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Less Sunset, More Twin

My metrics were likes. I don’t get many comments on any of my photos.  Unpopular Photos (>100 likes) Photos that were unpopular on my Instagram did not have my face (1, 2, 3, 4), were not obviously t

ISHU Scarf

ISHU is a scarf embedded with reflective patterns that throw back the light of paparazzi flash cameras, allowing its wearers to maintain their privacy. Celebrities like Trevor Noah, Joe Jonas, and Par

Tile

This week, I’m writing about the Tile app. My friends, after hearing me complain about constantly losing my keychain, got me this app for my birthday. It’s an ingenious little product, small and incon

WIG: Zos

My dad funded Zos on Kickstarter, so now we’ve got a small family of Zosses chilling in our kitchen. Zos is a startup that makes lighted wine preservers. Zos (short for Zero Oxygen Solutions) claims t

Walden

We considered several design solutions for our own procrastination challenges, even one with its own digital currency. Ultimately, we found the most helpful solution would neither reward us for being

Hear Me

Hear Me is an interactive art installation concept that we believe inspires awe based on the scale of the project, its aesthetic qualities, and its emotional appeal. Designed to be able to fit into a

The Quest for the Best Pain au Chocolat

(Sorry, we didn’t realize that this was supposed to be posted with our Challenge 5!) We decided to taste-test three different kinds of pain au chocolat, or, as I was (rather rudely) told at Starbucks,

Starbucks pain au chocolatsplit

Starbucks pain au chocolat

Tatte pain au chocolatsplit

Tatte pain au chocolat

Whole Foods pain au chocolatsplit

Whole Foods pain au chocolat

WIG: Doc Martens

This week I want to take a closer look at one of my all-time favorite shoe brands, Dr. Martens. The shoe takes its name from Klaus Martens, a German doctor during WWII who created the shoe after a ski

WIG: Boomerang

Boomerang is an app developed by Instagram that allows users to make videos from short photo-bursts, which plays forwards and then backwards in a loop. It’s been on my mind since we did the Instagram

WIG: the Whaf

I’m taking Prof. David Edward’s class this semester, which is held in his Kendall Sq. restaurant, Cafe ArtScience, and one of the walls of the Cafe is devoted to David’s newest products. One of the fi

WIG: EcoHelmet

The EcoHelmet’s whole story began when the team noticed that almost all the bicyclists who use bike share programs don’t wear helmets, and that nearly all report feeling unsafe. EcoHelmet is designed

WIG: Crumpled City Maps

I actually bought one of these for London and I love it! Palomar’s Crumpled City maps are marketed as “soft city maps for urban jungles”, a tagline which I think fails to get across their primary purp

WIG: Tile

This week, I’m writing about the Tile app. My friends, after hearing me complain about constantly losing my keychain, got me this app for my birthday. It’s an ingenious little product, small and incon

WIG: ISHU Scarf

ISHU is a scarf embedded with reflective patterns that throw back the light of paparazzi flash cameras, allowing its wearers to maintain their privacy. Celebrities like Trevor Noah, Joe Jonas, and Par

WIG: Cartier Bracelet

Today I want to talk about the iconic Cartier bracelet. Designed in 1969 by Aldo Cipullo, the bracelet comes in several metals, but its most common version is a thick gold bangle with circles with a l

WIG: Ofo Dockless Bike

Oxford has been the real hot-spot for dockless bikes. In the year that I was there, over four different companies were using the city as a testing ground, and each one was trying to out-design the oth

WIG: Bialetti Coffee Maker

Recently, as I’ve been slogging through preparing for my oral exams, I’ve been drinking a ton of espresso, so today I’m going to be talking about one of my favorite inventions, the Bialetti stovetop e

WIG: AirPod Lifesaving Packages

My mom showed me this design a couple weeks ago and I thought it was totally ingenious. Simon Berry wanted to design a way to better deliver life-saving anti-diarrhea kits for children in developing n

WIG: Fjallraven Backpack

The Fjallraven backpack was originally designed to provide support for a camping backpack– it started with an aluminum frame, and then evolved into the canvas backpack that’s so popular today. The sof

WIG: the Eames Chair

My mom is obsessed with our Eames chairs, and they were an important part of my childhood. The molded plywood and simple, iconic design make this chair very aesthetic and beautiful. Charles Eames desi