Industrial Design Review of the Web February
Here we look to showcase the best links from across the web which showcase the best articles, reviews, showcases, news and more all talking about industrial design. We hope to have covered as much of the web as possible, and we hope showcases such as this are articles you enjoy us putting together. thanks.
The NoteSlate Tour Next Sketchpad?
Here’s another tablet hitting the market soon, the NoteSlate. This slim device takes a decidedly different approach to the tablet use model, one that may be closer to its original analog equivalent: the notepad and pencil. We’ve been waiting for this since the Newton.
Found at: Fuel Your Product Design
In Part 2 of this four-part interview, Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt (a/k/a Studio Neat) discuss the manufacturing process and challenges of the Glif, describe what it’s like to see something you designed being produced, and explain why they chose to manufacture in the United States.
Found at: Core77
Is Sustainable Design Wearing Thin?
As my colleague and friend Jerry Stifelman once wrote, originality matters, and it’s easy for sustainable design to slip into cliches. In fact, some say sustainability has drained the sexiness from design all together, and it’s about time we put it back.
Found at: Treehugger
Never mind that Pontiac is a dead and a defunct company. Designer Dejan Hristov has his vision for the next Solstice and I’m wondering if it could have been enough to save them. Sure, Pontiac’s problems had more to do with GM’s legacy policies but nevertheless I like this car.
Found at: Yanko Design
The Four F’s of Colour in Product Design
One of my first computers was a Mac Quadra 610. Even back then, I had a distaste for the ubiquitous beige box, and I proceeded to paint it green. I’m not sure why I chose green, but at the very least it was a conversation starter.
Found at: Fuel Your Product Design
Aava Mobile “blackbox” mobile phone case study
n concepting design options for the Lampi, the design challenge was to explore new form-languages for future Aava smartphone models and docking-stations.
Found at: Core77
Solar cookers for rural communities and villages in developing countries are a hot topic among designers. They can help cut down on the GHGs emitted by burning typical fuels, from wood to dung to kerosene, but they are often inefficient or impractical.
Found at: Treehugger
A few years ago I scrubbed together enough pennies to buy a car made in the current decade. I remember being pleased to discover how the onboard computer could show me real-time and cumulative mileage data as I drove.
Found at: Fuel Your Product Deign
The following is an introduction to a conceptual car brand via the brand’s first virtual auto. The name of the brand is Shayton, a word that comes from the Sioux word for falcon (Chayton pronounced Shay-ton.) The car that’s being presented is the Shayton Equilibrium.
Found at: Yanko Design
6 Great Reasons to Make a Mood Board
Do you use mood boards? Four out of five design bloggers* recommend that you should, whether you’re a designer, artist, event planner, bride or brand — or just decorating your bedroom. Here are some reasons why.
Found at: Store Envy
Quick Info on Plastic Injection moulding equipment
Injection molding is defined as a technique for manufacturing parts from plastic. In this technique, the plastic is heated into the liquid form and injected into the molds that shape the plastic as it cools and hardens. The injection molding process is generally used in plastic bottle industry to make water and soda bottles.
Found at: Product Design UK
We had the priviledge of talking to Sergey Timoshenko from ParaART, CTO, Creative Director and Co-founder of ParaART Design Studio.
Found at: Embody 3D
25 Wrist Watch Concept Sketches
Knowing what time is it is crucial on nowadays. There is always so much to do and people are busy most of the time. Despite the fact that our mind is occupied with so many things, we should value small product designs that create our lives handy and beautiful.
Found at: Sketch My World
Book Review: 1000 Product Designs
Remember the summer of 2009 when we announced that Eric Chan of ECCO was looking for a few good designs? 1000 Product Designs is now out on Rockport Publishing and delivers what its title promises — 1000 product designs in the realm of chairs, lighting, kitchen gadgets, furniture, office accoutrements and everything in between.
Found at: Core77
Top Tips for Work Experience Placements
When you’re a student, at university or switching careers, work experience should be at the top of your agenda. As many employers will tell you, qualifications are crucial and show a commitment to learn.
Found at: Creative Boom
At the mobile world congress 2011 in barcelona, RIM announced plans to produce two additional models of its blackberry ‘playbook’ tablets, for a total of four new devices.
Found at: Design Boom
Using Digital Mojo, Chair Revamps Eames Famed plywood techniques
Charles and Ray Eames revolutionized furniture design more than 50 years ago, when they pioneered a technique for molding and pressing plywood to create gorgeous, curvaceous chairs and tables previously thought impossible.
Found at: Fastco Design
Love it or hate it, the Boxee Box certainly evokes an emotional reaction from those who see it. Tanya Weaver talks to the industrial designers behind the creation of this bold new digital media product
Found at: Develop 3d
Podcasts for Inventors, creatives and Entrepreneurs
I am a total sucker for a good podcast and while a lot of designers listen to the radio while working, I listen to a mixture of radio and business type podcasts. As I have recently started to do inventor podcasts for this blog I thought I would share some that I listen to and find inspiring, let me know the ones you like too.
