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The original colors of ancient Greek and Roman statues unveiled by...
There were cries of protest from purists when the technology was developed to colorize old black-and-white movies; one of the companies doing it generated plenty of bad press for colorizing an old...
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Your cell phone camera's unintended "rolling shutter" effect
Check out these cell-phone-camera shots of airplane propellors, victim to an effect known as "rolling shutter." What gives? As Flickr user Jason Mullins explains, [I shot this with] an iPhone 4, and...
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London Design Festival 2010 Preview: Korea Design Pavilion
Simple Idea: Time Saving Clock. This year at the London Design Festival, the Korean Design Pavilion will continue to showcase a selection of Korea's top designers. They have selected designers based...
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SELCO Case Series: Reflections on how a broader case study scope can inform...
Reading a business text explain that while the Indian economy is growing rapidly, the vast bulk of the populace still engages in subsistence work might dryly get the idea across. To really understand...
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Itay Laniado's Farm Tools for your Garden
Back in March, we wrote about Israeli designer Itay Laniado's wooden ladder, walking stick and wallet. Expanding on his explorations in wood and simple mechanisms, he recently completed an...
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Core77 Gallery: New York International Gift Fair Summer 2010
The New York International Gift Fair happens twice a year at the Javits Center in New York City. It's a massive, 4-day long show with all the gifts you could ever think of. In our gallery, we pass up...
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6 more hours to vote for your favorite Uncommon Good's YouGoods
Voting closes at 12 midnight tonight, EST, so check out the entries below and vote for your favorites! The Grocery'minder by Francene Pisano Dudziec. With a wet-erase front, this bag is perfect for...
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Redfish Creative's concept bicycle speedometer
Bicycles are some of the most treasured, crafted and functional objects in production, and yet most bicycle computers look like left over off-the-shelf displays from ten years ago with a pipe clamp...
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Cycleton One by Daniel Yorba at the Art Center Summer Show
The Art Center Summer Show is typically a nice way to get the pulse on what upcoming, West Coast, American designers are doing. One project that struck me in particular, and prompted a healthy respose...
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The Atlantic is seeking a Design Intern in New York City
The Atlantic Design InternNew York, NY Currently, The Atlantic seeks a bright, motivated current college student or recent graduate to join our dynamic marketing and sales team as part of The...
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A faux fur writeboard
We've fallen in love with this simple but ingenious project from Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos: Dedo is a writeboard made from artificial fur, "a much more comfortable message board, with no need...
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The Avion: Driving from Canada to Mexico--on just 14 gallons of gas
No one cared about fuel economy in the '80s. I drove a used six-cylinder Datsun that got terrible mileage, especially as driven by a high-school boy, where you needed to see if you could hit 85 m.p.h....
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Leon Ransmeier's Bubble Bank
We just came across images of Leon Ransmeier's Bubble Bank, produced earlier this year with glassblower Andrew Hughes, and now on sale at Matter. The banks come in three sizes, are hand blown, and...
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Hand-Eye Supply: Core77 Logo T-shirt
Real designers wear blue! Whether you're carving foam, pulling splines, or molding the next big idea, show the world where you stand in our cool baby blue Core77 t-shirt. Printed on 100% cotton...
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Eat your heart out: Joey Celis' M9 iPhone skin ain't for sale
Clever, clever: San-Francisco-based photographer Joey Celis produced a custom sticker for his iPhone, skinning it to look like a Leica M9. "Sorry but I won't be making these to sell," writes Celis, who...
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The Spice Barrel District: Chicago's New Creative Center?
Chicago weekly Newcity reports on an exciting proposal by Chicago to create a new district for the creative industries in what's called the Spice Barrel District on the Near South Side. Four...
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Widely-used kitchen workstation design from the early 1900s
Last week I covetously posted on Bulthaup's "tool cabinet" for kitchens (above), which I'm in love with. Well, turns out the thoroughly modern piece of furniture has a rather antiquated antecedent:...
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Minarc's RUBBiSH sink, made from old tires
I have to recaulk my bathroom sink, an infuriatingly small-bowled object that splashes water everywhere yet is astonishingly heavy. It's a solid chunk of porcelain that doesn't deliver good...
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London Design Festival 2010 Preview: Robots in Trafalgar Square
If you're one to fantasize about having control over large-scale robots in a public space (to do good, not evil, of course), Kram/Weisshaar has teamed up with Audi to make your dreams come true during...
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Sony's nonsensical portable speaker design
Here's a rather strange, ill-conceived product design from Sony: Their SRS-V500IP is an iPod dock holding a cylindrical speaker equipped with a "diffuser panel" that spreads the sound in 360 degrees....
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