The Best Product & Industrial Design Articles Roundup September
This article is something which i feel we all as industrial and product designers alike should be reading, it is collated to showcase the best industrial design articles which have adorned the web in September. Not only should this inspire and inform the industrial designers of the world but it should also go on to inspire you whatever design discipline you are involved in.
Analog Dreams: Michael DiTullo
Analog Dreams is a compilation of eye popping design sketches by Michael DiTullo. Over 120 pages of dynamic, behind the scenes sketches from more than a decade of DiTullo’s professional work as an industrial designer. Also included are some of Michael’s thoughts on how to improve your rapid visualization skills, and what it takes to be fluent in visual language. A must have for any design or architecture student, and anyone looking for a little visual inspiration. Read More
Found on Blurb
The Motherload of industrial Design Tutorials
UK-based designer Jared Thompson has taken the time to exhaustively go through YouTube and compile a list of ID videos ranging from SolidWorks and AutoCAD tutorials to Photoshop rendering demos and RP manufacturing vids. There are a couple of fluff ID-fanboy videos sprinkled throughout, but for the most part, Thompson’s efforts yield hours’ worth of helpful ID info–there are scores of videos. Read More
Found on Core77
UK-based Industrial Design Consultancy “regularly [fields] calls from inventors bristling with new inventions and ideas.” And no matter how diverse the inventions are, there’s a commonality to getting something mass produced that requires a sort of FAQ to help would-be designers out. Read More
Found on Core77
Stretch no.3 Chair by Moran Ein Dor
Moran Ein Dor is passionate about surfaces and effects of stretching; as a result he’s crafted this brilliant piece of furniture called Stretch no.3. It’s a chair where the stretching poles functions as columns and compliment the surface, which forms the seat. It’s currently under production, so an affordable version should be out for those of you who have taken fancy to this scrunchy-clip lookalike! Read More
Found on YankoDesign
Book Review: Design is How it Works
Jay Greene’s new book on the power of design wears its affiliations right on the book jacket. The logos of all eight companies he profiles are stamped right on the cover, although perhaps Virgin Atlantic gets an extra psychological shout-out, since the subtitle and author credit seem to owe a little debt to the form of luggage tags. Read More
Found on Core77
Form follows Function or Functions Follow Form
The main principle associated with Architecture and Industrial Design is that the shape of a building or object should be primarily based on its intended function or purpose. Read More
Found on IvedesignStudio
7 Practices of a Good Product Designer
Industrial Design is an incredibly difficult field for a budding designer to cut their teeth in to, learning to persist with the many facets of failure. This may occur numerous times before noteworthy success is achieved and the possibility that a product may be flat out rejected or reduced to a shadow of its former self is a reality only too familiar to some designers. Read More
Found on Embody3D
As a raw-loft-liver I’m very interested in “kitchen stations,” or furniture that can be inserted into empty spaces to serve as kitchens where there are no built-ins. Read More
Found on Core77
Product Design: Why Stick to the Mundane?
India is going global and undergoing a change like never before. All true—all too visible. Earnings are going up and the buying power of its people is increasing. Read More
Found on The Economic Times
Siemens PLM Software Reinvents Product Lifecycle Decision Making
SIEMENS PLM Software has introduced the High Definition PLM (HD-PLM) technology framework which will enable decision makers throughout the product lifecycle to make better informed deci sions more efficiently and with a higher level of confidence. Read More
Found on PACE
Ito Morabito’s Kick-ass Designs
Produced under French designer Morabito’s Ora-Ito brand, the Ora-Gami keeps good company; we love the Ora-Ito Ayrton (below), a bed inspired by the F1 driver, and there are tons of other eye-catching pieces of furniture, bottles, lighting designs, consumer products, and more in Ora-Ito’s crazy thick portfolio. Read More
Found on Core77
Agent X Konica Minolta: OLED Concepts
The mexican design studio ‘agent‘ recently collaborated with konica minolta on two new OLED lighting applications: ‘strip light’ & ‘wearable band of light’. Read More
Found on Design Boom
The gesture remote is a new approach to the tv remote control by lunar design. the button-less device was designed by lunar europe with ident technology and zinosign. to operate the remote, users hold it in their hand and gesture with their fingers, much like on a touchscreen phone. Read More
Found on Design Boom
Kit: Club Kitchen Concept by Paul Mauduit
The Kit – Cub Kitchen is a very well thought-out plan and covers almost all the basic requirements of a kitchen space. It adopts the cubicle form and houses a fridge, microwave, sink, cutting table, modular storage cabinets, garbage bin and an electrical cooking top. What’s unique about the cabinets is that just below the sink are 2 dedicated as water tanks, one that feeds the sink and the other to collect the gray water. Read More
Found on Yanko Design
Found on Obsessilicious
Skeleton Like Automotive manufacturing Innovations Pt1
In the late 1950s, Maserati designer/engineer Giulio Alfieri came up with an innovative way to build a racecar: Instead of going with the “steel tub” construction of the time, he devised a crazy-looking trellis of interconnected tubes shaped into a frame. Read More
Found on Core77
London Design Festival: Has British Design Lost its Way?
