Core77 Design Awards 2014: Watch the Transportation Jury Announcement!
Day five of the Core77 Design Awards is quickly coming to a close. After a week full of impressive designs and jury members, we've only got one more category (Writing & Commentary) to follow-up...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2014: Watch the Writing & Commentary Jury Announcement!
We'd like to give a big thank you to all of the jurors, entrants, honorees and viewers for helping make this one of the best Core77 Design Awards to date! To top off this exciting week of live...
View Article3D Printing... in SPACE
If 3D printing had an overly attached mom, this benchmark would be going in a scrapbook. We're all admittedly used to hearing about the innumerable ways additive manufacturing is going to rock our...
View ArticleMoray Callum, Ford's Vice President of Design, on Exuberance, Sibling...
Content sponsored by the Ford Motor CompanyWe're only a few days away from "Decoding Design," Ford Motor Company's second panel discussion in a series called "Designing Innovation." Last month, we...
View ArticleStephanie Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar, Passes Away
At least one inventor of a famous machinegun has spiritually grappled with having invented a tool for killing. But Stephanie Kwolek, a scientist for DuPont who passed away last week at the age of 90,...
View ArticleFood Huggers: Brilliant Product Design and Business Success by Michelle...
True industrial design seeks out problems that can be solved with objects. The more common the problem, and the easier it is to produce the item you've designed to solve it, the more successful you'll...
View ArticleAn Armored Armoire by Sebastian Errazuriz
It might be called a cabinet, but anything you're displaying inside of it is going to be overshadowed by the furniture itself. I've long been a fan of Sebastian Errazuriz and his ability to turn his...
View ArticleThe Terra Wind: An Amphibious RV!
This may be the craziest vehicle I've ever seen. A South-Carolina-based company called Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International produces the Terra Wind, a luxury RV that is freaking amphibious. It's...
View ArticleImmerse Yourself in Soft Goods Design as a Product Designer for Bellroy in...
Are you the particular type of awesome that Bellroy wants to add to their Jan Juc team? They're looking for a sharp Product Designer that will help them reinvent how wallets should be, working in a...
View ArticleTaking Stock of the Past, Present and Future of Design at the Inaugural...
Photos by Alex Welsh unless otherwise notedWe briefly recounted the ongoings at the Core77 Conference in near-real-time last Thursday, breaking up our crowdsourced coverage into two recaps: morning and...
View ArticlePaint It White: Soak Up the Sins of the City with Titanium Dioxide Rooftops
For big problems, I'm a big fan of big solutions. After all, the sheer scale of systemic issues all but demands concerted efforts when it comes to fixing them. Even so, we can build in small...
View ArticleAIGA & Design Ignites Change to Honor Legacy of Sylvia Harris with Citizen...
As a pioneer and mentor in the field of design for social impact, the late Sylvia Harris was an inspiration to designers of all stripes, and her legacy lives on in with a new opportunity for design...
View ArticleNew at Hand-Eye Supply: Mikihasa Folding Kiridashi Knife
The Mikihisa Folding Knife is a cool take on the kiridashi style. Kiridashi (often translated as "to cut out") are traditionally used for scoring wood, carving, splitting bamboo and small cutting tasks...
View ArticleTrue I.D. Stories #28: Top 10 Problems with Organizing a Group Design Show,...
Editor: Is there a community of like-minded designers in your area? Have you ever thought about teaming up with them to set up a group show, one that you could export to another city? Well, Anonymous...
View ArticleThe Most Creative Recycling We've Seen Yet: Turn Plastic Bottles into String
This is nuts. An inventive Russian YouTuber has figured out how to turn plastic bottles into string, using purely mechanical means. After "unraveling" a single bottle he's left with what appear to be...
View ArticleInk Different: Forget Swatting Mosquitoes, This Sri Lankan Newspaper Repels Them
We all have our favorite memories of summer, but we're more inclined to forget the rather less pleasant thought of mosquito bites that might come with those adventures. I fondly recall summer a camp...
View ArticleSmart Design is Looking For a Brand Communication Intern in NYC
Smart Design has been turning insight and innovation into successful consumer experiences for 30 years. Their mission is to create informed and inspired design for people and memorable brands for their...
View ArticlePowerful Pet Projects: Huge Design Remade a Motorcycle
You probably have that one project. It's a little stupid, a little outlandish. It wouldn't fit into your real work, unless... you changed your work. Bill Webb is a partner at Huge Design, and he rides...
View ArticleMore Design Issues with Soap: How to Handle Raw Meat and Dispense Cleanly?
I've always bought my soap pump bottles from a company I used to work for, because I remember doing the renderings and CAD drawings for the dispenser head. As ID'ers, we don't get a lot of compensation...
View ArticleA Brief History of Unusual Objects Designed to Kill People from Far Away,...
The hard part about killing people is that sometimes they kill you back. (Just ask Prince Oberyn.) So at some point, some primitive pugilist concluded it would be better if one was not within arm's...
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