I genuinely love Nintendo's games, and that's what makes writing this so annoying. There isn't another company I can think of that's simultaneously the most pro-consumer and the most anti-consumer name in gaming (often within the same…
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My old phone died, a Pixel 8 Pro, and I'd been watching Nothing for a while before that happened. So when it finally gave up I didn't really think twice. I went and got a Nothing Phone 3a Lite and a pair of Ear (a) buds. On a spec sheet…
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I've been to Paris a few times now and every time I go back I make a point of seeing the Eiffel Tower. I was there again about a week ago, and what got me this time were the rivets, weirdly enough. 2.5 million of them, visible from the…
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I've never worn a Vision Pro. At €3,500 I don't think many people have. I have used a Quest 2 though, and a few other headsets, so I'm not coming at this completely cold. And I've spent enough time thinking about how interfaces work to…
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In 2024 I bought a MacBook. I loved it. But college demands more than a MacBook Air is comfortable giving, so at some point I picked up a cheap ThinkPad, wiped it, and put Linux on it. I'd used Linux on servers before so I wasn't walking…
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Most people have never heard the name Frank Stephenson. Most people have also walked past his work every day without knowing it. The MINI, the Ferrari F430, the Maserati MC12, the Fiat 500, the McLaren P1, all one person, across four…
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Peter Sheehan came up through traditional industrial design, the conventional route, working with the kind of processes and supply chains that most product design graduates end up in. Factories, manufacturing tolerances, the whole system.…
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What struck me most about Vikas' talk wasn't a specific project or piece of work, it was the shape of his career. Starting out in New Delhi, moving through design education and professional work in the United States, and eventually landing…
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I've been taking photos seriously for a couple of years now. Not seriously in the sense that I've always had a plan, more that I started caring, really caring, about what I was pointing a camera at and why. I shoot everything. Street…
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The Logitech visit came not long after London, and that probably shaped how I took it in. A few days earlier we'd been in Thomas Heatherwick's studio, looking at models and material experiments and drawings on the walls. Cork was a…
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Every design student gets told to go to London. Go to the museums, go to the galleries, look at things. It's good advice, but it doesn't quite prepare you for what it's actually like to stand in front of objects and buildings that put…
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"Don't just imagine the car of the future, imagine the traffic jam."
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If you want to start a fight at a car meet, just mention the name Chris Bangle. As the first American to run the design department at BMW, Bangle didn't just tweak the headlights or modernise the grilles, he essentially set fire to the…
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In the world of product design, "retro-futurism" is often a trap. Designers frequently lean too hard into nostalgia, creating something that feels like a costume, or they go too far into the future, losing the "soul" of the original.…
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