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Mercedes-Benz has unveiled their Vision V concept, a top-of-the-line minivan EV that targets the executive transport market.

The original Mac's debut in 1984 launched the desktop publishing revolution. A parallel debut of equal importance was the launch of Emigre, a digital type foundry, the same year. Founded by designers Rudy VandeLans and Zuzana Licko, Emigre's influential typefaces--designed specifically for digital--were widely used in 1980s and '90s advertising, branding and publishing. The firm's popularity led to them publishing their own magazine, also called Emigre, which ran until 2005.Now the firm is releasing a book called Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1985 – 2024, an update to a now-sold-out archive first released in 2016. The new version is a comprehensive 1,264-page tome that nearly doubles the length of the original.

For most of the 20th century, U.S. mailboxes looked like this:They hewed to the principle of good design and form follows function. As with the USPS' blue mail deposit boxes, the top is rounded to shed water. The classic mailbox is made of galvanized steel, which was once inexpensive to produce. The carrier signal flag is a nice touch; if the postal delivery driver has no mail to deliver to you that day and the flag is down, they know there's no need for them to stop.

Verge Next, a subsidiary of Estonia-based Verge Motorcycles, invented this Donut Motor. It's designed to drive a hubless wheel. Although once seen as something that simply looked cool in renderings, the company says the hubless arrangement brings performance and manufacturing benefits, "delivering unmatched torque and power density with minimal weight."

Having a hard case fitted out with foam inserts to hold your gear is satisfying—until your gear changes. Now that precisely-shaped protection is worthless. To address this, Pelican produces this Re-Set foam protection system, which is endlessly reconfigurable and reusable; there's no cutting required. The system consists of a series of plastic grids and high-density foam pegs. The pegs fit into each square and are held in place by friction. To create a cavity above the grid, you simply push the peg downw

Spacetop, which we covered in 2023, was supposed to be a laptop with no screen. Instead, AR eyeglasses provided the visuals:Two years on, the company has ditched the hardware and pivoted towards software instead. The company's new offering is Spacetop for Windows, software that connects a pair of AR glasses made by XREAL to a Windows laptop. This gives the user 100" of virtual screen real

Who would've guessed that U.S. automaking would turn into an expensive playground for billionaires? As Elon Musk's Tesla goes into decline, a startup called Slate—backed by Jeff Bezos—is betting they can find success by offering more basic, customizable and lower-cost EVs."This is the blank Slate," the company writes. "A vehicle in its essential form. We love it. Every detail is designed to make it less cluttered and more usable. If you love it too, great — don't change a thing. If the blank Slate isn't your thing, that's OK, too. The blank Slate is your canvas. You can wrap, accessorize and transform it to make it yours. We're focused on making tha

Here's what we looked at this week:Why tariffs can be tricky: The Honda Ridgeline is a more "American" truck than a Ford F-150. Three Humanscale solutions for neatly delivering power to your desk.Practical Industrial Design student work: This much-needed "Basic Knowledge of Product Development" course tasked stude

Freedom Communications is an American manufacturer of communications gear. To create their R-9000 analyzer, they turned to industrial design consultancy Mixer Design. Freedom R-9000 Communications AnalyzerThe Freedom Communications R-9000 brings together a wide range of radio equipment testing capabilities--whether out in the field or on the test bench. The rugged R-9000 high-performance device allows for multiple orientations and configurations. Our Industrial Designers developed a benchmark visual language for the Freedom Communications brand while our Mechanical Engineers tackled

This FoldSeat is by Aidan Reinhold. The NYC-based furniture designer moves a lot, and tasked himself with designing an easy-to-transport chair. Furthermore, he wanted the chair to be monomaterial for ease of recycling, to come together without the use of tools, and to fold down to fit inside a 12" x 17" FedEx box.