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A Beautiful, Impractical, Expensive Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Designed 1927 Gas...
As a society, we've more or less got the design of gas stations figured out. Outside is a row of pumps (ground-mounted in most of the world but ceiling-mounted in space-tight countries like Japan), a...
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In the Details: Making a Smart Ring That Women Would Actually Want to Wear
Last April, we wrote about Logbar's Ring, a smart-jewelry concept that aims to provide gesture control of a host of smartphone apps (and that raised more than $880,000 dollars on Kickstarter). But...
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Designing for Disposal, Part 1: Open Wastebaskets
Professional organizers are fans of wastebaskets—they help ensure trash actually leaves the space—so I'm always interested in new design twists on this basic product.In the San Francisco Bay Area,...
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Fascist Symbolism and the Evolution of the Game Ball: 80 Years of World Cup...
Well at least we had a good run, thanks mostly to one Tim Meme Howard; now it's just a question of whether it's unpatriotic to watch the Germany-France and/or Brazil-Colombia matches go down tomorrow...
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This Week in the Illustration of Floating Heads: Leo Burnett's Flippable...
If a client wants six drawings, how do you get away with delivering just three? In this clever bit of illustrations done as advertisements for Jeep, the French outpost of ad agency Leo Burnett has...
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Man Scares the Living Crap out of Parkgoers by Chasing Them with Grim Reaper...
Tom Mabe is a comedian and sort of professional prankster, with a YouTube channel documenting his feats of fooled-ya. While I'm generally not a fan of deceiving people and videotaping it to entertain...
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Happy Birthday America! For This Year's Fireworks Shows, Please--No Dogs or...
Happy Fourth of July! We know that our non-Yank readership doesn't care about our special day, especially you Brits. In fact, Stephen Merchant has explained why our holiday of independence rankles his...
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Teach at the World Class Massey University in New Zealand as an Associate...
Throughout its 80-year history Massey University has played a defining role in the development of New Zealand as a nation. The College of Creative Arts at Massey University is a world-class art and...
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A First in the Second City: Strength in Numbers at This Year's Chicago Design...
CHICAGOLAND at WantedDesign. Photo by Alex WelshBy Morgan WalshNow that it's officially July, the city of Chicago has settled into its annual routine of near-constant street festivals, concerts, BBQs,...
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Tag Team Construction Robots: Minibuilders, Big Impact
More steps forward, and upward, for our robotic overlords: architectural 3D printing gets practical with a little teamwork. A group at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has developed...
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IDSA 2014 Conference Preview: Q&A with Maria Boustead of Po Campo
From August 13th thru the 16th, the 2014 IDSA International Conference is bringing a list of provocative speakers to Austin, TX, all in the name of sharing valuable, practical and enlightening...
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Poland's Forgotten Crooked Forest: What Were They Going to Build With These...
In West Pomerania, Poland, stands a rather odd grove of pine trees. Some 400 of the trees have taken the peculiar shapes you see pictured, while the surrounding forest is filled with pines that have...
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Greg Klassen's Beautiful River Collection Puts the Live Edge on the Inside
Greg Klassen is a craftsman who's extremely attuned to his environment. "I live in the Pacific Northwest and find inspiration in the trees, the rivers and the fields," he writes. "I love the idea of...
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Google Ideas is Looking for an Interaction Designer in New York City
Google Ideas is a team at Google that explores how technology can enable people to confront threats in the face of conflict, instability or repression. As an interaction designer you are at the...
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More Crooked Forests: Axel Erlandson, the Tree Tinkerer from the 1920s, and...
Sometimes two tree branches will grow in such a way that they begin to touch. As the wind blows the branches and they rub together, the bark at the point of contact is gradually worn away, exposing the...
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Second Annual Bike Cult Show to Take Place at Knockdown Center from August...
Once again, we're pleased to announce that Core77 will be the media partner for the Bike Cult Show, New York City's annual celebration of handbuilt bicycles and the craftspeople behind them. Now in its...
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How Will the iPhone 6's Sapphire Screen Hold Up to Abuse? Watch and See
Tech reviewer Marques Brownlee somehow got a hold of what is purportedly the screen for Apple's forthcoming iPhone 6. Made of sapphire rather than Gorilla Glass, the screen has been rumored to be a big...
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True I.D. Stories #29: Top 10 Problems with Organizing a Group Design Show,...
Editor: Last time Anonymous Designer ran down the first five hassles with organizing a group design show: Getting funding, organizing your unruly band of designers, wrangling the troublemakers,...
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Non Sequitur: The Pallet Hack to End All Pallet Hacks
Well, you could always take a cue from our favorite IKEA hack of all time and use them to fuel a fire... but not only does burning pallets lack the elegance of the ad hoc bow drill (in the above hack),...
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Combining Detective Work, CAD, and 3D Printing to Recreate Duchamp's Lost...
In 1918 Marcel Duchamp, an avid chess player, designed a one-off set and had it hand-carved in Buenos Aires. Depending on whom you listen to, that set has either been lost or is sitting in someone's...
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