In Portland? Come to the Hand-Eye Supply Grand Reopening Party
Since we opened in 2010, Core77's Hand-Eye Supply has grown into an international design destination and hub for hands-on people of all stripes. Combining the refined aesthetics of designers with the...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2014: Sebastian Marbacher's 'Baustellen-Bank'
Recent Swiss design graduate Sebastian Marbacher has taken to the streets in Vienna, exhibiting some of his furniture as part of the festivities this week. Sebastian caught our eye immediately with his...
View ArticleSuccess Breeds Success: 'Monocle Guide to Good Business'
Here at Core77, we get our fair share of business books, in part because to design anything on an industrial level, you need to have business in mind. Perhaps you need to get financing to invest in...
View ArticleProtecting Your Innovations: Don't Miss the RKS Session On Copyrights,...
If you don't think about your company's intellectual property very often, it's time to pay closer attention to that which makes up, on average, over 90% of a business's value. Trade secrets, copyright,...
View ArticleBeijing Design Week 2014: Naihan Li Presents 'I AM A MONUMENT' at Gallery All...
Photos courtesy of Gallery All unless otherwise noted.A mover-and-shaker in the Chinese creative scene for a decade now, Naihan Li got her start working for Ai Weiwei upon returning to Beijing after...
View ArticleRendering Chrome Letters the Hard Way
One of the first things they taught us in ID Rendering 101 was about reflections: You need a sky and you need some earth, and placing these correctly indicates the contours of whatever you're drawing...
View ArticleOrganizing the Year: Designing Calendars and Planners
Digital calendars are everywhere now—but many end-users still prefer to use paper. Calendars like the one above are attractive, but not really functional; there's nowhere to note what's happening on...
View ArticleTexas A&M Traffic Institute's Crashworthy Structures Program Designs an...
Down by the Centre Street courthouses in lower Manhattan, where I walk my dogs in the morning, I saw them re-installing one of those anti-terrorist pylons. All government buildings downtown became...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2014: 'Cake's New Dress' - Lucy.D x Cafe Landtmann
Institution of Vienna cafe culture, Cafe Landtmann, have partnered with local design studio Lucy.D to explore the impact design can have on cake decorating. The cafe's management tasked designers Karin...
View ArticleAdam Michaels & Anna Rieger of Project Projects on Designing Core77's First...
Adam Michaels and Anna Rieger of Project Projects looking over Designing Here/NowCore77 was delighted to work with New York-based studio Project Projects to design the Designing Here/Now, published by...
View ArticleCan You Guess Which of These Cars is the Most Likely to Be Ticketed?
Years ago I was driving down Interstate 80 when a minivan rocketed past me in the left lane. I was doing about 70 in my Golf, the Dodge Caravan was doing maybe 95. Seconds later my rearview mirror...
View ArticleDeath to Cam Lock Nuts: Flatpack Hardware That Will Hopefully Become Obsolete
If you've ever assembled a piece of IKEA furniture, you've undoubtedly seen the two items up above, and you understand how they fit together:For the average consumer that doesn't know what they're...
View ArticleIKEA's New Tool-less Connectors and a Potential End to Particle Board?
What you see above are the new, no-tools-required connectors Ikea's designers have developed for their new Regissör line of furniture. Rather than using knock-down fasteners, they've created a wooden...
View ArticleThe Principals and Devonte Hynes Present 'Ancient Chaos,' an Immersive Sound...
Devonté Hynes with "Ancient Chaos"Normally we'd be skeptical about a pop-up venue by a wireless speaker company, but seeing as Sonos was hosting the likes of John Maeda, The Principals, and New Yorker...
View ArticleDesign Week Portland: Something for Everyone
Tonight marks the start of a dense week of design, craft and innovative thinking as we kick off this year's Design Week Portland. This evening's opening party will feature installations by Set Creative...
View ArticleChanging the World is All in a Day's Work When You Work at Apple
Changing the world is all in a day's work at Apple. If you love innovation, here's your chance to make a career of it. You'll work hard. But the job comes with more than a few perks. The Production...
View ArticleCore77 Photo Gallery: London Design Festival 2014
Photography by Sam Dunne & Anki Delfmann for Core77The London Design Festival, now in it's 12th year was back bigger than ever with festivities spreading even further into the metropolis. The usual...
View ArticleThe Future Is Here (Sort Of): The TBD Catalog Is Available Now
Back in September 2012, I travelled to Detroit for a few days with Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova (two of my partners at the Near Future Laboratory). We invited many of our friends along too, for...
View ArticleCreative Minds: Athena Maroulis on Cultural Heritage, Social Design and a...
It's interesting how things sometimes end up in your lap—in this case, it was a bag belonging to a friend of a friend that ended up on my kitchen table, and things developed from there. Those of you...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2014: Recycling Design Prize
Our tour around Vienna Design Week last week gave us a chance to finally get a first-hand glimpse of winners of the 6th annual Recycling Designpreis—the touring exhibition of the awarded works having...
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