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By Rain Noe - Dec 22 New
Rogue One's Killer UI Designs
UK design firm Blind successfully makes old aesthetics feel fresh
Spoiler-free comment on Rogue One: I was really impressed with the UIs depicted in the movie, which I've learned were created by UK-based design firm Blind. Blind had to thread a tricky needle: Whereas the trend with sci-fi UI these days is to go visually-dense Iron-Man-style, like this… …the Rogue
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By Shannon Rogers - Dec 22 New
Hand Tool School #13: Belt Sander vs. Handplane
Trying to make the right call to solve an 18-foot-long problem
I have great respect for contractors who do on-site work. I would be a terrible contractor, and here's why: In my shop, I have every tool I need, but when I have to hit the road to do work, I overthink my selection and bring far too many tools—always missing
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By Rain Noe - Dec 22 New
What Do Luxury Sleeper Cabs for Long-Haul Truck Drivers Look Like?
Chandeliers, hardwood floors, elevator beds, on-board motorcycle garages and more
The life of a long-haul trucker can be tough, even when they're not behind the wheel. When it's time to get some shuteye in the truck's cab, some of them have a scant 36" behind the seats in which to stuff a twin mattress, and there's barely enough room to
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By Daniel lev coleman - Dec 22 New
Reader Submitted: Lintite Combines Dryer Lint and Concrete to Reuse Fabric Waste and Lighten Things Up
300 million tons of fabric are thrown away each year in the United States alone. Some of this waste is created from industry, some from by-products like lint. The chair below is a composite material made of dryer lint and concrete.
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By Rain Noe - Dec 22 New
Watch SNL Crew Frantically Tear Set Down During Opening Credits
Total chaos, but sub-two-minute completion
While watching your average "cold open" on SNL, you may not realize that the second the skit ends and they cut to the opening credits, crew members start frantically ripping the set down. They've got to turn, say, Donald Trump's apartment back into that blank stage for the guest speaker
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By Coroflot Jobs - Dec 22 New
Design Job: Design For Change! Artefact is Seeking a Lead Industrial Designer in Seattle, WA
Channel your creativity to make a difference
At Artefact, we believe industrial design cannot exist in a vacuum. Each connected device – from your couch to your fitness bracelet, the hospital room to your wallet – demands we think about connected experiences. The shape and form of our design impacts the object’s meaning as much as the
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By Emily Engle - Dec 21
Small Transparent Speaker Transcends Beauty
The premium speaker alerts you when it needs fixin'
PEOPLE Products (a spin-off of PEOPLE PEOPLE) is back on Kickstarter, this time with a downsized version of their cleverly named Transparent Speaker—the even more cleverly named Small Transparent Speaker. Designed to look fabulous in any environment, the—icy—Small Transparent Speaker only comes in white, is wireless and is able to
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By Joel Moskowitz - Dec 21
Tools & Craft #27: Great Artists Ship
Save yourself some hassle during that last mile
Some of us still earn our livings making physical things, putting them in boxes and sending them out of the building. Professional furniture making ends not with the last coat of wax, but with shipping whatever you made out of the workshop. We have dozens of cabinet shops in our
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By Rain Noe - Dec 21
Furniture Design History: Why Do Wingback Chairs Have Wings?
Form follows freezing
If form follows function, then to the modern-day observer, the design of wingback chairs does not appear to make sense. Why add structure to, and upholster, the sides of a chair above the armrest? The sitter needs no lateral support and is not likely to even contact the wings in
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By Core Jr - Dec 21
What Books Make the Best Gifts for Designers?
