Joe Harmon Design has been working on a super car made almost entirely of wood - sick!

Check out the link for more amazing process pics and videos.

via notcot

I remember getting all excited when I read “the Brick” was rumored to be a new manufacturing process - well, as we found out yesterday it is a manufacturing process, but it is not new - The new MacBook is just CNC’d from a solid billet of aluminum - sigh.
Check out the MacBook’s promotional video […]

Very clever add campaign for 3M security glass

via The Canadian Design Resource

This isn’t anything new by any means but it’s worth highlighting.
Furoshiki is a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth which is used repeatedly in a stylish way. “The utilization of this “Mottainai Furoshiki” will contribute to reducing household waste from plastic bags. The Minister presented the “Mottainai Furoshiki” at the Senior Officials Meeting on the 3R Initiative […]

Say good bye to crowded beaches! This new wetsuit from Rip Curl just doubled the world’s number of surf destinations! Forget sunny Costa Rica - I’m heading to Greenland.

Canada’s largest specialty outdoor-goods retailer says it has pulled most food and beverage containers made of polycarbonate plastic from its shelves, citing concern over possible health risks.
Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC) has been one of the largest sellers of such products as polycarbonate Nalgene water bottles, and probably has done more than any retailer to make […]

SpudWare has developed a sustainable alternative to disposable plastic cutlery. Made from 80% starch (potato and corn) and 20% soy oil, this amazing material is heat resistant and biodegrades in 180 days! The applications for this material are endless… Maybe we should add “potato” as a material category on the Rogue Design […]

Do you remember the HyperColor T-shirts of the early 90’s? These were the shirts who’s fabric changed color when exposed to heat. Since the shirts just drew attention to your arm pits, the fad eventually wore off… After a twenty year vacation, it seems that color changing materials are back. Check out […]

I spent a couple years working for a place that did a lot of fabrication and heat bending work with thermoplastic sheet. We often created some pretty cool stuff but there where definitely some limitations associated with the process. Material could (in general) only be heated along straight lines and then bent into simple, […]

I came across this stuff a while ago while writing a lecture on innovations in ceramics. I’d say this stuff is right up there.

Read up some more about this cool material here.
And for all you designers out there thinking about what your next ROGUEXCHANGE idea could be…this just might be a fun avenue […]