Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Big Fish's packaging has used simplicity and bold icons to make the product stand out. Strong iconographies communicate specific product benefits that are human, warm, and approachable. The care and attention to detail towards the product visuals are a homage to the product.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So our role with Roman Health was to use industrial design and the user experience of the packaging design to really build trust in the process and Roman itself, so that the user felt comfortable enough to put this medication in their mouth, and ingest it. Europe, and South Africa for better tools for the intended community.

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Design Milk

MAY 9, 2023

Drag And Drop is a Romanian design and manufacturing studio, co-founded by Madalin Gheorghe and Dragos Sabareanu in 2019, living at the point where technology and artisanal processes converge. This modern take in clay demonstrates how traditional craftsmanship and cutting-edge industrial design can work together.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It’s this very dilemma that motivated Director of Industrial Design Insun Hong and her small team at iRobot to design the Roomba Combo j9+ robot vacuum and mop with a base station that softens the line between necessary functionality and welcoming form. Hi Insun, could you introduce yourself and tell us what you do?

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Design Milk

AUGUST 5, 2024

Marantz audio products have long been at the forefront of high-end audio equipment. You’re likely well aware of the brand’s audio products without even knowing it. Even the Marantz logo typeface is iconic, looking just as great in bright red or blue as it does in the glossy gold that adorns many of their modern products.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This visual que is indicative of its functional role, which allows for efficient manufacturing, flat packing, and ease of assembly. It helps us think about a circular product in the sense that it’s very easily repaired if the need rises, or refurbished if somebody were to decide that the furniture was no longer for them.”

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Design Milk

AUGUST 10, 2021

I was drawn towards the traditional arts as opposed to design, until I was asked by a tutor, who ran a 3D Design class, to select an object from a series of waste objects she had scavenged from a beach and produce a new product. It was these designs that secured me a place on an Industrial Design degree at Cardiff University.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s exemplary collectible design. Signum Vase by Rosenthal for Swarovski $225 Swarovski partnered with the esteemed porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal in an exclusive collaboration to marry this signature octagon pattern with utility for more tabletop play.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Optimising Product Design: Creating Products People Love Product design is an art and a science. In today's crowded marketplace, optimising your product design process is no longer optional – it's imperative. Low engagement, poor retention, and products that fail to achieve product-market fit.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Smile Plastics is a materials design and manufacturing house creating hand-crafted, supersized panels for retail, architecture, interiors, and product design – from waste. With their blessing, we were able to revive the business and relaunch it at the London Design Festival in 2015. What inspired this product? .

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Design Milk

MAY 30, 2025

With a background in industrial design, Amanda Schneider explored every aspect of a product’s trajectory early in her career, from concept development to sales, always via a holistic lens to understand the points of view of manufacturers and consumers. That number jumps to a staggering 140 times. One project.

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Design Milk

JULY 14, 2023

Designer Andrew Ferrier spent his youth in Canada dedicated to guitars, bikes, and snowboards – all pursuits that would go onto inform and inspire his work as an industrial designer of human-centered products ranging from lighting , smoking accessories , to a modular seating system – all elegantly simple industrial forms shaped from milled aluminum.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

But when designed well, these modern conveniences not only have the power to make our our lives easier, they catalyze innovation for decades to come. The latter has been the case for Braun — the industrial design giant is celebrating its centenary anniversary this year. The design’s longevity was unprecedented.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The German-Colombian furniture and accessories brand has dropped several new collaborations for 2023 throughout the year, as well as extensions of existing collections by returning industrial designers. While the solid weave leaves users with a flat, firm surface to hold things, the shape is a resource-saving design.

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Design Milk

JUNE 6, 2025

He created a make-believe company called N1 Industries and built a lounge chair out of a race car seat. Yet it was a different era then, and the notion that he could actually build and sell a product didn’t seem accessible at the time. Ferrier earned a mechanical engineering degree and moved to California.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 19, 2024

Across the Merchandise Mart and Fulton Market, experimental materials, high-tech solutions and a focus on circular design were the key drivers of this year’s product launches. Designed by long-term collaborator Form Us With Love , the carbon-neutral chair utilizes minimal materials to achieve maximum visual impact — and comfort.

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Design Milk

MAY 19, 2023

Nick Ozemba , co-founder of In Common With , met his eventual business partner, Felicia Hung, on the first day of their freshman year in the furniture design program at RISD. After graduation, he went on to design interiors at ASH NYC and SHoP Architects, while Hung went to work as a product designer.

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Design Milk

JUNE 1, 2023

The German camera manufacturer’s legions of devotees have long elevated the red circle badged cameras from mere imaging tools into aspirational photographic heirlooms. Thanks for supporting Design Milk! Money cannot buy happiness… but it can help you buy a Leica.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Founded by Dylan Davis and Jean Lee in 2010, Ladies & Gentlemen Studio bring their thoughtful approach to a variety of products , from jewelry and small objects, to lighting and furniture. Combining materials and geometric shapes, the imaginative products are playful and memorable, and 100% L&G. How do you record ideas?

