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All articles filed in industrial design

fun stuff mindset video

Disillusioned Designer Deconstructs Ordinary Stuff and Tinkers Them Into Tiny, Sublime Animated Films

Tired of designing for consumption, Dina Amin employs her love of taking things apart and tinkering to create tiny videos that are charming and illuminating.

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diy material materials for making repurpose + reclaim space/home storage

Storage Cage Closets Then and Now

Was visionary designer Paul D’Urso’s 1980’s cyclone fence clothes closet the roots of Ikea’s recent iteration?

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diy furniture garden ideas from artists material materials for making mindset repurpose + reclaim space/home

Shopping Cart Lawn Chair/Lounger

The supermarket shopping cart has always seemed to us to be a splendid raw material, its metal-grid walls and sturdy wheels rich with possibilities. Artists have long been hacking shopping carts, transforming them into moderne, beautifully-designed objects of leisure.

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restaurant L'Ouvrier
cool spaces space/home

how to turn ugly electrical cords into a graphic element

Scraggly, unkempt electrical cords can be the bane a well-designed interior. At L’Ouvrier Restaurant in Toronto, black electrical cords are wound and tacked onto walls in spirally designs, turning a normally ugly element into something visually pleasing, without trying to hide it. 

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creative process gifts mindset paths + processes tools/wares

‘objectified’ will change how you view the things around you

Pamela Hovland, who teaches design at Yale, emailed us about Objectified, a documentary by Gary Hustwit (who made Helvetica, a riveting film about a font). It’s about what REALLY goes into designing the things we take for granted around us, from toothbrushes to chairs to cars, and the ways design – both good and bad –  impacts…

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