Two penny-farthings and a foil car

It is almost the weekend, so I will leave you with a handful of fun links for Friday afternoon. Designboom posted a few bike designs by Peter Varga, including the glossy modern folding penny-farthing concept pictured here. While you are at Designboom, take a look at all the recent posts tagged with ‘bikes”. It has been a popular subject for...

Cận cảnh siêu xe “khủng” Lamborghini Premier 4509

Tâm điểm của triển lãm xe độ Special Import Car ở Tokyo cuối tuần trước chính là “anh chàng” Lamborghini Premier 4509 Limited đầy quyến rũ.Diễn ra từ ngày 28-30/5 tại Trung tâm thương mại Tokyo Big Sight ở thủ đô Tokyo, Nhật Bản, triển lãm Special Import Car quy tụ gần 200 nhà sản xuất đã trình diện một loạt các model xe nước ngoài “độ” cũng...

Users' ideas sold over $146 million versus $18 million per year from those of inhouse design teams. Are you listening to them?

How users created a new sport by Innovating on the "fly".In 1978 Jürgen Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping...

Greenermind Summit: The Sustainability Unconference

The Greenermind Summit is an unconference co-hosted by Net Impact SF and IDSA-SF on June 11-13th to bring together Bay Area sustainability professionals in a fun, engaging, and interactive weekend of discussion and collaboration.Location: Mendocino Woodlands Cabins, Mendocino, CACost: $150 for non-members, $140 for members of IDSA-SF, Net...

Why Design Now? Thoughts on the 4th National Design Triennial

Why Design Now?, the Cooper-Hewitt's fourth installment of the National Design Triennial, zeroes in on the segment of design that attempts to solve our biggest social and environmental problems. To best exemplify the international cooperation that lies at the heart of this outlook on design, the curatorial team extended their scope from domestic...

Three ways to overthink package design

As an ID'er, you're probably well familiar with unreasonable deadlines and overnighters; as with many creative fields, you'll undertake lots of projects which there simply isn't enough time for.The flip side of that is a project that there's too much time for. Many of you will argue there's no such thing, but in my time I've seen instances...