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NYIGF 2011 :: Menu A/S

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At this year's New York International Gift Fair there was the typical mix of the good, bad and the ugly. A standout from the Accent on Design section of the fair this year was Menu A/S, a Danish homewares design company that was founded in 1979 to supply steel products to the catering industry. Since then, Menu has collaborated with an impressive group of Scandinavian and international designers to produce highly functional and beautifully designed tools for living. This season, the brand introduced some great pieces to help you transition from Winter to Spring.

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The Glass Kettle Teapot, designed by Norm Architects, can be placed directly on your stovetop and includes a retractable tea egg attached by a silicon "string" that is built into the cap of the kettle. Once your tea is steeped to your liking, simply pull the string and the tea egg secures to the top of the kettle -- minimizing post-steeping drips and mess.

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McDonald's is Seeking a Design Director in Oakbrook, IL

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Design Director
McDonald's

Oakbrook, IL

McDonald's Worldwide Concept and Design team is ready to expand. We're looking for a Design Director to lead the development and evolution of our self-order platform (kiosk, web, mobile, etc). The ideal candidate will already have relevant experience in e-commerce and/or cross-channel retailing.

A good eye and grounding in information design (graphics, interface, interaction) should be assumed. Ultimate success requires strong collaboration skills and ability to build trust relationships with colleagues in IT, marketing, operations, and management.

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Seth Goldstein's kinetic sculptures provide a grim commentary on the daily grind

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You'll work for years, accomplish things, then retire. When you look back on all that labor and schoolwork, what will it look like, what conclusions will you draw?

Retired mechanical engineer Seth Goldstein, who has turned to creating expressive robotic sculptures, offers some witty but grim summations:

"Why Knot?" is a kinetically complex contraption that ties a necktie. Then unties it. Then ties it again, and so on. All it needs to do is make monthly deposits to a 401k to make the message any clearer.

"Cram Guy," on the other hand, is still a student. He crams for a test (using "Over the Cliff Notes,") falls asleep, dreams, then wakes up and starts studying again.

Time to re-think my life....

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NYIGF 2011 :: Omni+

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Starting out in the home theater furniture sector, Omni+ had a great showing at the NYIGF with the debut of their new Drysdale desk. A collaboration with Karim Rashid, the desk is on-trend with the materials combination of walnut and white piano-finish. Special consideration was taken when designing the back of the desk with a removable piece that safely tucks cords and other desktop wires away.

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Ronen Kadushin's Piggybank

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Isreali designer Ronen Kadushin has been producing 2D cutouts for fabricating 3D objects, available for downloading, copying, producing and modifying through his Open Design project. The latest in this series is Kadushin's version of the piggy bank, a commentary on the current financial climate.

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Snarkitecture's Brooklyn crib, 90 square feet and balls to the wall

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So you've picked up one of InCase's iPhone ping pong covers and you need a home to match? You can always do like Daniel Arsham, the Snarkitecture partner who built a tiny pied-a-terre inside a larger workspace and lined the thing with ping pong balls.

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Contrary to recent blog buzz it's not a proper apartment as far as we can tell, but rather a 90-square-foot loft containing a bedroom and dressing room, carving out a modicum of space in a 2,500-square-foot loft. Practical? Probably not, as anyone who's ever accidentally crushed a ping pong ball can tell you, but probably more practical than if Arsham was a football fan.

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NYIGF 2011 :: black+blum

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Perennial favorites, London-based black+blum unveiled their newest Spring products at this year's NYIGF targeted at those who love to cook...and eat! The hot-pot bbq is the perfect accessory for the urban dweller/fire escape griller. A seemingly-innocent planter conceals a charcoal grill underneath encouraging grillers to grow herbs they can later use in their cooking. The terracotta-like finish is actually a heat resistant ceramic-coated stainless steel. The hot-pot comes with specially-designed tongs that slip under and lift the cooking grate to access the charcoals underneath. And it comes in an awesome, compact cardboard package too.

