Core77 Design Awards 2014: The Best Interaction Designs of the Year
Interaction design has increasingly been supplementing (if not outright supplanting) industrial design when it comes to many of the products that we use on a daily basis, and technology continues to...
View ArticleTonight at Curiosity Club: Kate Bingaman-Burt "8 Days A Week"
Tonight's Curiosity Club is "8 Days A Week" with the prolific Kate Bingaman-Burt, illustrator, educator and all-round creative badass. As she puts it: Kate will involve colorful visuals, excitement...
View ArticleOregon Manifest 2014: Industry on Working with Ti Cycles and Immersing...
This weekend saw the unveiling of the collaborative bicycle designs that are going head to head in the third edition of the Oregon Manifest, in which five teams in as many cities set out to create and...
View ArticleTodd St. John on Hiring Good People, Getting Sawdust in the Computers, and...
This is the latest installment of our Core77 Questionnaire. Previously, we talked to IKEA creative director Mia Lundström.Name: Todd St. JohnOccupation: Designer/illustrator/animator. Founder of...
View ArticleOnboard Storage Design: Why Vikings Never Fought For Overhead Bin Space
Vikings loved to brawl, with both their enemies and with each other. Viking sagas are filled with tales of even longstanding friends happy to settle disagreements with steel. But as they piled onto...
View ArticleReady to Be Part of What's Next? Join 3M as a Graphic Designer in Maplewood,...
3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. As a 3Mer, you'll have opportunities to make a substantial impact, fueled by competitive pay, comprehensive...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2014: The Best DIY Designs of the Year
There's something singularly rewarding—magical, even— about sketching an idea, taking stock of materials on hand, crunching numbers on backs of envelopes, and then actually making it into a real...
View ArticleAn Ingenious Little Plastic Gizmo that Makes Up for an Apple Design Flaw
I'm a heavy Apple user and I love their products, but I'm bewildered by some of their design decisions. The one that drives me the most nuts is that my Thunderbolt Display's USB ports are on the back....
View ArticleOregon Manifest 2014: Huge on Collaborating with 4130 Cycle Works and...
This weekend saw the unveiling of the collaborative bicycle designs that are going head to head in the third edition of the Oregon Manifest, in which five teams in as many cities set out to create and...
View ArticleThe TSA Wants You-- To Design a Solution to Our Collective Airport Security...
The airport security line is the kind of universally despised ordeal that extraterrestrials, should they exist, would dread; even a seasoned traveler will bristle at the thought of the rigmarole of...
View ArticleMartha Stewart Loves Drones
If you asked me a year ago which famous persons are advocates of drones, homemaking maven Martha Stewart would not have topped that list. But after receiving a camera-outfitted drone for her birthday...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards Spotlight: SOAK Charging Side Table
Ever more powerful portable devices increasingly enable our always on-the-go lifestyles, yet even the fastest microprocessor needs a power supply, and we find ourselves tethered to outlets in moments...
View ArticleA New Wearable Battery: More Flexible and Durable than Anything Else
There are at least two big challenges with creating wearable technology. The first is to actually design something that people will want to buy and use, and the second is to keep the device in juice....
View Article"Driving Dreams" Documentary Seeks to Highlight Unsung Heroes of Italian...
Up above you see snippets of exotic cars. What you don't see are the faces of the Italian men, now in their 70s and 80s, who designed them. "Almost everything we know about cars, we conclude...
View ArticleOregon Manifest 2014: Teague on Working with Sizemore Bicycle and Rethinking...
This weekend saw the unveiling of the collaborative bicycle designs that are going head to head in the third edition of the Oregon Manifest, in which five teams in as many cities set out to create and...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2014: The Best Furniture & Lighting Designs of the Year
When you think about it, the basic forms of quintessential articles of furniture—I'm talking desks, chairs, couches, stools, work lamps and pendant fixtures—largely consist of variations on a theme. As...
View ArticleDoes No One Else Find This Ridiculous?
Bike Grouch Alert: So it's come to this.That there is Lucid Design's "Kit Bike," which, like an IKEA shelving unit, can be assembled and disassembled into 21 parts for ease of transport. I didn't mind...
View ArticleDesigning for Drivers: Organizing the Car
As a professional organizer, I've helped people organize their homes and offices—and their cars. One challenge drivers have is finding a good place to keep things like smart phones and sunglasses close...
View ArticleTonight: It's the Hand-Eye Supply Summer Quarterly Party!
Hey Portland people, it's that time again. The Summer Quarterly is here and we couldn't have done it without help. While we rounded up awesome stuff for summer, cool creatives from all over sent in...
View ArticleCompany Invents Shotgun Suppressor and a Strange Superhero
I've got a friend from Alabama who told me that growing up, most families she knew kept shotguns in the house. When you heard a noise in the middle of the night, the shotgun was the go-to item, and she...
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