'Bottlass' Beverage Packaging Concept Looks Cool, Probably Wouldn't Work
Here's one of those design concepts sure to make the blog rounds, even though it's more neat-looking than practical. The "Bottlass"—meant to be a portmanteau of "bottle" and "glass," but perhaps they...
View Article2014 Core77 Design Awards Spotlight: Food Maps, a Delicious Look at Cuisine...
Some of us plan vacations based on a region's culinary specialties—which, for the record, is completely legitimate and delicious. Scouring travel books for information on locavorous delights is one...
View ArticleIn the Details: Good Thing Reinvents the Ceramic Coil Pot, Among Other...
We first covered Jamie Wolfond's work when he was still a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, stuffing plastic pellets into fireproof molds and slumping them over other objects to create his...
View ArticleFriday Eye Candy: Best of the Risk-Taking Rooftop Russians
Vitaliy Raskalov, Hong KongMaybe it's because I just came across the 10,000th social media selfie I've seen this month that's making me snap. It was another of those inane pics taken in the safe...
View ArticleWatch Ford and IDSA's 'Designing Innovation' Panel Discussion Featuring Eric...
Content sponsored by the Ford Motor CompanyA myriad of design topics have been covered in the past two panel discussions Ford and IDSA have hosted, from the effect of video games on players to the...
View ArticleRedefine Classroom Communications as a Product Designer with Remind in San...
Remind is on a mission to connect every teacher, student and parent in the world to improve education. When you improve education, you can solve many of the world's problems. Using the tools Remind is...
View ArticleHow to Read a Cheese Wheel
Cheesemaking is a millennia-old industry, full of straightforward food science as well as dark corners of tradition and biological happenstance. Understanding the variety of traditional cheese...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2014: The Best Strategy & Research of the Year
At the heart of every design, there is a problem—or rather, a solution. The end result might broadly be called a product, but insofar as this definition doesn't specify a physical artifact, design...
View ArticleBrilliant Butter Knife Re-design
From Australia comes this clever re-think of the common butter knife. Sydney-based industrial designers Sacha Pantschenko, Norman Oliveria and Craig Andrews put their heads together and came up with...
View Article2014 Core77 Design Awards Winner Spotlight: Hyperform Breaks Out of the Build...
The 3D printing revolution has been a long time coming—but, to borrow William Gibson's famous quote, it's just not very evenly distributed. Or rather, it's limited to the constraint of a relatively...
View ArticleCreative Minds: Cansu Akarsu on Socially Conscious Design, Networking Like...
Cansu Akarsu is one of those people who you can't help but notice when she enters a room: Her bubbly and positive energy more than makes up for her small stature. I met her during the INDEX: Design...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards 2014: The Best Visual Communication Designs of the Year
Visual communication is perhaps the most accessible design discipline, both for its sheer ubiquity and its broad mandate to convey an idea as clearly and memorably as possible. It could be a poster,...
View ArticleNew Car Feature at the Intersection of Technology & Paranoia: Valet Mode...
Carlos Tomas dropped his Mazda 6 off for a detailing appointment at a shop in Toronto. When he returned to pick it up, he noticed some cosmetic damage to the front of the car that he swore wasn't there...
View ArticleWave Hello To Minimal Music Posters: Kickstart Your Favorite Waveform Dance...
Second verse, better than the first. Alex Szabo-Haslam made delicate waves last year with elegant printed visualizations of his favorite electronic songs, and he's back at it with an even wider range...
View ArticleTrue I.D. Stories #32: The Entrepreneur, Part 2 - Yanking My (Supply) Chain
Editor: Designer and entrepreneur Pat Calello explains that in order to grow your business, you've got to start relying on other people. But what happens when those people let you down?(If you missed...
View ArticleSneakerhead's Delight: 40+ Years of Nike Kicks in a Genealogical Motion...
Nike has recently launched its "Genealogy of Innovation" campaign, and the promo video by Golden Wolf is an impressive piece of footwear-centric eye candy, featuring some 200 shoes in all, including...
View ArticleJoin the Dolmen Team in Dublin, Where Questions Are Answered Before They Get...
Dolmen is made up of designers, strategists and they are very good at answering the questions their clients haven't even asked yet. Their clients range from entrepreneurs to multinationals and for 21...
View Article'Designing Innovation': Consumer Involvement in Designing the Future,...
Content sponsored by the Ford Motor CompanyOn Saturday, August 16, Ford and IDSA brought us the third panel discussion in a series on 'Designing Innovation.' We've been following along as the two...
View ArticlePSFK Labs Presents the 'Maker's Manual,' Available Now for Free Download
Yesterday, our friends at PSFK released a report on a movement that is within our purview much as it is in theirs: The first edition of the "Maker's Manual" "provides insights into how people can...
View ArticleAndy Tran's Multifunctional Tahoma Field Knife Design
A bunch of industrial designers sitting around a table and poring over research can come up with some awesome stuff, but I also love seeing that breed of object designed by insightful end-users. Those...
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