Found at: Ideas Uploaded
Greg Stoermer: Interview Industrial Design
Monkee recently had a nice little chat with the very talented Mr. Stoermer. We’ve been seeing his amazing work pop up all over the place and just had to ask him what programs he uses, what his process is and how he even got into the design industry.
Found at: Monkee Design
Spotify designer has brains and braun
An interaction design student from Sweden’s Umea Institute of Design did this home music player for Spotify, seen above. Reportedly done in collaboration with that company, it allows you to play music by sticking a magnetic RFID tag linked to one of your playlists onto the volume knob; a reader embedded in the player identifies the tag and the appropriate music comes out of the speaker.
Found at: Core77
User Lead innovation can’t create breakthroughs
The user is king. It’s a phrase that’s repeated over and over again as a mantra: Companies must become user-centric. But there’s a problem: It doesn’t work. Here’s the truth: Great brands lead users, not the other way around.
Found at: Fastco Design
Acoustable Puts the Music Where You Are
The Acoustable is innovative coffee table that combines a sound system and a work surface. It brings the room’s audio source into a central location, and provides an elegant container for the audio components.
Found at: Fuel Your Product Design
Production Methods: Arne Jacobsens Series 7 Chair
It’s shot and edited like a European film of the variety one spouse drags another to see, but the following vid is a great look at how a bentwood chair is made.
Found at: Core77
I thought we should all get to know each other a little better this year; so each month I’ll be introducing you to a member of the Ponoko team.
Found at: Ponoko
Seven Questions for Brian Kane Industrial Designer
Brian Kane came to design early and has pursued it obsessively for 40 years. Fresh out of college with a degree in industrial design, he worked for Silvio Coppolo in Milan, Italy. Still in his early 30s, he became partner, part-owner, and vice president of development and design of Metropolitan Furniture Corporation (Metro) in New York City. A dozen years later, in March 1989, he established Brian Kane Design Studio in San Francisco where he’s been ever since.
Found at: Herman Miller
Industrial Design student wins the Cole Classic Ocean Swim
2010 Industrial Design Final year student Luane Rowe has won the Cole Classic ocean swim for the second time! The Sydney Morning Herald Cole Classic is Australia’s largest ocean swim, and this year hosted a record amount of participants with over 4100 people swimming either a 1km or 2km course from Shelley Beach to Manly Beach.
Found at: UNSW
Should RIM acquire an Industrial Design Firm
I touched upon this topic in a thread I started in the forum, but I thought I’d elaborate on it here as a posted article. BerryReview, a few while back, highlighted this piece in Business Insider rounding up its “Best Tech Acquisitions of 2010”.
Found at: Berry Review
Apple’s 3 Product Design strategies that google + nokia can follow
Apple is in the habit of churning out stellar products that rule the imagination of customers. One of the key elements to its success is its product design strategy which consistently delivers “insanely great” products.
Found at: Lbtimes
porsche’s new grand touring ‘panamera s hybrid’ sports sedan aims to set a new precedent in luxury green transportation. the eight-speed automatic has a total power of 380 horsepower (333 from a supercharged 3.0-liter V6 engine and 47 from an electric motor) and should sit at around 6.8 l/100 km (35-40 mpg) with 159 g/km of CO2.
Found at: Design Boom
This is something I’ve been meaning to post for quite a while and for some reason it got stuck in my drafts folder, which as I’m sure is the same for many of you, is a bottomless pit of stuff you need to finish.
Found at: Develop 3D
A good backpack is a treasure for those who carry many things everyday. But sadly, children prefer to choose one shoulder bags or other kind of bags. And the main reason is that backpacks look boring and not appealing.
Found at: Sketch My World
How Will you callibrate your pipettes?
The pipette is a common lab instrument that draws in liquids by creating a vacuum.It is often used in healthcare and industrial facilities as well as in science labs to accurately measure and transfer liquids in an environment that demands precision and reliability.
Found at: Product Design UK
Gary Hustwit, the man behind beloved design documentaries Helvetica and Objectified has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help finish up his newest film, Urbanized. The third of Hustwit’s “design trilogy,” this new project explore the design of cities.
Found at: Core77
Found at: Industrial Design served
3D Printing has been through something of a boom of late, to say the least; it seems that you can’t even pick up a copy of the Economist without finding yourself presented with an image of the future.
That is a future, as the hyperbole seems to indicate, where we’ll be downloading 3D geometry from the web (probably for free, IP rights be damned) and printing out the products we need. Or at least, uploading them to a service provider in the medium time-frame.
