Right around the time of the pandemic, people across America began noticing something unusual: Streetlights were turning purple. In at least 30 states, people started taking photos like these, typically posting them to social media …
From Germany, a Handcrafted, Attractive Piece of Home Exercise Equipment
Home exercise equipment is typically bulky and unattractive. German manufacturer NOHRD breaks the mold by employing craftspeople to build their SlimBeam, a small-footprint cable machine designed to be aesthetically pleasing while taking up little space. …
Bags That Serve as Hanging Points for Other Bags
For most of us, bags are vessels for holding things. But a Chinese company called BareBag has taken an unusual design approach, viewing them more as hanging racks. Their BareBag Nano, which is essentially a …
Designey Tool Kits: A Trend with Legs
A few years ago, we spotted a trend: Designey tools aimed at the DIY crowd. A far cry from what you’d find in a contractor’s toolbox, these tools appear to have been designed with CMF …
Unusual Doorknobs Designed with a Grim Functional Purpose
Here are a series of unusual doorknob designs with vastly different forms. See if you can work out what they all have in common: What they have in common is that you cannot loop a …
Industrial Design Student Work: A Rocking Chair Made from One Sheet of Plywood
It took “five months of struggle,” but Pratt ID student Dashiell Schaeffer successfully designed and built this Curvesse Rocker out of a single sheet of plywood. “The aim of this chair was to challenge the …
Industrial Design Firm Creates Perfect-Fitting Bike Helmet with a Novel Adjustment Mechanism
Dutch industrial design studio APE was tasked with designing a new type of bike helmet: One that could adapt to the shape of the user’s head. The client, Dutch startup Headfirst, reckons that roughly half …
The Splay Max: A Folding Portable 35″ Monitor
It’s been four years since we looked at the Arovia Splay, a portable monitor that takes a collapsible softbox form factor. Since then the projector-based unit has received generally positive reviews, despite its chief drawback: …
Architecture That Works With Challenging Terrain, Not Against It
Building on a rocky coastal hillside might yield spectacular views, but it also requires heavy excavation and an environmental cost. Faced with a challenging plot of land on Albania’s coast, JA Joubert Architecture of Holland …
BARE Designs a Better—and Less Expensive—Dutch Oven
The original promise of industrial design, as a profession, was to apply intelligent design decisions and an advanced understanding of materials to create better products that are affordable for the masses. In practice, we haven’t …