Industrial design

Bright Bike from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.

Bright Bike project

Very fun designs from Meninos in Brazil. Among my favorites are the ps/ai magnetic board, and the skateboard calendar. Also notable, the photoshop toolbar skateboard deck.

http://www.meninos.us/shop/en/shop.html

Lushpad presents an Original 1961 Playboy article
about the masters of design.

http://www.lushpad.com/articles.php?id=16&pag=1

Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/

The Design Museum Shop's mission: celebrate good design.

Over two decades, the Shop has evolved from a small outlet selling postcards and a handful of products into a destination store for design conscious visitors from all over the world.

All profits from the Shop go directly into the Design Museum exhibitions programme, which means that every purchase you make contributes to dynamic shows, education and access to design for everybody.

http://designmuseumshop.com

Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight — you could build yourself a platform to stand on, and then pick it up and move it wherever you need to.

http://bloxes.com/

The abstracted botanical forms of the Sarah Clock are unmistakable. It was inspired not only by the natural forms of plants, but also their movement. The unexpected use of the flexible graphite stem not only gives the Sarah Clock its tall graceful gesture, but also allows it to gently sway like a plant or limb in a breeze. It is a perfect piece to add life to any space.

http://www.esbystudio.com/sarah.html

(via makezine)
A modern take on a traditional Ping Pong table, the Pong table reinvents the classic pong game, using 2500 LEDs and two track pads. The game is programmed into an inbuilt microchip that controls a matrix of LEDs beneath the Corian surface so that the ball may bounce all over it.

http://www.waldemeyer.com/electrickid.html

The Brammo Enertia is an electric motorcycle that gets 45 miles per charge and has a top speed of 50mph. Zero to 30 mph is reached in a superfast 3.8 seconds, and it features a beautifully sculpted design.

http://www.enertiabike.com

By Patrick Hong, "Road & Track"

BMW recently unveiled their unique GINA Light Visionary Model. It is skinned by four large pieces of flexible material that can stretch and contract based on a number of substructures that can move about on the chassis with electro and electrohydraulic controls.