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Faced with different state recycling laws, BottleHood takes matters into their own hands

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This may or may not surprise you non-Americans, but if you look at a drinks bottle from this country you'll see abbreviations printed on the label denoting which states will pay for that bottle to be recycled. Yep, it's different from state to state, meaning the same bottle may not be recycled as readily in Rhode Island as in New York.

BottleHood is a San-Diego-based organization made up of unnamed creatives (a jeweler, a weaver and a graphic designer) who "rescue" glass bottles that have no monetary recycling value under California regulations. Rather than see these hit landfill, BottleHood gives them a second life by turning them into drinking glasses and vases. Liquor bottles in particular seem to serve these purposes well from a graphic design standpoint.

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To the BottleHood folks, if you're reading this and looking for ideas, there used to be a Belgian beer bar on St. Mark's Place in New York (now defunct, sadly) that had cool pendant lamps done by graphic designer Darren Amellio, the guy behind the original bOb bar. Amellio made them by chopping the bottom off of big-ass cider jugs and sandblasting the tops and damn were they pretty.

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IDSA Extends IDEA Awards Entry Deadline!

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If you missed last Friday's deadline to enter the IDSA 2011 IDEA Awards, you'll be happy to know that the program's organizers have announced a deadline extension for procrastinator's and potential winners alike. Late entrants now have until February 13th to submit their entry in this prestigious industry annual, showcasing the best designs from 2010.

To top it all off, IDSA is making it even easier for student entries by waiving the late fee which we all know equals a lot of ramen noodles and extra prismacolor pencils.

Let this be one New Year resolution you actually keep! Stop wasting time and visit IDSA's website for more detail, and you can remember to thank Core77 when you pick up your award in September.

Core77 is a proud media sponsor of IDSA's IDEA 2011 Awards.

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Just when we thought we were making sustainability progress, along comes a chair made from 110 sheets of plywood

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I'm not sure how you justify using 110 pieces of plywood to make a single-seat piece of furniture, but I guess design is subjective. Emma Selzer of Australia's Plus Architecture has designed the Egg Chair, a pod-like chair and integrated table that pivots on its center, for a local business center.

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The Egg Chair's laser-cut sheets are glued and screwed, meaning this thing ain't coming apart at recycling time; then again I think sustainability is not exactly the point here.

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Core77 is Seeking an Editorial Assistant in New York City

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Editorial Assistant
Core77

New York City

Core77.com is seeking an Editorial Assistant for their New York City office. The Editorial Assistant provides support for the day-to-day editorial operations for Core77, with a primary focus on Core77.com and the properties and projects that fall under that domain. The Editorial Assistant will contribute content to the daily blog in the form of editorial research, blog posts, calendar entries, sponsored content contribution as well as provide production support for event coverage, monthly newsletters and general site updates.

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Gorilla® Glass from Corning

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Core77 welcomes Corning as a featured advertiser this month presenting their groundbreaking performance material, Gorilla® Glass. Corning Gorilla Glass provides exceptional damage resistance and helps protect sophisticated electronic devices from the scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use. If you're a smartphone user, you're probably benefitting from one of the many implementations of this chemically strengthened, optically clear, highly touch-sensitive and incredibly thin wonder material.

Please check out the Gorilla Glass website to learn more about how you can use Gorilla Glass in your designs.


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Core77 Welcomes Its New February Sponsor, Gorilla® Glass from Corning

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Core77 welcomes Corning as a featured advertiser this month presenting their groundbreaking performance material, Gorilla® Glass. Corning Gorilla Glass provides exceptional damage resistance and helps protect sophisticated electronic devices from the scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use. If you're a smartphone user, you're probably benefitting from one of the many implementations of this chemically strengthened, optically clear, highly touch-sensitive and incredibly thin wonder material.

Please check out the Gorilla Glass website to learn more about how you can use Gorilla Glass in your designs.


