Core77 Gallery: Maker Faire NYC 2010
Our gallery of photos from Make Magazine's Maker Faire New York City is now live! Read Core77 Correspondent Sara Jacobson's fantastic overview of the show and how it celebrates d-i-y and open source...
View ArticleCut&Paste 2010 NYC Tomorrow!
Cut&Paste kicks off it's 2010 touring digital design tournament tomorrow night, here in NYC. Save yourself time, and get your tix online while you can. You'll want to get there early as the...
View ArticleDesign for the surfing subculture
New Zealand company Surf Curve designs products by and for the specific subculture of surfers, as you can probably guess by their name. We know surfing. We know the highs. We know the lows. We've...
View ArticleAllan Chochinov on Thirty Conversations on Design
This is so much fun. Thirty indvidividuals provided short videos answering the questions "What single example of design inspires you most?" and "What problem should design solve next?" in the 2010...
View ArticleThe Amazing Tribe's interface design coming to Fujitsu's "radical"...
A couple of weeks ago we showed you a "Future of Screen Technology" video by TAT (The Amazing Tribe), which seemed pie-in-the-sky amazing and almost too fantastic to be realized. But just today TAT...
View ArticleThe Astonishing Tribe's interface design coming to Fujitsu's "radical"...
A couple of weeks ago we showed you a "Future of Screen Technology" video by TAT (The Astonishing Tribe), which seemed pie-in-the-sky amazing and almost too fantastic to be realized. But just today...
View ArticleProcter & Gamble is seeking an Associate Director in Bethel, CT
Associate DirectorProcter & GambleBethel, CT Procter & Gamble has an immediate opening for a Design Leader at Duracell in Bethel, Connecticut. The Duracell Design Leader will be responsible...
View ArticleSoftbrew: One Designer's Coffee Obsession
In case you missed it, the New York Times had a nice little interview last week with George Sowden, designer and co-founder of Memphis and now creator of SoftBrew, a pitcher introducing a new way to...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2010 On-The-Go: The Dyson Design Process
In collaboration with designforum Wien, Dyson celebrates 10 years of Dyson Austria with an exhibition detailing the whole Dyson range since the Ballbarrow, including his new air multiplier. Other...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2010: Eero Koivisto's Laboratory Talk
Eero explaining the method of creating durapulp. One of the first talks of Vienna Design Week was by Eero Koivisto, one of three partners of Claesson Koivisto Rune, a Finnish based architecture and...
View ArticleWitty product concepts by Alexander Hulme
Gotta love the Breakable dish concept, by London-based designer Alexander Hulme. Drop it and yes, it shatters, but at least your accident yields two smaller dishes you can still use. Two other...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2010 On-The-Go: The Art of Design
Pscyhe, 2010 by Ulrike Lienbacher At ak7's Contemporary Design by Contemporary Artists, International artists collaborate with Tyroloean craftsmen to create a limited number of objects. Very much a...
View ArticleTech objects that stand and deliver
Two examples is not enough to call it a trend, but we've recently spotted a pair of designs, both from London, with simple but interesting kinetic abilities. Jeremy Innes-Hopkins' Nokia Kinetic concept...
View ArticleVideo on how printing ink is made
Making colors on a webpage is easy, it's all numbers. But the colors that go into magazines, brochures and posters is made the old-fashioned way, with ink. In the following video, a Chief Ink Maker...
View ArticleNokia researching fabric-like electronics for future cell phones
Dropping your cell phone is a big deal. For most of us it happens sooner or later, with luck dividing us into those standing on carpet and those standing on cement. Dropping phones might not be an...
View ArticleVideo of the Fujitsu dual-screen phone with TAT-designed interface!
Engadget's got video from CEATEC of the wicked Fujitsu dual screen phone with TAT-designed interface that we teased yesterday. We're struck by how different it is for a cell phone, with two super-long...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Teaching Sustainability: The RCA's Approach, by Clare Brass...
Rich Gilbert's Energy Trumps, a creative tool to think about energy at the start of the design process. They provide a fast visual reference for embodied energy to facilitate easy comparison of...
View ArticleBook Review: Exploring Materials: Creative Design for Everyday Objects, by...
Every year, new books come out for industrial designers and architects to familiarize themselves with the abundance of new materials they can probably barely afford to buy (see Emerging Technologies...
View ArticleMy Concorde Thing, by Nathan Shedroff
It's not an obsession and it's not quite a hobby. However, for almost two years, between 2004 and 2006, I checked Ebay nearly every day for Concorde in-flight service items. In the interim, I've...
View ArticleBiomimicry, or "Nature Did it Better"
This post is part of the Inspiration series, made possible by Veer.com. In exploring this series on inspiration, certain recurrent themes come to light. We've repeatedly stressed that inspiration...
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