The Washup, designed by Sevin Coskun, solves two problems at once. It makes use of the washing machine’s waste water to flush the integrated toilet at the bottom, and also puts the washing machine up above the toilet itself, saving space in small apartments. This is one of the entries from the Greener Gadgets competition - check the others in the full site.
High fashion protection for the paranoid, these designer gas masks are the latest conceptual project from diddovelema.com. One of these would look great next to your Damien Hirst skull.
Reading about industrial design in an art magazine is like reading about America in The Economist–why do we Yanks have to learn about our own country by reading another country’s magazine? Simple: lack of good indigenous coverage.
Art Info has a “What is design?” chat with maven Murray Moss, who discusses the current state of industrial design and explains why he’s “finished” with “standard-issue modernism.” Click here to read.
For more on Moss, BusinessWeek’s got a profile on the man here.