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Designing for an Organized Garage, Part 2: Using the Walls
Garages protect our cars, serve as our workspaces—and often store an amazing amount of stuff. Making the most of garage space, for yourself or for an end-user, might mean using the ceiling, but it...
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Working with Your Hands, Full-Scale: Hank Butitta's Bus-to-Tiny-House Conversion
Like the vlogger in "Why I Quit Studying Industrial Design," Hank Butitta found himself dissatisfied with his chosen course of study. "In architecture school I was tired of drawing buildings that would...
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Redesigning Business at the 2014 AIGA Gain Conference
Following the pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, this year's GAIN Conference was in full swing in NYC today, bringing together a great lineup of thinkers and doers to address the idea of...
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Łódź Design Festival 2014: 'Kawara Chair' by Tsuyoshi Hayashi
For a relative minnow of the design world, it was great to see some solid involvement from the international design community at Łódź Design Festival in Poland last week. To give one outstanding...
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Murphy Alexander's All-Zinc "Nifty Lift" Carrying Device
Design theory is all fine and good, but one of the better things that will happen during an industrial design education is when schools connect with real companies that make real things. The company...
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RSVP Now for SVA's MFA in Products of Design Open House, November 8th!
The MFA in Products of Design program at SVA in New York City is holding its Information Session/Open House on Saturday, November 8th, from 1pm to 4pm. Meet faculty Ayse Birsel, Elliott Montgomery,...
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This Week in IKEA: Steadicam Homagery, Shakespeare Gone Surreal and a...
Among other things, the Internet transcends the regional borders of advertising campaigns, which have historically been geo-targeted out of necessity; these days, YouTube affords access to commercials...
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In the Details: Making a 'Folding Sawhorse on Steroids'
Based in Tahoe City, California, Barclay Moore has been making custom furniture in his tiny one-car garage since 1986. Working in the small space, the furniture maker relied heavily on folding...
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Repurposed Macs, from Class to Crass
It is a shame that the Power Mac G5, and the first-generation Mac Pro, are these beautiful hunks of aluminum that have no present-day use. While the conscientious may deliver them to recycling...
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From Germany with LUUV: Tim Kirchner on Starting a Tech Hardware Company in...
Berlin has rapidly made a name for itself as one of the foremost cities for tech startups to ahem, start up. In addition, to the budding companies that call the German capital home, we also have heavy...
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Core77 Photo Gallery: Vienna Design Week 2014
Photography by Sam Dunne for Core77Vienna Design Week returned for the eighth successive year, this year setting up shop in the grand Schwarzenberg Palace in the heart of the city. Apart from being...
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Mercedes' Counterintuitive, Award-Winning Materials Choice: Lose Weight and...
Left: Aluminum; Right: Steel.When trying to "lightweight" something made out of steel, the designer's natural inclination is to turn to aluminum. But the R&D guys over at Mercedes-Benz recently did...
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Casey Neistat's Google Glass Review
Google Glass: Some people love it, some hate it, and this guy became addicted to it. But overall they haven't gained much traction among the masses, presumably because there's no overarching unmet need...
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More Details About the Futuristic Unicycles in the New OK Go Music Video
In Casey Neistat's review of Google Glass, the filmmaker likens the wearable device to another much-lampooned gadget of a previous generation. Indeed, the Segway endures in pop culture, if only as a...
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If You're Passionate About Cycling, SRAM Wants You on Their Team in Chicago, IL
Would you like to: Work on products that people love Work for a great company in a fun industry Have control of your design intent Work on an industry leading design teamIf you answered yes to these,...
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Navigating Design Dichotomies: Rama Chorpash on Parsons's New MFA in...
Students in the new MFA program will have access to the New School's University Center, which opened last January. Photo by Jacob A. PritchardEarlier this month, Parsons The New School for Design...
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Picture This: Billed as Pandora for Photos, Fireside Offers a Smarter Digital...
Just launched on Kickstarter, Fireside is bicoastal startup that promises to revolutionize digital photography—not in how we create images and video but how we share and enjoy them for posterity."1,000...
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Zoe Mowat on Interpreting Intuition, Taking Productive Breaks, and Why Large...
This is the latest installment of our Core77 Questionnaire. Previously, we talked to Peter Marigold.Name:Zoë Mowat Occupation: Designer and makerLocation: Montreal, CanadaCurrent projects: Recently...
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Origin Laser Tools: The World's Most Bad-Ass Laser Levels
In the non-square, non-level, non-plumb world we live in, the Stanley FatMax laser level is one of the handiest tools I own. Can't remember what I paid for it—mine is way outdated—but it was less than...
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When You Understand People like Pensa Does, You Can Develop Truly Successful...
Pensa is a design firm with a strong track record of developing successful products and brands. At Pensa, that success comes from gaining a deep understanding of people, the products they use and the...
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