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Design Store Moss Seized for Nonpayment of Taxes
Photo by Alan G. Brake. This is sure to send a wave through the design community: Moss, the influential design store and gallery located in New York's SoHo, has been seized by the State of New York...
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Synthetic Aesthetics Seminar - Form Follows Evolution, Function or Fashion?
As part of iGEM Championship Jamboree, the Internationally Genetically Engineered Machine competition run annually for undergraduate students to experiment with a kit of biological parts, the...
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Give Water: Teague's Campaign for Clean Water
In response to the impending water crisis, design firm Teague set out to help visualize domestic water use in an effort to identify opportunities to use less. Water bills may contain statistics on how...
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Building a better wall hook, with...concrete and light bulbs?
After breaking a series of coatracks, a Virginia-based tinkerer who goes by the handle Whamodyne needed to make some stronger wall hooks to hang his heavy winter gear from. His mounting solution was to...
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MIT is seeking a Professor of Urbanism in Cambridge, MA
Associate or Full Professor of UrbanismMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA The MIT School of Architecture and Planning is embarking on a vigorous path of expansion and assertion of...
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Influx: Meet the Makers Conference - New York, Dec. 3rd
Presenting a cross-section of innovators working in the creative industries, the sentiment behind the Influx: Meet the Makers Conference is close to our hearts. The one day event will take place at...
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If They Can Make it Here: T Profiles Six Young NY Design Firms
We wanted to make sure you didn't miss T Magazine's Design and Living Winter 2010 issue, especially "If They Can Make it Here," Monica Khemsurov's cover story "singling out half a dozen young...
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Daisuke Motogi's Lost in Sofa goes from lost-item graveyard to personal valet
Tokyo-based architect Daisuke Motogi acknowledges that things often get lost in couches, and allows sitters to take ownership of the phenomenon with his Lost in Sofa: Holds books, magazines, your cell...
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Bodykit bags: Shift styles as you shift gears
UK product development firm Special Agent introduces their own branded line of performance travel bags titled BodyKit. The series of bags offer transformational wearing styles allowing you to keep...
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Wanderfly: Improving the travel experience at the front end
Much has been made of improving the design of the travel experience, typically focusing on the actual transportation part; but when it comes to the planning phase of a leisure trip, user experience...
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Dogs on Design VI: Connecticut Country Dogs Live a Luxe Life with Design Duo
In this sixth and final entry in our series Dogs on Design, writer Sarah F. Cox visited Connecticut this summer to meet the two viszlas lucky enough to run around Winterhouse with Bill Drenttel and...
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CFLs, LEDs, now ESLs: Yet another lightbulb technology
Looks like we're getting spoiled for choice when it comes to replacements for the venerable incandescent lightbulb, which is due to be phased out in America by 2012. Following in the footsteps of...
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The (Dirty Little) Story of Electronics
The Story of Electronics animated film launched today. This is the latest film in the incredible Story of Stuff series (aka Cliff Notes for the armchair environmentalist), which includes the Story of...
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Designer Caz Hildebrand's book on the morphology of pasta
My favorite pasta is rigatoni, because I like the texture; it's ribbed for my pleasure, I like to say. The striations tend to hold the eggplant sauce I make for it far better than slippery penne....
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3D Printed Bespoke Booties
Marloes ten Bhömer is an experimental shoemaker who is exploring new possibilities in fabrication and fitting provided by 3D-printing. Rapidprototypedshoe, shown here, is breated through sintered...
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Lifejacket design competition, because no one wears 'em
A rectangle with a hole in it. It's hard to believe someone's designed those, isn't it? What isn't hard to believe is that boaters don't often wear lifejackets, largely, research indicates, because...
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Chance Walte of Fearless Guitars at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club on...
Core77's Hand-Eye Curiosity Club is pleased to host an evening with Chance Walte of Fearless Guitars. Chance is a seeker, questioner and tireless experimenter: for more than twenty years he has...
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How to cut foam: The dumb way, the expensive way, and the...
One of the things I neglected to mention in my banquette-building post was how to cut the foam. Having no money, I cut through five-inch-thick foam sections by making repeated swipes with a cheapie...
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Electrolytic Fluid Antenna replaces metal with jets of water
The U.S. Navy is reportedly experimenting with replacing their bristling shipside antennae arrays with another material: Salt water, shot up into a fountain. The Electrolytic Fluid Antenna, as it's...
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Stache Tags: Movember goes Twitter
The clever people at Blast Radius, in collaboration with UK illustrator and facial hair connoisseur Simon Cook of Made In England, have put together Stachetag.com (or alternatively Tachetag for the...
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