Design Engineering

With more than 100 patents, illustrious inventor Lanny Smoot is making history as the first Disney Imagineer to be inducted into the National Engineers Hall of Fame. The only other employee from The Walt Disney Company to do so is Walt Disney himself.

Bowers & Wilkins’ iconic Nautilus loudspeaker has gotten a stunning pearly makeover for its 30th anniversary, inspired by the mollusk its named after. But you might want to add it to the dream pile: standard models currently have a two-year waitlist.

The race is on to find viable materials for building on other planets, and one team has (thankfully) moved on from its last creation made of blood and urine to unveil a new biocomposite brick that's not only much stronger but a little more palatable.

Since WobbleWorks first lifted doodles off the page to form 3d art, we've seen the company's 3D-printing pen make its way to the classroom and to professional designers. Now the firm is back with the world's most advanced professional-grade model.

The US Air Force has announced that it is introducing a new "eSeries" classification for military air and space hardware, indicated by an "e" prefix", that has been digitally engineered and virtually tested before a physical example is ever built.

Founder of Prusa Research, the world’s largest 3D printing factory located in Prague, Josef Prusa has spoken about how the company is doing everything it can to aid the production of much needed medical supplies during the COVID-19 crisis.

Aston Martin's Marek Reichman is a fascinating character in the hard-nosed world of the automotive industry, a rockstar designer who's been elevated to the position of Chief Creative Officer as well as an Executive Vice President of Aston Martin.

Superyachts and space satellites may not seem like they have much in common, but Royal Huisman's Sea Eagle II – the world’s largest aluminum sailing yacht – was designed using the same engineering techniques that go into developing ESA space missions.

Pino is a simple kitchen appliance designed to enable electricity-free, human-powered kitchen tasks, such as whisking, beating, mixing and grinding.

Inspired by traditional marine chronometers, Swiss design firm MB&F has teamed up with manufacturer L’Epée 1839 to create a marine-themed, high-end table clock called the Octopod, with the inner movements contained inside a bathysphere-like bubble and mounted atop a set of eight articulated legs.

London-based architectural outfit D*Haus has been proposing unconventional transformer house designs for a few years now. The latest proposition is called Devon House, a circular abode with a triangular rotating upper floor.

Having given us a glimpse of its future design direction with last year's 20V20 SUV Concept, Spanish carmaker SEAT has now provided an insight into how its designs are actually brought to fruition. The whole process takes about four years, meaning that work on the 20V20 likely began in 2011.