An object-holding tray that looks like wood, behaves like fabric
With a fractured wooden surface held together by a layer of flexible silicon rubber, the Stretch Board remains deceptively flat when there’s nothing placed on…
2019
Nike’s new free Circular Design Guide helps designers embrace sustainability
We’ve all seen those memes about how our CO2 levels are at the highest they’ve been in 3 million years, and that we’re going to…
Folding furniture you can hang on the wall!
In this age of cramped, tiny apartments but larger-than-life social circles it isn’t difficult to imagine a scenario where you’ve got 10 friends coming over,…
The three categories of lighting designs to light up your day
Did you know that there are 3 major categories of lighting designs – ambient lighting, task lighting, and accent lighting! Ambient or general lighting is…
The perfect fan for those warm workdays?
You can’t be expected to work efficiently when you are sat uncomfortably at a desk within a warm workplace. Be-1 Fan has been designed with…
The Design Intelligence Award accelerates good project into world-class product designs
Design awards are often a mechanism to discover good design. A panel of judges help identify designs with potential, and reward them for being a…
A turntable fitting for the 2020s
As a fitting companion to our favorite (and perhaps the most controversially popular) music playback device, the Elbow Cassette Player, Louis Berger’s oTon is a…
The Madillo helmet’s design allows it to work as an indicator and distress beacon
Disruptive in both form and function, the Madillo helmet is quite unlike any helmet you may have seen. For starters, it ditches the regular hard-hat…
What if Google’s services could revolutionize business conference calls?
Most people know Google to be an extremely popular customer-facing company, but a large part of Google’s empire lies in its enterprise solutions. From Google’s…
The all-in-one USB adapter that’s bursting with personality
We love it when products with a functional purpose carry a characterful and quirky aesthetic; it brings an element of playfulness to what would conventionally…
Modular lego-inspired furniture that can be hacked, customized, refurbished, & relocated
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aalo/endlessly-flexible-and-reusable-furniture-system-a I remember my reaction when I saw the first iteration of Aalo back in 2018. It was simple, sophisticated, and honestly made me wonder…
The designer in me is totally geeking out on these industrial-texture engagement rings!
What could be a bigger testament to your love for your partner and your creative profession than a nice, knurled piece of jewelry? Cleverly capturing…