International Home + Housewares Show 2012: Bodum goes Electric
Coverage sponsored by the IHA Get a tour of Bodum's new line of electronic kitchen appliances with Thomas Perez, President of Bodum USA. We get a closer look at the eBodum collection including the new...
View ArticleBill's Design Talks: Is it time to rebrand Design Thinking?
Is it time to rebrand Design Thinking? Bill Moggridge's salon for the Cooper-Hewitt has always been a place for lively conversation on a range of interesting topics from a tribute to Eva Zeissel to...
View ArticleSite Helps You Capture Little UI Details
Little Big Details helps designers catalog the many UI details they encounter. As designers, we all realize that the most intuitive user interface often requires the most work. But as users, we always...
View ArticlePurse Organizers
If you are a female reader of Core77, please stop reading this post. This one is just for our male readers. Kindly skip to the next entry, thanks. Okay, fellow guys, check this out: I want to talk...
View ArticleMade in the USA: Kinetic Custom Machine, a CNC Speaker Factory and Beyond
It's not rocket science—nor is it the first acoustic iPhone speaker we've seen, though it might just be the smallest—just dedication to the craft, a decent work ethic and commitment to quality: we're...
View ArticleInternational Home + Housewares Show 2012: 19th Annual Student Design...
Coverage sponsored by the IHA The 2012 International Home + Housewares Show saw the IHA's 19th Annual Student Design Competition, which remains as competitive ever: the 10 jury members reviewed over...
View ArticleTonight: Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club presents Michael Davis-Yates of...
Tonight, Core77 is excited to present Michael Davis-Yates to the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club hosted at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with...
View ArticleFree Universal Construction Kit You'll Obviously Use
Previously there has been no miscegenation in the world of constructive toys. Legos fit with other Legos, Tinkertoys go with Tinkertoys and K'Nex connect with K'Nex. But now two organizations, the...
View ArticleInternational Home + Housewares Show 2012: Dash Kitchenwares Debuts from...
We get an exclusive look at Dash, a bright and beautiful new kitchenware line that debuted at the International Home + Housewares Show. Learn more about some of the innovative finishes and design...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the 1985 frog FZ750
Every few weeks I get a request for information about the classic frog FZ750 concept designed by our founder Hartmut Esslinger in 1985. The frog FZ was a bit of a superstar, appearing on the cover of...
View ArticleNon Sequitur: Stop-Motion Tchotchke-mole by PES
"Fresh Guacamole," a stop-motion short produced by PES for Showtime's SHORT Stories, hit the web a few weeks back (it's not so fresh, in a manner of speaking), but it definitely put a smile on my face...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2012: Interview with Alexandra Lange on Design Writing
This is the third post in a series of short interviews with renowned writers about the field of Writing & Commentary, a new category in the Core77 Design Awards. Here we speak to Alexandra Lange ,...
View ArticleBlik Lets You Make Your Own Keith Haring
I'm sure that while Keith Haring was covertly 'tagging' a subway station with his characteristic thick, black-outlined figures, he never ever thought those same forms would be mass produced and sold...
View ArticleTiffany & Co. is seeking a Jewelry Designer in New York, New York
Jewelry Designer Tiffany & Co.New York, New York Tiffany & Co. is seeking a Jewelry Designer work as part of a team to develop precious metal and stone jewelry concepts and designs based on...
View ArticleCore77 Photo Gallery: International Home + Housewares Show 2012
Coverage sponsored by the IHA As our International Home + Housewares 2012 coverage winds down, we're pleased to present a full photo gallery of some of notable objects and items from that whirlwind...
View ArticleWhere the (Silica-Polymer Compound) Rubber Meets the Road
Look at any car rendering and you'll see the tires get the least attention. The treads are hidden by fancy fenders, and the thin black ellipses offering the barest suggestion of rubber are there only...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2012: Meet the Jury, Lorraine Justice - Strategy & Research
Strategy is the roadmap to success, says Lorraine Justice our Jury Captain for Strategy and Research. She's the Dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology...
View ArticlePhaidon's panel on "The Art Museum" and what it means to be a curator
The gods of panel discussions must be working overtime for me this month. I've been to an inordinate number of them, some good, some not so good and none as great as Phaidon's "Viewing Art in the 21st...
View ArticleNYU's ITP Shanghai Now Accepting Apps for Fall 2012; Open House Tomorrow, 3/30
Grad students at the Interactive Telecommunications Program—ITP for short—at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts have produced far more amazing projects than we could possibly cover in these pages, not...
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