Fingers For Food Feelings

The See With Fingertips is a specialized plate for the blind, to help them feel around the food-plate with hands and eat confidently, without spills. The thoughtful shape of each niche is quite interesting and I feel this idea can be extended to toddlers getting their grips on independent eating. What do you think?Designers: Keum Eun-byeol...

Behind the Scenes: frog design on the Nautilus Mobia

Written by Tony Meredith, Remy Lebesque, Cormac Eubanks, Howard Nuk, and Michael DiTullo.Working out at home may be convenient and cost effective, but why do the machines for home use echo gym units so closely? Can a home machine be appropriate for and respond to the home environment it is meant to live within? Can we make it a source of...

CraftedSystems: Xanthe Matychak Interviews Aurelie Tu

Top: A lineup of products from CraftedSystems. Bottom: Producing the work at a local YWCA.Designer Aurelie Tu, formerly the head of women's product at NikeVision, Timing and Technology, has left the comfort of the mega firm to found her own modern craft studio, CraftedSystems, a line of housewares made from modular pieces of felt—floor and...

"Klhip" nail clippers: Redesigning the mundane

Objects can often become so ubiquitous that we no longer question their form. The testimony of time shields such relics from the scrutiny and skepticism that we subject new products to.Nail clippers, for example, have barely changed since the Industrial Revolution—which is bizarre considering the mess they can often leave your nails in and...

High Chairs getting high design

HighChairStation is an e-tailer that scours France, Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavia to find the most designey chairs and booster seats a baby could ask for, some of them well-considered, others excessive. Examples:The Bloom Fresco Loft has dual chair/crib functionality;The Svan gives your child an early taste for the possibilities of...

Design Museum Boston's "Creative Capital" Exhibit

We've been following Design Museum Boston's progress since their first kick off fund raiser earlier this year and through their open sourcebranding process with Design Continuum. The group's first installation is "Creative Capital", done in partnership with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, AIR Graphics and VDA Productions. The exhibit...