Neville Brody and Ben Evans at least agree on one thing: they don’t like table tennis. They are facing each other across a ping-pong table, part of Jean Nouvel’s futuristic – and screamingly red – Serpentine pavilion. The Guardian photographer is trying to find an image suggesting the struggle for the soul of British design. Read More
Found on The Guardian
3D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution
Businesses in the South Park district of San Francisco generally sell either Web technology or sandwiches and burritos. Bespoke Innovations plans to sell designer body parts. Read More
Found on Nytimes
Line6 Helps Create Music with 3D connextion 3D Mice
When it comes to developing world-class gear for the studio and stage, Calabasas, CA-based Line 6 has today’s musicians covered, offering a vast array of award-winning music creation products from guitars and amplifiers, to effects, effects processors and recording interfaces. Read More
Found on Pddnet
Chomp is a toaster, sandwich maker and grill. Thanks to an innovative pressing mechanism, it automatically adjusts to sandwiches of varied thicknesses. Chomp can be used both in open and closed configurations, allowing preparation of sandwiches, toasts, waffles, fried eggs, grilled meat, and more. It is operated through a touchscreen display. Made in collaboration with Fernanda Filippin. Read More
Found on Industrial Design Served
Tats Killer Future of Screen Technology
A Swedish outfit called TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) is a software technology and design company with “a passion for developing stunning visual experiences in the form of mobile user interfaces, combining the best of aesthetics with technology.” Read More
Found on Core77
When he was just 16, the entrepreneurial juices started to flow for Adam Cluver. Now, all of 18, Cluver is starting to put together the components that may make his dream of running his own business come true.
Found on Democratherald
TechShop Teams up with Autodesk to Provide RP software and more
Not all of us can afford 3D printers and ShopBot CNC routers, and TechShop takes up the slack by offering an ID grad’s dream of a workshop all under one roof in their membership facilities. Read More
Found on Core77
Electrolux Presents Sustainable Appliances for the Future
Eight futuristic appliances that maximise living space and sustainability will be unveiled in London later this month as part of an international design competition sponsored by Swedish household appliance giant Electrolux. Read More
Found on Greenwise Business
Dell’s New Flippable Screen Turns Laptop into Tablet
Whoa-ho! Dell, the onetime producer of boring beige boxes, pulled the wraps off of their new Dell Inspiron Duo yesterday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Read More
Found on Core77
Naoto Fukasawa: Siwa Paper Hat Collection
designer naoto fukasawa has created a series of hats that are made entirely out of traditional japanese washi-paper. the three pieces entitled ‘ivy cap’, ‘hat’, and ‘tyrolean hat’, are constructed from a new type of paper called ‘naoron’ developed by washi-paper manufacturer onao which withstands both moisture and weight, resulting in a lightweight material that does not tear easily. Read More
Found on Design Boom
A collaboration between UK-based design consultancy Berg and Dentsu London yielded a brilliant way to “extrude” light into visual forms. Read More
Found on Core77
‘Loop chair’ by boaz mendel, is constructed from seven boards of varying lengths that are connected in a loop by hinges. The complete object is a platform for the creation of a wide variety of furniture. folding the hinges and affixing the shape with the help of special connectors, produces a different piece of furniture in each of its various states. Read More
Found on Design Boom
Mob Sports Car Made from Liquid Wood
The Mob is an extreme racing sports car proposal for Toyota by Jorge Martí Vidal, an automotive designer. This concept car is evolving into the Möbius strip. Two films that create the whole structure of the vehicle, external and internal, forming the seats and dashboard. Read More
Found on Tuvie
The Airstream has been referenced for its clean styling, beautiful silver color and it’s iconic shape. For some airstreams are a way of life for others a way of relaxing. Wally Byam was the genius mind behind the iconic shape. In 1936 the first Airstream was produced and dubbed the clipper. Read More
Found on Fuel Your Creativity
Clean Slate: Design & Production of Electrical Vehicles
The way cars are designed and produced is dictated by mechanics. Start with the positioning of the wheels on the chassis, decide where to put the engine, and everything else follows on: how to transfer the rotational energy of the engine to the wheels; how to control the output of the engine; how to change the direction of travel; how to slow the wheels down. All of these depend on the mechanical linkages between the components of the vehicle’s powertrain – engine, clutch, gearbox, transmission, driveshaft – and other systems, as well as the devices that provide the driver’s interface with those systems.
