More brands are selling their perfumes online, where customers can’t smell them. But a bottle is worth a thousand sniffs. The bottle’s design, in other words, speaks to the hand-crafted perfume inside—even the bottle toppers tell a story. Read more…
The Rotofarm, by an Australian company called Bace is a space-friendly hydroponic system, and it doubles as a beautiful sculpture in your home. With a circular design, which rotates plants like a Ferris wheel through the day, the Rotofarm is…
Inside the lab—and away from the cubicle culture of the engineering-driven Googleplex—industrial designers, artists, and sculptors are free to collaborate. “Google’s blueprint for how they optimize is great for most people [at the company],” says Ross. “Designers need different things.”…
In the cities suffering most from housing shortages—like San Francisco, where a lack of supply helped drive the median cost of a house up to $1.7 million—one part of the challenge is a lack of construction workers. One startup wants…
Creating an engaging retail store is a difficult business. But retail design agency Design4Retail has a solid track record when it comes to ideas that succeed. Its holistic approach means it can work with retailers from initial brainstorming to final…
After years of phone sales stagnating, manufacturers are starting to experiment with new design elements, user experiences, and even new phone shapes. This experimentation got underway at the end of 2018 and is about to bloom in full force on…
According to analysts, a greater number of small, large, and medium-sized enterprises started exploring the 3D printing technology for manufacturing various parts of their products and unraveling new business cases. Read more in Datafloq 3D Printing – The Next Industrial…
Over the last three years, thousands of stores shuttered–and dozens of companies went bankrupt. In 2017 alone, 7000 stores closed their doors, and many brands with large retail footprints filed for Chapter 11. Read more in Fast Company The surprisingly…
Loneliness is a global issue. Half a million Japanese are suffering from social isolation. The U.K. recently appointed a minister for loneliness, the first in the world. What do cities have to do with loneliness? Read more in Fast Company How…
Last week at Orgatec, a leading European trade show for contract and office furniture, the Swiss company Vitra previewed a set of office seating prototypes, called Soft Work, which you might more likely find in a chic hotel lobby or…
