Linear objects like pieces of chalk make for clean, hard-lined designs, while something like pasta encourages looser, messier tableaus. Many carpets make clever use of depth.

Founded in 1990, Oxo is beloved by design nerds for the way that the company takes everyday objects (like the salad spinner) and finds sometimes subtle, but always clever, ways to reinvent them ...

Three Everyday Objects, Improved. Dwell, the design magazine, announces winners of its open competition to redesign a hanger, ironing board, and coffee mug. SHARE.

Reimagining Everyday Objects. Matt Witheiler. 3:00 PM PDT · March 29, 2015. Editor’s note: ...

The seventh everyday object with misunderstood history is the incandescent light bulb. While Thomas Edison receives credit for its invention in 1879, the technology emerged through competitive ...

On her Facebook page, Kamprani calls Uncomfortable “a collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects,” adding that it “started as a twisted sadistic design project. It messed up ...

Artist Hugh Hayden transforms everyday objects, from schoolhouse desks to basketball hoops to cast-iron cookware, into something surreal. An exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis ...