Like others who found their way to a career in product design, Dimitris Niavis spent a significant amount of his childhood tearing apart toys, figuring out how they work and ultimately reassembling them again. Today, the designer is using that same train of thought to rethink local manufacturing with the goal of creating a synergy between local designers, makers, craftsmen and artisans. The designer’s Platonics Wiref Collection of modular furniture is inspired from the “tools and guidelines used in a digital design process” – although he is not specific as to which – and is designed to be replicated easily across local manufacturing networks with readily available eco-friendly materials and supplies.…

Never cared much for having a globe at home… until now. Oscar Lhermitte and the design tag team Kudu are ready to manufacture the first batch of MOON lunar globes for commercial sale. MOON is the ‘most accurate lunar globe’ in existence, and is based on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter topographic data collected by the Institute of Planetary Research.

There have been multiple attempts to develop a feasible method of 3D printing buildings, and Branch Technology is trying another method.

Presented by Here we are. Part 4 of this epic exploration of Fusion 360. If you remember our first post, we are working our way through five aspects of Fusion 360 that, which Autodesk suggests, makes it more than CAD. To recap in a sentence, it all revolves around the idea of Fusion 360 as a ‘Product Innovation Platform’ that brings all the features of 3D CAD together with CAM, Collaboration, Simulation and a whole lot more. Now it’s time to look at Simulation. As mentioned, this gets slightly outside my comfort zone, so I’ll leave it to you to you to help me fill in the gaps while I…

By nature, the human eye is one of the most complex and intelligent examples of biological design – not to mention one of the more challenging biological features to design protection for in extreme conditions. For athletes that sweat and move in all directions rigorously for hours on end, this design problem is made all the more difficult. Aiming to find the most lightweight and effective sunglass design solution for competitive runners, the Nike Vision team recently teamed up with ZEISS and Marchon Eyewear to develop a new design direction for the future of performance sunglasses. Among other challenges of designing sunglasses for competitive runners include the need for a…

According to San Diego surfboard shaper Josh Oldenburg, the most critical challenge of being a local shaper in an international surfboard manufacturing mecca is the level of competition and design standards that go into each and every board. Needless to say, just to be considered a shaper alongside names like Rusty, Chris Christenson, and Jeff Mccallum is both humbling and rewarding. To stay on top of his game, Oldenburg relies heavily on custom referral requests for specific customers to create custom tailored solutions based on individual riding styles – a process that has helped him further define his own style and find an identity in a saturated market. Says Oldenburg: “My…