"Flatpack furniture with only wooden connections has been done before. Hans j. wegner made a very elegant set of toddler furniture like this. I agree with the above statements, In that simply substituting metal for wood, is not a good idea. If one wants to make wooden joints without the use of glue or metal, one needs to fully understand the strengths and limitations of the material. I.e. wood. Then what makes a good designer, is the ability to give beauty to the solutions, so that they are an asset, rather than a compromise. This design is interesting and innovative, but I doubt it would Stan up to actual use, and it doesn't add anything aesthetically, so a metal joint would be stronger, and not take anything away. "

"It would be interesting to know if the pla could be recycled failed 3d prints, and wether the composite, (pla and flax fiber) could be recycled. I.e. recycling broken chairs into new chairs, and recycling the off cuts into new seats. The wooden frame looks like it's designed to be made from Bentwood, although the prototype isn't. (For understandable reasons)For me personally, I think the biggest selling point, is the materiality of the pla/flax composite, in that it doesn't feel cheap, and it ages well. So although it could be argued that it's just a "plastic chair" it is a high end dining chair, and not a cheap garden chair."

"He probably drives a car that is fit for his purpose, not one that is designed for farming and construction. In Europe, people who don't live on a farm don't use pickups, and construction workers use vans, because they protect your stuff from theft. The rest of us use cars optimised for passenger transport. I.e. they are small, and use little energy to run."

"Eames is famous because he created elegant solutions, where the solution is the beauty. Meaning that his designs were easy to manufacture, while at the same time being beautiful. The ultimate goal of the industrial designer. There concrete casts, are beautiful the conventional way, by adding man-hours. Bubbles are a failure, not a feature. And making them into one, is just "making your vices into virtues" the stuff they make are beautiful, but I agree, they are no "eames" they are merely very talented and innovative artisans."

"I wonder if the designer has contemplated how introducing his design will affect the behaviour of the hikers. Fromy experience, it is polite practice to poop somewhere that is not near to places people gather. I.e just go into the forest when you are far from any house. Also avoid any land where livestock is kept / have access to. Basically, poop quite a disastance away from your final destination, if that does not provide a toilet, and is a structure visited by lots of hikers. Secondary, the showel excuses popping close to the shelter, both because it facilitate it, and because it is heavy, and this will discourage people from going further away. I'm not saying it is a bad design, I'm just saying that is represents a classic example of the "wicked problem" as Victor Papanek calls it. The problem of wild popping, is it's concentration to one place, and it's vincinity to infrastructure (roads/buildings) One outcome of introducing this shovel, is that the popping will be concentrated, and near infrastructure. It would be functional in places that don't have many visitors. And where digging up the ground wouldn't be a problem. (A cabin in the woods) But I think that's not the kind of place, like the photo in the article shows."

"The uranium has to be mined and refined, and this is not carbon neutral. Building the nuclear powerplant is not carbon neutral either, and they have a limited service life. Lastly, storing and dealing with the nuclear waste is not carbon neutral either. Sorry to be knitpicking, but this is a website for industrial design, and when assessing the carbon footprint, everything musy be accounted for. Sure, how many kg co2 emitted per mwh is lower than coal, but it still has a number, and that number ain't 0"

"The biggest advantage, is that it makes it easy to use post-consumer  plastic. If it's about cost, then ground-up recycled plastic would be cheaper than virgin plastic. Recycling old prints is also much easier than recycling other post-consumer plastic, in that only a few types of plastic are used. Cost of printed parts could also be offset by supplying the plastic, in the form of broken or unwanted prints. "

"What can this do, that a measure tape, or a Swedish style folding ruler can't do? This thing is not intuitive to use, maybe not able to measure internal dimensions, will eventually create electronic waste, got a screen that can be smashed if it falls on the floor, might have calibration issues, and by appearance has a string that can get tangled or break. I could see it being used in a workshop, but not on a building site. I also agree, that as a styling exercise for an industrial design course, the design has no relevance to the festiol aesthetic.But having said this, I think improving on existing tape measure and folding ruler, and laser measure, is virtually impossible."

"Cast iron pots were the technological advancement to hand beaten, tinned, copper pots, or riveted plate iron pots. The technological advancement from cast iron, were cast aluminium, which is lighter, and have superior heat conduction (meaning no hot spot at the bottom.) the downside, was that aluminium is toxic. The stainless steel pot with a sandwich bottom, which means that there is a copper disc between two sheets of stainless steel, which is there because of coppers high thermal conductivity, which makes the temperature even, and reduces the risk of burning the food, is the latest technological advancement. Now some of them include an iron layer below the copper, to work on induction stoves. All this article is saying, is that a 50 year old technology, is better than a 250 year old technology. (Don't really know the numbers, it's just a rough guess.) Because the technology is 50 years old there are plenty of high quality seconds hand pots available for next to nothing. Meaning when it comes to expense, you can have the best for the cheapest. Cast iron pots are like vinyl music. It's value is in it's materiality, not it's on-paper performance. Meaning that people who like cast iron, will not buy a stainless steel sandwich design, for the simple reasons, that this is what they owned, before they bought their cast iron. To me, this pot looks exactly like a pot with a lid, that I can buy for £2 at the nearest charity shop, so I don't really see it's "unique selling point.""

"It doesn't specify that it has MIPS. If it doesn't, then it is less safe than existing bike helmets, which negates the supposed added security of being tight fitting. I don't see a reason why it wouldn't have MIPS, and I most definitely don't see a reason why anyone would buy a helmet that doesn't have it. (MISP let the helmet slide over your skull, so that if you fall on the asphalt while moving forward, the helmet doesn't jerk your head sideways. The helmet moves, but your head doesn't. This is to prevent concussion and neck injury.)"

"I think I am one of the very few designers that remembers how it was, to be a child. I got my fist knife at the age of 5, and I understood the concept of "if it can cut wood, it can cut me" and I also understood that cutting me was undesirable. When it comes to a scroll saw, because I remember how it was to be 5, I would trust the average 5 year old to, at some point while cutting through his finger, make the conclusion that it is not beneficial for him to continue to do so. This thing is a great thing for kindergartens and such, but I think grownups have a tendency of underestimatimg the ability and intelligence of children. Especially when one see what pass for an adult these days.. (tangerine man)"

"If the film he paints on has the same refractive index as the resin, it will not be visible when encased in resin. Which leads me to think that he cast thin sheets of epoxy, and paint on those. The benefit of using epoxy, besides it having the same refractive index as the epoxy he used for the casting (it's the same resin) is that the epoxy becomes soft when heated, so the sheet can be bent exactly like he wants it, and when it cools down, it will be stiff enough to support itself, and it won't be affected by the pouring of the resin. (I.e. lots of control, parthe can be heated and bent using a heat gun, low heat will make it only slightly soft, so big bends can be made, while high heat will make it more soft, so tight curves can be made (Acetate would have the same stiffness, so would tend to prefer one bending radius, it would also need to be held in position. And would need support during the pouring of the resin) I would also assume that the sheet with the paint would be supported on legs, so that only the side of the sculpture facing down would have any witness of the support. (The joint would show when the cast is polished)"