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Johanna Dehio's Collaborative Improvisational Furniture
We see plenty of upcycling and repurposing projects in the past, but those humble materials that find new life as furniture, lighting and other household objects are rarely of notable provenance, so to...
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Continuum is seeking a Senior UI Designer - Medical/Technical in West Newton,...
Senior UI Designer - Medical/Technical ContinuumWest Newton, MassachusettsContinuum is seeking a UI designer to create screen-based interfaces used on medical devices and other complex equipment. He or...
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Auto Design History: Origin of the Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, Part 3 - Mercedes...
It was the year 1952, and Mercedes had just won a series of prominent international racing events with their W194 racecar. And that's all it was, a racecar, an experiment; they had no plans to put the...
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Wrap Your Head Around Kaylene Kau's Take On a Prosthetic Limb
Industrial Designers always seem to be tackling the issue of prosthetic limbs, there is good reason to. It is estimated that in the United States, there are approximately 1.7 million people living with...
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Design Process Kills Creativity / Design Process Creates Creativity
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts... Something is always killed. But what is...
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The Mercedes 300SL Gullwing Today
The Mercedes 300SL Gullwing has today spawned a subculture of fanatics in the California-based Gull Wing Group, an organization dedicated to preserving these rare machines. With only 1,400 made...
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Tonight at the Curiosity Club: "Going Big by Living Small" with Dee Williams...
Join us tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club in lovely downtown Portland, Oregon as Dee Williams of Portland Alternative Dwellingsas she shares her love for tiny, mobile living spaces!Tonight!...
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Things That Look Like Other Things: Floppy Table by Neulant van Exel
Berlin-based design duo Neulant van Exel have the broad portfolio you might expect from a collaboration between an architect and sculptor, and their latest project, "Floppy Table," is a surefire...
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Live at Core77's Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club: DEE WILLIAMS of PORTLAND...
Tiny House advocates explain that these small simple structures provide a flexible, affordable, reasonable (albeit small) solution for residential use, urban infill, and pocket communities. But what...
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And Now, an Indoor Weather Machine: "Nebula 12" Concept by Micasa LAB
When it rains, it pours: Zürich-based design studio Micasa LAB first showed up on our radar four weeks ago, with the iRock rocking chair, followed by the Cocoon1 just a week later. This week sees the...
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Perkins Eastman is seeking a Graphic Designer in Washington, D.C.
Graphic Designer Perkins EastmanWashington, D.C.Perkins Eastman is looking for a Graphic Designer to work with the marketing team to design and produce marketing-related deliverables including...
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Maximilian Hoffman, the Man Who Made Mercedes, Porsche & BMW Cool
Here's the fascinating story of a man responsible for seeing not one, but several automotive icons brought to market. He was not a designer, nor an engineer, and he didn't even work for the companies...
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Core77 Ultimate Gift Guide 2012: NYC Pop-Up Kickoff Party!
We mentioned it in yesterday's announcement of our eighth annual Ultimate Gift Guide, but it bears repeating: it's time to celebrate! You've ogled the product on the Internets, now you finally have the...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim-Inspired 1955 Auto Showroom for Maximilian...
If this was The Daily News, I'd lead off with the sensationalist headline "Frank Lloyd Wright Fathered More Children Than New York City Buildings!" But while that's the truth, it's hardly noteworthy;...
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Two by Four by Zero Gravity: Alexandra Burr's Floating Pendant Lamp
If its mundane (yet accurate) name somehow belies its understated form, it is precisely because Alexandra Burr's "2×4" lamp is a successful exercise in brevity.This pendant light is made from a simple...
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Max Hoffman Designed the Porsche Logo Too?!? Well, Not Exactly...
Up top: Ferry Porsche and Maximilian HoffmanIn the photo below, of the Frank-Lloyd-Wright-designed Hoffman Auto Showroom, at right you can see the large planter in the center of the rotating car...
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Iguaneye Combines Footwear Concepts in Minimalist Freshoe
At just under halfway through his Kickstarter campaign for his eponymous "freshoe," French designer Olivier Iguaneye is only a quarter of the way to his £20,000 goal. He might be cutting it close, but...
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'Tecido' Platters by Goncalo Campos
Years ago, in Art History class, I remember learning that carving a veil out of marble—i.e. creating the illusion of lightness from stone—the ultimate challenge in ancient sculpture. I can't imagine...
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Dror is seeking Architecture/Product Design Interns in New York, New York
Architect/Product Design Interns DrorNew York, New YorkDror's internship program provides design students or recent graduates practical work experience in product design or architecture design. Interns...
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Notes from the Field: Technology in Rural Uganda
Continuing from my earlier scattering of field notes, in this post, I want to turn my attentions to the rural areas of Uganda and some of the uses of technology I observed. Dubbed the "Pearl of...
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