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Jeff and Brandon Serle are engineers from the cleanroom industry. Cleanrooms are used for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, medical devices and aerospace parts, where the environment needs to be pristine. Even the slotted heads in fasteners must be fastidiously cleaned, lest they capture any dust.The Serle brothers thus invented Flush Fasteners. Here's what the heads look like: So where does the driver go? You're not gonna believe this:

Industrial designer Luisa Ruge has worked for Steelcase and Whirlpool, but ultimately gravitated towards her true passion: Animal-centered design. "My journey into animal-centered design began not with theory, but with lived experience at Bergin College of Canine Studies," she writes. "I chose to start with service dogs because of the deep, interdependent bond they share with their human partners—trusting your life to an "animal" is one of the most profound relationships we can witness."I wanted to understand how animals perceive, learn, and respond. What I discovered was transformative: everything we feel travels down the leash. Dogs don't respond to wh

Even climbing walls can be made beautiful, as demonstrated by climbing wall architecture, design and engineering company ICP. The Australian firm's "volumes," which are distributed globally, are designed to be easy for general contractors to install, while being easy on the eyes.

The design of the Barbican Estates, London's residential Brutalist masterpiece, was finalized in 1959. Many of the apartments had bathrooms where the toilet was in its own little room, separated from the sink and bathtub. (This is an arrangement you often see in Japan.) But in the 1960s, as construction began, the housing codes changed. Any room that contained a toilet now had to have its own sink. As-designed, there was simply no room to add a conventional sink to the separate toilet rooms. It fell to German architect Michael Hohmann to solve the problem.Hohmann collaborated with Twyfords, a British sink manufacturer, and their in-house designer Munroe Blair on a radical design that would fit within th

Daniel Hubert, a 3D designer who posts his .stl files on Printables, may be a genius. At a hardware store, he encountered sets of security bits (for driving tamper-proof fasteners) in both black and silver. Where we see specialty bits, Hubert saw chess pieces:

Butterfly effect: Among the things that currently aren't getting shipped through the Strait of Hormuz is naphtha, a crude oil derivative that's used in colored inks. As a result Calbee, the Frito-Lay of Japan, has announced they're switching their chip packaging to black and white. "This measure is intended to help maintain a stable supply of products," the company writes, noting that the color change "will not affect product quality." (Which means, I guess, that they don't actually use the colored ink in the chips themselves.)Tragically, the change also means t

There's something really charming about these chunky, sort of art-totem Miorita furniture pieces. It's also shocking that they're made out of gigantic pieces of old-growth Oak, which are scarce in America; but DEOS Architecture, the firm that created the pieces, is based in Moldova. Romania still has large tracts of old-growth forest, with some stands reportedly being 300-400 years old. So these pieces appeal to me partially for the primitive, designer-as-child form, and primarily out of raw material envy.

For the last thirty years, venture capital has largely been shaped by a software worldview. The model was simple enough: write a check, help a company scale fast, chase the hockey stick, and win through speed. That framework made sense in a world where software was supposed to eat everything.But that is not the world we are entering now.What's emerging instead is a much more complex and consequential arena: the infusion of intelligence into the physical world. Manufacturing. Healthcare. Energy. Robotics. Supply chains. Industrial systems. Real infrastructure. This is where some of the biggest opportunities now sit. And this is also where the traditional venture model starts to show its limits.

This June bench, by street furniture brand Vestre, takes minimalist production seriously. It consists of just two steel end pieces that define the overall form, while pre-cut lumber does most of the heavy lifting. There's also an ar

How rich are you, really, if you're still hanging your bath towels on metal rods? Like some plebe. Fear not: Soon you'll be able to hang them on Murano glass towel rods, handcrafted in Venice, no two alike. "Each glass cane in the series is unique," writes 6:AM Glassworks, the Milan-based design brand.The raw, hard-edged stainless steel brackets seem totally out of place to me, but the company says they're "merging industrial elements with traditional Murano glass to create contemporary,