Hasta La Ideas

Here’s what we looked at this week:

Remedial design: A quick DIY fix for slippery glass bottles and vessels.

The Super Bowl is to have unspecified anti-drone countermeasures in place. (Probably not these.)

Hell in a handbasket: Burgers where the cheese comes in syringes.

Digital creative Kyle Branchesi imagines what the UK would look like, if designed to prioritize cars.

Great Industrial Design student work: Stephanie Lewis designed this specialty Pull Drill based on researching construction workers’ needs.

With their Oshel concept, industrial designers Masaru Kiyota and Sawyer Hagen developed a smarter design approach to the lockable bike helmet.

Helicopter police chase footage gains a new element with infrared. From just this image, they can see where a suspect is hiding.

These eye-catching revamped 1938 Art Deco faucet designs are by architect Fabrizio Batoni.

Engineer Omid Sadeghpour designed and built this DartSolar, an on-vehicle solar charging system for EVs.

These Pop taps, designed by architect Fabrizio Batoni for Zazzeri, harken back to early design shapes.

The Stack chair, by industrial design studio Martini & Dall’Agnol, is a fastener-free, easy-to-assemble stacking polypropylene chair.

This Freely door handle, by industrial designer Giulio Iacchetti, is a good example of making something more useful by removing material.

The crowdfunded Tangara is an easy-to-repair, open-source knockoff of the original iPod.

Some clever tiny house design features, by industrial designer Laëtitia Dupé.

Invented in Belgium, the BLSTR sander is a compressor-free sandblaster.

These SAI 39 benches, by industrial designer Robin Bourgeois, are made from industrial waste.

Here’s multiple versions of a 19th-century multi-tool design, along with some debate over the functions of the tools.

Furniture designer Jair Straschnow’s handsome Bended Table and Stool.

Industrial design case study: The Kickback Kooler, by product design & development firm The Metcalfe Group.