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From everyday objects to the wrappers, boxes and bags they come in, this section of the site is dedicated to eye-catching and thought-provoking industrial designs. Watch out for double meanings, clever marketing and much more.

Unfold Your Getaway: Canoe for City Dwellers Packs Down to a Suitcase

You can’t exactly fit a canoe through a narrow staircase in an apartment building, let alone take it on the metro, so for many sporty city dwellers, owning one may seem out of reach. Many ...

Literal Streetwear: ‘Pirate Printer’ Lifts Patterns from Urban Objects

A Berlin art collective has taken to the streets, inking urban infrastructure and laying down shirts and tote bags to create a line of unique prints ... their patterns directly lifted from ...

Artist Socks Series: Wear Pairs of Figures from Famous Paintings

Simple stripes, colors and patterns are all that is visible when you are wearing shoes, but kick them off and you can show off famous figures from classic paintings. They may not be fit for ...

Dystopian Textile: Beirut Architect Builds Bulletproof Headscarf

Somewhere between disturbing practical and abysmally pessimistic, this gender-neutral, anti-ballistic headscarf draws on a long history of regional fashion traditions but with a depressingly ...

Pencil + Sharpener: Redesign Solves 3 Classic Drawing Tool Problems

Pencils require sharpening, run out of eraser and turn into unusable stubs as they near the end of their lifespan, but this clever gadget aims to change all of that, solving all three issues at ...

Brain Food: Vending Machines Offer Books Instead of Snacks

You can buy all kinds of weird things from vending machines these days - from live crabs to blue jeans to gold bars - but this new iteration is more entertaining than most, and it’ll certainly ...

Build-A-Bug: Mini VW Beetle Model Made of LEGO Blocks

Assemble a miniature model of the iconic Volkswagen Beetle with a new kit from LEGO, reproducing the car in minuscule detail from a surfboard-holding roof rack to a four-cylinder air-cooled ...

Origami Footwear: Lightweight Lace-Free Shoes Wrap & Fit Any Feet

A Japanese designer and Italian shoemaker have taken a fresh approach to athletic footwear, adapting the minimalist art of cloth wrapping to form the basis of a flexible shoe that fits any ...

Inverted Umbrella: Drip-Free Design Turns Canopy Inside Out

Like tableware or sliced bread, the umbrella is the subject of many reinvention attempts but few approach the sheer cleverness and ingenious simplicity of this design solution, which tackles ...

Bird Biomimicry in Action: 12 Avian-Inspired Jets, Drones & Cars

The very same evolution-driven characteristics that enable birds to glide effortlessly through the air can be applied to everything from drones to bullet trains to make them faster, lighter, more ...

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