The future is here, stainless steel rapid prototyping for $10 per cm^3 I cant tell you how long I have been waiting for this to become affordable, now thanks to shapeways its here. Keep posted as I will be trying this service out and will review and feed back soon.

http://transmaterial.net/ has just relaunched its new website with an easily searchable database. This is a great tool for any industrial design student, a quick search reveals MesoOptics (no relation). Product design in todays world can either be technology, market, user, legistlation or material driven so get your innovation caps on and step out of that [...]

Industrial design may include not only drawn illustrations of products but also intricate functionality specs as well. Viewing industrial designs from this prospective will give you the understanding of the inner workings of products along with its visible design. The art of creating a nice model that provides the necessary information on how the product [...]

Trendwatching dot com have just released their latest trend briefing of 2009 ‘Sellsummers’. I’ll have a read through it tonight and post up my thoughts on the brief.