker is, according to Bill Stern an Art Historian, "the very essence of modernism, a perfect meld of function
Image collage from Ecoble
Check out this amazing and inspirational feat of engineering called The HumanCar. A human powered car that is I am sure inspired by the famous Flintstone mobiles.
Motus Games, a subsidiary of Motus Corporation, has developed the Darwin Controller of which they tout is the future of Motion Based Entertainment, and the natural evolution of the Wii Controller. Using their R&D experience in developing motion sensing
Image: Courtesy of Seagate
Wired Magazine has done a case study on the Industrial Design creation of the Free Agent portable hard drive between Seagate and Frog Design. While I had high hopes in getting a closer look
What a nice way to end 2007 and roll into 2008 with a flying start!
My team and I have won a Good Design Award 2007 from the The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design for our Dragon Electrostatic Speaker
Image Source: Newsweek via engadget
The latest buzz on the Internet comes in the form of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader. I had first initially dismissed it as another e-book reader, but with time it has come to
It has been a good number of months since the I've last updated my readers on the status of this project. Firstly though I like to apologize to a few of this project's supporters for this delay but I have
Biomimicry at its best!