Autodesk 2011 Roundup for Designer Folk
Use Autodesk products? Yeah you do; if you don’t you’re gonna start missing out on some important tools. If you didn’t know, Autodesk gobbled up…
Pratt’s Third+Bond; More Like Third+Awesome
Pratt, in a crazy scheme to promote its students, alumni and faculty, recently outfitted two Brooklyn condos on the corner of 3rd and Bond Street…
Talking with Tucker Viemeister, Co-Founder of Smart Design, Frog NY, Springtime-USA and more
For the last installment coming out of the IDSA conference, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Tucker Viemeister whose long list…
Interview with Jon Kolko of Frog Design
Having met Jon Kolko at the Bounce IDSA conference I was pleased as punch to get him to sit down for an exclusive YD interview. …
IDSA Mideast Conference: Barbecues, Arthritic Murder and an Argyle Lamb
As some of you may know, the Industrial Designers Society of America plays host to a collection of conferences every spring, and this year Long,…
How To ‘Not’ Put On Your Earrings
There’s been a lot of effort in transforming our ugly, but occasionally necessary, bluetooth headsets into something beautiful and ornamental but this headset by Ilshat…
Move Over Arne Jacobsen, There’s a New Egg In Town
Okay, so maybe this new “Egg” chair has some ground to cover before eclipsing the Jacobsen classic, still, it’s a lovely, comfortable looking arm chair…
The Skimmer, And Other Instruments of Water-borne Death
If you’ve ever felt your life lacks that certain gut-wrenching fear of imminent impact and death, then have I got a jet ski for you….
Pre-Burned Furniture For That Indie Housefire Look
If you’re going for that lived-in look for your apartment but find everything you buy just comes off as too new you might try the…
Not As Uncomfortable As It Looks
While it might resemble some medieval torture device at first glance, this stool utilizing a kind of egg crate acoustic foam material might actually be…
Get Korean Chic With The Mashimaro mp3 Player
As a sort of dirty mouthed, toilet humor version of Hello Kitty, Mashimaro takes a spot as one of the iconic cartoon figures in Korea….
This Bike Is Missing Some Tubes
Most bikes make use of two back to back triangles in what’s called a diamond frame to give structure and support to all the myriad…
Sound Eggs Won’t Roll Off Your Desk
Using a playful means of orienting and stabilizing otherwise impossibly round speakers, designer Ilshat Garipov turns our desktop into a kind of physics-based playground. The…
Like a Child’s Legos, But 1000% More Dangerous
This might not top the list of toddler-friendly socket adapters, but you can’t deny they’d be useful little pieces of injection molded plastic to have…
No, This Is Not An Elaborate Trashcan
Rather it is a lovely self-assembled table lamp named Spelta that makes use of “interwoven transparencies stretched to create a soft and organic form.” The…
‘Roll’ Up With A Good Book… Get It?
Puns aside, this interesting bookshelf/reading nook by designer Zhdanova Irina would make a statement in any home or child’s room. Functionally, it’s composed of seven…