The idea behind the FOMO Survival Kit made me chuckle. It’s a student project by Lara Défayes, a fresh Media & Interaction design graduate of ECAL in Lausanne. (FOMO = Fear Of Missing Out)
SVA Product of Design Student Eden Lew created Nutshell, aimed at reducing stress and providing a kind of respite from urban life. It’s a pod-inspired platform for productive break-taking. I’...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2014/11/social-solitude-in-a-nutshell.html
(photo by ECAL- Julien Chavaillaz) I have no idea if this Filo Scotch Tape Dispenser is at all easy to use, but it sure made me look for it’s minimal aesthetic. It is the brainchild of Swiss de...
In this post Frank Chimero shares every little piece of advice he can think of he would give current Graphic Design Students. Some of my favorite nuggets of Chimero-wisdom are: Design does not eq...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/08/advice-to-graphic-design-students.html
You have no idea how screen printing works? Then watch this pretty rough guide to screen printing by Andrew Bell, a graphic design student at the Glasgow MET. A pretty rough guide to screen print...
Lena Goldsteiner came up with a beehive for your balcony, backyard or rooftop garden. Who said that living in the city means you can’t keep bees? As a beekeeper, you are direct observer of the ...
The Rhode Island School of Design just announced their Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition. The show opens May 20 and is on view through June 5, 2010. For the first time, the 2010 RISD Graphic Desi...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/05/risd-exhibition-make-do.html
Flowchart for choosing a typeface. Funny and useful: By Danish Julian Hansen. (via @markboulton)
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/04/so-you-need-a-typeface.html
Nora and Christoph of Learningfrom.de created a range of fascinating objects all made with things found on the streets of Mainz, Austria Germany. (oh that site is annoying to navigate)
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/03/bulky-waste-gone-product.html
If home appliances were inhabited by a community of tiny, industrious, architecturally advanced people. Made me look. Photo tour of a senior thesis exhibition of Kyoto University of Art and Desig...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/03/if-home-appliances-were-inhabited.html
I agree with Chris, this PSU Student Show poster is wonderful.
Far Foods is an alternative packaging concept for supermarket produce, highlighting the distances that some foods travel from and the resultant carbon dioxide released during the journey. The rec...
Tom Judd produced this hat as half of his final body of work for his MA in Animation. The concept came about whilst thinking about botox users and their wonderfully emotionless faces. The eyebrow...
Pete Oyler, a recent graduate of the rhode island school of design is the mastermind behind this Stretch Shelf. They are made of cast rubber and machined aluminum and are, essentially, giant rubb...
This is a post for my german speaking readers: Students Anna & Sonja Hahn adapted Loriot’s Eheberatung skit as an animated infographic. Made me look and smile. Loriot Eheberatung Animation from...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/07/in-german-loriot-animated.html