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SIGGRAPH 2010: Robotic Gigapixel Photography
Guest post by Paul Fraser. Photography has come a long way in the last 200 years or so, or even since the first megapixel sensor. Newly developed robotics and software are now making it possible to...
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Ex-ICSID boss would've had us on e-bikes circa 1946
That's a prototype for an electric bicycle designed by Sir Misha Black, the influential UK industrial designer behind a 1946 exhibition called "Britain Can Make It." Shortly after the end of the...
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SCAD ID students collaborate with JCB on backhoe redesign
The Savannah College of Art & Design's ID department continues to impress us with its significant ties to real-world industry and the educational opportunities this affords to its students. SCAD's...
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Nissan pioneering new automotive interior features: Easy chairs, air...
We didn't think it could be done, but technology has advanced to the point where the Magic Tree air freshener may actually be supplanted by something more sophisticated. "We want drivers to feel that...
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Daniel Dobrogorsky's Koolhaus faucet concept helps monitor your water...
[Update: This project was originally and erroneously credited to a UK-based design firm, who posted the project on their site with no proper attribution, leading one to believe the work was theirs,...
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In a category of vastly similar products, Scholz & Friends's clever package...
Folks, you have to wonder why no one else thought of this a long time ago: This headphones packaging design (released last month by the European branch of Panasonic) was designed by Berlin-based Scholz...
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Frog Design is seeking a Senior Visual Designer in Amsterdam
Senior Visual Designer frog designAmsterdam, Netherlands Qualified candidates will share our belief that design is as much about behavior and emotion as it is about utility and ease of use. Senior...
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SIGGRAPH 2010: Real sand, virtual bugs
Guest post by Paul Fraser. After hours of walking the SIGGRAPH 2010 expo aisles, you just need to unplug and have a little playtime in the sand. One exhibit located in the Art Gallery of the...
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This Just Inbox: Wagon No. 1, a mason bag with wheels
Something fun for Friday: we love this charming take on a cart, a mason bag crossed with a radio flyer that functions almost like a picnic basket. Welcome, a design brand based in Los Angeles, is...
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Troika's palindromic, kinetic sign for the V&A Museum
Troika's newly installed two-way sign for the V&A museum in London is simple, quiet, and mind-boggling all at the same time, "a kinetic object consisting of three revolving parts, together forming...
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Felix Vorreiter's handheld skywriter
More proof that it takes (x) years to make an overnight success: Karlsruhe-based communications designer Felix Vorreiter invented the txtBOMBER back in 2005, but it's just in the past few days that...
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Ghosts now officially exist, thanks to Sergey Larenkov's computational...
Photographer Sergey Larenkov uses computational rephotography (as shown above and explained here by Wired) to overlay extant WWII-era photographs on their corresponding modern settings. The results...
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If the cubicle was Alpha, check out the Beta workplace system
In office furniture design we've seen tons of would-be successors to the cubicle, but nothing's really taken root yet. The latest to throw their hat into the ring is Italian furniture manufacturer...
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A bizarre way to package sparkling wine
It's a Friday, so I feel free to rail out at what I see as ridiculous or wasteful design, especially projects that get tons of blog attention for being "stunning." I don't know what Colier Sparkling...
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Maker Faire Detroit is here!
Maker Faire Detroit opens tomorrow [Saturday] - the first ever held in America's cradle of industry and what many view today as a post-industrial laboratory for the future. The two day event will be...
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Last Chance! Sukkah City Design Competition Deadline tomorrow
The deadline for the Sukkah City design competition is tomorrow, so if you've registered and got a re-imagining of the ancient form of the sukkah percolating, better fire up those Prismacolors...
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Manufacturing: How to make a Corvette seat
This is a promo video for a firm that manufactures Corvette seats, but if you skip the first 30 seconds you'll get a look at what goes into one; they're essentially really complicated upholstery jobs...
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Introducing New Core77 Columnist Bill Moggridge!
We are honored to introduce Bill Moggridge as our newest columnist, once the designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass 1982), now the director of Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National...
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Nuts-and-bolts ID: CVG's composite overhead storage bins for trucks
"We replaced an injection-molded plastic and metal assembly with a composite design and achieved significant part consolidation and weight savings," is one of those sentences that, when uttered at a...
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Vladimir Pavlenko's cell-phone-cum-lamp concept is perfect for developing...
A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to interview Younghee Jung, the globetrotting Nokia ethnographer whose job is to research how people use their mobile phones all over the world. While doing...
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