- From addressing malnutrition with a sustainable and scalable solution, to turning one of the planet's largest sources of agricultural waste into a biodegradable plastic alternative, to using synthetic biology to prevent antibiotics from...
- Here's what we looked at this week: No, airlines are not installing these stand-up saddle-style seats. A design exercise has been turned into misinformation. Obsessive UX design detail: Sugatsune's Slide Hook is a bag hook that retracts....
- The G7 Summit is a big deal, and needed a big deal of a conference table. The Canadian government, this year's host, turned to Toronto-based furniture brand Teknion to create the flagship table for the conference's primary Outreach room....
- Of all freestanding power tools, perhaps the jigsaw or scrollsaw would be the most fun for kids to use, as they allow freeform cuts. They're also pretty darn dangerous, with the jigsaw being powerful enough to remove fingers. A much...
- Greenhouses are an excellent way to grow food in a controlled environment. By regulating environmental factors and blocking out pests, vegetable yields are increased significantly. But traditional greenhouses, made with rigid materials...
- This Spinamic is a scoliosis correction device by South Korean industrial design firm Intenxiv . Designed for client VNTC, a South Korean medical technology company, Spinamic is soft rather than rigid, which brings several benefits....
- Designed in Austria, this stainless steel device is the Nuki Smart Lock . Since the company's formation a decade ago, they've shipped over 800,000 units—in Europe. Today the company is finally entering the U.S. market. The company says...
- In the '90s I visited a younger cousin in South Korea. Military service is mandatory there, and he was enlisted in the Navy. He had the craziest haircut I'd ever seen—completely shaved around the side, but with absurdly long bangs, like...
- Recently an Instagram post featuring these images went viral. The post falsely claimed that budget airlines would begin installing these saddle-style seats, which more or less place the passenger in a standing position, in an effort to...
- Here's an example of solving a complex problem by synthesizing existing technologies in a novel way. A Chinese inventor known only as Mr. Feng wanted to create a robot that could persistently return tennis volleys, allowing him to...
- Most EDC stuff looks and feels like it was designed by an engineer or machinist. In contrast these objects by the James Brand , which was notably founded by an industrial designer (Ryan Coulter), were clearly created by folks with ID...
- As we saw earlier this month, Samsung has developed flat robots used to park cars. This same month, China's Shanghai Construction No 2, an engineering and construction firm, also used small robots to move something larger overhead....
- During this year's ICFF in New York, over 30 students from seven international design schools came together for the 2025 WantedDesign Schools Workshop, a collaborative, high-energy design sprint centered on one of today's most universal...
- Shopping cart cleaning protocols vary by supermarket, and even by location within the same brand. At my local Walmart they use hot water and steam—you can feel both the temperature of the cart and the dampness when they've come fresh out...
- If there's one material you're never going to rotomold, it's glass. But glass artisan Frederick G. Kahl , a/k/a the Great Fredini, has come close. Kahl designed this clever system for molding glass inside of a CNC-milled graphite mold...
- The 2025 Professional winner in the Design for Social Innovation is The Lotus Ring from Julia Lemle at Lotus. With this ring you can control anything—lights, fans, appliances, even TVs. With this product you can convert any space into an...
- The 2025 Professional winner in Furniture & Lighting was AGNI from Jose Cabrita at Contexte. This collection is based on a single element that can be used in different ways allowing that element to become a bench, a stool, a side...
- The 2025 Professional winner in Home & Living is Loka Chai Maker by Jon Marshall in collaboration with Chifen Cheng, Shing Lo, Amelia Kociolkowska, Vincent Fan, Harc Lee, Andrew Aitken, Nikhil Shah, and Anish Shonpal at Pentagram...
- The 2025 Professional winner in Lifestyle Accessories is Aer1 System by Mark Wiggins in collaboration with Nathaniel Berman, JonPaul Turner, Scott Kingston, John Thorpe at Aerflo. The Aer1 system is a portable carbonation device...
- The 2025 Professional winner in the Sports & Outdoors category is IXI Autonomous Golf Trolley created by the Future Wave team of Joachim Froment, Quentin Desclee, Thoma Velghe, and engineers at Botorincs. The iXi Golf Trolley offers...
- The 2025 Professional winner in the Tools category is Pella Steady Set Interior Installation System from the Pella Corporation. Created by the Pella Innovation Team the Steady Set interior installation is the first and only INTERIOR...
- The 2025 Professional winner in the Toys & Play is The Handheld Patternmaking Loom from Lauren Puchowski at Boomloom. Our patented design re-imagines the pattern-making loom completely with just two pieces and a fast set-up it uses...
- Winning the Professional Branding & Identity category is We & I from Dentsu, led by Taichi Tamaki, Ryota Sugahara, and Miki Taguchi. When rock band RADWIMPS, represented by Universal Music, decided to write a graduation song- a...
