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Hand-Eye Holiday Hits: Tosa Kitchen Knives
These beautiful and affordable chefs' knives are hot off the presses in Tosa, Japan and ready to head straight into the hot mess of your kitchen. Great for both beginners and cooks with an eye for...
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In the Details: Building the Perfect Spork
When Micah Baclig embarked on his senior degree project at the Rhode Island School of Design last year, he wanted to create an object that spoke to the ideals of our modern society. "We are a more...
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This Week in Booze-Based Designs: Liquor-Loaded Shoes, a Moustache Protector...
The holiday season is when we start seeing some wacky promotional products, and this first one's a cake-taker. Johnnie Walker partnered up with shoemaking outfit Oliver Sweeney to produce these Leather...
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New Post-it Plus App Makes Brainstorming a Bit More Manageable
Content sponsored by Post-it BrandLet's admit: designers' minds work in mysterious ways. As fluid as the design process claims to be, it's most often a product of mismatched thoughts, tangential...
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2014 Year in Review: 15 Design Stories to Read before 2015
Fish or foul? Check out #14 from our Top Design Stories of 2014.As we wind down the year and settle into the holiday cheer of family gatherings, movie marathons and an unending parade of sweets, here's...
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Is 'Flow' the Future of Haptic UI? An Interview with Senic CEO Tobias...
Chances are if you're a designer, artist, musician or use a computer daily, you have encountered that fateful moment when your mouse keeps you from making that perfect color selection or nudging a...
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Here's the First Object Designed on the Ground, E-Mailed into Space, and 3D...
If you remember our post on how tools are organized on the International Space Station, it's hard to imagine they'd forget to bring anything. But according to Mike Chen, whose Made in Space startup...
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When Good Maya Animations Go Bad
We've all had those moments in CAD, Photoshop, or whatever software you use where things just start going wrong. Your object won't Group, your Curve won't close, a Layer won't cooperate, you didn't...
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Nathan Friend's Browser-Based Spirograph Emulator
Folks, this holiday season I am giving you the gift of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Because you're going to click on this link to Inspirograph, which is a browser-based spirograph emulator developed by...
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2014 Year in Review: Planes, Trains, Bikes and Automobiles, A Year of...
Like most years, 2014 brought both rad and bad new offerings in the transportation world. Hoverboards saw weirdly practical strides forward, self-driving cars are no longer just in comic books and...
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Philippe Starck Wears Many Hats. So Does His Latest Lamp Design
Philippe Starck is known for eclecticism, so perhaps we oughtn't be surprised that his latest design is in a category of its own. The Chapo, as it's called, is a combination lamp and hat-stand.The...
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Barilla Announces Winners of 3D-Printed Pasta Design Challenge
Just as I was getting a handle on how different kinds of pasta are extruded, the self-described "most reputable company in the global Italian meal experience" up-ends it all with digitally manufactured...
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A Presidential Address on Innovation: RKS Reports on Obama's Visit to Cross...
It's not every day you get to hear the President of the United States weigh in on and answer questions about the future of innovation. Our friends at RKS attended an Innovation Friday event at the...
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This Man Can Carve a Working Pair of Pliers--Both Sides--From a Single Piece...
Children who visit The Warther Museum in Dover, Ohio each get a special gift on their way out: A working pair of wooden pliers, carved from a single block of basswood. The gift is appropriate since the...
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The McMass Project: Social Design Gone Wrong?
Whilst showing many signs of satire, The McMass Project appears to be a fairly earnest proposal for luring errant congregations back to the bosom of their local church with the temptation of a mid-mass...
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Some Assembly Required: Time-Lapse of a Boeing 737 Coming Together
As you read this, the skies are filled with travelers on their way to see loved ones. Those of you on the ground are likely thankful you're not dealing with the holiday crush, as riding inside of an...
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2014 Year in Review: From Mongol Materials to Luminescent Paint, A Year of...
Understanding how materials work, and how they can be worked, is part and parcel of being an industrial designer. Whether it's old materials being worked in old ways, old materials worked in new ways...
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This Watch (is Made of) Rocks
When watchmaking startup Plug & Feather says their timepieces are "built from timeless materials," they mean it. The faces are made out of stone, milled down to an unthinkable 1mm. The company...
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How to Gift Wrap Irregularly-Shaped Objects
Last-minute shoppers: So you've mastered the one-piece-of-tape gift wrapping method, which works great with rectilinear objects. But now you've got to wrap an irregularly-shaped object, since that...
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2014 Year in Review: The Year in Photos
In 2014 the Core77 team reported from the best design festivals, exhibitions, conferences, design studios and manufacturers around the globe bringing you a firsthand look at the designs and processes...
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