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

Wall Finishes by Clayworks PHOTO: Edward Sumner When it comes to developing the sustainable products of the future, manufacturers should be looking back as much as looking forward. company is known for its 100 per cent natural, locally manufactured clay plaster wall finishes. The Cornwall, U.K.,

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2024

And yet, even with access to the most well-rounded catalogues, sourcing the right products (at the right price) can prove challenging. When designers struggle to find a piece that will work for a specific use case, they may opt for custom solutions. Modified Backbone and Pirouette Tables, designed for Bradley University.

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Design Milk

JUNE 13, 2023

I’ve been dreaming about the chance to fully develop GUS as product line since I made the initial prototypes early in the pandemic, but as a side project it was moving along slowly. Winning launchpad is such an incredible honor and being selected for the showcase was the final push I needed to get the line into production.

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UX Collective

APRIL 24, 2022

This was probably the moment where the early majority of the design community embraced the concept of atomic design metaphor when Frost did a wonderful job of explaining how we derive atomic design through his association of chemistry particles. For industrial design, it was with the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 27, 2022

Founded by Pasquale Apolominio (of Level Project ) with creative direction by architects Simona Flacco and Riccardo Crenna (of Simple Flair and Riviera Creative Space respectively), the company drops curated and ready-to-order product collections that focus on raw materials, availability and, of course, aesthetics.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Across product types, flexibility reigned supreme, with several of our favourites including UniFor’s graphic Principles collection and AndLight’s stackable Column Pendant embracing adaptable modular configurations. Below, we round up the best products of 2022: eye-catching furniture, lighting, accessories and more. Wheeliy 2.0

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Design Week

JUNE 3, 2021

Expected to come into force from this summer, the new rules will mean manufacturers of white goods will need to build spare parts so products can be easily repaired. Even for brands with products not yet included in the legislation, such as TV and mobile phone manufacturers, the risk of doing nothing is very real.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 18, 2025

That fresh moniker marked the start of his career’s second chapter, which he has dedicated to addressing more multi-faceted design problems still creating products, but also folding in bigger-picture strategy work. Axyl , a stackable seat for British manufacturer Allermuir, was even a 2018 AZ Award winner.)

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Eye on Design

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

He connected IBM leadership with famed designers such as Paul Rand, Charles and Ray Eames, and others. The IBM poster program was first initiated during the 1960s by Ken White, a staff graphic designer in the Design Center in Boulder, Colo. x 28 cm) announcements and two pockets for the posters.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The Industrial Revolution is a good example – it sparked a trend towards mass production, leading to new manufacturing processes that changed our lives. Its clean lines and minimalist aesthetics have influenced architecture to product design. Sustainable design is another trend.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For the trio of Alberto Lievore, Jeannette Altherr and Manel Molina, a collaboration with Expormim offered a rare chance to merge traditional craft and modern manufacturing. Originally an indoor chair with a woven wicker seat and back, the streamlined design was a versatile blend of clean, contemporary lines and handmade production.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Suitable for furniture (Husarska Design Studio’s HempStool, for example), interior fittings and construction timber, the hardy material reduces the demand for tree felling, absorbs more than a tonne of CO2 per cubic metre and can play a key role in rehabilitating and reconstructing ecosystems.

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Design Week

JANUARY 12, 2021

Solveiga Pakštaitė, an industrial designer from London, created Mimica Touch in an attempt to combat this problem. The product was inspired by the inaccuracy of existing expiry dates. As soon as a consumer can feel bumps, that means the product should not be consumed. When it liquifies, you can feel the bumps.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 12, 2025

The Australian rugmaker will present its Agra Forma collection, originally launched at Melbourne Design Week, which gives sitting on the floor a whole new meaning. Working with Australian industrial designer Tom Fereday, Armadillo’s rich material exploration has resulted in a weird and wonderful hybrid between carpet and furniture.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For more great lighting products, visit Spec Sheets.). Celebrating his affinity for Japan, Frankfurt-based designer Kai Linke (who spent time living in his inspiration county) based his floor lamp series for Pulpo on traditional kokeshi dolls. For more great lighting products, visit Spec Sheets. Kokeshi by Pulpo.

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Design Wizard

MAY 8, 2020

Industrial design inspiration. Before a product is designed and manufactured, a mood board may be used to lay out the early concepts of what it will look like. These images can be rough drawings of how a designer envisages the product or it might be similar products that could be used for inspiration.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 20, 2023

The bridge connects the abstract world of ideas with the concrete world of products, services, and experiences. And this is where design education plays a pivotal role. Design education is akin to a magic wand that helps students unleash their creativity and innovation, preparing them for the increasingly complex and demanding world.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

“Classic chairs like the Egg, the Swan and the Womb should no longer be held up as symbols of great design,” says Tom Lloyd. It’s not the products’ formal expression that the designer is knocking, however, but rather the way they are constructed. This has an impact on how we design, as labour costs are higher here.

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