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The Core77 Guide to COMMON
Core77 is headed to Design Indaba in South Africa, where we'll be on-hand to cover the international debut of the social innovators from COMMON. Here's our guide to everything you need to know about...
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Salone Milan 2012 Preview: Kaspar Hamacher
Photo by Jonas Löllman We've seen some of Kaspar Hamacher's excellent woodwork before, but his latest piece, "Stein No. 1," is perhaps his most minimal work yet. Intended to resemble a skipping stone,...
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Fuse, an MSG Company, is seeking a Sr. After Effects Graphic Designer in New...
Sr. After Effects Graphic Designer Fuse, an MSG CompanyNew York, New York Fuse TV is seeking an amazingly talented HIGH END senior level after effects graphic designer with extensive knowledge of...
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Design in the Wild: WORK Category Winners and RELAX Open for Submissions
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...
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"This is My Home" Short Looks at Man Living in Antique Shop
Wow—this short documentary by Departure|Arrival Films has nothing to do with design, but everything to do with object culture. It involves a New York City man who lives in a storefront filled with...
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Flotspotting: Brian Begley's Ready for Brooklyn Ballers
Your correspondent met Core77 founders Stu and Eric while all of us were attending Pratt and living in Brooklyn. While Core77 doesn't have any official link with Brooklyn, many of us staffers live or...
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Two Folding Electric Bikes Offer Twofold Urban Mobility Solution
They call it the first and last mile, an urban planning issue that has only recently crossed the threshold of collective consciousness, thanks to the ZipCar and bikeshare programs alike (Audi's "A0"...
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Tide Pods: Useful or Silly?
Procter & Gamble is making a major marketing push with their new Tide Pods, which seek to "[add] a whole new dimension to laundry, with an innovative look, feel and performance." Question is, is...
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BIG builds a log cabin in the sky for the new Kimball Art Center
If you caught the Valentine's Day heart installation in Times Square earlier this month (a.k.a. the only good thing about V-Day) then you already know Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the Copenhagen and New...
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The Design of Basketball, Part 2: Adapting to Human Behavior, and a Clock...
My brief stint in environments design consisted of exhibit design, where we were faced with the difficult task of trying to direct an unpredictably flowing crowd through a confined space, hopefully...
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Forget Shoes. What You Need are Kevlar Socks
Last week, we showed you Nike's forthcoming Flyknit kicks, which seek to combine the comfort of a sock with the support and protection of a sneaker. Now it's come to our attention that a Swiss company...
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GROHE AG is seeking a Industrial Design Internship in Dusseldorf, Germany
Industrial Design Internship GROHE AGD¨sseldorf, Germany GROHE AG, Europe's largest and the world's leading single-brand manufacturer and supplier of sanitary fittings, is looking for creative and...
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Case Study: Ento, the Art of Eating Insects
Ento is a roadmap for introducing edible insects to the Western diet. It is the outcome of a project undertaken by a team of four postgraduate students from the Royal College of Art and Imperial...
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"Alphabet Topography" is A-Z in 3D
Lately Synoptic Office has been exploring the physical space of letter forms, not as they appear on paper, but as they might look if they were mountains, for example. That's essentially what they've...
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Winners of The Best Newspaper Design
If you read American newspapers you're probably not aware that in other parts of the world there are newspapers so well designed that there's an award for it. And no, The New York Post was not a...
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Live Long and Smell Nice...?
I hate to perpetuate the stereotype that geeks smell bad, but hopefully these licensed fragrances from Jads International can help to end that notion. I'm actually almost a fan of the design of the...
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Leger Wanselja's Car Parts Shed
California-based architecture firm Leger Wanaselja has a flair for repurposing materials, like the three insulated shipping containers they integrated into the three-bedroom house seen above. But what...
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Mid-Air Gesture Control for Interface Design: Yea or Nay?
I'm not yet sold on mid-air gestures as a means of interfacing with a computer, and here's why: A computer mouse is a precision tool, and back in the days of the original Mac's tiny 512×342 pixel...
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See the World Differently through Eyebombing
Nope, it's not a new version of the EyeWriter: "Eyebombing" is a far more low-tech—and perhaps expressly meme-friendly—form of urban intervention. Kim Nielsen and Peter Dam coined the term late last...
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Artsy Hockey Medal Wins Design Comp
We recently looked at Helsinki's design-celebrating coins, and now Finland is the source of another award-winning design on a round piece of metal—though this time, the design is an award in itself....
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