Side Table ASH, Idea #1 / Three years of maturity Bill Katavolos (1924-2020), a visionary architect and educator known for his spirit of discovery and invention and part of the Architecture School at Pratt Institute,… / leer más
Design Disaster? Or Organized Chaos? Another smiling Kitchen Utensil added to what was an over flowing drawer full of utensils ranging from measuring spoons to wooden spoons from whisks to basters and there’s still room… / leer más
FreeArm™ Tube Feeding Assistant from Freearmcare.com Misti Staley was trying to juggle her baby son Freeman, who had a feeding tube port in his belly, while holding his gravity-feeding syringe and at the same time… / leer más
The Marvelous Module!1 X 2 X 4 = BrickWhy is this ratio so perfect and who thought of it? I never gave much thought to bricks until seeing Alvar Aalto’s beautiful library in Helsinki. The… / leer más
In 1954 Eero Saarinen wanted to eliminate the “FOREST” of legs that supported tables and chairs. The “Tulip” Chair emerged as the solution: a single pedestal supporting the chair and table. The base seems to… / leer más
Who Designed It And When? This tape dispenser has suddenly appeared in Flying Tiger stores so I was wondering who designed it and if the patents on it had run out because I know it’s… / leer más
The logo consists of a PRONOUN, a SYMBOL and an ABBREVIATION, quite a complicated idea combining three different kinds of communication in a single phrase. In 1977 Milton Glaser was asked by RICH, Wells &… / leer más
When Ferdinand Porsche was commissioned by The Third Reich to design the People’s Car or Volkswagen he threw out every automobile convention and used every “new” idea and technique he could find. He used an… / leer más
I read Sherman R. Poppen’s obit in the New York Times today and discovered he was the inventor of The Snurfer the prototypical snowboard from the 1960’s that Jake Burton Carpenter rode on and improved on in… / leer más
SCREWED! The screw is one the 6 simple machines, lever, wheel & axle, Pulley, Inclined plane, Wedge & screw, that help us perform kinds of tasks. The simple machines were invented by our ancestors to… / leer más
Last night we uncovered this box of LEMSIP tablets from England while looking for something to calm my son’s coughing. The packaging not only has braille embossed on it, but the graphic that distinguishes the… / leer más
Discovered At Falling Water? Driving to Falling Water seemed like a good idea, rent a car pick up Tanya and drive towards Pittsburg on Route 78. All went according to plan till the tire rapped-rapped… / leer más
NASA Orbit Pavilion: un observatorio del sonido de los satélites en órbita, «…un pabellón para que los visitantes se sumerjan en los sonidos de los 19 satélites que orbitan alrededor de la Tierra».
Notable People Map: un mapa digital de personas notables en el mundo. «usa información extraída de una base de datos verificada de personas notables desde 3500BC-2018, que forma parte de un estudio publicado en la revista Nature»
«La Asociación Iberoamérica Diseña es la primera asociación de ámbito iberoamericano, constituida por profesionales de 16 de los 22 países iberoamericanos que firman esta Declaración fundacional».
Un proyecto de colaboración con el estudio de diseño Dedo Ciego en Barcelona. 20 productos diseñados en Venezuela, desde 1958 hasta 2020.
Llegó la primavera en Brooklyn, NYC.
Descarga el segundo número de la revista Proyecta56, an industrial design Journal, editada por la Universidad de Cádiz.
El proyecto de divulgación, difusión y reflexión sobre el diseño industrial en Venezuela creado en 2011. Cerca de 300 diseñadores en 4 ediciones. Descarga los catálogos en PDF:
> 2011 / más divulgación, menos átomos
