Wanted
Ikea’s Chic New PS Collection Revisits The Company’s 60-Year History
Ikea to its designers: Make our old stuff better.
How To Create Products Hand In Hand With Your Customer
In Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving, author Jon Kolko argues that involving end users in the entire design process ensures a humane design solution.
Infographic of the Day
Zombie Survival Map: The Only Google Map You’ll Eventually Need
After the outbreak, turn-by-turn directions to Michelin-level dining just didn’t have the same flare.
Innovation By Design
How The Best Consumer Products Make Your Life Better
The very best examples do more than that, offering novel, why-didn’t-I-think-of-that approaches to such everyday activities as listening to music, reading a book, and changing the TV channel.
Genius Marketing
Heineken Crowdsources Its “Nightclub Of The Future”
Design, beer, and crowdsourcing: a new marketing trifecta?
A Wedding Ring That Wears From Silver Into Gold, Over Time
A silver ring by Torafu Architects rubs off over time to reveal a gold wedding band beneath.
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Just Eat It: Dissolvable Packaging Could Take Over Instant Coffee
It’ll just need a better name than “polyvinyl alcohol.”
Making It
Blast: A Stool Made Using TNT Explosions
The designer’s goal: To manipulate "energy that is naturally used to harm and destroy."
Nendo’s New Furniture Is Minimalism At Its Best
The color black, the designers say, lets form and function come to the fore.
What The World Looks Like To The Robots Around Us (Video)
Timo Arnall’s "Robot Readable World" is an impressionistic glimpse of what our sensor-stuffed surroundings are seeing.
Making It
Fish: An Essay With Maximum Impact, Thanks To Minimal Gestures
Robin Sloan’s "tap essay" suggests that interface design isn’t just for products--it’s for ideas, too.
Infographic of the Day
Dinnerware Measures The CO2 Produced By Dinner Itself
That hole in the ozone is invisible. But a hole in your cup is pretty tough to ignore.
