Tag: Design

Here's what we looked at this week:A tensegrity-based side table made out of pipes.An airline pilot's disappearing staircase references work. MVE-Collection: An architect and designer make furniture out of construction site waste.

For the weed smoker seeking a more tactile grinding experience: This Sphere Grinder, by German weed paraphernalia company Herb Studio, is made out of concrete. It's begging to be handled. Inside is an anodized aluminum grinder, and a neodymium magnetic closure.

Rigging is the art and science of hanging equipment, like lighting or cameras, for film or stage production. It involves erecting sturdy supports and mechanically attaching equipment to them, which sounds low-tech. But it's a field that technology is having a major advancement on. First Pipe Lighting changed the game with their inflatable, lightweight LED lights, which offer a massive amount of lumens with minimal rigging.Now Grabo, a company that makes portable suction tool

Hans J. Wegner designed this GE-258 Daybed in the 1950s.

Leather, whether synthetic or real, isn't a material we typically associate with the bathroom. But in the 1970s, it was a thing in Germany to clad bathroom scales with it. These olive and yellow models are by Krups:

This Touring Bicycle was the thesis project of Sebastian Andraschko, an Institute of Industrial Design student at Austria's FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz. The idea was to use metal 3D printing to create strong but lightweight connectors between straight runs of tubing. Gaya is a collapsible touring bicycle constructed from metal 3D-printed parts. It combines the geometry of modern

This clock concept is by Argentina-based industrial designer Agustin Papadopulos. Spiritually, it recalls Braun's iconic AB 20--except it's made out of steel, and laser-cut from a single sheet:

With his Oops lamp, L.A.-based industrial designer Alberto Essesi channels that moment in the studio when you realize you've made a terrible mistake:This has been an idea I've had for a few years and always laugh when I think about it. Finally, I've gotten to design it, a simple moment that inverts the expected. A moment we've all experienced after building something and a small detail was missed. Inspired by a hanging light bulb.

This Chopsticks Maker is by Shanghai-based industrial designer Mario Tsai. The idea is that if you're camping, you can make your own cutlery out of twigs, and them behind to biodegrade. By reinterpreting and redesigning the pencil sharpener as a prot

While Chinese robotics companies like Unitree are all in on humanoid robots, South Korean company Neubility is opting for a more utilitarian, rolling form. They tapped industrial design firm BKID to design Billi, a sort of pickup truck version of a service robot: "With wheel-based mobility, a rotating robotic arm, and a modular cargo bay, Billi can pick up, load, and hand over items. Billi aims to minimize human intervention points at service sites through tasks such as operating elevator and door buttons, transporting and loading goods, and last-mile delivery, while pursuing