Modern-Day Indiana Jones' Unusual Home Library Design
As Washington Life Magazine reports, Wade Davis (not the NFL player) "has one of the most coveted jobs in America—Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society." This modern-day Indiana...
View ArticleThe Early Bird Deadline for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards is Next Week!
What's better than having your ingenious designs recognized by a jury of international design experts? How about saving 20% on the entry fee that put your work in front of that jury in the first place....
View ArticleMariana Amatullo on 5 Things We Know About Social Innovation
Image above from the Safe Agua project courtesy of Designmatters.As part of an ongoing interview series on the Autodesk Foundation's new blog, ImpactDesignHub.org, Allan Chochinov, Editor at Large of...
View ArticleTonight at the Curiosity Club: Joshua Berger of Plazm Magazine
Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club, Designer and Art Director Joshua Berger of Plazm magazine recounts his ongoing recovery from a traumatic brain injury incurred on a routine bike...
View ArticleShannon Rogers Recreates Roubo Device to Demonstrate Old-School Resawing
When a furniture builder needs to resaw a thick slab of wood into thinner boards, the go-to tool is typically the bandsaw. But what did folks do before power tools and electricity?Woodworker Shannon...
View ArticleEmpathetic Design: A UMich Charette On Ebola
A recent 3-day design charette hosted by University of Michigan's Stamps School pitted students against one of the trickiest global issues in years: Ebola. The multi-disciplinary teams from design,...
View ArticleFarm & Field Lockback Pocket Knives
Sometimes super practical tools come in super cool packages. The Farm & Field Lockback pocket knife is a well-built, medium-sized, versatile knife with style that cuts deep. Traditionally used for...
View ArticleSteffen Kehrle's Toothy Adjustable Shelves
Steffen Kehrle is the Munich-based designer whose beautiful TRAY we showed you earlier. He's got some other tricks up his sleeve when it comes to cutting wood at angles—peep his pretty, adjustable...
View ArticleThinking Outside the Cardboard Box: DODOcase Brings Customizable VR to the...
Virtual Reality until very recently was relegated to the ultra-nerdy. Dwelling primarily in the realm of sci-fi, gaming culture or the recent onslaught of 3D-blockbuster movies. With today's technology...
View ArticleLook Inside an Elite Cyberwarrior's Surprisingly Designed Base of Operations
As the founder of Counter Hack Challenges, Ed Skoudis describes himself as an "InfoSec Geek," which means "information security expert" to us civilians. Skoudis trains cyber warriors in the finer...
View ArticleEx-Sheriff Invents a Bullet-Dampening Device
In science fiction, people can set their laser guns to "Stun." With a flick of a switch, Captain Kirk can opt to fire nonlethal rounds.Real-life police have no such option. While beanbag guns exist,...
View ArticleNatural Disaster Prompts Charleston to Create School for Rare Building Arts
When your boiler breaks, you call a plumber. Damaged staircase, you call a carpenter. But who do you call when a Category 4 hurricane rips the roof off of your 18th-Century historical buildings?That...
View ArticleAmerica's Failed 1979 Supertrain
On February 7th, 1979, thousands of Americans were introduced to the Supertrain, which ran from New York to Los Angeles. Nuclear-powered, the super-wide-bodied train topped out at 190 miles per hour...
View ArticleClever Design/Build Techniques: Using Sprung Wood as a Latching Mechanism
When any of us use wood as a building material, whether in structures or furniture, we typically do so because of its rigidity. We spend time designing our pieces and joinery in such a way as to...
View ArticleDesign Indaba 2015: Three Blue Sky Student Projects Worth Exploring
Design Indaba 2015 kicked off today with an exceptional roster of speakers spanning the worlds of advertising, digital design, furniture and interactive art, but the blue sky thinking from a group of...
View ArticleOrganizing the Toys: 11 Designs for Boxes and Bins
Children often have lots of toys, and those toys need a place to go when not in use. A toy box can work well for larger items (costumes, large toy trucks, large stuffed animals, etc.) while smaller...
View ArticleWeb Series for High Schoolers Choosing Future Careers Looks at Industrial Design
Major Decision is the name of a web series aimed at high schoolers figuring out what to pursue as a career. The show's two co-hosts meet with practitioners from a variety of fields—banker, lawyer,...
View ArticleHi-Tech Headlights and Taillights
File this first one under wildly impractical but mind-blowingly cool. Audi's "OLED Swarm" concept wraps a super-thin layer of OLEDs—we're talking sub-millimeter—across a curved glass surface,...
View ArticleTom Sachs' Updated "Love Letter to Plywood"
It was two years ago that we first showed you Tom Sachs' "Love Letter to Plywood" video, and we didn't realize he'd since updated it. The video is part of his "Energies & Skills" series on studio...
View ArticleThe "Shotgun Balloon Drop:" Thrill Seeker Hoisted 8,000 Feet High, Blasts His...
When did climbing to the top of a very tall structure, then BASE jumping off of it, become no longer enough?I wonder if people always did crazy stuff like this, and there was just no such thing as a...
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