In 1954, Olivetti bolted a typewriter to a sidewalk on Fifth Avenue and hung a twenty-three-meter sculpture on the wall behind it. This is how an Italian company that treated the way...
In 1989, a man named Marc Porat sketched a device in a red notebook: a thin glass rectangle with no keyboard, a screen you touched, a computer that was also a phone,...
Cover the badge on a Porsche 911 and you can likely still name it. Almost no other car has kept its shape for so long. This is the story of where that...
In 1979, Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka asked his engineers for a portable cassette player he could use on long flights. What they built changed the way humans occupy public space. The Walkman...
Ian Yang on starting Gantri, a digital manufacturing company. Check out their website: https://www.gantri.com/ Socials: @gantri Positive Space Episode 2 Positive Space is a series of interviews with contemporary designers or people...
Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002) won Italy’s Compasso d’Oro nine times. Fourteen of his works sit in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In 1997, MoMA gave him the first individual...
IKEA went from a mail-order business selling pens and stockings in rural Sweden, to the largest furniture company on earth. They had a core philosophy of the democratization of design from early...
Naoto Fukasawa is one of the world’s most influential designers—yet his greatest achievement is creating objects you never consciously notice. From the iconic MUJI wall-mounted CD player to the INFOBAR phone that...
Jasper Morrison believes the best design is the design you don’t notice at all. Born in London in 1959, Morrison has spent his career creating objects so perfectly resolved they seem inevitable....
Founded in 1980 during Japan’s bubble economy, Mujirushi Ryohin (no-brand quality goods) built a retail company on three manufacturing principles: material selection, process streamlining, and packaging simplification. This video explores Muji’s design...
For more than two decades, Jony Ive shaped how billions of people interact with technology. As Apple’s Chief Design Officer, he helped define the visual and physical language of the iMac, iPod,...
Dieter Rams changed the way the world thinks about design. His work for Braun and Vitsoe shaped everything from modern electronics to the way we use rational design today. This video explores...
In this video I give an intro to how to stop greenwashing as a designer and how you can use Life Cycle Assessment in your design process to create (actually) more sustainable...
Bauhaus Documentary mentioned in video: Walter Gropius was one of the most renowned designers and architects of the early 20th century. His influence can be seen to this day in many areas...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect and designer from the early 1900s who was extremely influential in both fields as well as in the development of modernism, the international style,...
Picture this – It’s a hot summer day, you’re 9 years old and just finished a serious bouncing session at your friend Kevin’s birthday party. Fresh out of the inflatable palace, your...
In this video I give you an intro to sustainable design and how to implement it into a product design right away. Today we are designing a wireless charger. We start with...