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Heelys uses Eastman copolyester for new product category
You know Heelys, those sneakers with the wheel in the heel that you see kids zooming around on? Starting this month, the company is broadening their product horizons with a new category: A removeable...
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Design Thinking: Dear Don . . .
. . . this column is a response to your post of June 25th, titled, Design Thinking: A Useful Myth? I believe in the utility of design thinking, but reject the idea that it is mythical. Thank you for...
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Dine On Plastic. It's Fantastic.
While the world witnessed Plastiki's journey from San Francisco to Sydney, Vancouver has been hosting visitors on the world's first floating dining room. This elegant raft sits on top of 1700 plastic...
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Designers seek entry into India Inc's boardroom
Manoj Kothari, who founded [Indian design firm] Onio Design, and others of his ilk are no longer content designing refrigerators, mobile phones and soap wrappers. They now hope to take on a bigger,...
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Best furniture design portfolio we've seen in a while: Outofstock
Good design odds are like rock star odds: Most groups are one-hit wonders, with one amazing piece that gets a lot of airplay before they seem to disappear. It's that rare band who can make an album...
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Beautiful, ambiguous ring design and Artefaks, a Quebecois Etsy
Quebec-based artist Sara Lagace's "(Not so) Killer Ring" has a pretty, if ambiguous, design: It looks vaguely weapon-like, yet the would-be point is rounded and soft. It's made from 13 grams of silver...
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Thought for Food: LUNAR's DIY Food Container Design Contest at the IDSA...
Attention all industrial design students: If you're attending the IDSA's International Conference in Portland this week, you can just listen to the topic of DIY within the design profession, or you...
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The Strategic Arc of Interaction Design: Moving Towards Holistic System...
The ticketing machine of the new Melbourne Bicycle Share scheme. Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Gavin Anderson. Designers of interactions have the opportunity to move their purview beyond the shallow...
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Open for Branding Week 2: Look Before You Leap
Continuum continues their series Open for Branding, where they are sharing, from start to finish, their latest branding project for the new, nomadic Design Museum Boston. They're asking for your...
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Inspired by Randomness, or "In the digital age, do we really need thumbtacks?"
This post is part of the Inspiration series, made possible by Veer.com. With so much time spent hunched over computer monitors, the Core77 office pondered whether an LCD monitor with a full-spectrum...
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An industrial design project using no computers, start to finish
A friend who works as a toy designer recently told me her new intern--an ID grad--had never used a glue gun! And I wonder if today's ID grads know what graphite smells like. I believe my graduating...
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Montreal's cheeky Studio Rita
They've designed stacking/folding chairs that resemble manila file folders; they've populated forests with giant foam "Magic Tree" air fresheners and Lego trees; for ref-hating soccer fans, they've...
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Announcing the Core77 Flagship Retail Store in Portland Oregon!
Today the Core77 Hand-Eye Supply store opens its doors! 23 NW 4th Avenue - between Burnside and Couch St. Months in the making and only possible via many generous contributions of time and effort by...
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SIGGRAPH 2010: 3D motion capture, without the suit
Video by Paul Fraser. Another video from this year's SIGGRAPH 2010 Expo: A demo of Organic Motion's motion capture technology that doesn't require a special suit ("No Markers" technology). The...
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SIGGRAPH 2010: An LED display you can write on with a laser pointer
Video by Paul Fraser. Totally amazing find from SIGGRAPH 2010: a modular LED display that can be written on using a light source, like a laser pointer. Now, instead of programming scrolling LED...
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Core77 Gallery + Video Highlights: SIGGRAPH 2010
Last week, a dazzling display of pixels, technology, and ideas filled the Los Angeles Convention Center for the 37th SIGGRAPH 2010 International Conference and Exhibition. The world's foremost...
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Radius is seeking a Design Researcher in Clinton, Massachusetts
Design Researcher Radius Product DevelopmentClinton, Massachusetts The ideal candidate will have experience conducting primary and secondary research in the healthcare, consumer packaging and/or...
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Introducing OpenIDEO
IDEO has just launched OpenIDEO, their new platform to solve global challenges through a community of creative thinkers, which, of course, you are invited to join. They've made a nice video explaining...
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Reason's Not to be Pretty: Report on Symposium on Design, Social Change and...
Design Observer has just posted a comprehensive (and inspiring) report on April's symposium in Bellagio, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and organized by Winterhouse Institute. Here's the...
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Best Buy will take your e-junk, and the DVD's starting to go away
What kind of dead technology do you have in your cupboards? I recently found two old instant cameras in the back of a drawer-- with half-advanced rolls of film still in them. The local photo developer...
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