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With $220,000 and a Bit of Creativity, You Too Can Live in a Grounded Boeing 727
A pressurized cylinder of aluminum is hardly habitable as it is, but some companies are arguably (or hypothetically) taking things too far. Meanwhile, designers continue to seek incremental ways to...
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The Only Way to Sharpen Pencils!
I occasionally see a septic collection truck in my neighborhood with a big motto painted on the side: "We're Number One at Picking Up Number Two." That's a pretty good one. Artist David Rees' motto is...
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Tonight at Curiosity Club: Dave Selden of 33 Books
Tonight Curiosity Club welcomes Dave Selden, witty designer and founder of 33 Books. We'll hopefully learn about creative work as a small business, making graphic design useful, and why printing...
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Stick-Lets Looks to Put 'Going Outside' Back on the Playtime Agenda
Wonder, curiosity, exploration—all spot-on descriptors of a child on the verge of forming an opinion of the world. Yet these are the things that designer Christina Kazakia thinks kids are missing out...
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File Under: Actually I Might Use That
A man and his bucketSometimes when you love two things very much it's easy to delude yourself into imagining an ideal pairing where you can enjoy them at the same time. This can be guiltily true for...
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Shout Out to Shop Dads: A Visit With Tony Pereira
Dads are great! They're helpful, handy, and hilarious... in that decidedly dorky way. They make us laugh, they make us barbecue, they fix things, break them, and fix them again. To highlight that...
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100 Different Ways to Reimagine Junked Bike Parts into Artsy, Pop Culture...
"029: Lucha Libre"There's something glow-y about a person who truly loves what they're doing. For Jennifer Beatty, the glow comes through in her upcycled art. She managed to tie-in her two passions...
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Oakley is Looking For Rule Breakers, Specifically a Design Engineer
Let's let this job description speak for itself..."You're tired of being a cog in the machine. You don't play by the rules. Why should you be judged by them? Innovation flows through your veins and...
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The Brazuca, Adidas' New World Cup Ball
The World Cup is nearly here, with seemingly every bar in NYC hanging international flags out front and advertising Watch the matches here! Footie fever finally seems to have spread to America, as it's...
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3D Printing Beauty: Mink and Printable Makeup
Innovation springs up in the gaps between the available and the unimagined, so it follows that applying a familiar technology towards a familiar goal can still feel unexpected. The Mink makeup printer...
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Break Out of Your Routine at the Core77 Conference
When was the last time you were so impressed and inspired by something that you thought to yourself, "Wow... I'm going to use that"?It doesn't happen every day, but when it does, it's usually because...
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True I.D. Stories #27: Alligator Tacos
Editor: You're an up-and-coming designer getting ready to show your stuff at a big furniture show. You've got a great design and know exactly how it should be made--so what could go wrong? Here an...
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A Ford Made with Tomatoes
Would you like ketchup with that Ford Focus? No joke. Ford announced yesterday that it will partner with Heinz to possibly use tomato fibers to make cars from a new form of bio-plastic.Okay, it's not...
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In Acknowledgement of the Presumed-to-Boom Animal Wearables Market, Here are...
When you think about wearables, clunky watches might come to mind first—not how many steps your dog takes each day or how your neighbor's horse's blood pressure. I did a brief stint at an...
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Don't Drink Cocktails. But Do Look at Them Under a Microscope
TequilaScotchI loves me some booze, but I can't stand cocktails. Anything I drink, I drink straight. This has nothing to do with manliness and everything to do with respecting the craft of the liquor...
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Nevada Experimenting with Using Drones to Control the Weather
When you think of drones, you probably think of military ones, and viewers of the current season of 24 have watched Army drones targeting innocent civilians in London. But if the Desert Research...
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Typographic Exploration through Illustration
Content sponsored by AdobeAs a typographer born in Lebanon and educated in the United States, Wael Morcos recognizes the importance of communicating meaningfully across cultures. For Wael, tools such...
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Afterschool Podcast with Don Lehman - Episode 20: Ti Chang, Organizer of the...
Hosted by Don Lehman, Core77's podcast series is designed for all those times you're sketching, working in the shop, or just looking for inspiration from inspiring people. We'll have conversations with...
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Flotspotting: Oinky the Whimsical Piggy Bank, by Octavio Asensio
As 3D printing slowly but surely goes mainstream, we've been seeing more and more products that might just be ready for the seemingly endless shelves of big-box retailers. Sure, it allows for the...
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Spicing Up Your Address: Floating House Numbers
There's a building around the corner from me that I always notice, because they've got these sexy little floating numbers on the front of it. They're a bit more work to install than hanging a placard,...
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