3D printing hits London’s high streets
A short moment’s walk away from Britain’s busiest shopping hub of Oxford St, 3D printing is now available to anyone walking off the streets and into any of The Color…
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Stephen Holmes
As Editor-in-Chief, Stephen’s role covers the online space and the magazines. A mix of interviewing designers for in-depth features, and hunting for the latest industry news keeps him busy. If you have a story, get in touch.
Nissan redesigns London’s iconic Black Cabs
Times are hard for London’s cabbies: rising fuel prices, insurance payments and emissions reductions are not appeasing the notoriously disgruntled workforce of the Capital’s iconic transport. Having already been chosen…
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SIGGRAPH 2012 #6: report from the show floor – part 1
InfiniteZ’s zSpace holographic design system Some people who attend the SIGGRAPH computer graphics trade show year after year complain that there are no technology breakthroughs to be seen. Sometimes it’s…
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SIGGRAPH 2012 #8: report from the show floor – part 2
TeamUp’s Multi-Optics software uses real time physics-based rendering to enable teams to collaborate in a web-based interface. For some designers and engineers, rendering is like buying new tyres for the…
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Nike’s Olympic designs: how to get faster every four years
Last night we were lucky enough to sneak into Nike’s newest London lair – its Nike+ Innovation spot in the Selfridges department store – where Martin Lotti, Nike global creative…
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Olympic light show – the biggest pixel screen and more
Despite some questionable musical performances, interpretive dance, and George Michael singing ‘Freedom’ to a group of North Korean athletes about to head back home, the most impressive thing about last…
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I was blind, but now… I have infrared detection…
The traditional ‘white cane’ favoured by the visually impaired has a number of serious drawbacks, in that it can only inform its user of very immediate obstacles and dangers. The…
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How to land on Mars: Curiosity’s ‘7 minutes of terror’
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ISmWAyQxqqs%3Frel%3D0 Frankly I’d have employed David Bowie, he knows a thing or two about Mars, but NASA like to do things differently when assessing the above challenge – impressive no?…
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2012 Paralympics: Superhuman talents mixed with some tricked-out engineering
A hero of the Olympics, South Africa’s Oscar Pistorious is now looking to light up the Olympic stadium for the 2012 Paralympics In case you’re living under a rock, in…
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New website to encourage 12 – 18 year-olds in to exciting engineering
Encouraging the next generation into the world of design and engineering is of the upmost importance as far as we’re concerned, which is why we’re happy to see the launch…
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