Hasta La Ideas

Here’s what we looked at this week:

Human factors design considerations for laundry baskets.

Seoul’s hubless ferris wheel gets a dual-ring redesign.

There’s a bunch of surprisingly innovative design features in this 1963 GE refrigerator.

Looped, by industrial designer Lieyah Dagan and furniture designer Spenser Atlas, is a line of experimental furniture made from pool noodles.

The invention story behind this all-terrain tire is the strangest I’ve ever heard.

From India, the Surge S32 is an EV auto rickshaw with a detachable scooter.

Some unusual specialty paintbrush designs by Dutch company Staalmeester.

The Knot Chair, by industrial design firm Studio Désormeaux/Carrette, has a self-supporting structure and is held together with just clips.

Pininfarina has designed this eTH, an expanding mobile home that allegedly delivers 400 square feet of space.

With 500 images, “Braun: Designed to Keep,” published by Phaidon, is the company’s “most definitive monograph to date.”

Inventor Lloyd G. Copeman’s ingenious design for the Flexo-Line Travel Clothesline demonstrates a clever use of materials.

And here’s a smart design improvement to the long-handled shoe horn.

A closer look at the design of the BullseyeBore, a laser jig for helping you drill straight. It’s currently a smash on Kickstarter.

The Vâltoare, a sort of natural washing machine, is an Eastern European way of harnessing whirlpools for washing bulky items.

Image: PoligraficNet

Hi-tech sewing: This Ditto system projects patterns directly onto your fabric.

Some functional but bizarre design features on these 2,000-year-old Greek battle helmets.

Historical master armourer Jeffrey Hildebrandt has recreated a famous Roman helmet from scratch, filling in a couple of missing pieces.

Industrial design case study: 219 Design creates the S1, a grocery packaging elimination system for Purcell.