Interview: Ford Atlas Designers Gordon Platto and Aileen Barraza

The ideations behind the next generation of pick-up trucks

We’ve admired the 2013 Ford Atlas Concept truck since its debut at Detroit’s 2013 North American International Auto Show earlier this year. The Atlas makes a big statement about design, capability, fuel efficiency and technology that’s certain to influence the next generation or two of Ford trucks. On a recent trip to the Motor City we met with chief designer for Ford pickups, Gordon Platto, …

“Osmosi” by Emmanuel Babled

The designer teams up with Italian craftsmen for a pairing of marble and glass

Some products own the rare ability to combine magic and technology, craftsmanship and digitalization, uniqueness and industrial processesbut Emmanuel Babled‘s latest project, called “Osmosi,” incorporates all of that. Babled’s pre-production research has two distinct directions: product and edition. While the first holds truer to a traditional approach in the design world, the latter is definitely experimental and often encourages his clients to raise the bar, …

Woodchuck Tribal Edition Cases

Sustainable wooden parquetry cases for phone-droppers

Woodchuck has already made waves in the tech case industry with its wooden skins for phones, tablets, laptops and headphones, but this is their first go at something more sturdy. The new Tribal Edition Cases in the Adventure Series offer more iPhone protection than their wooden stick-on skins, but do so without compromising the sleek wooden look. The design team had been experimenting with gridded …