Cinelli's Antonio Colombo on the 'Infinite Possibilities of the Bicycle'
Just prior to the release of Rizzoli's "Cinelli: The Art and Design of the Bicycle" last October, Antonio Colombo sat for a rare interview on the occasion of the Milan edition of the 2012 Bicycle Film...
View ArticleNew Work by 2013 Maison & Objet Designers of the Year Barber & Osgerby
As of this week, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have been named the Maison & Objet Designers of the Year, an auspicious start to 2013 for the London design duo. In addition to exhibiting several...
View ArticleSpecialized Bicycle Components is seeking a Lead Bike Graphic Designer -...
Lead Bike Graphic Designer - Women's Category Specialized Bicycle ComponentsMorgan Hill, CaliforniaSpecialized Bicycle Components is seeking a Women's Lead Graphic Designer who will be responsible for...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2013: Announcing Our Jury Captains, Part 3
With the EARLYBIRD Deadline for the Core77 Design Awards less than a week away at this point, we're pleased to announce five more Jury Captains to complement the ten that we've already announced....
View ArticleHell in a Handbasket: The Anti-Loneliness Ramen Bowl
Just a little bit closer...Just a little bit closer....I hear driving while texting is a problem out in L.A. Here in New York it's walking while texting. On at least a weekly basis I'm stuck behind...
View ArticleApp to the Future with Windows Phone 8
The best design meets our needs before we can even articulate them. With the App to the Future design challenge, Windows Phone and Core77 intend to foster the circumstances for intelligent, practical...
View ArticleThe Braun Design Collection Motherlode for Sale on eBay!
From the Holy Cow Department: A collector in Heidelberg, Germany spent years amassing an impressive collection of Braun-designed objects—radios, phonographs, clocks, speakers, televisions, blenders,...
View ArticleThe Peugeot Design Lab's Pleyel Piano
To our British readers: We Americans like stealing your TV shows, like we did with your language, and we use both of those things differently over here. So most of us don't know who Ella Henderson is,...
View ArticleA Lamp Worthy of All-Star Nomination: Grotesk x Case Studyo's "6FT - 6IN"
If you're not familiar with the work of Kimou Meyer, a.k.a. Grotesk, we recommend checking out his excellent 2010 monograph. But even those of you who have never heard of the Brooklyn-based graphic...
View ArticleThe Sharpener Image: Craighton Berman's 'Campaign for the Accurate...
I don't know how accurately it measures creative output, but the Sharpener Jar is definitely a practical alternative to the underground artisanal pencil sharpening movement. So it should come as no...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2013: Today's the Day!
Today's the day! Our Earlybird deadline ends at 8PM Eastern Time. To get the exciting 20% discount, you'll need to prepare your best work and submit your entry to the Core77 Design Awards within the...
View ArticleNew Corvette Video Opens with... the Designers
Guess what we're makingThe 2014 Corvette has been unveiled, and the video being used to promote it reminds me how far the public perception of industrial design has come. Years ago, a commercial for a...
View ArticleRed Paper Heart Creates "A Screen You Can Swim Through"
How do you project moving images onto water? That was the challenge faced by Red Paper Heart, a Brooklyn-based collective of designers and coders. Tasked by nightlife tracker UrbanDaddy with creating...
View ArticleA Visual History of Corvette Logos, Part 1
When Chevrolet was preparing their new Corvette sports car in the early '50s, the task of designing the logo fell to Chevy interior designer Robert Bartholomew. Bartholomew's design (above) featured...
View ArticleDesigning Things to Hold Other Things: The Staybowlizer for Commercial Kitchens
Smartphones need cases, coffee mugs need coasters, hunting knives need sheathes. It's weird to think about how many products are not designed with their own base or carrying case, and as it turns out,...
View ArticleA Visual History of Corvette Logos, Part 2
In 1977, Chevy ditched the "sunburst" design for their Corvette logo and went with (above) this clean, graphically-stylized update on the original crossed flags. The fleur-de-lis from Louis Chevrolet's...
View ArticleMore Next-Level IKEA Hacking: Matt Hope's Air-Filtering Beijing Bicycle
Image by Reuters, via SMHCycling has long been regarded as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuel-based modes of transportation, but in rapidly modernizing Chinese cities, the boom in the latter has...
View ArticleMilitary Airdrops, Part 2: How Do You Say "Crazy" in Russian?
Russian Core77 reader "WR" provided some interesting information about how they conduct airdrops in his neck of the woods. First off the Russian military has got a fighting vehicle designed to be...
View ArticleAqua Lung is seeking a Sports Fashion/Textile Designer in Nice, France
Sports Fashion/Textile Designer Aqua LungNice, FranceAQUA LUNG France is recruiting a sports fashion / textile designer (Man/Women: permanent contract) to join the Creative and Textile Product...
View ArticleRevisiting and Revising Design History: George Nelson Associates, Irving...
Image via ArtnetTimelessness, it seems, is a matter of taste: while Dieter Rams' recently-revisited Vitsœ 606 is at the top of my list for furnishings when I eventually settle down, a couple commenters...
View Article