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American Over-Engineering FTW: The Macpod Gooper Scooper
Jeffrey Nelson runs Maryland-based Macpod LLC, which does software, electronics design and hardware prototyping. It being a small operation--I suspect maybe even a one-man shop--Nelson's got a...
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How to Create the Perfect Core77 Design Awards Entry
Did you know that the regular deadline for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards is this Tuesday, at 9pm Eastern? That means you only have this weekend, Monday and part of Tuesday to enter your designs before...
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An Historic Reopening For Portland's Oldest Art School
This week a single grand opening ushered in a new life for two Portland, OR institutions. The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) opened the doors of its new home in the beautifully restored and...
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Guns, Plastic and Baroque Furniture
Looking around your home or office—or anywhere, really—it's extraordinarily likely that you posses something constructed of a plastic polymer. This item was most likely pumped out by the hundreds of...
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Mike Basich Goes Off-Grid in Style
At his peak, professional snowboarder Mike Basich was clocking $170,000 a year, enough to get himself into a 4,000-square-foot house he ultimately discovered he didn't need. Now retired from...
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Nendo's Innovative Suitcase Re-design
The last time we looked at a suitcase redesign, it proved to be a smash success: The Trunkster was seeking $50,000 in crowdsourced funding and netted nearly $1.4 million. There is an opportunity for...
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Can a Huge Tabletop Tablet Bring Families Together Again?
My local coffeeshops are all filled with people, none of them talking to each other; they're all staring into individual smartphones, tablets or laptop screens. Screens are items for individuals, not...
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For Microapartments and Tiny Houses, a Multifunctional Kitchen Sink
As microapartments and tiny houses continue to trend, we've seen all manner of beds that fold out and furniture that transforms into something else. But one area we've seen that hasn't received much...
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Ineke Hans on Designing Products That Are Clean, Clear and Clever
Name:Ineke HansOccupation: Industrial designerLocation: Arnhem, the NetherlandsCurrent projects: We recently launched two new products: the Drawer Table for the Dutch brand Arco, and the Aline bar...
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Holy Cow: OK Go Does a Commercial for a Chinese Furniture Brand
Content guidelines be damned, we always feel compelled to post OK Go's music videos because they're just so damned creative. So when we heard they were doing a commercial for Chinese furniture brand...
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Tonight at Curiosity Club: Michael Madigan of KitchenCru
Tonight at Hand-Eye Supply's Curiosity Club we're thrilled to feature Michael Madigan, a local heavyweight in the conscientious food community! He will give the talk "Remastering The Basics: Getting...
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Magnificent Fortress in Normandy Transforms Into an Island Every 18 Years
This is Le Mont Saint-Michel, a monastery in Normandy that's over 1,200 years old. The interior looks like something out of Game of Thrones.Though now connected to the mainland via erosion, this was...
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LiquiGlide No-Stick Bottle Coating is Finally Happening
Consumer Reports once tested various bottles to see how much product is actually left when we consider it "empty." The results were shocking: Up to 13% of toothpaste, 15% of condiments, 16% of...
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If You Missed the Regular Deadline, Don't Worry. There's Still Time to Enter...
We get it. Things happen. Work piles up. Free time gets stolen by unexpected occasions and visitors. If, for whatever reason, you didn't catch the Regular Deadline for the Core77 Design Awards...
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Kick-Ass TIE Fighter Short Animation
G-Force and Robotech were revolutionary in the animation world, and mind-blowing to those of us raised in the '70s and '80s. Well before CG, the "camera" in those shows could do things we'd never seen...
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Frank Howarth's Self-Assembling Table Saw
For those of you that own table saws, have you ever had to take yours apart? I'm not talking about swapping out the blade, I mean actually getting inside the machine and removing parts to perform...
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How to Make a Plastic Mallet—Using Milk Jugs and a Toaster Oven
Maker Peter Brown wanted a plastic mallet, but rather than buy one, decided to make one himself—using whatever he had lying around, no plastic-handling equipment in sight. Which means, maniac that...
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A History of the Arcade and the Arcade Goer
In 1867, Victor Fournel published a work in which he described the flâneur as (translated roughly) the image of the public, of the city, the antipathies and admirations of the crowd, public esprit;...
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This Man Designs and Makes a New Spoon Every Day
Which do you think is trickier: Dreaming up a form for an entirely new sort of object, or re-imagining an established form factor? Industrial designer Stian Korntved Ruud recently undertook a massive...
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Organizing with Desktop Files
Desktop file holders work well for quick and easy access to the files a user needs most often—usually active files for bills, work in progress, etc. They also allow a user to work almost anywhere in...
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