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Making the Most of Wall Space, Part 2

We've talked about using the walls to keep papers close at hand, and to store knives—but walls can be used to store all sorts of odds and ends. One way to use the walls is with a pegboard; Julia...

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Inspire West Elm Customers With Your Furniture Engineering Skills in Brooklyn

West Elm is a dynamic, fast-paced brand with an exciting growth strategy. They value imagination, diversity and giving people the opportunity to explore, grow and shape their future. Right now, they...

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Who Knew? The Wearable Chair Was Actually Invented 37 Years Ago

Left: Courtesy of Gary Cruce; Right: Drawing for patent D249,987So it looks like the honor of Design Crossover Hit of the Week goes to Noonee's Chairless Chair, and while the mainstream media took to...

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Alphaclamps: Robb Goddshaw Asks, "Why Stop at the C-Clamp?"

The gag being a one-liner, I thought this video would be dumb from the description, but it's pretty funny. Carnegie Mellon grad Robb Godshaw is an artist-in-residence at Autodesk's Pier 9 workshop, a...

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In the Details: Making Weather-Controlled Lights for a Subtle Long-Distance...

If you've ever been in a long-distance relationship, you know firsthand the challenges of coordinating across time zones to connect with parents, friends and partners. Phone calls are painstakingly...

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Reading Rambow: Book Posters and More by Seminal Graphic Designer

The book publishing industry may be shifting tectonically and perhaps irrevocably as we speak, but, as with vinyl, the cover endures as a canonical canvas for graphic design. The follow-worthy Casual...

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Insane $2 Million Naturalistic Feature-Packed Swimming Pool

Animal Planet calls Anthony Archer-Willis "the best in the world for what he does—designing and delivering the ultimate swimming experience." That's why they gave Archer-Willis, a British landscape...

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Core77 Photo Gallery: Martino Gamper, 'Design is a State of Mind'

Photography by Brit Leissler for Core77Designer Martino Gamper guest curated an exhibition presenting a collection of objects from the personal archives of his friends and colleagues at the Serpentine...

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Unusual Storage Design, Part 3: Small Parts Storage with Twist Tubes

For small parts storage, I use the cheapie Stack-On containers we covered here. They're useful and inexpensive, but their design also dates back at least several decades. For a more modern-day...

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Open Air Neighborhood: Co-Creating Outdoor Spaces for All

Open Air Neighborhood (OAN) started off as a collaboration between KaosPilotTheis Reibke and architect Louise Heeboell, back in 2011. At first, the idea was simply to develop "Building Playgrounds"...

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Presenting the Core77 September 2014 Education Special

Photos credits: Jaineel Shah, Kyle Oldfield, Valdemar Haugaard OlsenThe equinox may be a few weeks out, but here in the States, Labor Day weekend marks the cusp of the seasons, when we must transition...

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Introducing 'D-School Futures,' Our Interview Series on the Evolution of...

ID students at the Savannah College of Art and DesignSeptember is here, and you know what that means—the start of National Honey Month, yes, but also the reluctant acceptance by most students (and...

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D-School Futures: Carnegie Mellon's Wayne Chung on Training Designers to...

Backpack design by CMU design student Morgan FritzThis is the first installment of D-School Futures, our interview series on the evolution of industrial design education. Here we have answers from...

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The Quick, Easy, Dangerous Way to Get a Washing Machine to Disassemble Itself...

Australia-based machinist Ed Jones runs Ed Systems, a "Strange and somewhat crazy hobby shop that specializes in anything electrical, industrial, automotive, and anything in-between." A metal shop...

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True I.D. Stories #33: The Entrepreneur, Part 3 - A Rude Awakening in China

Editor: Where we left off, designer and entrepreneur Pat Calello had run into the headaches that can come with overseas manufacturers. Here he attempts to straighten things out with a deceptive...

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Objects I Use(d): The Suicide-Committing Jawbone Jambox

Yesterday I had to retire one of my well-used, much-appreciated, everyday objects and figured I'd give it a postmortem, covering what I liked and didn't like about this product design. It's the Jambox,...

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Design Soft Toys at Skip Hop in New York City and Make Parenting Easier

Parenting can be tough, but at Skip Hop, they believe it can be easier when you have unique, innovative and highly functional products on hand. Their growing Product Development team in the Flatiron...

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Discussion Board Digest: Just What Is Industrial Design, Anyway?

Photo by Brian QuanFor this month's Back-to-School Special, we're going back to the basics and delving deep into the Core77 forums to answer common student queries. First up, we tackle a question as...

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D-School Futures: SCAD's Owen Foster on the Value of Being a Hybrid Designer...

This is the latest installment of D-School Futures, our interview series on the evolution of industrial design education. Today we have answers from Owen Foster, chair of the industrial design program...

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Epoxy Resin 101

For those of you about to enter Industrial Design programs, you'll find epoxy resins are a staple studio adhesive. They're part of the class of super adhesives called structural or engineering...

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