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A DIY Immersive Viewing Experience from Japan
Do you crave the movie theater experience of yore, when you could watch a movie in pitch blackness, undisturbed by ill-behaved fellow viewers? These days, between the seat-kickers, loud-talkers and...
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2015 Core77 Design Awards: Impressive Student Works
This year, we frequently heard juries remark about how impressive the student entries were. Speculative leaps often take place in the protective environment of school studios and this year we certainly...
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The EggBot: A CNC Plotter That Can Draw on Eggs, Lightbulbs, Golf Balls and...
Like his Sisyphus machine, Bruce Shapiro's EggBot also harnesses the science of motion control for the purpose of creating art. But the latter machine's "canvas" is a lot smaller, and potentially more...
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2015 Core77 Design Awards: Meet the Furniture & Lighting Honorees
We received many entries in response to our call for "furniture and lighting products or systems for private, public, commercial or industrial use." The jury evaluated each entry by asking a series of...
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2015 Core77 Design Awards: Meet the Design Education Initiatives Honorees
Sometimes learning takes place in a classroom and sometimes it grabs us by surprise in the course of our daily lives. One thing is for sure: education is best when it doesn't stop. It's increasingly...
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2015 Core77 Design Awards: Meet the Visual Communication Honorees
In our world, we are constantly exposed to—if not bombarded by—signs and images that aim to tell us something. Visual Communications is a field of design that aims to give shape and context to the...
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Steam Tackles User Interface Design for Gaming
Digital gaming distributor Steam is expanding into physical hardware. The company reckons they know gamers—one estimate has it that 75% of games downloaded for the PC are through Steam—and will have a...
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Applying Industrial Design to Hubless Cat Wheels
People really will spend anything on their pets. Take the GoPet Tread Wheel:That'll run you $524 for the small size up to $1,260 for the large size. It's pricey and rather unattractive.A competing...
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Core77 Visits Festool, Part 2: A History of Power Tool Innovation
"We have a large number of customers," says Ole Held, CEO of Festool USA, "going absolutely crazy about Festool. And they want to know everything about the products." I hope the folks he's referring to...
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Home Sweet IoT Home: Casa Jasmina Opens its Doors to the Public
Casa Jasmina threw open its (presumably) internet-connected doors on Saturday to welcome the public for the first time into the two-year pilot project in Torino, Italy. A collaborative effort curated...
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2015 Core77 Design Awards: Forward-Looking Designs
An element of envisioning the future is inherently part of the design process. This forward-thinking spirit was a component of many of the entries we received this year. Several designers avoided...
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Creatively Safe: Collective Caution Modern Safety Posters
If you've taken a science or workshop class any time between now and 1935, you're probably plenty familiar with safety posters. We wanted to update our favorite vintage morbidity warnings with a...
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Block Party
Attendees of last month's Sight Unseen OFFSITE exhibition during New York Design Week may have found themselves transported back to an easier time, one filled with colorful blocks for building and...
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Wanted Design 2015 Schools Workshop
This year's Design Schools Workshop, held annually at WantedDesign, focused on the theme, "Design Forever." Conducted by Sebastian Ocampo and Moises Hernandez of Centro Mexico, participating Schools...
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Core77 Visits Festool, Part 3: The Thinking that Drives the Company
When a company has the right type of ethos, their designs will stand out. We see this in companies like Apple, Dyson, Festool.In the power tool world, Festool's products are different from others'...
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Want to Win the Community Choice Prize? Here are 7 Ways to Get More Votes.
To all the 2015 Core77 Design Award honorees - Congratulations again! You must be beaming with pride knowing that your hard work was recognized by such an esteemed group of experts in your field. Now...
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Nanda Vigo, Space-Time Explorer
This is the third installment of our new Designing Women series. Previously, we profiled Marianne Brandt and Belle Kogan.Nanda Vigo's website is a great place to start a cosmic journey—UFOs streak...
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Robo-News: The DARPA Challenge Winner, Robots Collapsing From Emotional...
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals have been won by a robot named Dr. Chubo. Oh wait a sec, I read that wrong—it's actually called DRC-Hubo. Created by Team KAIST (the Korea Advanced Institute of...
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Factory Visit: Two of the German Factories Producing Parts for Nuimo
Editors Note: Teshia is a part of Berlin-based hardware startup Senic currently building their first product Nuimo.As countless hardware startups and design firms can tell you, there is a huge...
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Mando Footloose IM by Mark Sanders
Though it has been nearly three years since I first shared Mark Sanders' design for the Mando Footloose chainless hybrid e-bike on bicycledesign.net, that 2012 post still remains quite popular today....
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