product design Archive
popjects
Avihai Shurin is an Israeli industrial designer who came up with a clever, albeit cheeky, concept: mass-producing an object found in most Jewish homes around the world. Presenting,
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sculpture
A. Drauglis is a Washington, DC-based artist, woodworker and furniture maker. He recently caught my attention with this handsome pill box, which comes complete with a dose of social
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fashion
Juliet Ames is a Baltimore-based crafter who has been breaking plates and turning the ‘wreckage’ into art since 2006. China Knuckles, which combine the implied violence of brass knuckles
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popjects
Art school is hardly the school of hard knocks, but it’s not exactly a cakewalk for students matriculating into today’s workforce either. Brutherford Industries‘ latest popject is a
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sculpture
Portland’s WeMake has organized the construction and deployment of over 100 designer birdhouses throughout the city. Local, national and international artists answered the call to action and created amazing birdhouses that will be auctioned
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industrial
When you were younger, did you know a kid who seemed to be allergic to everything? Were YOU that kid? Have you now sworn off breeding so as
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industrial
Remember Jason Taylor and his Everyday Objects project? I wrote that post in March, when the UK-based product designer was nearing his 100th transformation of an everyday object.
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industrial
The walls of this Designer Toy Dream House were stacked with eye candy, but an object along the floor caught my attention: a designer pet dish by Miriam Mirri for Alessi. The Italian
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popjects
Wise men from Bing Crosby to Perry Como to Agent Gordon Cole have advised letting a smile be your umbrella. Well the maker’s of this week’s ultimate popject have other ideas. When it
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popjects
You’re looking at Karoto, a carrot peeler that takes the form of a pencil sharpener, by Israeli designer Avichai Tadmor. Tadmor got his inspiration from a common school pencil
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