5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (119+ words) Core77 This Flip public seating concept is by London-based industrial design firm Of My Imagination. The idea is to provide more comfort for waiting areas when they're not full. To that end, individual seats can be flipped out of the way,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (182+ words) Using a wedge as a door stopper seems like a perfect solution, and it's probably been around for centuries, in one material or another. Because the object is ubiquitous, it's easy to ignore. But industrial designers John and Wonhee Arndt,…...

2+ week, 13+ min ago   (130+ words) Copenhagen-based SAGA Space Architects and Danish architecture studio MS+ recently completed Europe's largest 3D-printed housing project. Called Skovsporet, it's an entire village of 36 ground-floor apartments broken up into six clusters. It was built as student housing to serve nearby VIA…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (136+ words) A good designer, we were taught at ID school, pays careful attention to the transitions where two surfaces intersect. So it's fitting that this DTILE system was invented by a trio of industrial designers: Arnout Visser, Erik Jan Kwakkel and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (27+ words) Core77 This example of "non-architecture," in the words of Thai architect Boonserm Premthada, is a striking example of form follows function....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (53+ words) UK-based Ali Hill is a textile artist, meaning she draws with her sewing machine. Some she does by first drawing the image out, and tracing… …other times she uses no pens or pencils at all, and just freestyles it: Her…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (103+ words) The Piushaven river runs through Tilburg, Holland. In order to allow cyclists and pedestrians to cross it, the municipality came up with a more frugal method than building a bridge or setting up a permanent ferry service. They installed a…...