It's Friday morning here in New York, but it's already the weekend for some of our overseas readers, which means you're done with WORK for the week! Of course, we know that many of you are in school or have independent projects that could be considered WORK in the broad sense, and your entries for the Core77 and Braun Design in the Wild photo challenge reflect as much. We saw a whole range of implements, from a favorite pencil to a trusty hand drill, as well as particularly handy digital-age tools. Meanwhile, freshly-made prototypes and decommissioned machinery alike had an overtly design-minded sensibility, yet the gallery as a whole is a fascinating portrait of how you work whether you're a designer or not.
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System vs Chaos
Nour Malaeb, United States
We all have a system for the way we work. "Organization" is a very relative term; what might make total sense to you will look like complete chaos to the casual observer. Ultimately, you design the way you design.
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Just a Pencil...?
Arina Fjodorova, Latvia
When choosing the object for this challenge, I could think of numerous things which to describe and which are interesting for me, but I felt that that was not enough. After writing down many pages notes and ideas, I realised that all this time I was holding the greatest invention of anything made by man—a pencil. Could you imagine that pencils were used by world famous scientists, artists, musicians to complete their magnificent works and give inspiration to all of us? Cheap and erasable pencils were used by astronauts instead of expensive ink pressurised pens. With pencils only Roald Dahl wrote all his books. With a pencil one can draw a line up to 56 km and still write with it if it is not sharpened. Thomas Edison and Van Gogh used for their creations only specially made pencils. Annually, 1 million pencils are used on the New York Stock Exchange.
I am a designer and I have to draw a lot. I have new markers, gel ink pens and permanent fine liners to make my work clean and understandable. But nothing makes it look more creative and impressive than a simple pencil drawing does.
It is thrilling to acknowledge how such a small and insignificant thing has affected life of human kind and has shaped the way the world likes today.
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