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Redesigning Long-Haul Flight Blankets
These items by design firm JPA Design are meant to make redeye flights more bearable (and sustainable). JPA focused on the blankets handed out on long-haul flights. Their first aim was to do away with...
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1980s Design Commentary: Ron Arad's Concrete Stereo
This Concrete Stereo system was designed by Ron Arad in the 20th century. It consists of a turntable, an amp and two tower speakers.Had it been designed in 1993, it would've been seen as an ironic...
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A 1960s Design Classic: Erik Magnussen's Z-Down Chair
This folding Z-Down chair is by 20th-century Danish furniture designer Erik Magnussen. Magnussen ingeniously figured out how to create the form using just two pieces of bent tubing and two connectors,...
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Modernist Magnetic Hooks from Ant Mag
Magnetic hooks are typically utilitarian objects, relegated to the workshop, basement or mudroom. A company called Ant Mag produces such hooks……but also offers models with a more Modernist style,...
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A Fast Snap-Shut Bike Lock
French company Strong Locks has invented this V-160, a permanently-mounted bike lock that automatically snaps shut. The company reckons it's a lot easier than fussing with a D-lock or a chain. The lock...
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A Compact Charging Block with a Retractable Cable
Chinese manufacturer Torras has designed this ZipGo, a charging block with a retractable USB-C cable.Designed for frequent travelers, the diminutive block is just 2.5" x 1.5" x 1", smaller than Apple's...
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Long-Lived Design: Todd Bracher and Humanscale's Elegant Trea Series of Chairs
In this age of disposable furniture, you know you've got a winning design when people are still talking about it a decade after its debut. Veteran industrial designer Todd Bracher created this timeless...
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This Gizmo Cuts Plastic Bottles Into Neat Strips
This intriguing BottleLoom invention, by Chinese manufacturer New Creativity, cuts plastic bottles into clean strips of material. While you need to cut the bottom of the bottle off manually to begin...
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A Bike Bag Designed to Carry Unusual-Shaped Objects
The last backpack we saw designed specifically to carry odd-shaped items was the Sherman, by Chrome Industries. Sadly it's been discontinued.German manufacturer Red Rebane, which makes bags for...
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Industrial Design Insights: Whipsaw on Using AI for Digital Product Prototyping
"For all of the designers out there, or people who have been privy to a true design program, you will know that the most successful solutions are not born from a linear process," writes industrial...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (4-14-25 to 4-18-25)
Here's what we looked at this week:An IRL version of the keyboard from "Severance" is supposedly going into production. Because buying one of these will surely fill that void. Luxury…sketchbooks?!?...
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Why Tariffs Can be Tricky: The Honda Ridgeline is a More "American" Truck...
Once upon a time American factories, like factories around the world, had raw materials delivered to one end. Out of the other end emerged finished products: Automobiles, sewing machines,...
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Three Humanscale Solutions for Neatly Delivering Power to Your Desk
Here are three novel desktop power delivery solutions from Humanscale Design Studio.The rise of hot-desking means mobile workers need a place to temporarily plug in a laptop and an accessory or two,...
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Practical Industrial Design Student Work: Designing Connectors
We've seen so many blue-sky ID school assignments that this one, which focuses on practicality, is refreshing. It's from the "Basic Knowledge of Product Development" class at Germany's...
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Clever Design for an Easy-to-Use 3D-Printed Solder Dispenser
This clever 3D-printed Solder Scroll is by Victor Designs. You load the pen-like object with solder—it's adjustable to accommodate diameters from 0.3mm to 1.5mm—and can then dispense it precisely via...
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