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This unusual outdoor chair was designed by Loic Cao, Tanguy Caversaccio and Lola Jutzeler, of Swiss architecture firm SAGA. The Transat is a fixed piece of street furniture developed with Vitra and the Chair of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich, installed in the Botanical Garden of Lausanne. Its minimalist structure, straight lines, taut geometry, remains a sculpture un

Edge band trimmers are typically fiddly plastic things. But Japanese manufacturer Star-M's No. 4960 is a chunk of steel with a beefy handle. Though the handle looks like cast iron, it's actually ABS. The handle size and the 7.3 oz weight of the tool help to provide stability throughout the cut.

For their first EV, the Luce, Ferrari decided to tap an outside design firm. Guess who they got:The design of the Ferrari Luce was entrusted to LoveFrom, the design collective led by Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson. Introducing a team from outside the Ferrari Design Studio led by Flavio Manzoni invited a new perspective and cross-fertilisation, enabling a new design language to be introduced. LoveFrom was given the creative freedom needed to define the design direction of the project from the outset, translating this design language into an authentic Ferrari experience.

Doorways and windows with curved architraves present a challenge for fabricators. How do you cut the molding profile along the curve?Australian firm McKay Joinery solves this with an impressive jig that they fit over their shaper:

This stainless steel garden hose and reel is by Hataya, a Japanese company that specializes in making reels. Though the internal hose is vinyl, the cladding is stainless steel, which prevents UV from breaking the vinyl down over time. But perhaps the most clever feature of the reel is the little captured guide ring encircling the hose. This ring rides between two tracks, and prev

To secure cargo, shippers can use bracing and straps. Those require connection points, and take time to install. A far faster method is to use what are called dunnage bags. These come in different sizes and are essentially giant balloons, placed between objects and filled on-the-spot with compressed air.

Last year we spied a teaser video from industrial designer Michael Mahle. As a student at Bauhaus University, Mahle had developed an all-wooden system of connectors for flatpack furniture. No metal, and no glue are required.Now Mahle's company, nurholz, is up-and-running in Germany. Here's a better look at his novel connection system:

We think of 21st-century objects as being hi-tech. But here's a low-tech one that's growing in popularity, thanks to the rise of identity theft: Privacy stamps. Invented in the 2000s, they use ink cartridges to roll gobbledygook over printed text, obscuring it. In an age of paper shredders, privacy stamps might be seen as extraneous objects. But they have several advantages. One, they can be used to obscure text on objects that you can't easily throw into a shredder.

It was two years ago that we first heard about Base Case, a startup that claimed to have wedged two 24" monitors into a rolling carry-on form factor. Back then it was just teaser images. But now the product's come to market, targeting traveling creatives and spreadsheet crunchers.

I'm really impressed with Brooklyn-based Craighill's focus on what I'll call pure industrial design. The firm has an uncanny ability to lock in on the actual user experience, including offline considerations, while confidently jettisoning the traditional ways those problems have been clumsily solved. They're not afraid to develop entirely new forms that solve problems in new ways, and their products meet a high visual style standard to boot.A great case in point is their Metrolog Ruler, designed as a tableside replacement of the beam caliper, while providing standard ruler functionality. (It doesn't have the reach of the beam caliper's jaws—you won't be taking the diameter of a thick dowel or rod, for instance—but it does mean you don't have a small, sharp tomahawk on your desk.)