Here’s what we looked at this week:
Timothy Wilmots’ self-designed Multi-Function Tool Cart is a superior, and earlier, design than Systainer/Festool’s MW 1000.
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This wonderful cow puzzle is a simple, yet complicated toy design. Japanese manufacturer Yamanaka Kumiki Works has been making animal puzzles like these for decades. Click the link to see how it goes together.
For high-precision sketchers: Uni’s Jetstream Edge pen is rollerball-smooth, but with fast-drying ballpoint ink in a crazy fine 0.28mm point.
BMW’s 7 Series Protection vehicle is the Ultimate Driving Machine, for driving through a hail of bullets and exploding grenades.
Portable screen designs are evolving wildly. Will they last, or will we go goggles?
ID firm Discommon mashes up the Mandalorian, Iron Man, porcelain and bronze.
This under-designed Lie Down Laptop Stand looks like unfinished ID student work. It sells for $120.
This minimalist Lin Chair is by Studio Shinyoo.
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The Atari Gamestation Pro offers a fresh take on the Atari joystick. It only took 46 years to upgrade the design.
Simple design: This plastic gizmo turns 5-gallon buckets into dustpans.
These unusual chairs with cast iron frames are by Industrial Design students Julia Ribic and Jan Wagemann.
The Duex Float is an extra laptop screen that folds with your laptop.
Carl Hansen & Son is rolling out a fancy 60th Anniversary Edition of Hans Wegner’s CH07 Shell Chair.
Industrial designer Rodolfo Bonetto designed these fun TV sets in the 1960s/’70s.
This beautiful one-piece brass tape dispenser was done by Industrial Design student Jasper Ohainski. Really clever how it works.
These modern-looking pieces of rattan furniture are by industrial designer Jin Kuramoto.
The 21st Middlecott Sketchbattle, “the Fight Club of Design,” pitted 20 transportation designers against the clock and each other. The theme was “Flying muscle cars.” Here’s an image gallery of the event.
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