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In the Details: About That Solar-Powered Parasol Traveling Around Milan This...
If you were attending the Salone del Mobile in Milan this this week, you might have seen a little black Daihatsu pickup driving around with some nebulous cargo in the back—the Cumulus Parasol, a...
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Four Design Approaches to the Modern-Day Toolbox: Part 1 - OPO Oeschger's Boxes
At Holz-Handwerk we saw not only thousands of tools, but several companies creating systems to store and transport those tools. You'd think that there are only so many ways mobile tool storage can be...
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Swing Into The Weekend With Super Planet Smash
Yep, it's Friday, get ready to waste some time and feel fine doing it. Skip your next Facebook break and try out the addictive game Super Planet Crash—build planetary systems, watch as they destroy...
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Hey, Industrial Designers! The Team at Icon Development Group Wants to Hire You
ICON is a small Southern California product design consultancy, and they are looking for an experienced Industrial Designer to join and grow with their team! For the last 10 years, they have worked...
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Four Design Approaches to the Modern-Day Toolbox: Part 2 - The Modular Yet...
German manufacturer S+L Tischlerei's approach to tool storage is modular in concept and monolithic in appearance. In contrast to OPO Oeschger's line of wares, which require the carrier to pick and...
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Redistillation in the Industrial Design Process, or Why Gin is Better than Vodka
I spent the first 36 years of my life living in the UK, more than half of which was spent in and around London. As such, I have a deep personal affinity to Gin, that wonderful, complex, delicious...
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TinkerBots: Modular Robotic Toys a la Living Lego
Let's be clear about two things: 1. I am a tech luddite; 2. I, coincidentally, grew up broke playing with sticks and rocks, and galdang it I liked it. Resultantly, I view expensive high tech toys with...
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Design File 011: Shiro Kuramata
In this series, Matthew Sullivan (AQQ Design) highlights some designers that you should know, but might not. Previously, he looked at the work of T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings.Shiro Kuramata: Born in Tokyo,...
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Milan 2014: ECAL Explores the Intersection of Media & Interaction and...
It's an increasingly pressing question in this day and age, and one that has certainly seen some interesting responses—including this interdepartmental collaboration from Switzerland design school...
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Give Your Career a Lift as a CAD/Mechanical Designer with Crown Equipment...
Crown Equipment Corporation designs, manufactures, distributes, services and supports material handling products that provide customers with superior value. As one of the world's largest lift truck...
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Four Design Approaches to the Modern-Day Toolbox: Part 3 - Tanos'...
Tanos is a spin-off of engineering outfit TTS Tooltechnic Systems, and their sole purpose is to build out TTS's Systainer storage system. (Festool users will recognize the Systainers, as they come...
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Save the Date - F1RST: The Masters Thesis - Presentations of SVA MFA Products...
Our readers are likely well aware that Core77's Allan Chochinov has been primarily focused on his duties as co-founder and chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Products of Design program for the past...
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Eric Trine on Transitioning From Fine Arts to Design, Being "the Metal Guy,"...
This is the latest installment of our Core77 Questionnaire. Previously, we talked to Inga Sempé.Name:Eric TrineOccupation: Artist and designerLocation: Long Beach, CaliforniaCurrent projects: Right now...
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Hand-Eye Supply Spring Quarterly 2014: The Tao of Plumbing
Spring is a time for sprucing up, inside and out! For the Hand-Eye Supply Spring Quarterly we spent a day on job with Joshua DeParrie of Eco-Plumber. Joshua is a professional pipe whisperer and...
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Endur: A 3D-Printable Polypropylene Substitute
Polypropylene is one of your go-to plastics for injection molding, and being both flexible and tough, you can do sexy things like making living hinges out of the stuff. But you are of course limited to...
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Bora Hong Pulls the Eames Chair Into Her Exploration of Body Modification in...
While there are many designs out there that look to replicate the iconic style of the Eames Chair, I'd bet that there aren't many doing it quite like Bora Hong. Her work always has some sort of...
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Make It Wearable: Submit Your Vision on the Future of Wearables to Intel
Content sponsored by IntelIf you haven't heard yet, Intel is looking for visionaries to enter the MAKE IT WEARABLE global challenge. All it takes to enter is for you to upload a one-minute video on...
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Four Design Approaches to the Modern-Day Toolbox: Part 4 - Parat Goes for...
In this four-part look at different toolbox designs, finally we come to Parat, which has one of the larger tool storage catalogs of any company we've seen. Like Tanos, the company's desire is to...
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Forthcoming Photojojo Project: The Drone Selfie
Photography accessory company Photojojo might consist of "a small and passionate team" of designers (who are hiring, by the way), but despite their dimunitive size, the SF-based outfit distributes a...
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The Latest Objet du Design: Wooden Animals?
A Core77 reader wrote in to ask about the provenance of this enormous horse made from wood cut-offs, which we spotted at Holz-Handwerk. Called the "Workhorse of Peace and Hope," it was made by Italian...
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