Stark, hi-tech, and decidedly not-quite-Western-looking, above are some of the results of an industrial design competition sponsored by Nord, a Ukrainian domestic appliances manufacturer. The competition drew nearly 100 entrants from the Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Uzbekistan; you can see more of the designs here.
Here's some rather neat historical-object bookends: Former Chrysler executive and car collector Darrell L. Davis has, among other cars, a Plymouth from 1928, the first year the Plymouth mark came into existence. The car sitting next to it? A 2001 Neon--the absolute last Plymouth to roll off the assembly line...
Last week we showed you the nuttily high-level video quality you can now shoot with DSLR cameras, saving yourself a bundle; even at $2,800, Canon's 5D Mark II is still thousands cheaper than what a Pro HD camcorder would run you.But you can easily piss those savings away with accessories--a...
A bite-sized list of what's happenin' now: business standard India: How National is the National Institute of Design? massey news Interview with Mark Pennington, designer of Formway Life chair telegraph Computer mouse celebrates 40th birthday (and may be facing redundancy) virtualization Revolve Design tapped to conceive next generation luxury grills luxist Green Designers Win National Award for Mobile babson Babson, Olin &...
With the early devices that we used to consume media, form basically followed function: Radios had control knobs and a speaker on the front, televisions had screens front and center, and rabbit ear antennas stretched high to capture signals. Nowadays screens have become little more than flat rectangles, and the...
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