Trendlet: Pixelated Effects on Buildings, Chairs, Pillows and a Very Large...
Heart of Architecture installation photos © Jon MeadeAn embrace of the low res is popping up in more than just "deal with it" memes. In sculpture, architecture and interiors, designers are taking on...
View ArticleYves Behar's August Smart Lock: Keyless Entry for Anyone with a Smartphone
My main question: Why is the inside of your apartment so dark?Yesterday Yves Behar and tech entrepreneur Jason Johnson pulled the sheets off of their August Smart Lock. It's an intelligent keyless...
View ArticleMore Bike-robatics: BMX Virtuoso Tim Knoll Tears Up Parking Lots, Truck...
This video has been making rounds for a hot minute now, but considering that it's a fitting follow-up to my post on the mad skills of Ines Brunn (and, of course, the inimitable Danny Macaskill), Tim...
View ArticleIn Conversation with Colin Fitzpatrick about Electronics, the Environment and...
Image courtesy of IAMECOI recently met Colin Fitzpatrick at the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technologies, where he spoke about the IAMECO (pictured above), a product service...
View ArticleWhen It Rains, It Pours: The Musguard Is Yet Another Minimal Bike Fender
At this rate, bicycle mudguards are the new iPhone cases: it seems like every other bike-obsessed industrial designer is looking to develop an ultraminimal solution to the problem of protecting one's...
View ArticleJoin the About.com Team as a UX Designer for Calorie Count in New York, New York
wants a User Experience Designerin New York, New York Calorie Count, a set of health and nutrition tools acquired by About.com in 2006, wants you to join their growing team as their User Experience...
View ArticleElon Musk Conceives New 'Hyperloop' Transportation System: Neither Plane,...
Last year at an event in Los Angeles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed he'd come up with the idea for an entirely new form of transportation. He called it the Hyperloop, and here's how he described...
View ArticleThe Sunglass Parts Library: Drag and Drop Catalog Parts into CAD
Earlier this month, we took a look at Sunglass, a product design collaboration site where users can download plug-ins to connect their local CAD environments to the cloud. Their partnership with...
View ArticleDesign Entrepreneurs: Max Lipsey
This is the first profile in a new series on American design entrepreneurs, looking at how they got where they are, what they do all day, and what advice they have for other designers running their own...
View ArticleA New Spin on Biomimicry in Architecture and Design: 'Silk Pavilion' by MIT...
It seems like nearly every video from the MIT MediaLab is bound to be come a "holy-crap-technology-is-awesome" viral hit, and the latest one from the Mediated Matter group is no exception. Unveiled...
View ArticleDriver's Side Conversions, and Why We Drive on the Right/Left Side of the Road
Those photos above are from the shop at Autologistics Japan, a company in that country that specializes in converting the driver's position from one side of the car to the other. While the before/after...
View ArticleOliver Grabes, Head of Design at Braun, on the Magic of Making Things Simple
A Sponsored Post on the History of Braun DesignFrom the tender age of 14, Oliver Grabes knew that he wanted to pursue industrial design. He liked cars, he liked objects, and wanted to have a hand in...
View ArticleBuild Robot Arms with Redwood Robotics in San Francisco, California
wants a Robot Mechanical Design Engineerin San Francisco, California Beautiful code. Bulletproof hardware. Elegant user experience. Gorgeous designs. You'll need to bring all that to the table if you...
View Article2013 Core77 Design Awards Live Broadcasts Start Monday!
There's less than one week before our 2013 Core77 Design Awards Live Broadcasts start! We couldn't be more excited for our annual celebration of the best design from all over the globe. We saw a lot of...
View ArticleTrue I.D. Stories #2: Fun in the Sun?
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,...
View ArticleNow This Is How You Promote Your Conference: SIGGRAPH2013
SIGGRAPH isn't an acronym—if you must know, it stands for "Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques"; its qualifier, ACM, stands for the Association for Computing...
View ArticleDIY Rolling Pegboard Tool Storage
As we've mentioned in some of our earlier posts on tool storage, when designing your own system there are two opposite poles you can lean towards: Broad-and-shallow, or tight-and-dense. The first...
View ArticleNon Sequitur: How to Make a Tiny Flaming Bow and Arrow (and Other Diversions)...
"He's just a guy who makes YouTube videos" is probably about as dubious as it gets when it comes to a description of someone, but I assure you that at least a couple of Dave Hax's vids are worth...
View ArticleNon Sequitur: How to Make a Tiny Flaming Bow and Arrow (and Other Diversions)...
"He's just a guy who makes YouTube videos" is probably about as dubious as it gets when it comes to a description of someone, but I assure you that at least a couple of Dave Hax's vids are worth...
View ArticleWould You Kickstart a Bank Heist? Ilona Gaynor Wants to Know
You couldn't make it up—or could you? The fact that a London-based artist/designer is turning to a popular crowdfunding platform to launch her latest project is hardly newsworthy, but it turns out that...
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