- The 2025 Professional winner in the Visual Communication is Wayfinding Way Better: Metro's Wayfinding Improvements by the WMATA Team and including Jacobs Engineering, Entro, Order NYC, Joseph Chan, Ray Yau, Daron Showalter, Tom Proctor,...
- Winning the Professional category is an innovative packaging plan Google Plastic-Free Packaging , by Roman Ley at Google. Google's packaging for all hardware products, including Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit, is now 100% plastic-free, fully...
- Winning the Professional Built Environment category is the WERKSVIERTEL MUNICH project designed by Johannes Ernst at Steidle Architekten. WERKSVIERTEL was previously an industrial site which has been transformed into an independent...
- Winning the Professional category is the XBOX Adaptive Joystick from the Design Team at Microsoft which addresses the need for an affordable, singular joystick to use alongside the XBOX Adaptive Controller specifically for players with...
- The 2025 Professional winner in the Speculative category is Plant Futures created by Annelie Berner in collaboration with Monika Seyfried and Variable Studio. This project imagines how the Circaea Alpina flower would response to climate...
- The 2025 Professional winner in the Sustainability is the FREITAG Mono[PA6]: Circular Backpack from FRIETAG lab ag and the team comprised of Jeffrey Siu, Tu Van Giang, Ilke Tokdede, Inge Hettich, Silvio Trionfini, and Denise Eugster. The...
- Whipsaw was recognized with multiple wins at the 2022 International Design Excellence Awards. Whipsaw won silver awards for its design of Fluidigm's Biomark X in the Medical & Health category and the MXXY Hydration Backpack in the...
- 'R for Repair: London x Singapore' - the second edition of the 'R for Repair' exhibition - is open until November 2nd at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The exhibition showcases the transformative power of repair as part of the...
- On view at Ace Hotel New York from October 19th to 30th, The Be Original Americas: Originality Deconstructed exhibition celebrates creativity by pulling back the curtain on the 'how' and 'why' of some of the international design...
- Organized by Red Dot, the Contemporary Good Design Award allows companies and designers to present their products to an internationally renowned and independent jury for assessment. Successful participants are permitted to use the label,...
- Pavilion has debuted Palmera, a new collection of outdoor furniture inspired by the contoured embrace of a hammock and the mesmerizing effect of sunlight filtering through palm trees.
- Leon Speakers recently partnered with Logitech, Turf Design, Shure Audio, and American Lighting to create Cove, a revolutionary new desktop accessory that enhances the overall work experience.
- Morrama recently developed a more sustainable packaging range for restaurant chain wagamama. The new packaging will be implemented across the delivery and takeaway operations, replacing over eight million plastic packaging items.
- BuzziPleat Edel Long is a large-scale yet lightweight sculptural form that can be suspended from the ceiling or wall-mounted to absorb excessive noise.
- Andreu World is now accepting submissions for its 21st International Design Competition. This year the submissions will be focused on sustainable seat or table designs to support and promote new talent in design.
- The UX Design Awards - Spring 2023 is now open for submissions. Companies, agencies, professionals, and young designers worldwide are invited to enter their best work in three competition categories: 'Product' & 'Concept' for...
- Loading crane manufacturer Haulerman has launched a design competition asking participants to imagine one or more accessories for its line of products. The deadline is July 30, 2017.
- Lexus has announced the Grand Prix winner of the Lexus Design Award 2017 – PIXEL by Hiroto Yoshizoe - and the finalists are on display at the Lexus Yet pavilion at the Milan Design Week.
- Tractors manufacturer Valtra has launched a design competition tasking designers to envision a tractor for the year 2040. The submission deadline is April 26, 2017.
- A very interesting 1-hour lecture on design principles and the role of industrial designers in the entertainment industry. Held by concept designer Mike Hill at Industry Workshop 2015.
- BMW Designworks and Puma have created the X-CAT DISC, a shoe with a stretchable and super-light material inspired by the 2008 Gina Concept.
- Nissan has created a seven-seater bobsleigh with a design inspired by the X-Trail model. We report the official details and a behind the scenes video.
- Peugeot Design Lab has styled the lines of the H160 helicopter, a new civil aircraft presented by Airbus Helicopters at the Dubai Airshow (8-12 November).
- BMW of North America has announced the development of a new racing wheelchair for use by athletes of the U.S. Paralympics Track and Field Team in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
- Presented at this year's Milan Design Week, the Spheres project by Swiss-Argentinian designer Alfredo Häberli uses abstract artworks and a hybrid vessel concept to explore BMW's design philosophy.
- Toyota Material Handling Europe has launched the second edition of the Logistic Design Competition, asking European design students and recent graduates to envision the future look of their forklift models.