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Beautiful, Potentially Short-Lived Tabletop Made from Pallet Wood
While it seems to be the darling of Facebook-friendly DIY furniture roundups, there are lots of reasons not to use pallet wood in your projects. Chief among these is that a subset of pallets have been...
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Made-in-USA Pants Guaranteed to Last for 25 Years
These were my favorite work pants right here, Carhartt's Loose Fit Canvas Carpenter Jeans. I bought them just over two years ago. They're comfortable as hell and have good utility with all of the...
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Mouffe: The Daydream Simulator Played With a Blanket Controller
This post originally appeared on Kill Screen, a videogame arts and culture website. Story by Chris Priestman.Did you ever have a magical night mobile to lull you in the crib? Mine sprinkled blue stars...
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Watch the RKS Sessions Presentation: Why Every Entrepreneur Needs to Think...
Design is such an integral part of business these days, it's nearly impossible to succeed as an entrepreneur without thinking like a designer. Last week, RKS presented the 7th installment of their...
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The Deckstop: Desktops Made From Trashed Skateboard Decks
Just when I thought making this tabletop out of pallet wood was laborious, these guys might have topped it. Your average skateboard deck is made out of seven layers of maple ply. The form has an angled...
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Is Living in a Highrise Un-African?
Advertorial content sponsored by Design Indaba.Increasing urban populations are putting new pressures on African cities but changing traditional living habits is proving to be a slow process. Now there...
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11 Designs for Organizing with Shelves
Large shelving systems along a wall are great for storage, but there's not always space for such a system. In these situations, a smaller wall-mounted shelf can still be helpful to hold books, display...
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Clever No-Spill Paint Tray Design
Contractor Ben Mayberry made an interesting discovery: When paint is poured onto a surface with a microfiber texture, it stays there. Even if you flip that surface upside-down. With the right amount of...
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This Heat-Map Microwave Would Let You See Exactly How Hot Your Food Is
Innovative designers draw connections between things that no one else has thought of yet. And this insight from Mark Rober is particularly brilliant. He observed that:1) Putting food in a microwave is...
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Driverless Cars Now Hitting UK Streets for Testing
Well folks, it's happening: Driverless car trials have begun in the UK. Denizens of the test neighborhoods of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire and Greenwich in London can see the electric, hackless...
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This Combination Treadmill-Bicycle is a Lot Cooler Than It Sounds
Bruin Bergmeester earns his living the same way many of us do, these days: Sitting on his ass. To counteract his sedentary office lifestyle, he bought himself a treadmill to exercise with at home. But...
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Flat Touchscreens with Physical Buttons that Magically Grow Out of Them
We were excited when we first heard about Tactus Technology, a company that created a way for physical buttons to morph up out of a touchscreen. But it was nearly three years ago when we first...
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Test Tubes: Piet Hein Eek on the Making of His Sleek New Clocks and Speaker...
This is the latest installment of In the Details, our weekly deep-dive into the making of a new product or project. Last week, we watched SO–IL shrink-wrap Storefront.While Piet Hein Eek has made a...
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Raising the Bar: Because We Can's Fantastic Social Space for the Long Now...
The Long Now Foundation is not your typical nonprofit. Formed "to creatively foster long-term thinking in the context of the next 10,000 years," they undertake unusual projects like building a...
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Cool Photos Showing What Happens When Balloons Freeze
When I took the dogs out this morning here in NYC, the "realfeel" temperature was negative-8 degrees Fahrenheit (-22 Celsius). In other words it's cold. Fitting, then, that I just came across these...
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Designing The Moment Case: The Good, the Bad, and the Work Most People...
Images Courtesy of The Moment Case. Story by Erik Hedberg.If you asked Erik to describe himself, designer would come after "snow surfer." A native of the Pacific Northwest, his two biggest fears as a...
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Interview: Johan Liden on the Value of the Core77 Design Awards
Johan Liden is the co-founder of aruliden, a progressive brand strategy and product design agency that bridges the gap between marketing and design through their process of producting (trademarked and...
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In the Studio with Frackenpohl Poulheim and the Making of the New BeoSound...
On a cold sunny day in January, I make my way to the south of Cologne to visit Andre Poulheim and Thorsten Frackenpohl in their studio.I have come to sneak a peek at the studio's latest project, the...
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"Missouri Farm Boy"-Turned-DOT-Engineer Invents a Better Snow-Clearing Vehicle
As we saw in the rooftop snow removal post, getting rid of the white stuff provides unique design challenges for individual snow-clearers. And those challenges grow exponentially when spread over the...
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Gadi Amit on Assimilating Technology Into Society and His Favorite...
This is the latest installment of our Core77 Questionnaire. Previously, we talked to Constance Guisset.Name:Gadi AmitOccupation: I call myself today a “technology designer.”Location: San...
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