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Hell in a Handbasket: The Real Problem with the "White or Blue?" Dress
Yesterday's viral internet event quickly went from neat to depressing. For those who stayed away from a computer yesterday, this Tumblr photo of a dress went viral as people began to realize: Some of...
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Empathetic 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,...
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Hell in a Handbasket: The Real Problem with the "White or Blue?" Dress
Yesterday's viral internet event quickly went from neat to depressing. For those who stayed away from a computer yesterday, this Tumblr photo of a dress went viral as people began to realize: Some of...
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The World's Most Beautiful Staircase is in Portugal
Inside what may be the prettiest bookstore in the world……is what has got to be one of the world's most beautiful staircases.Not impressed? Look at it from this angle:The bookstore's name is Livraria...
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Making It Count
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 deconstructed a cloudlike pendant light.Startup culture may be good for...
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Welcome to the Core77 Tech-tacular!
Illustration by Kelsey Dake for Core77.With the January rush of CES and NAIAS behind us and SxSWi just a few weeks away, this is the time to reflect on the state of design and technology. Oftentimes,...
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Introducing 'Tech Specs,' Our Interview Series on Designers' Digital Tools
In Core77’s 2015 Tech-tacular—launching today!—we’ll be reviewing some of the latest software offerings for industrial designers, as well as considering the wider implications of wearables, autonomous...
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Tech Specs: Thomas Murray, Senior Industrial Designer at Bresslergroup
This is the first of our ten Tech Specs interviews. Read the series introduction here.Name: Thomas MurrayJob title: Senior Industrial Designer at Bresslergroup in Philadelphia (and industrial design...
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Embracing the Wild World of Wearables
There’s something about the current design buzzword, “wearables,” that is spectacularly mesmerizing. As a tech nerd, I’ve seen it coming for some time, and have been intrigued to see its recent...
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The Sweater Stone, Patagonia, Product Longevity, and How to Keep Customers...
"Sustainability" is a popular buzzword, but I think we should also consider "longevity." When a company has sustainable practices but you must re-buy their products every few years, it seems obvious...
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Jenny Nordberg's Five-Minute Furniture
In design and in building, we all know that speed is bad. Particularly where power tools are concerned. I don't know if any of you have been watching Spike TV's "Framework," but if so, was anything...
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Design for All Life
By Prasad Boradkar, Co-Director of the Biomimicry Institute, Arizona State UniversityIt was sixty years ago that pioneering industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss first introduced us to Joe and Josephine...
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Tech Specs: Paul Hoppe, Art Director at Local Projects
This is the second of our ten Tech Specs interviews. Previously, we talked to Bresslergroup's Thomas Murray.Name: Paul HoppeJob title: Art director at Local Projects, a New York–based media design firm...
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Tools That Change the Way We Design & Build: The Festool Domino
For our Tech-Tacular Design & Technology special, we sought out game-changing power tools: Ones of such unique utility and intelligent design that the capabilities of the tool itself actually...
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How Ikea is Managing Their Natural Wood Push
Ikea recently launched their NORNÄS line, "a modern collection in raw, untreated, high-quality pine from slow-growing forests in Northern Sweden." When they announced it earlier this year it was a bit...
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Core77 Techtacular Forum Frenzy: Automation Arguments
A controversial tech topic showed back up in the forums over the last year: the onward march of automating design. With the steady progress towards smarter programs and ever greater computing power,...
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Hackaball: A Toy for 21st Century Launched on Kickstarter
We've had an eye on the "Hackaball" project by London based agency Made by Many since we heard wind early last year. What started out as a brief for two talented incoming interns, slowly grew legs and...
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The Real Smart City
The Smart City is a huge, vague and ubiquitous idea. The phrase—so insistent yet so slippery—suggests a way we can understand how cities work and how we might get them to work better. But deep down it...
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Tech Specs: Ladies & Gentlemen Studio
This is the third of our ten Tech Specs interviews. Previously, we talked to Local Projects' Paul Hoppe.Names: Dylan Davis and Jean LeeJob title: Founders of Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, a...
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Tools That Change the Way We Design & Build: Jory Brigham on the Festool...
In our Introduction to the Festool Domino piece, we discussed the tool's design and listed some examples of the public response to it. But in this piece, we wanted to do a deep-dive with an experienced...
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