Win a Coroflot Scholarship to the iPENSOLE Footwear Design Academy
Coroflot is teaming up with the PENSOLE Footwear Design Academy to offer 5 students a unique opportunity to participate in a 3-week masterclass! Learn about color theory, construction, materials,...
View ArticleGood News for Apple Design: Jonathan Ive Taking Over Human Interface Group
With any luck, design like this is on the way out.[image via creative bloq] While Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on Monday, Apple experienced some tumult of its own in the form of an executive shake-up....
View ArticleDispatches from the Dark, Part 3: What Came in Handy During Sandy?
Karim Rashid sez: "Human beings touch an average of 600 objects a day." I'm guessing that number drops, and becomes much more focused, during emergency situations. Here are the two things I touched...
View ArticleAT&T Sending Mobile Hotspot "Satellite COLT" Trucks into NYC
Sign o' the times? In the old days, corporations demonstrated largesse in times of disaster by sending in trucks loaded with canned soup and blankets. But at a press conference today, Mayor Bloomberg...
View ArticleDesignTide Tokyo 2012: Paper-Wood by Drill Design
Text by Rachel Carvosso; photos by Junya Hirokawa Through a solid three years of experimentation and tinkering, Yusuke Hayashi and Yoko Yasunishi of Drill Design have arrived at "Paper-Wood" which is...
View ArticleYUNG HO CHANG + FCJZ: MATERIAL-ISM at Beijing's UCCA through December 2nd
We offered a few glimpses of the YUNG HO CHANG + FCJZ: MATERIAL-ISM, currently on view at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in our Best of Beijing Design Week photo gallery, but unfortunately it...
View ArticleErgologistics' Powered Handtruck Does the Heavy Lifting For You
In New York City at least, UPS guys are like firemen: they're always young and in good shape. I wonder if we never see old UPS delivery guys because they get promoted to desk jobs, or because their...
View ArticleONE WEEK LEFT! Design For (Your) Product Lifetime Student Challenge!
Just a reminder, there's only ONE WEEK LEFT to get your entries in for the Design For (Your) Product Lifetime Student Challenge. Win up to $2000 and a Pro Tech Toolkit from iFixit.com by designing a...
View ArticleWith the iPhone "Sweater" Case, ArtizanWork 3D Prints an Object That's Both...
Something we haven't seen a lot of yet in 3D printing, but which we're sure will become common, is people rocking a single material in such a way that it changes characteristics within a single object....
View ArticleWith the T50 Elite, Arrow Fastener Company Designs a Better Staple Gun
No!Yes!As I first learned during my stool reupholstery post two years ago, and have been experiencing ever since, the design of your standard metal staple gun sucks. For leverage you need to apply...
View ArticleMust-See Video: Real-Time English-to-Mandarin Speech Translation via...
As you might have noticed, we've had quite a bit of Asian design coverage lately (with a few more stories to come): between the second annual Beijing Design Week, a trip to Shanghai for Interior...
View ArticleAutodesk Releases 123D Design Modeling Software--Gratis
Depending on your age, you may remember when Macs first impacted desktop publishing in the '80s and '90s. All of a sudden everyone was a graphic designer, empowered with digital tools that meant they...
View ArticleMaterial Mashup: 'Ceramics for Plastics' by Roos Gomperts
Designer Roos Gomperts created "Ceramics for Plastics," her graduation project for Design Academy Eindhoven, during a workperiod at Sundaymorning@EKWC. The experimental ceramic vessels, which were...
View ArticleBeyond the Cubicle: Buro Beehive's BEEBOX Mobile Office
Ever since Hurricane Sandy savaged the East Coast last week, I can't help but see the world through a crisis-scenario lens. (Thankfully, last night's nor-easter was only a minor inconvenience, an...
View ArticleKikkerland is seeking a Product Development & Product Design Director in New...
Product Development & Product Design Director KikkerlandNew York, New YorkOur friends at Kikkerland are seeking a Product Design & Product Design Director who will be responsible for developing...
View ArticleThe Next Gulf Between Individual Makers and Corporations: Materials Science
Previously, if you wanted to make an object out of plastic you had to get an absurd amount of people involved. Investors in the tooling, plastics suppliers, moldmakers, people to work the machinery, et...
View ArticleNovember News: Reporting from China, Uganda, Tokyo and Hurricane-Ravaged NYC
Core77 sends a monthly newsletter with our favorite news stories, job listings, Coroflot portfolios and Discussion Forum topics of the Month! Subscribe Today!After a tumultuous two weeks, we're back to...
View ArticleMoMA Takes in a Project by Core77's Guru Tom Klinkowstein
Core77's affinity for producing and following technology that blends old and new, analog and digital, was directly inherited from our new-media design shaman Tom Klinkowstein. Tom—whose tales from the...
View ArticleFeedback Loop: Dublin's Mark+Paddy Elevate Client Quips to Poster Art for...
With NBA season underway here in the states, ESPN has shifted from baseball jargon to more bombastic neologism such as 'lob city,' 'highlight factory,' etc. Not that they'd know anything about it, but...
View ArticleChevrolet & Disney Aim to Get Kids Interested in Auto Design
In about a month, Walt Disney World (that's the one in Florida) will open a new design-related attraction produced in conjunction with Chevrolet. Called Test Track, the large-scale, interactive exhibit...
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