True I.D. Stories #10: The Design Ninja, Part 3 - When the Pitch is a Bitch
This is a true story. Descriptions of companies, clients, schools, projects and designers may be altered and anonymized to protect the innocent.Editor: Where we last left off, Design Ninja had...
View ArticleThings That Were Other Things: Furniture Made Out Of Old Car Parts
Cabinet, formerly two doors from a Mazda LantisWe obviously love seeing old things being given new life and functionality, so we were glad to see that Israel-based designer Ronen Tinman has found an...
View ArticleFrom Retro to Futuristic to Super-Luxurious, the Unusual Train Designs of...
Part of the appeal of a career in industrial design is that the field is so broad, a talented designer can work on a huge range of items, as with Raymond Loewy or the Vignellis. But it's also neat to...
View ArticleGE is Looking For Motivated Problem Solvers to Join Their Team in Louisville,...
wants a User Interface Designerin Louisville, Kentucky GE Appliances' vision is to be recognized as the leading brand for performance and efficiency, and as a team committed to delivering an...
View ArticleMore Than You Probably Ever Cared to Know about Toothbrushing
We humans have put a lot of gross-sounding mixtures in our mouths through the years to get our teeth clean. The latest incarnation of this storied tale is one of the coolest products I've stumbled upon...
View ArticleThere's Only One Week Left to Submit Your Entries for Hatch Live!
There's just one week left to submit your entries for a chance to compete in the first ever Hatch Live, an exciting new competition format in which designers battle head-to-head with their CAD skills....
View ArticleLamborghinis are "Designed to Split in Half" in Event of a Crash? We're Not...
Talk about schadenfreude. Seemingly every car blog in the world, and every local paper in NYC, has picked up the story of a Lamborghini crash last weekend in Brooklyn. The notable part of the crash:...
View ArticleWhy I'm Glad I'm Not an Aerospace Interface Designer
"Hey, what happens if I press this button with the skull and crossbones on it?"From an interface design standpoint, it's completely bewildering: Switches, levers, dials, buttons, toggles, and every...
View ArticleCan a GIF-Like Web Site Teach Typography?
Arial or Helvetica?Typography is one of those underappreciated art forms outside of the design world. While a movie like Helvetica brought attention to the craft of type, and the regular selection of...
View Article9,000 Sand Sketches Take Over Normandy Beach
In a tribute to International Peace Day (September 21st), British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss of Sand in Your Eye took a team of 60 volunteers to Normandy beach over the weekend to sketch the...
View ArticleHow Does a Dyson Air Multiplier Work?
I was sitting in front of Dyson Air Multiplier the other day and even though I've seen and felt these "fans" many times since they hit the market in 2009, I was struck that I'd taken something so...
View ArticlePassionate About 3D? Become an Evangelist for Lagoa in Boston
wants a 3D Evangelistin Boston, MassachusettsWho are they? Lagoa is the world's first web-based platform for photoreal 3D visualization and rendering. They provide both designers and artists an...
View ArticleOur Electrolux Design Lab 2013 Finalist Faves: A Shape-Shifting Vacuum,...
Electrolux Design Lab, the annual design competition that asks design students to envision the future of product design, is coming into the home stretch for this year. Some 1700 entrants from around...
View ArticleOur Annual Back-to-the-Workshop Deal - 5 Days Only - American-Made Combo of...
Core77's Hand-Eye Supply store puts this deal together once a year so come grab the workshop necessities while saving the big bucks. This pair of items typically goes for $40 but is over half off until...
View ArticleGerman Ghost Cars from the Future, by Kat Bauman
Reporting by Kat BaumanThis season, Germany is for car lovers. Last week's Frankfurt Auto Show saw the debut of a slew of new cars—some slated for production, some beautiful, high-functioning pipe...
View ArticleSIMPLE Mobile's 'Change Your Game' Sweepstakes
Advertorial content sponsored by SIMPLE Mobile.A couple weeks ago, we took a look at SIMPLE Mobile, a great new way to approach phones that's picking up steam here in the United States after seeing...
View ArticleRon Paulk Bonus Footage, Part 2: On Self-Taught Design, How He Became a...
Ron Paulk has already got his own following, independent of Core77; while we don't have the demographic breakdown, we assume they're mostly DIY'ers, builders, and fellow contractors. These video extras...
View ArticleSimon Fraser University Presents Dutch Design Field School 2013
Some of our recent design education has come from instructors who have offered us exclusive inside looks at summer intensives: Francis Bitonti's "New Skins: Computational Design for Fashion" Workshop...
View ArticleJun Kitagawa Created Giant Zippers That Let You Look Beneath Everyday Surfaces
Zippers can be many things, but I bet you wouldn't normally describe them as "whimsy." But that's exactly what they are, thanks to Japanese street artist Jun Kitagawa. He has created a standout public...
View ArticleJun Kitagawa Created Giant Zippers That Let You Look Beneath Everyday Surfaces
Zippers can be many things, but I bet you wouldn't normally describe them as "whimsy." But that's exactly what they are, thanks to Japanese street artist Jun Kitagawa. He has created a standout public...
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