Found at: Develop 3D
Clement Valla’s drawing version of Operator
You all remember “Operator,” the party game where you whisper something in one person’s ear, they whisper it into the next person’s ear, and so on around the circle, and by the time you get to the 20th person the message has been distorted beyond recognition? Well, here we have something like “Operator” in drawing form.
Found at: Core77
Wacom’s Next Digital Sketchpad Concept
Designers, especially designers that sketch, usually come by some pretty strong preferences when it comes to how they sketch and what tools they use. As such, they’re bound to have one foot in the conceptual realm when it comes to ideas about how to optimize the process without killing the creative flow.
Found at: Fuel Your Product Design
designed to showcase the company’s ‘connected drive‘ technology system, BMW’s ‘vision connected drive’ vehicle is a low-riding roadster that has been holistically engineered around the three principles of safety, ‘infotainment’, and convenience.
Found at: Design Boom
apple‘s official release of the iPad 2 comes just a week prior to the availability of the devices in the united states.
Found at: Design Boom
Josh Mings looks at a brand new tool for SolidWorks users who want more control when editing surface design and concept models in their familiar CAD environment.
Found at: Develop 3D
korean product designer and student of the royal college of art hwang kim seeks to help the homeless population by distributing a folding portable urban shelter made from cardboard. the project entitled ‘cocoon’ is made from pre-folded single ply cardboard with plastic buttons that can be reduced to a smaller, flattened and more transport friendly shape.
Found at: Design Boom
Kramski, one of the world’s leading tooling and parts manufacturers, optimised its product development processes and improved product quality with an integrated PLM solution based on NX and Teamcenter.
Found at: Develop 3D
Ford has yanked the sheets off of their forthcoming B-Max minivan, which is set to make its official debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. (Concept drawing, above; production model, below.)
Found at: Core77
Autodesk announced the release of Autodesk 3ds Max 2012, the latest version of the company’s 3D modeling, animation, rendering and compositing application. Mapping to the Excalibur (XBR) initiative – a phased plan for the restructuring of 3ds Max – the new version provides fundamental improvements in workflow, user interface and performance that will give artists enhanced creative capabilities and help them to be more productive.
Found at: Dexigner
Dr. Michael Braungart Material shortages
Recent events around the world expose the heightened uncertainties of a growing demand for materials that are both precious and in limited supply.
Found at: Core77
Dangerous toys and other different thinking
The University of Minnesota has a new Toy Product Design program, guided in part by twentysomething Barry Kudrowitz, a new addition to the teaching staff. The unusual Kudrowitz taught the same class at M.I.T., studied theme park design and forewent culinary school to get a masters in Mechanical Engineering; somewhere in between these things he sang in a “gypsy pirate rock band,” wrote children’s books, and had toy designs appear in Hasbro’s lineup and on “The Martha Stewart Show.”
Found at: Core77
In Praise of Taking Things Apart
Anyone in product design will admit to at least some level of interest in the way things work, a curiousity about what happens inside the objects and machines we use everyday. There are many of us who began our careers in design, engineering, or similar creative pursuits at an early age- perhaps as soon as we could successfully managed a screwdriver.
Found at: Fuel Your Product Design
a retrospective of the italian designer and architect ettore sottsass (b. 1917), curated by fulvio and napoleone ferrari, is currently being held at the kunsthal rotterda and features over 100 objects and drawings of his form studies with enamels from 1958.
Found at: Design Boom
Made in Russia Unsung Icons of Russian design
This irreverent survey celebrates the more populist and enduring work in graphic and industrial design that was a product of the Soviet era – a period that remain politically sensitive and under-explored, yet whose influence on the objects and aesthetics of Russian life and thought has been profound.
Found at: Dexigner
Universal Design Pioneer, why design excludes many
Internationally known gerontologist and designer Pattie Moore says good design is like pornography: “You can’t really define it, but you know it when you see it.”
Found at: Smart Planet
Mr Barthels is this weeks DOTW! With an overwhelming amount of votes in his favour, it seems Michael knows how to create great response from his designs. With great sketching and rendering techniques, it seems Mr Barthels has all the bases covered!
Found at: Monkee Design
Ceramics have played an important role historically in the evolution of industrial design and are considered to be the engineering materials of the future.
Found at: Sketch My World
Disassembly: Product Photography for Industrial designers
Canadian photographer Todd McLellan pulled apart vintage gadgets such as cameras, telephones and typewriters to create museum-like studies from all the parts. His exploded views are the kind you’d really like to present to a client.
Found at: Core77
Long rumoured but officially announced at mobile world congress 2011, samsung‘s ‘galaxy s ii‘ smartphone joins the company’s ‘galaxy’ family of phones and tablets, differentiating itself from other new models at the global exhibition in employing a dual core processor behind in-house software interfaces. at 8.5mm in depth, the ‘galaxy s ii’ is also the slimmest smartphone in production.
Found at: Design Boom
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