"I'd like to see this emphasis on utilitarian design transfer into smaller fleet vehicles - I find myself clinging to old rangers and toyotas because the modern offerings come in sizes ranging from huge to enormous. Sure my ranger can't tow a small cruise ship but if I need to pick up stock material for work, drop off waste oil or scrap, move furniture, snag some salvaged machinery/motorcycle/wood etc it does the thing- and I think that's the case for many urban based hands-on folks like myself. I'd love to see these modern design innovations in a fuel and size conscious frame. "

"There are many generative design tools take into account manufacturing processes- these ones are of course geared towards additive or costly 5+axis machining but I've seen 2/2.5/3 axis generative design tools as well as the use of generative design to drive welded assemblies. I've admittedly seen less with molding but its still feasible that as the technology matures it will be more refined to practical application. "

"This one and the datsun 620 for sure when we get to Japanese cars"

"If you want to protect a specific design you file a design patent, and if you can put dotted lines of all possible visual alterations that should be covered in said patent. If you want to protect a design concept you file a utility patent. It's a frustrating, expensive process for sure (the inequalities of which could fill many more articiles) but litigation is straightforward. The trunki founders should have covered their bases better. "

"A minimalist, elegantly designed silicone object that vibrates is hardly something I would refer to as "explicit sex material" "

"Resonates a little with another article I read (I thought on Core but now can't find it) about the proliferation of parametric/computational design in architecture and how now that an everyone and their mother can throw a Voronoi cell structure at a render and call it a day the distinction between talent and mere visual interest was muddied (should that matter idk).I'll note that from my own work with generative design it can take a lot of work figuring out the right inputs to get anything useful- not to mention aesthetic. As always the real strength of a designer is not optimizing a solution, but finding the right problem, "