Tag: Design

This OLO Table is by industrial designer Joe Doucet. The material, seen up close, is quite unusual: It's made out of 100% Polygood Oyster material, which manufacturer

Pickup trucks are supremely useful for hauling stuff. But all pickups with conventional tailgates have the same UX hassle: Lowering the tailgate reveals a crevice between the tailgate and the bed. If you're unloading something heavy that has a flange on the bottom, like an air conditioner, it will catch in this crevice. If you're unloading something fine, like wood chips, mulch, gravel or dirt, scooping it out will fill this crevice, making it impossible to close. Worse, with modern trucks, when you clear this crevice out with a screwdriver, you have to take care not to mess up the wiring harness running through that gap.Rivian's R1T pickup truck is designed for the "adventure" market, not landscapers and contractors. But Rivian's designers have added a brilliant feature to the bed that the latter market would greatly appreciate. When you lower

Škoda is a Czech automaker and Volkswagen subsidiary. While they don't sell in the U.S. or Canada, they're one of the world's leading automakers, delivering nearly a million vehicles last year worldwide; the brand's Octavia model—a competitor to the Honda Civic—is especially popular in Europe.The company got their start in 1895 as a bicycle manufacturer, transitioning to motorcycles in 1899; by 1905 they were producing early automobiles. Now they're apparently exploring a partial return to their roots. The company has tasked in-house designer Romain Bucaille, a Frenchman, with designing an electric motorcycle concept inspired by the Slavia B, one of their early motorcycles.

Your average cargo bike typically has a long frame divided into two areas: One for the cargo, and one for the rider. The rider is positioned just forward of the rear wheel, with a chain delivering power from the pedals to that rear wheel. French mobility company Cyclauto has gone through the history books to revive an alternate design from the 1930s. This design, originally by French industrial

Here's what we looked at this week:The Glue Looper is a pinpoint glue applicator for modelmakers that fits in a standard hobby knife handle. GravaStar's skeletonized gaming mice resemble space-age footwear.Explaining a video that seemingly shows

When NYC-based pet products company Diggs wanted to create a lightweight travel kennel, they turned to industrial design firm Pensa. Is it possible, they wondered, to create an inflatable kennel that could stand up to the rigors of travel—and dogs? Pensa answered with the following Enventur design, which is now on the market. The reimagined travel kennelSay g

With a capacity of over 80,000, Milan's San Siro is Italy's largest stadium. Originally built in the 1920s, it was renovated multiple times during the 20th century. Its most significant overhaul was in the late '80s, in preparation for Italy's hosting of the 1990 World Cup. Architects Giancarlo Ragazzi and Enrico Hoffer, along with engineer Leo Finzi, added eleven reinforced concrete towers containing helical walkways to provide access to the stands.

The Redneck Engineering subReddit is fascinating not because the solutions are elegant, or even necessarily work. It is about seeing the unlikely fixes that people come up with, in the moment, when they:- Do not have the right tool to complete a task- Do not have the right materials, or enough of them, to complete a project- Are not strong enough to perform the desired taskHere are 30-plus examples, with my favorite at the end.Ceiling lamp.

At first blush this CargoMate bike rack, by German bike accessories company Flectr, doesn't look like much. But the draw is that it can be installed in 30 seconds, without tools, on any bike.

These strange-looking buses operate in rural Shikoku, Japan. They're Toyota buses that have had an unusual proboscis added. The non-standard snout houses an extra axle fitted with steel wheels. Another of these axles, unseen, is tucked under the rear. When the roadgoing buses get to the train tracks, the axles with the steel wheels are lowered onto the rails.