Watchismo
Category: Industrial Design
This iconic watch was originally designed by Roger Tallon in 1973, as part of his Mach 2000 series. This site contains a bunch of great vintage watches that are again available for purchasing.
Archive for the ‘Industrial Design’ Category
Bristol Legible City
Category: Industrial Design, Inspiration, Nerdy stuff, Technology, Typography
This is one of the better real-world examples of an effective way finding system integrated within an overall public space redesign project. Link from Chris Moorehead.
RepRap 3D printer
Category: Industrial Design
RepRap will make plastic, ceramic, or metal parts, and is itself made from plastic parts, so it will be able to make copies of itself. Basically it is a 3D printer. Think of it like a hot glue gun. You lay a line with the glue gun let it dry and then lay another line on top building until you have an object. Instead of glue it uses a hard drying plastic, making small parts up to one foot square.
Heely’s Hack: Energy Harvesting
Category: Climate-friendly, Industrial Design, Inspiration, Nerdy stuff
The Energy Harvesting Dérive by Christian Croft and Kate Hartman combines new modes of pedestrian movement with alternative energy research goals. The project hacks the recently popular Heelys roller sneaker to transform it into a platform for generating electricity from human motion.
Video of the shoe can be found here
Shiyuan wallpaper
Category: Illustration, Industrial Design, Inspiration
This incredible wallpaper reacts to heat and produces blooming flowers.
The HomeHero
Category: Industrial Design
The HomeHero was designed by Peter Arnell in collaboration with one of the world’s finest manufacturers of fire extinguishers, Kidde, a division of United Technologies. Designed as an appliance for the kitchen, the HomeHero works with its environment so people can keep it in plain site where they can quickly grab it in an emergency. Operated with one hand, this extinguisher has easy-to-read instructions that face the user.
Phonofone II
Category: Audio, Industrial Design, Inspiration
Through passive amplification alone, These unique pieces instantly transform any personal music player + earbuds into a sculptural audio console.
Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone inventively exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibles
Sdesignunit
Category: Industrial Design, Inspiration
These products blew me away, despite being white and gray they have a great friendly feel about them.
itouch
Category: Industrial Design
Great now we are going to have people pretending to talk on their “iphone.”
