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Seattle Artist Creates Sidewalk Messages That Only Appear When It Rains
Remember Green Street Media's no-spraypaint-necessary sidewalk advertising? To refresh your memory, the UK-based firm exploited the filthy nature of sidewalks by placing a stencil over them and...
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Who Knows More About Working Wood, Furniture Designers or Shipwrights?
To some, four years of design school sounds like a long time. But in the story of "The Accidental Designer," we learned that Tom Sullivan became a successful designer/builder after spending eight years...
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The Final Deadline for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards Really is the Final...
Here we are! Counting down the final four days until the entries close for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards program. If you haven't entered your best work yet, you only have this weekend, Monday and part...
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Industrial Designer Explains Production Methods Shown in Apple Watch...
When your average consumer watches any of Apple's "how it's made" videos, they likely have no idea what they're seeing. But even first-year ID students, when shown a cutting head pivoting precisely...
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Shwood Turns Newspaper into Veneer
The folks over at eyeglasses manufacturer Shwood have managed to turn newspaper into veneer. It's more of a manufacturing exercise than a practical way to recycle, but what's interesting is the way...
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Win It at the Last Minute! Only 36 Hours Left to Enter the Core77 Design Awards
There is only a little less than a day and a half left to get your submissions in before entries for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards close. If you are putting the finishing touches on your submission,...
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Making a MacBook Air–Inspired Luxury Toilet Seat
In an era where every design studio aches to create enduring products described as "classic" and "iconic," New York's Pinkhouse diverges from the pack, opting instead for seasonal sprints. The recent...
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You Can Now Buy a Brand-New Ford Mustang—with the 1965 Body!
Years ago on The Tonight Show, Kevin Pollak told car nut Jay Leno that Detroit should build the '57 Chevy again. "They must still have the plans sitting on a shelf somewhere," he said. "Dust them off...
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Buster Bulbs Breathe Much-Needed Design into LEDs
NYC's bars and restaurants currently suffer from an aesthetic issue we call "Edison bulb overload." We get it, it's cool that you can see the filament. But how long can this nostalgia-driven trend...
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Did You Enter the Core77 Design Awards Yet? Only 9 Hours Left!
Remember when we said that the Final Deadline really is the FINAL Deadline for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards? We definitely were NOT kidding about that. The time to enter or finish and submit your...
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Shop-Vacs Versus Wasp Nests
The brave can kill a single wasp with a flip-flop or a rolled-up copy of Time. But only the foolish go after an entire nest this way. The central "design problem" with eradicating a wasp nest is that...
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Designing a Solution to Stop Drunks from Falling Off of Subway Platforms
If you were asked to design a preventative solution to people falling onto subway tracks, where would you start? I imagine most folks would focus on the platform's edge, perhaps adding safety rails...
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The Aesthetics of the Autonomous
It's been over half a century since GM began offering visions of a driverless car. From their experiments in radio-controlled highways to the atomic chic of the Firebird IV concept car, GM's Futurama...
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Women's Workwear: New Arrivals at Hand-Eye Supply
Traditionally, workwear has needed to be tough and protective first and foremost. But nowadays workers are faced with more varied challenges than just durability. This spring at Hand-Eye Supply we're...
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HERO: Rethinking the Smartphone Keyboard
Industrial designer and UX specialist Corey Stone makes an excellent point: The QWERTY keyboard was designed in 1873 for typewriters, so it is absurd that we have grafted them onto smartphones. And...
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A More Dangerous Saw-Based Way to Travel Across Ice
A couple weeks ago we showed you Clayton Will's DIY ice boat, which is driven via saw blade. It's a surprisingly effective form of locomotion, but the central design flaw is that there's no way for you...
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Testing Fog Linen Workwear with Designer Anna Joyce
Our new Fog Linen work shirts are in, and we're thrilled to start sharing them! To see how they look on workers in the wild, we visited the beautiful studio of Anna Joyce. Anna is a prolific painter,...
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Flotspotting: Leatherman Industrial Designer Kenny Lohr's Multi-Tool Renderings
Later this year Leatherman will be releasing the Signal, a multi-tool specifically aimed at the outdoorsman/outdoorswoman. After interviewing survivalists, campers, hikers, hunters and fishers, the...
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You're Invited: A Short History of the First 20 Years of Core77
It was twenty years ago today… actually it was twenty years ago last month that Core77 first came online. A lot has changed online and offline since 1995, and through it all Core77 has continuously...
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Grow: Fantastic Modular Shelving for Vinyl and More
As a professional organizer, I've know a number of people who are very attached to their vinyl collections. And I also know that there are very few nice storage options for those LPs, especially ones...
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