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This printer gives me hope that one day I might own a cute printer
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Printers are ugly. Big time ugly. They also haven’t changed much over time. It’s not like we went from a cuddly soft printer to a more industrial one — they’ve always looked cold and unlovable. A man named Ludwig Rensch envisioned a new kind of printer that challenges old standards. Take that, old printers. His design experiment, Paper, is a copier, scanner, and printer that looks like a thing I would willfully put in my house. Check it out in the photos below and the video above.
This isn’t the first time someone has attempted to make a pretty printer. In 2013 there was the Little Printer, which was definitely high up on the cute scale but no longer exists. Samsung also created t…
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This student-made gadget can detect fonts and capture colors
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Some people take photos of designs they see out in the world that inspire them. Others create mood boards for tracking inspiration. But having a photo of something isn’t the same as being able to it in your own work. Knowing this, Fiona O'Leary, a student at the Royal College of Art, developed a prototype called the Spector, so she could capture any font and color she sees in the world. If she loved the font London uses on its subway maps, for instance, she could use this device to capture that font and load it into Adobe InDesign. Spector takes a photo of the font and uses an algorithm to translate that image into information about the shape of letters and symbols. It then cross-references that information with a font database to…
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Artist Lily Nishita makes gritty video game heroes look absolutely adorable
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Like many artists, Lily Nishita has been drawing for as long as she can remember. “The story my family told me is that I could hold a pencil before I could really talk,” she says. A steady diet of cartoons and animated movies led her to think about working in animation, but eventually she shifted gears and went on to study graphic design at school. “In retrospect I’d probably be really terrible doing anything else,” she says.
Nishita went on to freelance for several years, and more recently she’s been working at Naughty Dog — the studio behind games like The Last of Us and Uncharted — helping steer the company’s visual design. That includes everything from slight tweaks to the studio’s logo to creating adorable digital stickers for…
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An analog pinball cabinet is being transformed into a digital art machine
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Inside of The Lab at Panorama, the music festival and accompanying art show debuting in New York City next month, there’ll be light projections, a trippy tunnel of mirrors, and other interactive artworks. There will also be people playing pinball.
That’ll be the doing of Red Paper Heart, a small studio in Brooklyn that’s transforming a 1970s pinball machine into a tool for creating digital art. “Things like pinball get people over the seriousness of artwork,” says Zander Brimijoin, the company’s creative director. “People love pinball, so they instantly have an emotional attachment to it, and we can use that to create this amazing experience.”
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BMW's 1939 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé reminds us that cars should be designed with feeling
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When McLaren inaugurated its present range of roadgoing supercars with the MP4-12C in 2010, it presented that car as the ultimate expression of form following function. Designed entirely for performance, the 12C was shaped by the wind tunnel and McLaren was proud of that fact. I’m here to state the obvious by denouncing that extremist approach to design as wrongheaded, and the car reminding me of that fact is the 1939 BMW 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé that I saw at Goodwood last week.
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Puma made a shoe celebrating BMW's bizarre fabric-covered concept car
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Puma has collaborated with Designworks — BMW’s for-hire design agency — to make a new shoe that pays homage to one of the stranger concept cars of the last decade.
The X-CAT DISC takes styling cues from BMW’s GINA Light Visionary Model that debuted in 2008, a roadster with a seamless, silvery fabric pulled taut over a substructure where you’d normally expect metal panels. The car was ridiculous in all the ways you want a true concept car to be: when the swing doors opened, the cloth simply bunched up; when the headlights weren’t needed, they disappeared behind cloth “eyelids.” Whether you liked the design, you had to give credit to BMW for doing something radically different.
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Kanye West and Adidas announce huge partnership including new stores
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You haven’t seen the last of Kanye West’s Adidas designs. West and the apparel company have just announced a huge expansion of their current partnership, in what Adidas is calling “the most significant partnership ever created between a non-athlete and an athletic brand,” Pitchfork reports. The terms of the partnership dictate that West will expand his work with Adidas to include apparel and accessories, as well as sneakers. Adidas says it also plans to open up retail stores that will stock only Yeezy products.
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LG’s flexible pressure sensors could help chairs adjust themselves
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LG’s materials and components subsidiary, LG Innotek, has developed a new type of flexible, textile pressure sensor. The company has yet to commercialize the technology, but says it could be used in a number of industries, including healthcare and car manufacturing. The company points out that current pressure sensors are all inflexible and stiff, whereas LG’s new design is made from a flexible, elastic material that means they can be seamlessly integrated into other products. It also detects pressure across the whole of its exterior — not just in specific points.
The company mentions a number of possible use cases for the pressure sensors, including:
- Healthcare. For example, pressure-sensitive shoes or even a whole carpet that…
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The recalled Jeep shifter is just bad user interface design
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The recalled Jeep shifter that may have been involved in Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin’s death is a straightforward example of how things get harder to use when you take controls out of hardware and put them into software. It’s a UI problem, and an entirely avoidable one.
First things first: if you have a 2014 or 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee or a 2012-2014 Dodge Charger or Chrysler 300, you should call your dealer right now and set up an appointment for the recall. According to my local dealer, the update takes 3.5 hours, and it patches the car’s software to engage the emergency brake if the driver’s door is opened when the car is in neutral. That’s it. It’s a software update that was finally accelerated in the past few weeks after a death,…
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This wetsuit promises to optimize your buoyancy for $900
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Have you ever been swimming laps in a pool when suddenly you thought, I would pay almost $1,000 for the pleasure of a full-body outfit capable of making me slightly more buoyant and aerodynamic? No? Well then this wetsuit isn’t for you, ya dummy!
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