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How I Took a Product Concept to Market as a Design Student, by Rob Bye
Text & photos by Robert ByeI first envisioned initial concept for Hangen18 months ago, and since being featured on Core77 in February 2012, it has since gone through four major re-designs with over...
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Design UX with the Smartest Nerds Around at The Nerdery
wants a User Experience Designerin Minneapolis, Minnesota The Nerdery is an interactive development firm created by nerds, for nerds, that partners with creative minds and big thinkers to engineer and...
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3D Printing Competition at Upcoming IDSA Conference Means Some of You Will...
A paper airplane flying contest might have cut it at some engineering conference in the 1950s, but the upcoming 2013 IDSA conference will be holding something considerably more exciting. Come August...
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Japanese 'Collective Superman' Rescues Woman Trapped by Train
Earlier this week, a Japanese commuter accidentally fell through the gap between train and platform. The accident happened at the Minami-Urawa station, which I've traveled through many times as I used...
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An Introduction To Wood Species, Part 2: Pine
This Wood Species series comes to us from guest writer Rob Wilkey, an Atlanta-based woodworker and industrial designer whose expertise is in small home goods, furniture, and large installations.* *...
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The Slim: Cocoon's Grid-It Organizer Now Available in Bag Form
The GRID-IT organizer first caused a stir when it hit the market some years ago [Ed. Note: including a2011 Core77 Design Award], and for good reason: It was an affordable and clever way to bring order...
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Carbon Fiber and Graphene: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great (and Become Even...
We've looked at carbon fiber in 3D-printed bikes, in furniture design, and coming out of Lexus' crazy 360-degree loom. The stuff has long been vaunted for its high strength-to-weight ratio. And now,...
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Swimming World Championship Medals by La Granja
Photos by Elena ClaverolBarcelona-based design studio La Granja Design is pleased to present their latest project, the medals for the 2013 Swimming World Championship in their hometown. FINA (the...
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Do You Have Design In Your DNA? Bring it to BlueHive
wants a 3D Designerin Worcester, Massachusetts How would you like to join a team whose passion and drive is in making their clients look like heroes every time? BlueHive is seeking a new talented 3D...
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Tom Donhou's 'Experiments in Speed': The Fastest Fixed-Gear Ever?
So there's no aerospace pioneer posthumously offering a cool quarter-mil for traveling 80+ mph on a fixed-gear bicycle, but Tom Donhou's homegrown achievement is pretty damn impressive nonetheless. Per...
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Helicopter Rotor Galaxy-Like Visual Effect Explained
What you see above is what occasionally happens when helicopter rotors meet sand and dust, and when the surrounding environment is dark enough for you to see it. It's called the Kopp-Etchells Effect,...
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DIY Webbing Tutorial on a Budget, Part 5: Putting It All Together
In Part 1, we covered materials and hardware. In Part 2, we covered tools. In Part 3, we showed you how to set those tools up for webbing. In Part 4, you learned the crucial Box X stitch.Now it's time...
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Who Invented the Umbrella: The Romans, The Chinese, or Frogs?
We've seen umbrellas stuck into car doors; optimized for wind resistance; slapped onto bikes; and the design potential for this simple device is so great that we even ran a series on umbrella...
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Building Bird-Friendly Architecture, Courtesy of Aaron Dunkerton's 'Bird Brick'
In most parts of the world, we can't exactly say that new architecture has been kind to our feathered friends (or any part of our environment for that matter). In a time of urban sprawl, pollution and...
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Every Day is Different When You Work for OXO in New York City
wants a Senior Product Engineerin New York, New York One moment, you might be sketching out wildly inventive product ideas with colleagues and the next you're watching the successful execution of those...
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Don't Watch This: will.i.am on Logo Design
So here's a rather painful video of musician and Director of Creative Innovation at Intel will.i.am sharing his thoughts on logo design. Watch... if you dare:Michael Bierut surmises that he lost a bet,...
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What the Media Hype is Not Reporting: 3D Printers are Bad for Human...
A research paper from the Illinois Institute of Technology looks at a little-examined side of 3D printing: Whether or not it's dangerous to human health. Assistant professor Brent Stephens, who heads...
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Trendlet: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Don't call them layers. What we found this week were stacks—perfectly conceived piles of objects as inventive as they are inviting. To compose his Stack chair's casually tossed cushions, the...
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'Canoe' Dig These Handpainted Paddles by Northern Newcomers Norquay?
Move over, Best Made Co., there's a new outdoors-inspired company in town. Montreal-based Norquay Co., a brand "dedicated to camping vibes," has just launched with a line of vibrantly painted canoe...
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All Work and No Pay? An Interview with Alec Dudson on Kickstarting a Magazine...
One of the greatest phenomena that every design student witnesses in the midst of their education (particularly if they go to school on the east coast) is the mass migration to New York City—or any...
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