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Business Insider: 16 Everyday Objects That Are Perfectly Designed
An industrial designer shares his examples of products that are designed so well that it would be pointless to tinker any further with them. Teachers should be aware that one product is a handgun. Many of the others are examples of...
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Popular Mechanics: 7 Everyday Objects With Brilliant and Simple Designs
The best designs are usually the simplest, but just because they're simple doesn't mean they're easy to come up with. Here are seven examples of objects that aren't particularly sophisticated but have a subtle, genius simplicity to their...
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Wired: 4 Super Cheap but Brilliant Everyday Objects, Curated by a Design Genius
Designer Sam Hecht calls himself "a little bit of a magpie." He collects unusual low-cost, functional products that he finds beautiful, clever, and well-made. This page features a slideshow of fourteen of the objects in his collection,...
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Medium: 35 Quotes on Design That Will Fuel Up Your Creativity
A collection of quotes on design and creativity that can inspire students and ignite discussions about what design is and how creativity goes into the design of everyday objects.
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Mental Floss: 11 Museums Devoted to Everyday Objects
These 11 museums are dedicated to items you use but probably never think about. Things like toilets, pencils, locks, and scissors. The variety of designs and the creativity that went into them are truly impressive.