A list for designers and friends of designers alike
Over the course of our discussion board's existence, one of the boards that has remained the most popular is our "What Are You Reading" feed (which you should definitely check out if you have never seen it before). Before the holidays, we thought it might be appropriate to peruse through
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By Core Jr - Dec 21
Firm Project: A Military-Style Case for Extreme Gamers
Targeting extreme gamers, this military-styled full tower gaming case features a tinted large window to show off your build while all covers come with a tool-free mount for easy modding. Its modularized frames make the case sizable and allow for tooling leverage. Equipped with various functions and superior expandability, the top panel can serve as a keyboard tray, while a smartly designed hook helps with headsets storage. The double handles offer great mobility especially for a LAN party. With
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By Emily Engle - Dec 21
Take the Mystery Out of Viewing Today's Winter Solstice
Here's a list of exactly where you can watch it in your city
It turns out there are plenty of other places to view today's Winter solstice besides Stonehenge—the guy who started the map/blog Stonhenge in Your City found all of them for us. Whether you're in Uganda, Israel, New York or even Lithuania, there are specific places to take part in celebrating
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By Rain Noe - Dec 21
Casey Neistat Flies Via Drone
No chairlifts required
Casey Neistat fans may have lamented when he retired his vlog last month. But apparently the time off has been reinvested in working on more signature-Neistat-crazy projects, like strapping on a snowboard and attaching himself to a drone that can lift his weight: The behind-the-scenes video doesn't make this look
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By Rain Noe - Dec 21
How to Attach Tricky Doors to Your Furniture Piece: Knife Hinges
Caleb Woodard demonstrates how to install them
Conventional hinges need to connect two surfaces that are running parallel in the same axis in order to work. That can place limitations on your designs. For example, let's say you've designed something with a wildly organic shape, like this Caleb Woodard cabinet, below: As you can see, conventional hinges
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By Core Jr - Dec 21
Beyond Industrial Design: Apply to SVA's MFA in Products of Design
Check out this pan-disciplinary design program in NYC
February 1st is the deadline to apply to be a part of the Class of 2019 at SVA's MFA in Products of Design program. It's centered on "the sweet spot between design thinking and design making," but its courses go far outside traditional ID education.
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By Coroflot Jobs - Dec 21
Design Job: It Ties the Room Together! Loloi Rugs is Seeking a Full-Time Graphic Designer in Dallas, TX
Don't sweep this opportunity under the rug
Loloi Rugs is seeking a talented, hard-working Graphic Designer to work within our marketing department. The ideal candidate will be involved in projects that include key brand, business, and merchandising initiatives from conception to completion.. Having the ability to communicate our modern and original approach through clean and creative visual
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By Kat Bauman - Dec 20
How To Build a Gingerbread AT-AT Walker
It looks imperially delicious
'Tis the season for Disney space operas, and while doing relevant "research" I discovered this vitally useful how-to for a gingerbread AT-AT. While considerably smaller than the homemade AT-ATC from earlier this month, this one is better for most budgets and attention spans and you can eat it. Plus it
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By Robert Grace - Dec 20
Sponsored Post: Colored Glass Clearly Has its Benefits
Structurally strong & colorful laminated glass expands the architect's portfolio
Laminated glass panels made with layers of colored films create panels with a wide range of structural properties. Tens of thousands of transparent, translucent, or solid color options are now available to help make architectural dreams reality.
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By Rain Noe - Dec 20
Watches Made from Concrete and Rust
OU:RS Watches speak of the passage of time
Italian designer Marco Vignotto runs OU:RS Watches, a company whose catch phrase is "Watches made out of time." To that end, Vignotto creates watch faces that evoke old industrial spaces through his materials choice: Rust and concrete. The rest of the watches are made from stainless steel with leather wristbands.
