Steps to becoming a successful freelance designer
It’s a cliched saying that grass is always greener on the other side. Watching my friends and colleagues working the freelance lifestyle has always made…
Product Design
This book is literally a planetarium, a guitar, and a phone amplifier!
Kelli Anderson’s books are proof that there’s a tonne of things you can do with paper and imagination. After the wild success of This Book…
The world’s smallest, most versatile multitool can sit on your fingertip
The first time you lay eyes on the Claw, it’s bafflingly small. What’s more baffling, however, is its incredibly vast feature list. It opens bottles…
The World’s Smartest Wallet can be Summoned by Voice!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eksterwallets/ekster-30-the-worlds-slimmest-smart-wallet Every decade, the world experiences a breakthrough product that revolutionizes the entire world. In the 2000s, it was the iPod, in 2010s it was…
A Speaker That’s Full of Visual Suspense
The sculpture-like form of this alluring Bluetooth speaker is what sets it apart from the sea of devices within this product sector. The translucent housing…
Monos: The Clean, Pristine, Sophisticated “Apple of Suitcases”
There’s a distinct line between ‘premium’ and ‘affordable’ that crowdfunding platforms are blurring. Design and innovation have become democratized enough so that good design or…
The Echo Auto brings the power of Alexa into your car!
The Echo Auto was announced just a few months ago at Amazon’s hardware event, along with a whole line-up of other devices (like the Alexa…
The Makerphone: From Consumer Electronics to Creator Electronics!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/albertgajsak/makerphone-an-educational-diy-mobile-phone? The phone has gotten sufficiently advanced enough for us to know practically nothing about how it functions. In the olden days, if a toaster…
Game-ify Everything!
This design, simply called PLAY, transforms any surface into a gaming device in just seconds. The set includes an array of different smart controllers that…
This 3D printed hourglass should get a design award!
The beauty of the sand-hourglass is the way you see the sand travel grain by grain downwards. It’s pretty, no doubt, but from an experience…
Top 5 Industrial Design Jobs for this week
As a part of our careers-related columns, these are our top five picks of the best industrial design opportunities on Yanko Design’s recruitment platform YD Job Board. This week’s…
A Playful Way to Start The Day
This playful looking character is the Wake-Up Bear by MUID. It’s both a digital alarm clock and subtle mood light that is wrapped up within…