My Concorde Thing, by Nathan Shedroff

It's not an obsession and it's not quite a hobby. However, for almost two years, between 2004 and 2006, I checked Ebay nearly every day for Concorde in-flight service items. In the interim, I've amassed a substantial collection, mostly from the last British Airways fitting, co-designed by Conran and Factory Design. My friends call it my "Concorde...

Vienna Design Week 2010 On-The-Go: The 7 Deadly Sins

To celebrate the release of Austrian based print magazine Kursiv's 2010 yearbook based on the Die 7 Todsunden (The 7 Deadly Sins) the well established Das Mobel furniture store in Vienna commissioned seven designers to create their own interpretations of one of the seven cardinal sins.Robert Ruf's contribution, pictured above, was based on...

Announcing the Winners! 1 Hour Design Challenge: Play-Doh Kicks

Our latest design challenge, Play-Doh Kicks, was not only one of the most fun, but also one of our biggest. We asked our readers to sculpt a rendition of their favorite kicks in play-doh as a mini tribute to shoe design (and our childhoods).With over 100 pairs of play-doh shoes in the closing line-up, the challenge was an especially hard...

Light-extruding tech now available in app form

One of our most-Tweeted posts was the recent "How to extrude light," which showed design consultancy Berg and Dentsu London's innovative use of an iPad and long-shutter photography to produce images in space.Unsurprisingly, the technology is now available in app form for both the iPad and iPhone with Garry Sommerville's Holo-Paint--albeit...

Reax resuscitation device takes 3rd in Dyson Awards

Years ago I drove an ambulance, and on my very first call I'd done chest compressions on a guy who was unfortunately too far gone to be saved. Afterwards the seasoned EMTs told me that CPR is a real Hail Mary that works less than 10% of the time, despite what you see in the movies. It's a primitive way to try to pump blood to the brain, and...

Vienna Design Week 2010: The Bulb Fiction Show

Klaus Engelhorn, curator of Bulb Fiction, tries on POLKA's 'Perlenlicht' prototype for size.In the Hernals neighborhood of Vienna, we visited the Bulb Fiction show at the KlausEngelhorn Depot. Selections from the collections of Klaus Engelhorn and Michael Turkiewicz lighting objects from the late 1960s to the early 1970s were exhibited amongst...