Reading Braille Aloud

The Snail is a Braille reader that works smooth as silk on a surface that’s predictably bumpy! It can record the text as it reads for future playback and it even syncs with a Bluetooth headset so the visually impaired can listen to the book without disturbing others. Features like kinetic recharging and pressure sensitive reading make it...

Easy Cap!

One of the things with refrigerated soda bottles is unscrewing the cap can be a bit tough. A little bit of physics applied to a cap redesign does the trick to making things easier. The teardrop shaped Easy Access Bottle Cap is perfect. I can’t see why we can’t standardize this across all bottles. It’s ergonomic and smooth. Looks kinda cool...

Kid’s Drum-able Desk

This brilliantly colored table by designer Carlos Pendas is a whimsical kid’s desk that uses tensed fabric as a surface rather than an ordinary hard top. The stretched fabric also doubles as a drum for an added touch of fun and interaction. Hangoo’s simple assembly can be completed in minutes and is so easy that even kids can participate...

The Avery Dennison Brand Experience Contest - Deadline: May 30, 2011

Bring a brand to life. Yours.Show us what you're made of. And we'll show the world.Introducing the Avery Dennison Brand Experience Contest, a worldwide packaging design contest that allows you to showcase your creative skills and vision. By taking a brand from inception to unveiling. From bottle to shelf. And everything in between.Compete...

BrokenOff BrokenOff: A Tribute to Tobias Wong

In May 2010, the New York design community lost one of its most prolific and influential designers of the current generation, Tobias Wong. Blurring the boundary between conceptual art and design, the work of Tobias questioned the value system of objects and pretensions of designers with wit, satire and humor.Nine celebrated New York-based...

Making Sturdy Stuff Out of Plastic Sheets, Part 3: Patrick Frey's Nook Stool and Bench

Going a bit more hi-tech than the mail bins, Germany-based designerPatrick Frey uses Varioline, a name brand sheet plastic injection-molded with a closed-cell foam core, to make his sturdy yet lightweight Nook line of stools and benches for manufacturer Vial. (You've surely seen these before, as the Nook scooped up both iF and Good Design...

CCA Junior Critiques at Frog Design San Francisco

frog design San Francisco hosted two days of California College of the Arts Industrial Design critiques this week for the course "Craft and the Hand Tool" which was co-taught by frog Executive Creative Director, Max Burton. Students were assigned a category of hand tool, such as kitchen, or garden, and, working in small teams, had to develop...

The Grass Is Always Greener: "Urban Prairie" by In Square Lab

London's In Square Lab, an architectural practice that specializes in "Time-Based Architecture," recently collaborated with MPC Digital and Existential on "Urban Prairie," an interactive window installation in the heart of their hometown. The 5m window display consists of a row of optical sensors facing the street, which are programmed to...