Strong Images Comprehensively Depict "The Ruins of Detroit"
Photographer Kevin Bauman's "100 Abandoned Houses" project showed the empty domiciles of Detroit, but French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have gone further: Their photo book The Ruins...
View ArticleAdd Pensa's DIWire Bender to Your DIYer Arsenal
Our friends at Brooklyn-based consultancy Pensa have worked with the likes of Johnson & Johnson and McDonald's—not to mention ID idols OXO—but their multidisciplinary team has still found time to...
View ArticleKickstart This: iThrone, the almighty iPhone dock and sound amplifier
The iThrone was developed by two recent Art Center graduates, Amaya Gutierrez and Kenji Huang, whom I recently met at their Grad Show. Because they want to cast the iThrone in porcelain, a material...
View ArticleThis Customizable "Stick With It" Carry Case Makes Me Wish Screwdriver Bits...
That there is my personal drivers-and-bits kit for repairing vintage sewing machines, which require very specific bits and handles. Because no one offers all of the things I needed for it, I had to...
View ArticlePulse Art Fair Preview: Neon, Hyper, and Life-sized
As a vehicle to celebrate emerging artists in one space, The Pulse Art Fair opens today at the Metropolitan Pavilion with an array of artists and disciplines including video art, dance, and...
View ArticleRedesign Challenge: DESIGNED IN USA Logomark
Design to the Rescue! Earlier this year we revealed the Designed in USA brand certification logomark to the Core77 community. Unsurprisingly, opinions were wide-ranging and passionate. Designers, ask...
View ArticleSalone Milan 2012: Watch Jolan van der Wiel Make a Stool with Magnetism
I'm not sure if any of our readers are so attentive as to note that I'd promised a follow-up post about Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel's booth at Ventura Lambrate, but before we all completely...
View ArticleNicole Schindelholz's Technology-on-the-Outside Respond Coat Rack
Berlin-based designer Nicole Schindelholz has managed to weave kinetic interest into what's ordinarily a rather staid object: The coat rack. What could be mistaken for gears are actually blocks of...
View ArticleManchester United Ltd is seeking a Mid-Sr. Level Video Editor / Digital...
Mid-Sr. Video Editor / Digital Graphics Designer Manchester United LtdLondon, United Kingdom The Manchester United London Office is looking to appoint a Middle to Senior Weight Video Editor / Digital...
View ArticleThe Power of Bad Ideas
I'm not bad I'm just drawn that way - Jessica Rabbit Ideation, or if you prefer, brainstorming, is a structured activity with many degrees of freedom within that structure. When leading sessions, I...
View ArticleSpace-Saving Design: Company and Company Take the Folding Ladder Further
Everything in the photography studio I run is either on wheels or breaks down small for storage—except the cumbersome 8-foot A-frame ladder, an absolute studio necessity. Sure it folds flat and can be...
View ArticleStudent Spotlight, Kyle Dell'Aquila, RISD
Benchmark Diesel Motorbike Coming from the West Coast to the best coast, Kyle Dell'Aquila is a Cupertino-native and a senior at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. Upon...
View ArticlePresenting the First Annual Core77 OPEN: All City All Stars
From Broadway to Rockaway, Pelham to Freshkills, 8.2 million people call New York City home. On the occasion of New York Design Week 2012, Core77 takes a moment to survey the landscape of all five...
View ArticleHand-Eye Supply Announces its Maker Overlords for 2012!
Once again Core77's Hand-Eye Supply is participating in Portland, Oregon's Starlight Parade, this year defending its title of Best Illumination! As a part of this extravaganza we held an open call to...
View ArticleCombining Industrial Design & Cinematography, Syrp Rocks Kickstarter with the...
The latest Kickstarter success story comes from industrial designer Chris Thomson and cinematographer Ben Ryan, who have created a simple, portable, and clever device to help shooters regulate motion...
View ArticleBritish Bikemaking Circa 1945
This video on how a bicycles are made—or at least on how they were made in 1945 in the UK—is a lot more interesting than you'd think it'd be, particularly if you're British and recall your country's...
View ArticleStarwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Interior...
Sr. Interior Designer/Architect Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.New York, New York Starwood is seeking a Senior Interior Designer/Architect to collaborate with key team members in the...
View ArticleNYC Finally Gets Bikesharing (for a Fee)
I'm still getting used to the fact that New York City, once a global leader, has fallen so far behind other cities in keeping up with the times. On a trip to Copenhagen in 1995, I marveled at that...
View ArticleRare Opportunity to See Syd Mead Paintings in NYC
"Hypervan (rear down view)" (2008); all images courtesy of BravinLee programs Film lovers—sci-fi fans in particular—are surely familiar with the work of "Futurist Designer" Syd Mead (we're not sure if...
View ArticleRobin Falck's Nido: A Finnish MicroCabin in the woods
In Finland you can build a house without a permit as long as it's no larger than 128-square-feet. Needless to say, most people just get a permit. But in 2010 Robin Falck actually designed and built an...
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