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This Beehive Design Produces Honey on Tap!

With industry endorsements like "F%#$ That's the Holy Grail of Beekeeping," you know these guys are onto something.Stuart and Cedar Anderson are apiarists—that's a fancy word for "beekeepers"—that have...

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Fresh In: Le Laboureur Farm Coats

Cool old gear, new at Hand-Eye Supply! These distinguished jackets from Le Laboureur bring a potent blend of features and backstory. Le Laboureur has been making traditional French workwear since the...

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Bookniture Looks an Awful Lot Like Molo's Softseating. What Say You?

In the 1992 action movie Under Siege, Steven Seagal plays a kick-ass-type hero who must disable the terrorists he's trapped on a ship with. Reviewing the movie that year on SNL, comedian David Spade...

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The Forced Finger Project: Can A Machine Help You Sketch Like a Pro?

If the early days of your time at design school were anything like mine, you probably look back fondly (maybe a bit too rose-tintedly) on simpler days of 'getting back to basics' with hour after hour...

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Is This Crazy Machine How Spiral Turnings Were Produced in the 18th Century?

Lead image courtesy of Kim Vedros, who also created the work in the image.YouTube is great for seeing how things were made, as long as you're not going further back than the 20th Century. For...

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RISD Welcomes a New President

Photo by Jo Sittenfeld / RISDToday the Rhode Island School of Design announced the appointment of their 17th president, Rosanne Somerson. Somerson has played a role at the institution for almost 40...

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Café ArtScience Offers Inhalable Scotch, Ice Cream with Skin, and Smelephony

Harvard professor David A. Edwards is a biomedical engineer whose medical research has made him a rich man. With a need to make profit no longer a pressing concern, he is now free to engage in his...

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Snow-Melting, No-Shovel Sidewalks and Driveways Sound Amazing

Yesterday in snowy Manhattan I fell on the sidewalk, like some kind of freaking invalid. Half of the sidewalk was covered in that blue-colored chemical salt. Since that burns my dogs' paws, I was...

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See Inside a Restored 100-Year-Old Antarctic Exploration Base

A decade ago, the New-Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust took on a rather challenging project: To restore four Antarctic explorer's huts built nearly a century earlier. Utilized by British...

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FLINT Studio Tools' Dial Caliper

I've wanted to switch to Metric for years. It's clearly superior to Imperial: You try quickly calculating the midpoint of 15 13/16" versus the midpoint of 402mm. Or drill a hole with a 7/32" bit and...

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Photoshop Turns 25 Years Old Today

In the past 25 years, nothing has affected our perception of images more than Adobe Photoshop. By allowing users to adjust, fix, tweak and wholly invent images, the software has worked its way into our...

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Organizing the Bathroom: 13 Designs for Taming the Towels

Many people discover their homes lack sufficient places to hang the towels which are in use. They may decide to add hooks or some basic towel bars and towel rings—but designers have provided these...

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Bondic: Handheld Plastic Welder for Micro-Repairs

One possession I use the crap out of are these Bose noise-canceling headphones. Over a year ago the cable began to fray near the minijack prong, and here you see my inelegant solution:That's your...

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New Lights In The Dark: LlumBCN 2015

Though the dark days of winter are hardly over, Barcelona recently celebrated a festival of light. As part of the International Year of Light and in conjunction with the annual celebration of the...

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Apple Reportedly Working on an Electric Car

It's been said that Steve Jobs' greatest invention was not any of his company's signature devices, but the company itself. Before his passing in 2011, he had essentially built an incredibly...

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The Little Robot That Keeps Time On Your Whiteboard

We've all been there. Just one all-nighter too many—holed-up in a sticky note littered and whiteboard marker covered 'war room'—and a normally diligent calm, collected and competent design professional...

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Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art Announces Redesign

This morning, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art shared some big news—to the tune of $64 million dollars—with the public and Core77 was there to take some (sketch)notes.

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The Auto Icon Screen Prints Series

It's always interesting to see folks using design skills to earn a living in ways not directly related to their original field. A good case in point is Jerome Daksiewicz, an architect/designer who...

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Blowing Glass Into High-Performance Pillowcases, or How Bocci Created Its...

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 talked Tube Clocks with Piet Hein Eek.For Omer Arbel, design never...

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Theory that Gearshift Lever's Design Contributed to Horrific Accident

A New York newspaper is looking at the design of a Mercedes gearshift lever as the potential cause of a horrific car-and-train collision earlier this month. On February 3rd, 49-year-old Ellen Brody's...

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