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Automobiles of the future and the Designers who develop them are at a decisive moment in history. The Automotive design field as a whole which has notoriously been a heavily veiled and secretive field is now in state of accelerated change. Previously, only a select lucky few have ever had the chance to experience Design [...] Read more...
I stumbled upon this very innovative magazine that you can actually wear it. Like the regular subscribed magazine, each “issue”, designed by T-Post will focus on one news issue. In this past issue, you can play rock, paper, scissors with the t-shirt through a webcam. Not only it take publishing to next level, the AR [...] Read more...
Industry (aerospace, telecom, defense, automotive, consumer electronics, etc.) has developed a growing interest in Human-Computer Interaction. They see it as being powerful with numerous features but that does not ensure a product will be successful at all without having a clear usage understanding by their target users. HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) is a fascinating discipline; the [...] Read more...
Being the dean of a design school is no easy job today. Design schools are struggling to serve three masters: the student, the industry and society. The last one is a new one as generally designers have now come to a consensus that designs for social change is a part of the design agenda. With [...] Read more...
I knew that James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ movie had a massive hype train behind it, but I just wasn’t that interested in it. I had finally watched the entire trailer a mere day before it was due to be released in select 3D capable theatres (around 2200 total) and thought that while it definetly looked good, [...] Read more...
Who would have thought that a computer case would be the object of so much design attention. However, the Thermaltake Level10 is no ordinary computer case. Rather, just about every single element of it is quite extraordinary. Long gone are the days of simple beige cases that are a rat’s nest of cables. BMW Design [...] Read more...
It is always amazing to look upon a final product out in the market, and know that at one point, it was nothing more than an idea in someones’ head (or multiple persons’ heads). At some point that idea has to be taken into the ‘real world’ of three dimensions, and that is one of [...] Read more...
Knoll recently released the ‘Generation‘, the latest in its’ line of task seating and it is quite a breath of fresh air into a fairly traditional genre of design. The marketing slogan behind the chair, and if one is to believe their website, the design mantra as well, is that people should be able to [...] Read more...
There is something profoundly valuable about the ability to offer someone a seat when there are none available. Read more...
A show stopper at the Royal College of Art’s graduate show is… a plug? A student has tackled a design problem that has been ignored for decades – how to change the fist-sized plugs used in electronics in the UK. What’s amazing about this is how a major annoyance has been ignored for so long. [...] Read more...
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