Magic Mirrors are Here to Change Our Lives
The iPhone has opened everyone’s eyes to the potential of touch-based development, and although it still seems to be generally used by News Anchors or in expensive store kiosks, Microsoft’s Surface is...
View ArticleThe Best Charging Station Roundup: Take Control of Your Damn Gadgets
Wires are messy and ugly. When it’s time to charge something you own, and that time is every 2 or 3 days, you have to find an outlet, find the AC adapter, and then place that expensive item on some...
View ArticleAmazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging
Big news for packaging design enthusiasts and all people (well, everyone who has ever bought a product in the last 10 to 15 years), ubiquitous online retailer Amazon.com has launched the...
View ArticleThere’s Still Room for Fresh Design When it Comes to Wine
I’m one of those relatively new wine drinkers that knows next-to-nothing about actual wine, but just enough to pretend that I know what I’m doing when selecting one. If I’m with a group of people who...
View ArticleThe Atlantic Gets a Redesign
The 151-year old American magazine The Atlantic just had a redesign. Since that very magazine employs quite a few political bloggers that I read every day, and since their posts tend to be peppered...
View ArticleYou Probably Weren’t Expecting a Projector the Size of an iPod, But Now it’s...
Miniaturization continues unabated, a ream of consumer products getting smaller and shrinking down to previously unthinkable new sizes. Our latest and slightly kind of amazing new example is the...
View ArticlePeugeot, Maker of Tasteful French Cars, Sponsors Futuristic Insanity
I once had a Peugeot. No, not a car, but a street bike I bought for $80 at a garage sale. It was the best bike I’ve ever owned. A friend of mine had the exact same one, and we used to call them… wait...
View ArticleAIGA’s Incredible Design Competition: We Pick the Best
AIGA (The Professional Association for Design) does a yearly survey called AIGA 365: The Year in Design. They’ve chosen a whole series of top examples for 2008 to put into the archives, all sorted...
View ArticleBeautiful Art Cars, Designed by Warhol and Lichtenstein, Hit America
Back in the 1970s, the French racer Herve Poulain came up with the great idea to have an American artist paint his car. Instead of choosing someone who would do a relatively standard, acceptable, and...
View ArticleThe Coolest, Most Affordable Wallets in the World
When I talk about wallets, what comes to mind? Something elegant, made of leather, sliding smoothly out of the back pocket and discreetly holding its secrets without revealing them? If you’ve always...
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