Industrial Design News

The latest country to get the MoMA Design Store treatment is a land more known for samba and sunshine than for industrial design.

Nathan Shedroff's new book, "Design is the Problem" , presents a practical and layman-accessible exploration of sustainable design.

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OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the twin-display OLPC XO-2 2.0 project has been scrapped, in favor of an updated - but cosmetically identical - revamp of the existing 1.0 XO-1 model and a new, model 3.0 that has "totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper". A Speaking to Xconomy, the outspoken exec also ...

Capra J'neva' and the other designers at Firebulb enjoy tuning their designs to the environment.

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Analog Devices, Inc. announced the promotion of David Robertson to the position of Vice President of Analog Technology.

Like humans, dead gadgets get autopsies, too - only we call such hardware dissection "teardowns." But why do we rip our beloved gadgets to pieces? To learn more about the nature of technology, engineering and industrial design, of course.

Software developers Sustainable Minds and Autodesk have created a close integration that marries Sustainable Mind's Web-based lifecycle assessment tool more closely with the Autodesk Inventor 3-D design application.

Designers often talk about the moment they realized their destiny lay in design.

ABI Research expects the Ultra Mobile Device market - " that is, the shipments of UMPCs , netbooks, MIDs and mobile consumer electronics devices combined - " to achieve a 385 million unit size in 2014.

Big needs and limited resources. Both descriptions frequently characterize the small to midsize manufacturer when it comes to product development efforts.

China's design industry experts are calling for greater government support in order to help the country's manufacturers raise the competitiveness with innovation.

Photos: Trek Bicycle Corporation and UnBeige As followers of the UnBeige Twitter feed learned only minutes after it was announced last night, Trek's Lime bike edged out 197 other nominees to win the 2009 People's Design Award from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

Delta has introduced its networking division for OEM/ODM customers in India market with networking solutions and services offered by the Delta Network.

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Globally, design engineers need displays that can perform consistently in extreme applications as diverse as aircraft auxiliary power units, commercial freezers, retail and industrial gas pumps, fuel and water meters, portable emergency respiratory care and non-climate-controlled facilities.

Industrial designer Alberto Villareal developed the concept of a sustainable taxi including a lightweight, flexible solar panel on the roof that could be used to provide power for some of the car's electronics and supplement the fuel cell used to run the vehicle.

Delhi's National Law University has started a postgraduate course in Intellectual Property Rights and patent law.

Above is Toto's universally-designed Public Restroom line of products, which was awarded a Good Design Award 2009 in the "Society" category by Japan's Industrial Design Promotion Organization.