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Design Opportunity: Create a Better Portable Tufting Frame
What the drafting board is to draftspeople, and the easel is to painters, the tufting frame is to tufters.Tufting is sort of a cross between sewing and embroidery. A backing material like burlap, linen...
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Industrial Design Case Study: Tactile Helps Milwaukee Perfect Their Digital...
Integrating digital tech into a tried-and-true analog tool requires careful thought, rather than just slapping on an LED readout. So when it came time to develop their flagship digital level, tool...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (5-12-25 to 5-16-25)
Here's what we looked at this week:French company Cyclauto revives a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s. The Rivian R1T's brilliant "seamless tailgate" design feature provides a way better UX for...
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The Best Use of Damascus Steel Turns Out to Be In Your Backyard (or in the...
When you look up Damascus steel saw blades on the internet you'll find many tutorials for would-be blacksmiths about upcycling end-of-use bandsaw blades into the pricey material that practically...
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Apple's Unique Anti-Motion-Sickness Screen Animation Trick
For commuters prone to motion sickness, using a laptop on a train is perhaps do-able; trains don't make sharp turns and sudden stops. But trying to work on a bus or in a car is likely difficult.Apple...
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An Unusual Single-Blade Fingernail Clipper Design
We live in an interesting, some might say gluttonous, era of product development. In addition to the seemingly daily invention of new EDC objects, any given product design has multiple competitors'...
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From Australia, Magnetic and Custom-Fit Sun Shades for Your Car
Some luxury automakers, like Lexus, offer built-in sun shades that you can slide up to cover the side windows. For those with cars lacking this feature, the only option has been to deal with janky...
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Crazy Japanese Technique for Splicing the Bottom of a Rotted Column
First built in the 1500s, Osaka Castle has been destroyed, rebuilt and repaired over the years. In the early 1900s one of the wooden columns supporting the castle's main gate, known as the Otemon Gate,...
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Stunning Frank Lloyd Wright Art Tiles by Motawi Tileworks
A native Michigander, Nawal Motawi enrolled in the University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art & Design in the 1980s. After a year and a half, she dropped out "in disgust," she revealed in an...
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Glow-in-the-Dark Substitute for EDC Gear: Actual Radioactive Isotopes
Commonly available glow-in-the-dark materials are made from phosphors, which are chemicals like zinc sulfide or strontium aluminate, that manufacturers mix with paint or plastics. These phosphors...
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Philips to Offer Free Downloadable Files to 3D Print Replacement Parts
Though Philips is no longer the consumer electronics giant they once were—they've shifted into health technology—they still manufacture some personal care items, like electric shavers and hair dryers....
View ArticleDutch Researchers Develop the Opposite of a Push-to-Open Mechanism
You're probably familiar with the push-to-open mechanism used by fancy cabinets. Pressing the cabinet door pushes an internal latch inward, past a "trigger point" like a cam or notch that had been...
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Good or Bad? This System Records Entire Sporting Matches, But Highlights Just...
Over a decade ago, the prolific writer and artist Chris Ware highlighted the negative effects smartphones were having on our society. His spot-on cover for the January 6th, 2014 cover of The New Yorker...
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From Latvia, Kanttari's Bronze Bar Cabinet
From a design perspective, Latvia is in an interesting geographic position. In addition to having a local tradition of craftsmanship, the Baltic state has been touched by Scandinavian influences from...
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An Industrial Design Classic: The Brionvega Algol TV
This Algol TV was designed by Italian architect/designer Marco Zanuso and German industrial designer Richard Sapper. Released by Italian electronics brand Brionvega in 1964, the ABS-clad TV was...
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