International Home + Housewares Show 2012: Mint Design
Coverage sponsored by the IHA We saw a couple Wabnitz Editions at the NYIGF; here, owner Wilma Wabnitz fills us in with a bit of backstory. Scott Henderson of Mint Design proceeds to walk us through...
View ArticleIn the Struggle Against Piracy, Fritz Hansen Releases "Real Thing vs....
What's the most frustrating thing a furniture designer will have to endure? The pitch meetings? Production challenges? Supply-chain hassles? We're going to say knock-offs. Because their presence means...
View ArticleWe love Paper by FiftyThree: New Sketching App for iPad
Image above courtesy of Paper We had the opportunity to preview the new sketching application Paper by FiftyThree for the iPad. The web video showing their application makes it look easy and beautiful,...
View ArticleGraeme Obree: The Man, the Machine, the Mania
Graeme Obree in 1993, via Wolfgang Menn It's the stuff of legend in the cycling community, and frankly it's a shame that he lacks recognition in the greater world of sport or design: Graeme Obree,...
View ArticleHang Two: "Benvenuto" Double Hanger by Stefania Nicolosi
Like bicycle lights, clotheshangers are a perennial (or per-semester-al, perhaps) favorite project for young and emerging designers: it's an everyday object that demands user-informed solutions yet one...
View ArticleHEINEKEN Ideas Brewery CHALLENGE: The Future of Beer Packaging
You love beer. We love beer. Think how much our lives could change if it were packaged to go from the brewery to the store to you in a more efficient and sustainable fashion. The HEINEKEN Innovation...
View ArticleBMW Group DesignworksUSA is seeking a Creative Director, User Interface in...
Creative Director, User Interface BMW Group DesignworksUSAMunich, Germany BMW DesignworksUSA, a global design consultancy, is seeking a Creative Director in a contactor position for their Munich...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2012: Meet the Jury, Michael DiTullo - Soft Goods
How are technological advancements shaping or informing the design of Soft Goods? Michael DiTullo, our Jury Captain for this field and Creative Director at frog in San Francisco, shares his...
View ArticleInternational Home + Housewares Show 2012: All Coverage in One Place!
Coverage sponsored by the IHA In case you missed it, here's a roundup of our full coverage of this year's International Home + Housewares Show. Bright colors and automotive finishes compliment new...
View ArticleAn Open Source Live Bus Data Monitor
Buses are great. Buses offer a clean alternative to driving. And you never know when they're coming. Many cities have acknowledged this problem and offer open APIs with real-time bus data. This is...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2012: ONE WEEK LEFT
There's just one week left to enter the 2012 Core77 Design Awards to share your excellence, enterprise and intent with our multinational all-star jury. We look forward to seeing and honoring the...
View ArticleTonight: Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club presents Lyle Poulin, Hand-Forge:...
Tonight, the Core77 welcomes metalsmith Lyle Poulin 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 us...
View ArticleBiomimetic Robot Mobility Takes a Huge Leap
The problem of how to get a robot from point A to point B has many solutions, and by far the most interesting (and creepy) ones are animal-based. You probably remember Boston Dynamics' doglike robot...
View ArticleNike Unveils Elite51: Newly-Designed, High-Performance NFL Uniforms
Nike's sportswear designers were recently assigned a very specific task: Come up with the best performance wear possible to be worn by a highly select group of 1,600 men. Those men are the...
View ArticleLyle Poulin - The Modern Blacksmith - Live! at HES Curiosity Club
Live from Portland, Oregon - Core77's Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club! Tuesday Apr. 3rd 6:00 PM Lyle Poulin: Hand-Forge "The Modern Blacksmith: Tradition, Tools and Technique" Whatever happened to the...
View ArticleMaterials: Harnessing and Musically Expressing Electricity with...Gelatin
The French design school École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, known colloquially as ENSCI Les Ateliers, seeks to train industrial designers with a special bent on pushing the materials...
View ArticleAuto Parts Theft and Our Lowrider Solution
Besides tires, another thing I've never seen pop up in an automotive rendering is the car's underside. Few consumers that aren't mechanics will ever see the underside of their own car, and thus it...
View ArticleAppalachian Trail Conservancy is seeking a Graphic/Web Designer in Harpers...
Graphic/Web Designer Appalachian Trail ConservancyHarpers Ferry, West Virginia The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is seeking a Graphic/Web Designer, who will be responsible for the design and...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2012: Meet the Jury, Panthea Lee - Service Design
Jury Captain and Co-Founder of Reboot, Panthea Lee explains to us why Service Design, which connects disparate disciplines as well as the private and public sectors, deserves a category of its own and...
View ArticleIon Proton Sequencer Delivers an Entire Human Genome in 24 Hours
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a semiconductor sequencer. It took nearly 13 years to sequence the first human genome and it cost nearly $3 billion, but today, thanks to Life Technologies and RKS, the...
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