Engineers and artists at the University of Washington have developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3D printer. Read More

Unlike LEDs, which provide points of light like standard incandescent bulbs, OLEDs create uniform, diffuse light across ultrathin sheets of material that eventually can even be made to be flexible.
Coming to Vegas and Times Square soon..? NYT

Our industrial design friends at Core77 have just released... a bike! The Dutch Master is an absolutely beautiful, finely detailed hand-built cruiser. Only 25 will be built.

The Armadillo Chair, designed by University of Philadelphia student Aodh O Donnel, was on show at ICFF this past weekend. The chair is the winning entry in a laminate design competition sponsored by Wilsonart. Previously posted to TC page 301. Images etc. @ designboom + full entry...

This July, Lacoste will finally release its new collaboration with London-based Zaha Hadid Architects. Men's and Women's styles to launch in London, Paris and Milan. A lower-price diffusion line will hit stores in September. designboom | prev. | discuss + full entry...

At the new Porsche Museum, outside Stuttgart, there are many clever displays, such as the overlapped silhouettes of iconic 911 models through the years, the empty fiberglass shell of a 356 America hung from wires to show its lightness and the racecar attached to the ceiling. But my favorite mode of display is the exploded view, used for the most powerful Porsche engine ever—the V12 racing engine. Its parts, though suspended manually, seem to hover in air. EXPLODED view

A cheap solar cooker has won first prize in a contest for green ideas. BBC

Gary Hustwit, director of the documentary Helvetica has a new film coming out called Objectified, about industrial design. Check out an extended interview with Hustwit here.

Philippe Starck says, "products don't show the intelligence of the people who design them, they show the stupidity of the people who design them."
More fairly accurate words of wisdom and lemon squeezing from Mr. DM (Design Machine)
Fast Co.

Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Watch the trailer

The joint submission by Foster + Partners and Aston Martin has won first prize, alongside Capoco Design, in Transport for London’s competition to design a new bus for the capital. Bustler + full entry...

A snug mobile shelter for the homeless, called EDAR, a covered contraption that looks like the offspring of a shopping cart and a pop-up camper makes its debut in Los Angeles. L.A Times

At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play.
Ted Talks

It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
Great for architects, writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists! Visuwords.com

"Hello futurists," the blog says... The year is 2050. bus of the future