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By Johnny Vaccaro/42FOUNDRY SA - Dec 20
Reader Submitted: ETCH Brings Magic to Checking the Time
ETCH is proposing a new method of displaying time that exploits a physical 3D effect. In the digital world, we're used to seeing 7 segment digit displays, graphical engraved or embossed fonts and regular displays and clocks everywhere. We wanted to blend all these common experiences in an unconventional way
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By Rain Noe - Dec 20
A Small, Inexpensive Planer Alternative
StewMac's Safe-T-Planer lets you flatten boards with your drill press
If your work requires you to flatten thin pieces of wood, but you don't have the space for a planer—or you just can't afford one—here's an intelligent alternative if you've got a drill press. A company called StewMac has been providing tools to luthiers (guitar manufacturers) since 1968, and here's
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By Kat Bauman - Dec 20
KFC Japan's Suggestive Solution to Greasy Fingers
'Finger nups' might be the weirdest fashion trend of the year
Japanese eaters have demonstrated a pretty intense hankering for fried chicken, and millions celebrate holidays like Christmas by sharing a steamy bucket of the good stuff with their loved ones. But with fried chicken comes fried chicken fingers, and good old Col. Sanders is here to help. KFC Japan has
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By Coroflot Jobs - Dec 20
Design Job: Game On! Astro Gaming is Seeking a Graphic Designer in San Francisco, CA
A score for video game-loving creatives
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Ensure that the design of every communication and design project of the company is on-brand and creatively realized. • Support other designers with designs, feedback, and or execution of projects. • Create and Design collateral marketing pieces for digital and print output. •
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By Rain Noe - Dec 19
Hacking and Casting a Universal Air Marker
ID'er Eric Strebel runs you through his design and prototyping process while creating a tool for hand renders
In nearly three decades as an industrial designer, Eric Strebel has amassed a good amount of prototyping tools and skills. Here he employs those tools and shows you his design process, from start to finish, as he retrofits a Letrajet Air Marker to accept markers from other major brands. (And
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By Wallace Wyss - Dec 19
Ferrari 's J50: Building a Model Exclusive to Each Market
The car company used an interesting tactic for this release
Once upon a time, fans of expensive fast cars in far off markets had towait and get the leftovers after the cars had been on the market in othercountries for years. Now, Ferrari has demonstrated that the way to do it is to cultivate agroup of fans in each country
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By Rain Noe - Dec 19
An Intelligently-Designed Removable Backpack for Wheelchair Users
The Handy Bag makes it easy to bring things from the back up to the front
Those of you sitting in office chairs right now: Imagine that your backpack is attached to the back of your chair. Now imagine trying to get something out of that backpack—without removing it, and without you twisting around or getting up out of your chair. That's what wheelchair users go
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By Emily Engle - Dec 19
This Week: Explore Experimental Joinery, the History & Development of Children's Toys and the Work of Architect Rifat Chadirji
Our weekly roundup of design events for December 19 - December 25
Jumpstart your week with our insider's guide to events in the design world. From must-see exhibitions to insightful lectures and the competitions you need to know about—here's the best of what's going on, right now.
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By Core Jr - Dec 19
Firm Project: Sleek Sensor Activated Vanity Mirrors
Simplehuman asked dashdot to lead the industrial design of their sensor activated, illuminated vanity mirrors. The result is a family of the most advanced makeup mirrors available, with cutting edge LED and sensor technology embedded in simple, rational forms. Do your makeup in style!
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By Kat Bauman - Dec 19
Dorodango: Shining Mudballs and Polished Dirt
A fitting gift for 2016
While browsing through some designy online boutique, I found a kit for a hip, rustic present: a ball you make out of dirt. A kit... for dirt? It seemed stupid, though perhaps appropriate for a year where leather wrapped rocks sold out at Nordstrom and ecological concerns reared their tragic
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By Rain Noe - Dec 19
A Look Inside China's Gargantuan Electronics Marketplace in Shenzhen
The city boasts "400 industrial design houses, 150,000 working industrial designers"
Shenzhen has been called the Silicon Valley of China. But as a manufacturing powerhouse we feel it's also the 1950s Detroit of China, just with electronics, not sedans, rolling off of assembly lines. Shenzhen's staggering tech and production capacity has yielded the Huaqiangbei mega market, a sprawling, open-to-the-public marketplace that
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By Coroflot Jobs - Dec 19
Design Job: Sky's the Limit! B/E Aerospace is Seeking an Industrial Designer in Winston-Salem, NC
Take off for a new professional opportunity
B/E Aerospace B/E Aerospace is the world’s leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products. B/E Aerospace designs, develops, and manufactures a broad range of products for both commercial aircraft and business jets. For more information, visit the B/E Aerospace website at www.beaerospace.com
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By Rain Noe - Dec 18
A Sliding Camera Gantry, How NOT to Unfold a Bandsaw Blade, DIY Tool Comparisons & More
Part 3 of this week's Makers Roundup
Here's a special Part 3 to our Makers Roundup. Matthias Wandel visited John Heisz's shop, and this bromance/rivalry yielded a lot of content:
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By Rain Noe - Dec 17
Rogue One Trooper Helmet, Working with Marble, a Moxon Vise, Hacking Cordless Drill Batteries & More
Part 2 of this week's Makers Roundup
In an effort to squeeze efficiency out of every last square inch of a tiny house, Ana White figures out how to make a suspended closet that can slide into the shower when it's not being used:
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