Designs for Small Kitchens: Dish Racks
Many apartment dwellers and homeowners need to cope with small kitchens, or at least kitchens with limited counter space. A big countertop dish drainer isn’t going to work, but they need something for...
View ArticleUnusual Door Designs from Brazil, Part 1: The Boxtail Hinge
Here’s a door with a rather unusual hinge design: Because this exact photo has been so passed around on social media with no attribution, I am sadly unable to determine whom the original designer, or...
View ArticleUnusual Door Designs from Brazil, Part 2: Garage Doors with Style
Breaking News: Americans have, like, totally lame garage doors. Brazilians, on the other hand, have awesome ones. Here’s your typical American garage door: Bor-ring. Down in Brazil the garage doors...
View Article15 Designs for Organizing Boots
People with a collection of boots—dress boots, Wellingtons, riding boots, work boots, etc.—need a good way to store those boots. Most regular shoe racks just won’t work, but there are many other...
View ArticleDesigns for Life at the London Design Festival 2015
Occupying the Imperial College Union Building and its leafy courtyard just south of the Royal Albert Hall, scientists, designers and engineers showcased their projects aiming to enhance the basic...
View ArticleJoseph Walsh Studio’s Stunning Furniture Designs
In County Cork, Ireland, stands a furniture studio billing themselves as “one of the leading studio workshops in Europe.” Looking at Joseph Walsh Studio’s work, which uncannily blends the manmade and...
View ArticleMore Unusual Dice Designs
As we saw a few years ago with Chuck Stover’s work and yesterday’s post about Nvenom8 Designs’ two-sided rolling die, Shapeways and 3D printing have become a go-to source for unusual dice designs. Here...
View ArticleStrange, Experimental Phone Designs from China
Are phones designed for users, or for the companies that produce them? What features might you design into a phone that didn’t have to pass Apple or Samsung’s strict internal guidelines? Those are...
View Article“Nomadic Furniture:” DIY Designs from the 1970s
In 1971 Victor Papanek wrote his seminal Design for the Real World, a book I’m hoping is still required reading for modern-day design students. (Sample quote: “Much recent design has satisfied only...
View ArticlePeugeot now designs helicopters for Airbus
Рубрики: Design/Style, Peugeot Airbus Helicopters has presented the new H160 at the Dubai Airshow, the product of a collaboration with the Peugeot Design Lab in the latest crossover from automotive...
View ArticleAs Gun Sales Rise, Gun-Concealing Furniture Designs Proliferate
People cannot agree on gun control laws in America, but one point is not in doubt: Gun sales are on the rise. Following mass shootings, of which we have plenty, firearm manufacturers and retailers...
View ArticleAs Gun Sales Rise, Gun-Concealing Furniture Designs Proliferate
People cannot agree on gun control laws in America, but one point is not in doubt: Gun sales are on the rise. Following mass shootings, of which we have plenty, firearm manufacturers and retailers...
View ArticleThe Year in Furniture Designs: The Beautiful, the Innovative and the Unusual
So many beautiful, interesting, and just downright strange pieces of furniture came across our desks this year that it was tough to pick favorites. But following a refreshing bout of Core77’s...
View ArticleThe Year in Furniture Designs: Design/Build Techniques, Learning From the...
This year in furniture, we got to write up a lot of furniture building/designing techniques, both old and new. We also got to see some good examples of what the past—not just 2015, we mean “the past”...
View Article9 Footwear Designs To Track from 2015
This year we saw a variety of designers attempting to produce truly innovative footwear. Which they will increasingly need to do at a fast rate, since Counterfeit Sneakers are Now Manufactured So Well,...
View ArticleUnusual Vintage Furniture Designs: The Super-Organizing Wooton Desk
Here’s a photo of the ticket to the Powerball that I didn’t win—I was so sure, this time—and some random pieces of paper that’ve been sitting on my desk. You’ll notice they’re all different sizes; if I...
View ArticleA Magazine That Luxuriates in Design’s Subtleties and Obscurities
Everyone knows that print is dead, but anyone who visits the newsstand regularly has probably noticed that there are an awful lot of good-looking independent magazines that seem to be flourishing in...
View ArticleCanadian Chef Designs the “Ultimate Cutting Board”
When it comes to newfangled cutting board designs, I’m a fan of the Mocubo, which we covered here. But there’s still plenty of room in this market for innovative designs, as evidenced by this Canadian...
View ArticleU.S. Law Change May Bring Back Classic Car Designs
Starting up a new car company from scratch is just about impossible. That’s because there are massive regulatory hurdles to clear, courtesy of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the...
View ArticleAre These Two Designs Illegally Similar? The UK’s Supreme Court Says No
Design infringement IS serious business: in this case a primary question decided by the UK courts was whether or not the Kiddee, an animal-shaped suitcase on wheels, makes a “different overall...
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