Live! Core77's Hand-Eye Curiosity Club - Joe Diemer - The Painless Appeal of...
Stainless steel is now 100 years old, and has many industrial accomplishments under its belt due to its strength, beauty, and stainlessness. Yet it remains an elusive medium to many artisans because...
View ArticleSalone Milan 2012: Konstfack, Design for a Liquid Society
"Dexter" by Andreas Farkas. An interlocking stool with a strong graphic silhouette, the "Dexter" recalls the string-like, metal furniture found in personal and publis spaces in Sweden. Can be used as a...
View ArticleSalone Milan 2012: "Features of a Material" by Katja Pettersson
Call it "Things That Look Like Other Things," with a twist: designer Katja Pettersson's "Features of a Material" series consists of objects that are what they look like—a stool, a table, a chair and a...
View ArticleTrek Bicycle Corporation is seeking a Sr. Industrial Designer in Waterloo,...
Sr. Industrial Designer Trek Bicycle CorporationWaterloo, Wisconsin Trek Bicycle Corporation is seeking an experienced Industrial Designer who will work within their product development teams to...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2012: TUESDAY IS IT
It's Go Time! This Tuesday April 24 is the final deadline for the Core77 Design Awards so put those finishing touches on your entries and submit your projects. Our all-star jurors are waiting to see...
View ArticleHacking Wi-Fi Routers to Bring Voice and Data to Rural Communities
VIllage Telco's Mesh Potato, which retails for $119 and provides both data and voice services via wifi to communities with limited internet and mobile phone access. The statistics, by now, are...
View ArticleA Footwear Design Comp You Need to Get In On
Sketches by Cameron Braithwaite Whoa—we've seen footwear design competitions before, but none with a purse this large: Alabama-based Power Force Apparel is offering $25,000, mass production of your...
View ArticleMocubo Cutting Board Borrows an Idea from Industrial Kitchens
Before entering design school I worked as a prep chef. I learned to sharpen knives and observe some industrial-speed kitchen designs. One of my jobs was to transform neverending containers of...
View ArticleSalone Milan 2012: Transnatural Art & Design Collection at MOST
Amsterdam's Transnatural is a multidisciplinary organization that offers, among other things, a selection of well-curated design objects "in which nature & technology come together in unison...
View ArticleMore Unintended (Potential) Side Effects of Technology: Google Glasses +...
In the few weeks since Google announced their Project Glass, you've undoubtedly seen the spoof videos that popped up cynically assuming the product would be overtaken by ads. What you probably haven't...
View ArticleSalone Milan 2012: Farmer's Gold, an Exploration in Straw by Editions in Craft
Ceramic Vase cast using woven straw, by Katja Pettersson of Front A universal design and build material employed since the dawn of agricultural societies, straw has been used to construct everything...
View ArticleSalone Milan 2012: Tom Dixon's Luminosity at MOST
Tom Dixon, the British designer known for not only designing the modern classics that make up his lighting and furniture collections but also manufacturing them, kicked off Milan with a bang. On...
View ArticleSalone Milan 2012: La Chance, Jekyll and Hyde at MOST
La Chance made its debut at Tom Dixon's MOST, a five-building design extravaganza anchored in Milan's National Museum of Science and Technology. La Chance is a Paris-based furniture and lighting...
View ArticleSalone Milan 2012: Sweet Furniture from Sapore Dei Mobili
The two fellas behind Sapore dei Mobili are Portuguese and Japanese—and they're based in Milan, to boot—but they've gone French for the first product of their design studio, subverting the old...
View ArticlePA Consulting Group is seeking a Technology & Innovation Industrial Design...
Technology & Innovation Industrial Design Summer Intern PA Consulting GroupCambridge, United Kingdom PA Consulting Group is seeking a talented multimedia/graphic design student to join their...
View ArticleLuggage Review Preamble: How I Travel
Air travel is a wondrous miracle that's led to experiences I'll treasure forever. It's because of the Wright Brothers that I've been able to bask in a Hawaiian sunrise, travel by dog sled through a...
View ArticleBuild it Green! NYC: Salvaging the Big Apple's Construction Waste
According to a 2011 study that's downloadable here, the New York City construction industry generates 7 million tons of building materials waste each year. Of that amount, just a fraction is recycled....
View ArticleBlackmagic Design's Sexy Cinema Camera
At the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) show, postproduction technology company Blackmagic Design made a surprising move into the camera space, releasing the sub-$3,000 Cinema Camera seen...
View ArticleCrumpler Bag Review, Part 1: The Dry Red No. 3 Rolling Carry-On
I'd be testing a selection of Crumpler bags out on a multi-day trip to the west coast. As per my travel methodology I honed in on the two-wheeled carry-ons in Crumpler's vast product line-up, and two...
View ArticleNeal Small, "Prince of Plastic," Resurfaces in Maine
Where do famous designers go when they retire? In Neal Small's case, a tiny town in Maine. "I wanted to get away from the tumult of Manhattan," the native New Yorker explains. ID grads and design...
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