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Today's the Day: Enter the Core77 Design Awards Before the 9pm Deadline Tonight
Today's your last chance to submit your design to the 2014 Core77 Design Awards program. If you haven't gotten a chance to meet our jury—or we haven't name-dropped enough—head on over to our site and...
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International Home + Housewares Show 2014: Ameico Thinks Spring with Y-Ply
Content sponsored by the IHAReporting by Morgan WalshAfter the cold, bitter, blustery and seemingly endless winter we've had here in Chicago—and across the country—everyone is desperate for spring. And...
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File Under 'There's Got to Be a Better Way!': Infinity Pedals by Sam Hunter
Hey biker, are you plagued by fear and clumsiness caused by your own clipless pedals? Is it just too much work to snap your cleated foot into the perfectly matched pedal? Sam Hunter has an answer: the...
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Designing for Cutting Cable Clutter, Part 1: Accessories
You know those desks you see in magazines and on design sites—the immaculate ones with not a cable in sight? I don't have a desk like that, and my clients don't, either. We have laptops, whose power...
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Russian Hacktographer's Crazy Cheap, Super High Quality Macro Shooting Set-Up
How can something that beautiful (above) be captured with something this ugly (below)? Those unbelievably detailed macro photographs of snowflakes captured by Alexey Kljatov were shot with this...
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Quirky is Looking For a Passionate Structural Packaging Designer in New York, NY
The solution focused team at Quirky is looking for a Structural Packaging Designer that fits the follow mold:"You love packaging. You find yourself judging packages as you wander through stores,...
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Good News: The Core77 Design Awards Deadline Has Been Extended
If 101 days wasn't enough time to put together your submission for the Core77 Design Awards—hey, we're not judging—you're in luck! We've extended our deadline to April 6 for those of you looking for a...
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International Home + Housewares Show 2014: Martin Kastner Goes Over Some...
Content sponsored by the IHAAlthough he's based in Chicago, this is Martin Kastner's very first Housewares Show, and we were just as excited to see his KickstartedPorthole cocktail infuser as he was to...
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Samsung to Launch Website Dedicated to Explaining Their Design Process
Here's a welcome bit of attention for our field: Next week Samsung Electronics is launching Design.Samsung.Com, an "online platform presenting influential design stories and solutions to be shared...
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In the Details: Turning Stone Manufacturing Waste Into a Line of Housewares
Francesca Gattello was completing her master's in product design at Politecnico di Milano last spring when she decided to enter Scenari di Innovazione (Innovation Scenarios), a competition that tasks...
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Print Your Own Futureshoes with Filaflex
So maybe the hoverboards aren't happening, but it's ok: downloadable shoes are here! And not the brittle conceptual heels of high fashion, but totally dope [read: unbelievably ugly] sneaks. The trick...
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Faire Play: Printable Armor for a Famous Plastic Lady
This is by far my favorite Kickstarter find of the week. Faire Play invites you to ennoble your pampered plastic plaything and unleash her on some righteous quests. This campaign (pun intended) aims to...
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And Now, Chicago's Flippin' Cyclist
Some of you may already know about the fella in the picture above—after all, he makes a living by performing in a heavily trafficked intersection in Chicago, where he is colloquially known as the "Bike...
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ThinkGeek is Looking for a LEGO Builder in Fairfax, Virginia. Yes, You Read...
Do you love LEGO? Are you a wizard when it comes to building crazy unique creations? Then come help ThinkGeek develop some brick based awesomeness with their own LEGO compatible building sets.You'll be...
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Naoto Fukasawa on the Future of Product Design (Which May or May Not Include...
Clockwise from top: "Demetra" (2013), courtesy of Artemide; "Juice Skin" (2004), photo by Masayoshi Hichiwa; "Twelve" (2005), courtesy of Issey MiyakeIt turns out that one of the designers who I was...
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International Home + Housewares Show 2014: Recipes for the Past and the...
Content sponsored by the IHAReporting by Morgan Walsh, photos by Benjamin Gross and Ray HuWhen we came across Bosign's Kitchen Tablet Stand in the Discover Design Gallery, we couldn't help but think it...
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Education: An Alien in Society
When I look at schools, I walk into schools, when I interact with schools, I feel like they belong to a different universe. As soon as I set my foot in a school, it feels like I've stepped out of the...
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Drones Are SO Over: Meet MIT's Creepy Autonomous Robot Fish
New technology usually makes waves when it's flashy, but this project from MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory takes place ominously under the waves. Its upshot is an independently operating fish that...
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Keeping Letterpress Lively: Studio visit with KeeganMeegan & Co.
It's not hard to love letters, they give us ideas and inspiration and connect us to the world through writing. For traditional printers that letter-love is as precise as a knife-edge. This month the...
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First Look: Festool's Amazing Dust-Free TSC-55 Cordless Track Saw!
We headed up to the JLC Live show in Providence last week, so we just had to stop by Festool Connect, the awesome one-day outreach event where the company gives demos of their latest and greatest. As...
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