Industrial Design

Geek Out

How Good Design Gets Coffee Down Your Gullet On The Go

2:00AM September 2, 2011 | Rachel Swaby

Modern humans make the simple task of drinking a hot morning beverage a challenge for industrial designers. More »

Geek Out

How Architecture Influenced Chair Design

1:00AM July 9, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Whether you’re new to designer chairdom, or have been collecting Eames chairs for years, the WSJ’s video introduction to the relationship between architecture and chair design is worth a look. Oh, to have MoMa’s collection of chairs! More »

Gadgets

The EuroPallet Turns 50 Today

3:20PM May 10, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The European shipping pallet turns 50 this year. It’s easy to overlook shipping pallets as an amazing innovation because it plays no direct role in any of our daily lives. But we shouldn’t dismiss them so easily. More »

Computing

What Are The Worst Arsehole Design Moves?

9:20AM March 10, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Astute Redditor radmin noticed this particularly glaring bit of fuck you industrial design. Putting the escape and power buttons so close together seems akin to placing a seat recline and cockpit eject button adjacently. More »

D Is For Design: The Anatomy Of A Down Coat

4:00AM December 18, 2010 | Sam Biddle

It’s light. It’s flexible. It withstands frigid temperatures on top of a mountain. And in the entire history of humans staying warm, nobody’s been able to beat it. Here’s how you build the most powerfully simple jacket in the world. More »

Gadgets

All Giz Wants: Gadgets With Character

5:41AM July 28, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

I feel like a castaway in a sea of glossy black plastic, chrome and glowing blue buttons. More »

Mobile

Design Test Note: Fragile Beauty

1:00AM June 26, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

iPhone 4, you’re the most beautiful thing. Holding you – so solid, so smooth, your zowielala screen glowing – makes me greedy. My precious. I want to lick you. I can’t stop looking at you. But your industrial design is a failure. More »

Computing

A Widescreen iPad Would Be F*cking Stupid

9:40AM April 6, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

I already pointed it out in the analysis of Apple iPad’s industrial design, but I wanted to show you how stupid a widescreen iPad would look like. More »

Understanding The iPad’s Industrial Design

11:00PM April 5, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Apple’s iPad embodies Dieter Rams’ famous Ten Principles for Good Design, the 10 commandments that every company should follow before manufacturing any product. It feels like the future in your hands. But it could be better. More »

A Media Chair For Starship Captains

1:12AM November 10, 2009 | Danny Allen

This sweet-looking ergonomic media chair is but a concept in the mind of industrial designer, Martin Emila, but I dig the look and the integrated iPhone/iPod dock and projector. Three-way speakers on either side of the head also provide surround-sound. More »