MFA Products of Design Summer Program in France: Food Design!
As the inaugural year of SVA's new MFA in Products of Design program nears the spring, they have opened up applications for their summer program, this time around the growing field of food design....
View ArticleSneaker-vation Continues: Puma's Biomimetic Mobium Runner
Sneaker innovation (or the Footwear Novelty Gimmick Contest, depending on your point of view) continues. Hot on the heels of Reebok's crazy ATV-style shoe and Adidas' Boost foam comes Puma's Mobium...
View ArticleFrom Knights to Angels to Spacemen: Designer Ted Southern Teams Up with...
Gotta love New York City. Designer Ted Southern decided he wanted to make body armor for a living—not the military stuff, I'm talking Knight and Samurai armor—and shortly after getting his Masters from...
View ArticleJack of All Trades, Master of None: Danger for Interaction Design
Image courtesy of smashingbuzzJeroen van Geel was invited to participate in the Redux at Interaction 13 in Toronto. Speakers were invited to reflect upon the conference content on the last day of the...
View ArticleMunich Creative Business Week 2013: Meeting Design Icons from MINI to Maurer
The R32, BMW's first motorcycleBMW MuseumBMW clay modelOver the course of three posts, we will take a look at the highlights of the second edition of the Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW), which...
View ArticleStep Up to the Plate at Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores, California
wants a Senior UX Designerin Redwood Shores, CADo you understand the gaming user experience and have a passion for it? Can you create distinct customer experiences with big, disruptive ideas that take...
View ArticleIn the Hands of God: Mitigating Risk
By Jan Chipchase, Mark Rolston and Cara SilverRisk is an issue in every country where we run research (mostly in the form of vehicle accidents), but is elevated in Afghanistan, where there are...
View ArticleHistory of Braun Design: A Deep Dive Into an Iconic Brand
A Sponsored Archive ofHistoric Braun Design at Core77.comBraun has been a benchmark for beautiful and functional design from its founding as an audio manufacturer in the '30s, to the debut of the S50...
View ArticleMassArt x Wentworth Institute of Technology's '16 Hours to Glory' Student...
The Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Wentworth Institute of Technology have something no other two schools have, two different Industrial Design programs within a stones throw away from each...
View ArticleNegating the Need for the Knee Defender: Recline-Forward Airplane Seats....
Our post on the Knee Defender, a pair of passive-aggressive plastic doohickeys that prevent the person in front of you from reclining their seat on an airplane, has generated quite a bit of interesting...
View ArticleWith LAYWOO-D3 Filament, You Can 3D Print in Wood. Kind of.
Yeah, so this is nuts.... Thingiverse denizen Kaipa has created a partially wooden filament for 3D printers. Called LAYWOO-D3, the stuff is 40% recycled wood with the rest of it being a binding...
View ArticleCore77's Hand-Eye Supply Presents The American Image Safety Spectacle
You won't want to keep these in the shop - wear them out on the town - keep chic while maintaining splash protection from nocturnal hazards such as face-flung drinks of jilted lovers. Entertain...
View ArticleManufacturing Techniques: Honda Figures Out How to Bond Steel with Aluminum
Materials movement sucks, and it's our job as designers, engineers or craftspersons to learn tricks to deal with it. You'll put a slight arc in a plastic surface that's supposed to be flat, so that...
View ArticleChange Up Your Stride with New Balance in Lawrence, MA
wants a Lead Designer - Women's Fitnessin Lawrence, MALace up and take the lead in this Designer role with New Balance. They've been running strong for 100 years and are looking for equally impressive...
View ArticleIn the Hands of God: Extreme Gender Dynamics
By Cara Silver, Jan Chipchase, Mark RolstonFrog Senior Design Researcher Cara Silver conducted field research in Afghanistan to investigate topics around risk and savings and their intersection with...
View ArticleChevy's New In-Dash Digital and Physical Safe
Unintended consequences of technology: In-car nav systems were a godsend for the directionally-challenged driver, but they were also a windfall for a handful of criminals. I'd first heard about this...
View ArticleFrom the WTF Department: A Rotating Book Server, Designed During the...
My favorite thing about the iPad is having dozens of books in one place. Having grown up lugging my share of dead trees around, I'll never not appreciate digital book storage and access.This is...
View ArticleMunich Creative Business Week 2013: Revealing Cassina's Secrets and the iF...
Welcome words by Ralph Wiegmann (iF design's Managing Director) at the reception.Gianluca Armento (Brand Director of Cassina) explaining the importance of their archiveOver the course of three posts,...
View ArticleCataloging Unpleasant Design in Public Spaces
In an earlier post I'd made reference to idiots who step off of crowded escalators and just stop. Apparently I'm not alone in this observation: As part of a workshop at Geneva's recent Lift Conference,...
View ArticleNew Dyson Digital Motor Superfactory Comes On-Line, Pointing Towards Big (or...
Time is money, and James Dyson has proven he's willing to spend both in search of product design breakthroughs. The British inventor famously spent years perfecting his Dyson Vacuum through the '70s...
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