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DesignPhiladelphia: October 7-17
The sixth annual DesignPhiladelphia festival is running from October 7th through 17th this year, highlighting both the historical impact design has had on the city and the current scene, from graphic...
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London Design Festival 2010 On-The-Go: DesignMarketo
Coffee and friends: a collective show organised by DesignMarketo Opening night tonight- feels like a popping over to a friends house while they are having a lovely lively drinks party! London Design...
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Awesome Mini Countryman vs. the City of Milan spot
It's rare that we see a fun car commercial that really captures the spirit of any given model, but this 60-second spot of the Mini Countryman tearing up Milan does the trick. Also check out this...
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Pre-digital displays used tiny neon tubes for numbers
In the days before digital number readouts (we're talking 1950s and '60s) electronic devices that needed to display changing numbers used nixie tubes, which were little cathode tubes filled with a...
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Nokia is seeking a Design Lead in Tampere, Finland
Design Lead, Nokia Ovi Suite NokiaTampere, Finland Highly experienced in tackling daily UX challenges, you are comfortable acting as a user experience lead towards design, development and product...
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Thomas Linssen on a bathtub as furniture
Eindhoven grad and designer Thomas Linssen, operating under his Studio ThoL brand, has combined two old things--a chair and a bathtub--and combined them to make one new thing: A tub made using...
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Ammonitum's beautiful wooden bathroom fixtures
Anyone who's ever dealt with wood rot will tell you wood has no place in the bathroom, especially not as a vessel for water; but Swiss manufacturer Ammonitum gets around the wood vs. water problem...
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Introducing New Core77 Columnist Kevin McCullagh
We're proud to introduce Kevin McCullagh as the newest Core77 columnist! No stranger to our pages, Kevin has been contributing rich articles to Core77 for years now—most recently: Design Thinking:...
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Is It Time to Rethink the T-Shaped Designer?
At the recent DMI conference in London, Geoff Mulgan, once Tony Blair's ex-strategy advisor and now a leading social entrepreneur, politely explained how 'social designers' had 'entered his space'......
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Postlerferguson's Toy Ships and Guiding Lights
Like many guys (at least the ones I know), London-based designers Postlerferguson have a fascination cultivated from a young age: well-made machines of transport and weaponry. The duo fully embrace...
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The Human Printer Exhibition at KK Outlet
The Human Printer, aka Louise Naunton Morgan, painstakingly prints unique one-off CMYK and B&W images by hand—dot by dot—to create a similar affect to pointillism, a technique originally developed...
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Next Generation 2011 Design Competition: GET ZERO
The Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition was set up in 2003 and has always aimed to promote environmental activism, social involvement and entrepreneurship in young designers. In partnership...
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Maker Faire NY is this weekend!
At Core77, we're kinda jumping out of our pants with excitement about tomorrow's start of World Maker Faire New York, which will occupy the New York Hall of Science out in Queens Saturday and Sunday,...
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Introducing New Core77 Columnist Helen Walters
Today, we're proud to count Helen Walters among the list of Core77 regulars. Though she's provided plenty of design and business insights for us in the past, today she's become one of our columnists....
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The Innovator's Mindset: Can You Turn Mud Into Gold?
It took a moment of family trauma for Colonel Dean Esserman to figure out how he needed to transform the Providence police department. The upset arose when the police chief's son made a sad phone call...
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The Object Whisperer: An Interview with Rob Walker
Paola Antonelli has posted a fantastic interview with Core-fave Rob Walker. They discuss Significant Objects, a runaway literary project about how objects in the real world become significant through...
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Cooper-Hewitt's Why Design Now? Conference: Watch the Video Livestream at...
On October 1, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, in partnership with GE, hosts the conference entitled "Why Design Now? Solving Global Challenges," part of a program of events associated with...
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London Design Festival 2010: Studio Glithero at Gallery Fumi
Pivot Table by Studio Glithero, top. White Billion by Tina Roeder, bottom. Fendi continues its collaboration with designers and artists with a show at Fumi entitled 'In Every Dream Home'. Upstairs...
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Maker Faire Clangs into New York
Our excitement for Maker Faire's New York debut this weekend was high before the science/craft/engineering/technology celebration even began, but now that we've experienced it, we're even more stoked....
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Valencia Design Week '10
With things getting wrapped up in London, the city of Valencia is hoping to scoop up the attention of design community with a design week of its own, kicking off tomorrow. In recent years, neither...
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