MIT researchers have debuted a tool that automatically generates products–and analyzes them in detail–on your behalf. Take these two task lamps. They each have three heads, bent and placed in very ...

Economic conditions beyond the doors of K 2025 may still be soft, but for industrial designer Chris Lefteri, there was still ...

Viktor Schreckengost, a pioneering industrial designer and ceramist who brought innovative mass-produced items to millions of American households starting in the 1930s, has died. He was 101.

It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it instantly recognizable. When you ...

Mark Dziersk, a well-known industrial designer who was a longtime supporter and leader of the Industrial Designers Society of America, died at the age of 60. IDSA announced his death on Feb. 5, and ...

The briquettes were not only once a convenient, inexpensive fuel for Irish people, they were also an industrial design icon ...

Ivy Ross, head of design for all hardware products at Google, is largely responsible for guiding this aesthetic push. She joined Google in 2014 to lead the recently launched Google Glass after stints ...

A growing number of industries have faced the prospect of radical disruption over the past few years. Now industrial design has joined the list, thanks to Jackson Hedden, founder of an eponymously ...

The primary objective of the Industrial Design Department is to direct students toward a greater understanding of both the concept and process of design. We strive to develop our students’ capacity ...

The interesting thing: Dyson never trained as an engineer. His background is in industrial design and styling. In 1979, Dyson began work on a radical design for a vacuum cleaner in the stables behind ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. I have been fascinated by the various doomsayers who were ...