Found on The Engineer
Industrial Design Firm Looks to Grow Against the Odds
Perhaps the only thing harder than building the proverbial better mousetrap for an entrepreneur is knowing when it’s time to step away from the business he created. Read More
Found on Philly.com
AutoDesk announces AutoCAD for Mac
This version of AutoCAD, one of the most widely used software for professional design and engineering, runs natively on Mac OS X and will increase choice of hardware for millions of users around the world. Autodesk also announced the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch that will allow users to edit and share their AutoCAD designs in the field. Read More
Found on Pddnet
Found on Design Boom
Plain is Best: ROLU Series of OSB and Plywood Chairs
ROLU, rosenlof/lucas, ro/lu, the cryptic but compelling landscape and furniture design firm of many websites, debuted a series of plain, very plain, OSB and plywood chairs at Art in General in NYC last night, inspired by the ideas of Enzo Mari, Donald Judd, Gerrit Reitveld, Scott Burton, and Rudolf Schindler. Read More
Found on Core77
Aftermarket Designers seem to love undoing Apple’s Minimalism
It’s weird that we have a kind of push-pull thing going on in the product design world today, particularly with gadgets, where a manufacturer renders something minimal, then aftermarket guys bulk it up. Read More
Found on Core77
Furniture design that applies the concepts of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the lounge chair. Read More
Found on Industrial Design Served
Kettle Designed by Product Tank
Singapore been another aging nation like Japan, we have to start to think forward in preparing our facilities or designs around the old age. Read More
Found on Ive Design Studio
Roly Poly Iron Designed by Sanyong Park, Junhmin Park & Sunwoo Hwang
Good Designs are always involved in good research and most of the time, this research are based on the simplest form of Human Behaviors. This is what the trio Designers, Sanyong Park This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Jungmin Park & Sunwoo Hwang had went thru when they came up with the concept design of the “Roly Poly Iron”. Read More
Found on Ive Design Studio
Citroën and Lacoste have worked together to create stylish, funky, and creative transportation. Citroën Lacoste Concept is a unique car design as the result of two big names sharing the same vision. Lacoste, a famous French clothing brand has added fashionable touch in this car design. Read More
Found on Tuvie
Finalists of the Electrolux Design Lab 2010
At 100% Design on September 23, Electrolux paints a super-urbanised future London where your fridge is hung outside your window to save space and energy, and where your laundry basket and washing machine are combined together in a compact wall-mounted space-saving steam dispensing capsule. Read More
Found on Dexigner
MIT’s Discover Product Design Program
As a way to introduce product design to incoming MIT students, mechanical engineering PhD student Justin Lai and MIT alum-turned-employee Josh Velasquez formed the Discover Product Design project, a one-week program where the newbies visit both campus facilities and local design firms with cameras in tow. Read More
Found on Core77
What are Industrial Design Rights
Any visual design of an object comprises of the aesthetic elements of shape, design and colour, all combined in a proportioned and three dimensional form. Industrial design is all about working on these features for creating innovatively designed products. Read More
Found on Articlism
Until Thursday next week, eight large-scale robots on loan from Audi’s automotive production line in Ingolstadt, Germany, will be working away, 24 hours a day, in their temporary home in London’s Trafalgar Square. Rather than their usual tasks of welding and gluing car bodies, these eight-metre robots are creating a buzz as the centrepiece for the London Design Festival, which opens today with 240 separate events spread across 150 London-wide locations. Read More
Found on Financial Times
the mozilla seabird is a mobile phone concept designed by billy may as part of mozilla labs’ concept series. the phone is based on input from the mozilla community and executed through may’s design vision. the phone focuses on creating new input methods, utilizing advances in motion capture and projector technology. rather than type on the screen, users can input through typing or gesturing on a projected interface, using the phone as a display much like a laptop. Read More
Found on Design Boom
Jinsop Lee + Justin Kim: Dreyfuss Special
‘dreyfuss special’ is the first design from korean studio uncle oswald is my hero (jinsop lee + justin kim). the product takes its name from henry dreyfuss, fellow industrial designer, whose most enduring design is a series of phones which were used over the world for 50 years. however, these phones are made from bakelite, a material that is so strong, it never biodegrades, leaving them to pile up into mountains in the landfills. Read More
