RNID, UK’s charity for deaf people and design magazine Blueprint are launching an exhibition of futuristic hearing aids […]
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For the Evidence Doll research project, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby have interviewed women about their sexual partners. […]
My tip for the summer, ladies. Bikini Life-Jacket© “BAY WATCH” by Swedish designer Thomas Bernstrand who proposes also […]
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Yes, this is a handbag. Maybe not very practical but just added to my I-want-one-of-those list. Designed by […]
Kill yourself whenever you feel like it or just have a finger with an extra joint. Fabian Seibert […]
Actually the title of this post doesn’t reflect my opinion, it’s the way Afke Golsteijn “defines” her work. […]
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Tom Dixon has collaborated with Scottish charity Streetwork on a community based channel which allows young, homeless people […]
Bearskin rug from urethane rubber by Eelko Moorer. Exists in other colours like brown or red.
Designboom has a splendid feature on the history of the shopping cart. Including shopping cards typologies, unexpected uses […]
More goodies from the Royal College of Art Show 2005: In this age of free speech and action, […]
Mountaineering is “the art of moving safely in mountains”. Still, the number of casulties is rising and amateur […]
To switch on the Watt? Light, by Paul Cocksedge (designed in 2003), you need to draw a pencil […]
BBC News has an article about the RCA show I visited last week (btw, it was rather mean […]
reHOUSE/bath envisions the bathroom as a biotop where nature and mankind interact. BATH is a mobile bathing surface. […]
The Lonely Home bench, by Tobi Schneidler and m.a.o.works, is a “socially intelligent design object”, part domestic furniture […]
RCA show, V. The Sunlight Table uses the research carried out in the difficult environment of call centers […]
RCA show, IV. Everyone of us tells lies, it seems to be unavoidable. But as time passes and […]
RCA Show, III. Lineriders cars have been designed by Philip Worthington and William Denniss to follow lines that […]
Another amusing object seen at the Touch Me exhibition. This one is for Emily… Thumbs are increasingly needed […]
Audio system interfacing with Lighting, by Hong-ik University (Korea) student Suk-woo Lee, combines a CD player with a […]
Tennis Sensation is a tennis game that allows a wide variety of users, particularly the visually impaired, to […]
Sajjadah 1426 (Sajjadah means “prayer rug” in persian/turkish and 1426 stands for 2005 in Islamic calendar), by Soner […]
I’m having a great time at the Swiss workshop so far. Nicolas has posted some notes about what’s […]
Kate Deacon works on making smart textiles and sustainability compatible and uses smart technology to generate organic movements […]
Praystation, by Glasgow art student Douglas Maitland, is a project that addresses declining church attendance in the year […]
London-based design group Insect has a very very impressive portfolio. Via Pigmag which has more pictures and an […]
Most of the very few non-gastronomical excitements that life in Italy brings me come from IDII, so I’m […]
The Comfort Zone, by Sandy Hong-san Chen, aims at designing a stress reliever space for weary travelers by […]
Silvia Grimaldi‘s Surprise! series explores the use of surprising elements in design and the effect the surprise can […]
I’m off for three days in Finland to buy some fancy boots. Given the crisis they are facing […]
You loved the Scratch-and-Sniff pants? Here’s a wallpaper version developed by Alex Schweder. Still-life of Beefsteak and Cheese […]
The INDEX 2005 jury has announced the 100 finalists for the INDEX Awards. Among the nominees: Project Unplugged, […]
myBio dolls are a collection of educational dolls exploring the emergence of biological hybrids in biotechnologies, and our […]
While at DesignMai last week, I saw the Lightable that Julian Appelius and Fabien Dumas designed back in […]
While in Berlin, I saw the Designmai Youngsters exhibition: The PIZZONI® Lifestyle-Grill looks like a rigid shoulder bag […]
Won’t blog much today, still lots of things I want to see at Designmai here in Berlin. I […]
Students in the New Interfaces for Musical Expression course at NYU have rigged up a ping-pong sample playback […]
Martín Ruiz de Azúa‘s Chair-Screen is in fact a telecommunicator. Life-size images of speakers can be recorded in […]
Marjet Wessels Boer‘s Doors of Secrets contains hidden storage compartments. You can shuffle the elements about and explore […]
A few light objects spotted at the Salone del Mobile in Milan two weeks ago: Jellyfish stool, by […]