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Creating Never-Built Cadillacs Using Drawings from 1934

In the 1930s, you could order Cadillacs with custom body styles produced by the coachmaker Fleetwood. They had a brochure with drawings of these body styles, and you could order one by number. In the...

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The Lego Story: 80 Years of Playing Well

I'm sure that, like me, the vast majority of our readers grew up playing with LEGOs without a second thought about the origin of the beloved building toy. It so happens that 2012 marks the 80th...

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Laurent Nivalle's Le Mans Classic 2012 Photographs Are Pure Auto Porn

As Art Director and Photographer for Citroën, Laurent Nivalle certainly knows a thing or two about shooting cars. Just over a month ago, the French photographer was lucky enough to attend the Le Mans...

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Hypercubus, A Hotel Room That Travels Like You Do

The denser cities become the more pressing the issue of mobility is, and it's one that designers are particularly well-suited to address. We've seen some really innovative mobility design solutions...

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Design Bridge is seeking a Senior Designers, Branded Packaging in Amsterdam,...

Senior Designers, Branded PackagingDesign BridgeAmsterdam, Netherlands Design Bridge, a leading international branding agency with a superb client base, is looking for highly talented Senior...

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Flotspotting: "Interactive Modular Set" by Ceramist Larisa Daiga

We were so impressed with the three stories' worth of work—set in a repurposed school, no less—at Paradise that simply couldn't cover all of the excellent work that the RCA presented at the Salone...

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Is Beck Hansen's Song Reader Really Where It's At?

If music piracy is a distinct cause of modern guilt, bizarro-pop purveyor Beck Hansen's latest effort is being hailed as a veritable sea change in an industry that's had one foot in the grave since...

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Core77 Design Awards 2012: Project RE_, Runner up for DIY

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The Invisible Bike Helmet Is Available Now

The so-called "Invisible Bike Helmet" has been blowing up on the web thanks to a new-ish video about designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, directed by Fredrik Gertten. It's something of a slow build...

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Fastener Re-design: A Bolt with No Nut

Once or twice a year we see redesigns of hand tools, like Craftsman's recent announcement of pliers updated with LEDs. Less common are attempted redesigns of fasteners, which we haven't seen since...

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Buy Cubic on Kickstarter

What's in the box? The cube is perhaps the most perfect polyhedron, second only to the sphere as possibly the most perfect form known to man: in the past few days alone, we've seen new ways to make...

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Mike Taron's Folding Sawhorse Design

I absolutely hate my plastic sawhorses, but for my DIY needs and space-tight apartment living, the ability to fold flat is more important than a high weight capacity. If only I'd heard of this here...

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Moulton Bicycle Company, Yesterday and Today

Another day, another anniversary: earlier this week, we saw an excellent animated short from LEGO, on the occasion of their 80th Anniversary. "Moulton Bicycle Company - Made in England" is a video...

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Light in a Glass Box

From Milan via Coroflot: the "Teka" OLED lamp, a sculptural lighting object "inspired by Vienna museum displays, first microscopes and scientific instruments in brass." Industrial designer Alessandro...

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Rumble in the Patent Jungle: An Interaction Design Perspective, by Dave Malouf

We are about to reach the climax of a very big war among multi-national technology companies. The chess pieces of this war will be intellectual property (IP). In all war there is collateral damage and...

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Airpod, the Car That Runs on Air

With gas prices rising and the massive drought making ethanol a tough sell as a gas alternative, India's Tata Motors has hit on the perfect time to debut the Airpod, a small urban vehicle that, as its...

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Core77 Design Awards 2012: Peritoneum, Student Runner up for Interiors &...

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Ron Paulk's Super Mobile Woodshop is Complete, and He's Posted the Sketchup...

When last we looked in on Washington-based builder Ron Paulk, he was on the verge of completing his kick-ass Mobile Woodshop. Contained inside a 1,000-cubic-foot box truck, Paulk's comprehensive...

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Auto Designer Jae Min on the A3 e-tron and Teaching at Art Center

Audi's "Electric Life" project is part research and part promotion for the A3 e-tron, their compact car with a purely electric motor. Ten "e-pilots" were selected from within the company to receive an...

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Two-in-One: The Key(let) to a Better Money Clip

As any contemporary lifehacking, less-but-better urbanite knows, it's tough to reduce your everyday carry past the threshold of the holy trinity: keys, wallet, phone. The adventurous might try (and...

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