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…
Product Design
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…
A fountain pen that never dries out? The answer lies in this pen’s redesigned cap
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inigo71/indigraph-fountain-pen The fountain pen hasn’t seen much innovation in the past decade aside from garnering a lot of interest on Instagram and Facebook with those…
Can a product ever be both sleek and rugged? Hauter Timepieces say yes.
The textbook definition of sleek is a product having an elegant, streamlined shape or design. Rugged, on the other hand, is defined as quite the…
These self-driving robo-palettes will park your car while you go shopping
Perhaps the most useful application for self-driving tech is in the area of driving that annoys most drivers. Parking. Parking is perhaps the one reason…
These grooved cork discs act as coasters as well as air-tight container-lids
Nominated as a finalist for the prestigious James Dyson Award, the Montados are a set of lid/coaster hybrids made from recycled cork. Its unusual grooved…
Garmin needs an Industrial Designer
As a leading worldwide provider of navigation, Garmin is committed to making superior products for automotive, aviation, marine, outdoor and fitness markets that are an…