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Enter the Core77 Design Awards Before Midnight on April 6
The extended deadline for the Core77 Design Awards is upon us! You've got all day today, Saturday and Sunday to work on creating an award-winning entry, but come midnight on Sunday, April 6, we won't...
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Archiportrait: Federico Babina Visualizes Famous Architects Using Bits and...
Barcelona-based architect Federico Babina has commemorated 33 well-known architects—among the honored are Charles Eames, Norman Foster, Frank Lloyd Wright and Rem Koolhaus—in illustrated portrait...
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Sweet Animated Treat: "Shape" Explores What Design Does
"Shape" is a fun animated exploration of what design can mean and how it shapes our experiences. It's the heart of a project by PIVOT Dublin that has grown over the last few years to include an...
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h220430's 'Balloon Chair' Offers an Uplifting Seating Experience
The phrase "balloon chair" could mean any number of things, really, so h220430's take fits the bill as well as any of the possibilities (according to their website, the company takes its name from its...
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In the Details: Designing a Snap-Together Aluminum Desk Lamp
With an elegant silhouette that doesn't scream "DIY," the Zeta Aluminium lamp is a welcome addition to the realm of hardware-free, flat-pack, assemble-it-yourself housewares. Designed by the Florence,...
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NUKE: A Cooking Concept That Puts the Crock Pot to Shame
Don't get me wrong—crock pots are fantastic. Throwing a bunch of ingredients into a pot in the morning and coming home to a fragrant apartment and ready-to-eat dinner is magical. It's almost worth the...
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Enter the Core77 Design Awards Before Midnight Tonight
The day has finally come—the entry period for the 2014 Core77 Design Awards closes tonight at midnight. Make sure to get your work submitted before then for a chance to be recognized across the many...
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Deconstructing Assumptions to Design Moneythink Mobile
Image courtesy of MoneythinkBy T.J. Cook, CEO, CauseLabsWhen it comes to getting projects right, I've found it helps to assume we've got it wrong. Our hunches are off. Our assumptions are off-base. We...
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Slick, Swiss, Space-Saving, Semi-Automatic Storage Furniture from Peka
Swiss manufacturer Peka's no-nonsense tagline, "Fitting and accessories for the kitchen, bathroom and living area" belies a slick line of well-conceived product designed to use every square centimeter...
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Foldscope: The 50-Cent Origami Microscope
A bioengineer at Stanford has been busy at work creating an alternative to the expensive microscopes used to diagnose blood-borne sicknesses like Malaria. What Manu Prakash came up with isn't just a...
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Save the Date: The Inaugural Core77 Conference is June 19th
What are you doing all day on June 19th? Nothing? Wrong. Clear your schedule to make room for the very first Core77 Conference! We're putting together a day-long shindig in Brooklyn featuring some of...
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Get Lost in 'Monument Valley,' the M.C. Escher of iPad Games
There can't be a more perfect setting for a mystical, digital playland than M.C. Escher's dizzying artwork. Monument Valley an iPad app by ustwo has the player interacting with surreal architecture and...
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Become a Better Designer with an Industrial Design Internship at Tupperware...
Tupperware is one of the most trusted brand names in housewares, and for more than 60 years, quality and integrity have driven their growing offering of products and brands. To maintain this trajectory...
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Start the Presses: Announcing the C77 Design Daily
After years of running the definitive online guide to NY Design Week we are now taking it to the next level by taking a step back. Hey, don't freak-out though, our #1 design week web coverage is still...
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Clever Swedish Tool Designs that are Hard-to-Find in America
Shots from the German catalogue. Read it and weep, YanksTo an American, the old-world European way of doing business can be frustrating to encounter. You have these companies making incredibly refined,...
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Who Would've Thought: The Best Way to Play Tetris is on the Side of a Building
The 29-story Cira Centre building in Philadelphia has received a makeover of monstrous proportions for this year's Philly Tech Week. Frank Lee, a professor at Drexel University, designed a...
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Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club: Matt Wagner of Hellion Gallery
Tonight the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club features Matt Wagner of Hellion Gallery, presenting "This Is My Day Job." Tonight's talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come...
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Core77 Photo Gallery: Zai Ski Factory Tour in the Swiss Alps
Photography by Brit Leissler for Core77Inhabitants of the small town of Disentis, in the Swiss canton of Grisons, still mainly communicate in the Romansh language—a Roman dialect that has survived here...
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True I.D. Stories #23: The Accidental Designer, Part 5 - Going Hollywood
Editor: Here in Part 5, Accidental Designer gets a taste of the Big Time with a little help from Hollywood; pisses off several hundred propmasters; and finds himself faced with a serious production...
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Barth Maschinenbau's Vacuum-Based Furniture-Building Workstations
Every workbench needs a vise—or at least they did, until the advent of vacuum clamping. After seeing Guido Einemann's homegrown table at Holz-Handwerk, we spotted a multitude of more big-dog versions...
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