If you’re a fan of the architect Santiago Calatrava, you can buy Taschen’s “Calatrava – Complete Works 1979 – Today” coffee table book for $200. The nearly-700-page tome is loaded with text and images including …
When Transparency Gets Intimate: Manufacturing Honesty in the Age of Trade Wars
What a time to be alive—especially if you’re in the business of making things that people actually want to touch, wear, and, well… use intimately. San Francisco-based Crave launched their latest edition of the Tease …
An Easy Way to Recycle Your Firm’s Material Samples
If you’ve ever worked at an industrial design or architecture firm, you’ve seen that closet or series of storage bins filled with material samples. Eventually there’s a major office cleanup to reclaim space, and a …
MAFGA (Make American Fonts Great Again)?
With the U.S. experiencing social turmoil, economic uncertainty and a fracturing of international bonds, it’s a strange time to re-introduce a patriotic font that is meant to have global appeal. For reasons unknown Delve Fonts, …
A Dutch-Danish Housing Crunch Solution: Build Floating Neighborhoods
Like many countries, the Netherlands currently faces a housing crunch. Unlike many countries, the Dutch have a history of working with water to build out their environment. This ambitious Spoorweghaven Floating Community, a proposal for …
Mafell’s Crazy Pull-Push Portable Table Saw
This portable Erika 85 table saw, by German manufacturer Mafell, has a number of tricks up its sleeve. First off, it’s designed to be easy for one person to set up: One of the feet …
One Way to Make Trinity Rings
The so-called Russian Wedding Ring was a jewelry design that allegedly emerged from 19th-century Russia. It consists of three interlocked rings, each of them sized slightly larger than the target finger size, so that all …
Remedial Design: Touchscreen Backlash Prompts Aftermarket Control Knob and Buttons for Teslas
Touchscreens were really cool 15 years ago, when the iPad first came out. Now that the novelty’s worn off, more people seem to realize that navigating submenus sucks. Manufacturers, particularly automotive ones, love touchscreens because …
Inside the Design of a High-End Ballistic Helmet Liner
Here’s an adjective, used to describe materials, that you may not have heard of: “Rate-sensitive.” It refers to when a material responds to the speed of a force applied to it. As an example, concrete …
The Design Intelligence Awards are Open for Entry
The Design Intelligence Awards are Open for Entry The DIA, an international design competition, founded in 2015 by the China Academy of Art in collaboration with other organizations, has a mission to connect cultures through …