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Competitive Aquarium Design: The Most Beautiful Sport You've (Probably) Never...
Finally, a sport that tests your biology, design and photography skills, along with your patience. Aquascaping—competitive aquarium design—is a completely real thing and the finished products are...
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This Airborne Jellyfish Isn't Lost, It's a Drone
A jellyfish-inspired drone might not garner as much media buzz as the Amazon Delivery Drones or make an Hollywood entrance like the Star Trek promotion featuring a batch of "Hummingbird" drones, but...
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Reinvent Unloved But Important Home Products with Nest Labs in Palo Alto
The team that designed the Nest Thermostat and Nest Protect is looking for a talented Industrial Designer. They are passionate about reinventing unloved but important home products by redefining human...
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These Speakers Took 40 Years To Make
Michael DiTullo is the Chief Design Officer at Sound United, Polk's parent company.There is an old story about Picasso that goes something like this: A young woman recognizes old Pablo on the street...
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Getting Hired: To Work at Smart Design, Be Organized, Show Your...
Editor's note: For our ongoing Getting Hired series, we asked design firms to send us a few images of their recent work—but Smart Design volunteered to instead create a series of illustrations about...
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In the Details: The 3D-Veneer Technology Behind Tadao Ando's Dream Chair
At first glance, the Dream Chair looks like a concept, with impossible curves and a seemingly precarious structure that appears as if it could only exist in a 3D rendering. Yet the Danish manufacturer...
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Video of a Semi-Submersible Ship's Dramatic Cargo Dumping
This is the "before" shot, peep the "after" in the video belowPhoto by John PickardOnce upon a time, sawmills were located exclusively on rivers. Being next to water had multiple advantages: Trees...
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Palette Offers a Modular, Lego-like Device for All of Your Input Hardware Needs
Palette buttons can be re-arranged and customized by the user.As any artist, designer or technologist will tell you, we rely on a wide variety of software in our day to day lives, from the Adobe...
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How to Get Your Mitts on a Pre-Broken-In Leather Wallet
What's made out of leather, already broken-in, and gathering dust in the closet of most red-blooded American males of a certain age? A baseball glove. And for every one of you that still pulls yours...
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11 Minutes Well Spent: Adam Magyar's Slow Motion Shots Capture Public Transit...
The last thing some of us urbanites might want is someone getting a close-up of our face while we're waiting (most likely impatiently) for a train home in rush hour crowds. But that's exactly what Adam...
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Passagen 2014 (Interior Design Week Koeln): Design Parcours Ehrenfeld
The Thursday night of Cologne's Interior Design Week traditionally sees everyone heading to Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, grabbing one of the many drinks on offer, and promenading the city's most diverse...
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Getting Hired: To Land a Job at frog, Know Your Strengths, Have a Point of...
The Urchin, a pebble-shaped "ready for anything" Bluetooth speaker designed by frog and home audio manufacturer Sound UnitedThis is the sixth post in our Getting Hired series. Last week we talked to...
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Taking Stock of Technology: Two Experiments on Device Devotion
"This One Weird Trick" and "[Number] [Superlative] You Must See!" notwithstanding, "Technology Is Making Us [negative attribute]er" is among those sign-of-the-times headlines that reliably attracts...
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Design File 005: Luigi Caccia Dominioni
In this series, Matthew Sullivan (AQQ Design) highlights some designers that you should know, but might not. Previously, he looked at the work of Ugo La Pietra.Luigi Caccia Dominioni: Born in Milan,...
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The Onewheel: A Self-Balancing Electric Monowheel Skateboard
Inspired by the hoverboard Michael J. Fox cruises around on in Back to the Future Part II, ex-IDEO'er Kyle Doerksen created the Onewheel. A self-balancing electric monowheel skateboard, the Onewheel...
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IMM Cologne 2014: Highlights from Messe Koeln
Situated in the Messe Koeln along the bank of the Rhine, the IMM Cologne is the business hub for everything furniture and interior related. More than 1,100 companies show their work, from small brands...
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Bluetooth and Bypassing: Visualizing User Stories to Communicate Informal...
Left: A community map with measured dimensions. Right: Iso-metric illustrated version of the community based on reference photos. This was developed to make the map more engaging and fun. Righthand...
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Getting Hired: How to Score a Job at Google X, the Secret Lab Behind Glass...
Project Loon's consumer-side antenna. Photos by Talia Herman.This is the seventh post in our Getting Hired series. Yesterday, we talked to recruiters at frog design.Earlier this month, Core77 ran an...
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Moritz Waldemeyer on Mechatronics, Merging Art and Technology, and Why the...
This is the latest installment of our Core77 Questionnaire. Previously, we talked to the Belgian designer Sylvain Willenz.Name:Moritz WaldemeyerOccupation: DesignerLocation: LondonCurrent projects:...
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Luca Iaconi-Stewart: World's Greatest Undiscovered Modelmaker?
This shot might be of Coach, but this guy's modelmaking skillz are first-classGet this man a job as a modelmaker.Luca Iaconi-Stewart learned to make architectural models from paper in a high school...
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