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Papercraft Car Modeling Skillz
While there's a tendency among designers to obsess over pens, we all know that you can draw with just about anything; Leonardo da Vinci was scratching stuff out with a rock on a slate, for...
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MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group's 'Smarter Objects' Interface Design
This mind-boggling interface design from MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group essentially adds another layer of interactivity over your physical life. What I mean by that is: Right now, in real life,...
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Facebooks, Literally
Clockwise from top: Anne Frank, Kaler Abdolah, Vincent Van GoghDutch creative director Raphael Dahan has nearly 20 years of experience as a digital artist and photo retoucher, and he demonstratess his...
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Join SONOS and Reinvent Home Audio in Santa Barbara, California
wants a Lead Industrial Designerin Santa Barbara, CA Do you believe that music should be accessible in every room of the home? Do you get excited at the idea of joining HiFi with rock-solid WiFi? Would...
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Introducing True ID Stories: The Things They Don't Prepare You For in Design...
Industrial design is like surgery, auto racing or a military operation in that things can go horribly wrong. And they often do, although no one really talks about it. In this new section for Core77,...
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Core77's 2013 New York Design Week Guide Is Now Live!
And we're live! Our annual guide to New York Design Week is now online at http://www.core77.com/NYDW. With the second edition of Frieze Art Fair and the triumphant return of BKLYN Designs to St. Ann's...
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Check Your Worldview at the Door and Other Advice for Interviewing Users -...
I'm pleased to share this excerpt from Chapter 2 of Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights. This part off the book sets up the overarching framework for successful interviewing: most...
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An IkeaBot's Innovative Rubber Band Wrench
The KUKA YouBot Omni-Directional Mobile Platform with Arm is a small, arm-on-a-skateboard type of robot that can perform simple tasks. Recently Ross Knepper, a robotics reseacher at MIT, and his team...
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Flotspotting: Marc Levinson and Protos 3D-Printed Eyewear
The 'clever material swap' gets to be a bit trendy in the industrial design game after awhile. We usually have trouble to finding projects that both employ a new material intelligently (and with good...
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More Digitally Fabricated Records: Listen to the Velvet Underground on Laser...
We were pretty impressed with Amanda Ghassaei's 3D-printed records, but apparently the Tech Editor at Instructables isn't content to blow our minds with her digital fabrication prowess just once. As of...
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Develop Off-Grid Energy Products with BioLite in Brooklyn, New York
wants a Product Engineerin Brooklyn, New York BioLite is a for-profit social enterprise that develops, manufactures and markets distributed energy solutions for off-grid communities around the world....
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NY Design Week Preview: Sneak Peek + Q&A with Jean Lin & Jen Krichels of...
[Ed. Note: This post has been updated to reflect new dates: the exhibition will be on view from Thursday, May 16 – Saturday, May 18; hours and location posted below.]Following a very successful showing...
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Jeez Louise: Some Vintage Cameras Have Radioactive Lenses & Eyepieces
An alarming Wiki entry on Camerapedia has caught the attention of the Reddit community. Entitled "Radioactive Lenses," the original write-up notes that "There are a significant number of [camera]...
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counter/point - D-Crit Conference Preview: The Class of 2013 in Their Own Words
Clockwork from top right: Matt Shaw, Tiffany Lambert, Brigette Brown, Cecilia Fagel, Bryn SmithEach year the SVA MFA Design Criticism department hosts a conference, where the students present their...
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Must-See Video: Alexandre Chappel's 'Precious Lines'
Based on the usual bit of cursory investigation, Alexandre Chappel's minimal online presence is a felicitous albeit frustrating complement to a video he's posted: according to his now-defunct Wordpress...
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Todd McLellan's Disassembled Design Objects, Now in Book and Video Form
Plenty of us were taken aback by Todd McLellan's "Things Come Apart" photo series, where he disassembled a variety of everyday objects and laid all the parts bare. Now the Toronto-based shooter has...
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Award Winning Chairs from Oregon Head to NYC
Top spot went to Katie Lee's spot-on blend of ingenuity and styleLast fall Core77 got the chance to participate in the jurying of a chair design competition sponsored by Wilsonart and held at the...
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Athletes Everywhere Will Thank You For Joining Under Armour in Baltimore,...
wants a Technical Developer, Bagsin Baltimore, Maryland The high school wide receiver dodging defensemen on a frigid November 40 yard line. The marathon cyclist smoldering beneath the relentless...
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Exploring Dynamics of Craftsmanship and Resource Constraint: Identification...
Reporting by Zach HymanBefore beginning my Fulbright research in China, I had previously spent three years living and working in Yangon, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). My time in Myanmar was...
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More Vizzy Videos: 'The Art of Making' by Deep Green Sea
Maybe I shouldn't have been so blown away by the so-called "must-see video" that I posted yesterday: commenter Peanut pointed us to a manufacturing video with a similar visualization treatment by a...
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