He’s been at the designing gig for quite some time now, so you know when designer and product maker Eric Strebel recommends tools, it carries a little weight. Eager to help both new and experienced designers alike, he recently listed seven tools which he personally finds indispensable when working on a project: 1. Digital Calipers While any good quality set of calipers will do, Strebel highly recommends digital calipers that measure up to two decimal points and can switch between metric and imperial measuring units. These two features make it a lot easier to measure samples from your clients as well as your own designs. Combine this with a built-in…

Your fleeting fascination with a remote workstation solution in the past may have recently shifted into anxiety-driven race to find an option for yourself, your co-workers, or employees. We didn’t get much warning, did we? If your high-efficiency, centralized teams have suddenly switched to a pajama-clad ‘work from home’ workforce, the scrambling to patch together software, server, and desktop access may have left you with a little ‘it’ll do for now’ relief, but what about the next time? Or even the next few months? One option I’ve had my eyes on is TGX Remote Desktop from Mechdyne. They’ve partnered with Lenovo to offer a remote workstation solution that marries Lenovo…

One reason we like to feature the process behind the design is how it breaks down what may otherwise seem complicated. For maker Jimmy Diresta, the process is an artform in itself. His videos are a soothing, manufacturing-noise-only, time-lapse of a project from beginning to end. It’s no less the case in his build of a steel finger-joint stool. Have a listen: Let’s slow it down now and take a look at the steps he goes through: 1. Concept Design Sketches Inspired by old metal toys that use steel joinery techniques as well as looking at his clasped hands while on an airplane (ah, the muse of the maker), Diresta…

When you spend all day making complex design projects, it’s can be nice to just sit back, relax, and go with something a little simpler. Tired of the over-sophistication of house products, Chilean product designer Lorenzo Vega saw fit to create a house fixture which is just as simple as its function. Enter the Lámina Lamp – a simply-named, single-fold paper lamp which doesn’t require any prior origami knowledge to make: Was the GIF above too fast? Here’s the same folding process in still images: Save for the plug and lightbulb which you can procure from any home store, the entire lamp structure is composed of folded paper. With it,…

A blanket of read posies collapsed against its metal skin, contrasted by the oil-charred joints and rusted thrust rods. We had five total, and a hundred more in various pieces. We had enough for the harvest, but first there were the couplers to build; the only way they could link minds through the protein absorption from these links. Shin jong hun – Fabulous, beautiful environment art with wonderful, twisting trees, cloud-filled skies, and icy mountains from this Seoul-based artist. Stop-motion cooking – Bebop is back with LEGO in real life, backing a cake, making a pizza, and slicing sushi, leaving us wondering how he does it all. Lord of the…

If you ask any software development company what they’re doing to help with the COVID-19 pandemic, you may find they’re using their software in unconventional ways to solve, and in this case, simulate, the challenges that could help improve the design of so many personal protection equipment (PPE) initiatives. Dassault Systèmes has released a video simulating a human sneeze, showing how all y’alls mucus particles blast through the air, contaminating surfaces. “The video is a computational simulation developed using SIMULIA PowerFLOW and is based on published data including gas velocity as a function of time exiting the mouth as well as droplet particle size and distribution. The video shows how…