Found on Design Boom
What is good design is one of these questions I am being asked constantly. The sheer complexity of the answer usually makes me break out in a nervous sweat. And so far, nobody nailed the answer better than Dieter Rams in his Ten Principles for Good Design. Read More
Found on Swiss Miss
Creativity doesn’t really fit within a billable hours, 9-5 workday model. But as designers, applying creativity in practical ways, we’re constantly tinkering with this conundrum, trying to find the best ways to fit inspiration into efficient and productive structures. One of these structures is working within team-based conditions, a model that many design agencies have jumped on. Read More
Found on Core77
London Design Festival 2010: Okay Studio
The Visitor is a collective show of works by Okay Studio and their friends. Okay Studio, based in East London, is made up of 12 friends (who met while studying at the Royal College of Art 6 years ago) nationalities include Spanish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Israeli and British. Read More
Found on Core77
Brief Beginners Guide to 3D Computer Graphics
Computer graphics have progressed significantly since the 1950s; we are now at a stage where photorealistic 3D images can be created using commercially available tools. We are in an era where 3D artists are in high demand and low supply presenting excellent opportunities for those with a creative flair to build a successful career in the industry. Read More
Found on Graphic Mania
AlessiTab for those who love cooking. A free application is offered by ‘cucchiaio d’argento’ Lots of gourmet recipes to browse. By using the screen in its 30 degree position it’s a great help meanwhile you are at work. Read More
Found on Design Boom
Why Does Package Design so rarely allow us to get to the last drop?
I can extract the absolute last molecule of toothpaste from a spent tube. It’s a stupid life skill borne from poverty on my part and bad package design on the manufacturer’s part. But I wonder how many gallons of toothpaste, shampoo, liquid soap, etc. go into the garbage, a few drops at a time, because people can’t or won’t bother to extract the last bits. Read More
Found on Core77
Atari 1200 & A300 Vintage Concept Sketches
Those of you that know me even casually know I savor a fine set of vintage concept sketches the way a sommelier might a rare bottle of Chateau Lafitte. So you can imagine my excitement when a co-worker at frog sent me this set of concept sketches from Atari, 1981 vintage. Read More
Found on Core77
MIT’s Discover Product Design Project
Justin Lai’s Discover Product Design project at MIT, where he is a PhD student in mechanical engineering, finished up recently, and he’s ready to show off the students’ photography. Justin had the help of his fellow co-coordinator, MIT alum-turned-employee Josh Velasquez, and the supervision of their advisor, Professor Maria Yang. The project was sponsored in part by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Read More
Found on Boston.com
RIM revealed their own entry into the tablet market with their all new device named the blackberry playbook.
the playbook features a 7-inch touch screen that rests in a 9.7mm thin tablet form factor. an all new blackberry
tablet operating system is used on the device. Read More
Found on Design Boom
Teaching Tomorrow’s Product Designers
We talked to Chorpash about the changing industry of industrial design, what product designers need to focus on in today’s market, and how humanitarian design will play a role in his program. Read More
Found on Fastcodesign
Design Fiction: From Props to Prototypes by Julian Bleecker
Franz Joseph was an expert technical draftsman working in the aerospace industry in Southern California during the heady, Skunkworks days of the 1970s. He started a special project — so advanced that it taunted belief. To call it “high tech” missed the mark by a few hundred years. The designs he was creating were beyond anything that had been done before. Read More
Found on Wired
How much Harder could Smart Phones work for designers?
Is it me or do most designers and digital artists these days own smart phones? And even then, mainly iPhones. Most of us new-fangled-artist-cum-computer-jockey types own phones with more computing power and connectivity then my first desktop PC and nearly more power then some relatively recent laptops. Read More
Found on Design Juices
Product Design in the Sustainable Era
A new book out by German publishing house Taschen — Product Design In The Sustainable Era
Found on Design Milk
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