From Pencil to Photoshop to Dropbox: 2015 Design Tools Survey

Which weapons designers around the world are favoring today, from prototyping to project management

Earlier this summer, web design veteran Khoi Vinh—former Design Director at The New York Times Online and now Principal Designer at Adobe—sent out a questionnaire to the public to learn what tools designers are using and favoring today. With participation from over 4,000 designers in almost 200 countries, the first annual Design Tools Survey results are now published on Vinh’s long-running blog Subtraction. Extracting findings …

Maison & Objet 2015: CH Picks, Part One

Five vibrant highlights from the acclaimed Parisian design fair

Going strong since 1995, French design show Maison & Objet just held its 20th anniversary edition in Paris Nord Villepinte from 4-8 September. The gigantic fair space was divided into eight different sectors, covering everything from fashion to homeware. The venue had been turned into a treasure trove of exciting new products from big names to emerging companies. Though there’s some run-of-the-mill design here, this …

Jewelry Made from Carbon Pollution

Artist Daan Roosengaarde wants to clean up the world’s air and, in the process, make beautiful jewelry. To do so, he’s designed a massive building-sized air-purifier that could suck the carbon particles from the sky and then compress those particles into tiny gemstones. Each jewelry piece would hold up to 1,000 cubic meters-worth of air pollution and would serve as a neat reminder to keep …