This is what a Tesla designer is doing with chocolate chips
Remy Labesque has designed thin, melt-in-your-mouth edges to be sturdy enough to hold their shape in baking
26 July 2020 - 21:59
New York — Remy Labesque has a compelling day job: he is the senior industrial designer at Tesla in Los Angeles. But for three years, he has worked on a side project that is enviable to people outside Elon Musk’s universe. Labesque has re-engineered the classic chocolate chip because, he says, the 80-year-old teardrop shape is ill-suited to its function.
“The chip isn’t a designed shape,” says Labesque. “It’s a product of an industrial manufacturing process.”..
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