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...
View ArticleThis "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,...
View Article4 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,...
View ArticleMatthias 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...
View ArticleEx-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:...
View ArticleObscure 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOrganizing 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleTexture 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...
View ArticlePhoto 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...
View ArticleSnowpeak'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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleTransforming 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWard 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...
View ArticleWatch 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...
View ArticleVideo 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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