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Bringing Solar Power to Stained-Glass Windows

Marjan van Aubel began her love affair with energy-harvesting technologies while studying product design at London's Royal College of Art in 2012. During her studies, the Dutch designer created a...

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This "Throw and Shoot" Camera is Like a Flying GoPro That Follows You

GoPro's variety of harnesses let you mount their cameras to your head, chest or even your dog. But a new company has developed a flying camera that you needn't wear at all. You simply throw the Lily,...

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4 Examples of How Cradle to Cradle Fosters Product Design Innovation 

Stemming from the belief that revolution starts with designers, Autodesk partnered with The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute for a new kind of competition. The Product Design Challenge,...

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Matthias Pliessnig's Gorgeous Bentwood Benches are Growing

We've covered Matthias Pliessnig's excellent bentwood work since the early days of Core77, and it was impossible to miss his canoe at Design Week two years ago. What we didn't realize is just how large...

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Ex-Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker Designs an Ergonomic Workbench

Dan Spitz was Anthrax's co-founder and lead guitarist since the early '80s, and when he quit in 1995, it was a bit of a shock. Seen from afar, his actions could have been misinterpreted as a meltdown:...

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Obscure Design Classics: Angelo Mangiarotti's Maritime Table Clock

Any designer among us would be lucky to have one of our objects still in production some 60 years later. Angelo Mangiarotti's beautiful Maritime Table Clock was designed in 1956 and can be purchased...

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The Mid-Century Car Design Documentary We Were Never Meant to See

Hollywood is famous for optioning things they'll never make into movies. They buy rights to stories to keep them away from competing studios, and once they don't get greenlit, the concepts are...

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Organizing Tools for Vinyl Fans and Book Lovers

Anyone who's been in a record store knows the look: numerous bins of LPs with dividers to help customers find the records they want. Book lovers have seen shelf labels and dividers in libraries and...

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The LaSquare: A Large And Luscious... Combo Square! 

You know the pain of using a tool that just isn'tquite what it should be. Robert LaGesse is just like us except, as a skilled machinist, he refused to leave his "there's got to be a better way" idea on...

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A Preview of Tribeca Design District

Those of you visiting for NYCxDesign may have noticed, as New Yorkers surely have, that iOS autocorrects "tribeca" to the rather more awkward "TriBeCa"; neither abbreviation nor portmanteau, the...

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Texture Mapping in Real Life

Hydrographic printing, a/k/a "dip coating" or "camo dipping," is a neat way to get complicated graphics onto complicated objects. It doesn't work well with undercuts, but as we showed you here, if you...

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Photo Showdown: Classic Car Designs Versus Their Redesigns

Automotive engineering objectively improves each year, with cars inarguably getting faster, safer, and more efficient. But can we say that something as subjective as the design has improved? Have our...

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Snowpeak's Folding Cutting Boards

For as long as I've been seeing these things, they're consistently sold out. But for those of you lucky enough to score one, Snowpeak's Folding Cutting Boards seem a good way to transport a knife and...

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Apple Releases Apple Watch CAD Drawings

For those of you looking to create watchbands or cases for the Apple Watch, they've released the CAD drawings for both the 38mm and 42mm versions. And boy they are a doozy.They're filled with...

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Why Designers Should Shift the Vocabulary from Objects to Ecologies

It's likely that NYCxDesign visitors will soon experience sensorial exhaustion from the deluge of beautiful designs filling New York. This atmosphere sets a perfect background for Bruce Mau's...

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Transforming NASA Imagery Into an Otherworldly Wallpaper Line

Previously associated with your grandmother's living room or that one scene from Garden State, wallpaper has been making a decorating resurgence these past few years. Leading the charge have been...

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The Phree Lets You Write Off-Screen, Beams Your Marks On-Screen

Using a stylus to write on a smartphone is not a very ergonomic experience. Even for me, someone used to jotting things down on a notepad cub-reporter-style, it just feels off.Realizing this, an...

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Ward Bennett: Making Sense

Some designers are inextricably linked with a moment in time. Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles and Ray Eames helped define the mid-century modern era. The Memphis Group created the aesthetic now...

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Watch This Kid Forge Old Drill Bits into Super-Sharp Whittling Knives

He's only fifteen years old, but the unnamed British teen behind the Art of Weapons YouTube channel already has 100-plus videos posted. Though loosely based around creating knives and projectile-firing...

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Video of Kids Trying to Figure Out How to Dial a Number, and Send Text...

First off, this video making the social media rounds is giving folks a quick chuckle:As you can see, it's a kid apparently bewildered by seeing a payphone for the first time. From a designer's...

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