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NYIGF 2011 :: A+ Young Designers Showcase

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This year's A+ Young Designers' Platform winners represented a broad spectrum of products highlighting innovative ideas from emerging designers. Showing on the floor of Accent on Design, these four young designers were curated with the help of the American Design Club.

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danacannamdesign was launched in 2009 after Cannam received his design degree from the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His first project, the clamplamp explored how to, "maximize the functionality of a solid unfinished material rather than adding unwanted components." The lamp utilizes an energy-efficient LED strip, is compression-fit with no glue or screws holding the lamp together. The lamp head can rotate 360 degrees on its pivot and is manufactured with minimal environmental impact.

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A slice of design from the '00s: Matthias Bengtsson

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It bothers regular people when they think of a song or TV show and can't remember the title; it drives an ID'er nuts when they can't remember who did a particular piece of furniture. Yesterday I wrote about the chair made from an extreme amount of plywood sheets. After posting it I realized I'd seen something similar before, as often happens with ID, but I couldn't find it with last night's web searching, and I went to bed late.

This morning I finally rediscovered it: Danish designer Mathias Bengtsson's Slice Chair, which he did in both plywood and aluminum, way back in 1999:

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Will The Daily solve the tablet/magazine interface design challenge?

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As physical objects, I always thought books and magazines were pretty much the same thing; nothing changed my mind on that more than using the iPad. I use the tablet device religiously to read books at bedtime and to refer to sewing machine adjuster's manuals during the day when doing repairwork. It's perfect for books and manuals: All of the info with none of the bulk, with the occasional image that can be easily zoomed in on for clarity.

But magazines, man, different animal. Every mag app I've played around with on the tablet--Popular Mechanics, Wired, that horrible Zinio app--gives me a feeling of cognitive dissonance as soon as I open them. I easily lose track of "where" I am in the magazines, and although I'm not sure why that matters, it just feels wrong. With books and manuals the tablet disappears and I feel I'm absorbing pure information; with magazines I feel like I'm trying to drive a car with a cardboard box over my head.

Grafting magazines onto tablets provides a significant interface-design challenge, and I'll shortly be testing out Apple's much-ballyhooed The Daily publication. In the meantime, here's Macworld's look at it from the launch:

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NYIGF 2011 :: Stelton Knives

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Known for their Vacuum Jug and line of products for discerning coffee connoisseurs, Scandinavian design house Stelton debuted their Pure Black collection of knives at this year's NYIGF. Forged from a single piece of stainless steel, the knives have a beautiful soft black coating that ensures ease of handling. The 16.5 inch mounted knife magnet that complements the Pure Black collection is called Pure White. The glossy white magnet gives the illusion that the black knives are floating on its surface.

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Global Village Construction Set

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The Global Village Construction Set is an initiative to develop, "an advanced industrial economy-in-a-box" that can be replicated inexpensively anywhere in the world. Described by the team as a "Lego set of modular building blocks," the 40 proposed machines will work together for creating sustainable, regenerative, resilient communities. Check out their video on the project below and support this great open source project!

GVCS in 2 Minutes from Adam Mitchell on Vimeo.

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Future fabrication: N55's Spaceplates

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Here's an unusual take on how we might build things in the future: The subversive Danish creative collective known as N55's Spaceplates. The idea is that we would have the proverbial shit-ton of sheet goods delivered to our home, and we'd break out a domestic CNC, download some plans and have it start carving up modular units that we'd then put together.

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Kno tablet maker seems pretty out-of-the-box

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Kno is the name of a company working on a tablet specifically designed to be used for textbooks. The two-page touchscreen, branded a "next generation digital learning device," looks pretty nifty:

Changing Education Forever from Kno Tablet on Vimeo.

What we found interesting is the way they've been testing their screen's capacity to accurately measure strokes--using a series of Lego robots:

Students and educators looking to get in early, and willing to provide feedback, can try signing up for Kno's advisory panel.

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