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Six Things Every Aspiring Designer-Founder Needs to Know.
After speaking at the Pioneers Festival we had the good fortune of catching up with Ethan Imboden— vibrator visionary of JimmyJane infamy and now design guru to Bay-Area start-ups and Silicon Valley...
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Why are Electric Pencil Sharpeners Made in the '80s Better than New Ones?
After graduating design school and finding work as a CAD jockey, I donated all of my studio materials to a young design student who needed them. Berol Prismacolors, Koh-i-Noor Rapidographs, circle and...
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2015 Core77 Design Awards: Eye Candy
While every entry proved their merit in one capacity or another, some honorees distinguished themselves further due to the ineffable 'wow' factor. These were projects that, through cleverness,...
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A Tool in Need of Design: Fish Scalers
People often say "There's more than one way to skin a cat," but no one ever talks about how many ways there are to scale a fish. And in general, when there's a lot of different ways to do something, in...
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Core77 Visits Festool, Part 4: Their Design Process
Who the Tools are Aimed atHere we'll get a chance to look at Festool's design process. It makes the most sense when you understand whom they're designing for. "Our main target are professional users of...
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Theory that American Lifestyle has Changed the Shape of our Spines
It's enough to make a furniture designer despair: What if you can't design a truly ergonomic chair, because the people sitting in it have hopeless posture on a spinal level?According to NPR,...
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2015 Core77 Design Awards: Designers Doing Good
We tip our hats to the designers driven by the belief that altruism hasn't gone out of style! When others go after the shiny, new and stylish, these designers seek positive impact—whether social,...
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Accessories Alert: 14 Organizing Solutions for Jewelry
Many people I work with as a professional organizer are very visual; they tend to forget about things that aren't out on display. When it comes to jewelry, they are willing to have it get a bit dusty...
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Exciting New Air Travel Proposal to Make Us All Buy Smaller Carry-On Bags!
Airlines excel at making the travel experience unpleasant, but lately they've slowed down on innovating with ways to make it even worse. Thankfully, the International Air Transportation Authority is...
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Core77 Visits Festool, Part 5: Q&A with Festool Industrial Designer Timo...
During the Conturo presentation at Festool HQ, product manager Wolfgang Reines led the talk. Assisting with the presentation was Timo Kuhls, who is not only a Festool industrial designer—he's Festool's...
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How NYPD Badges are Made
With any luck, you'll never see a police badge up close. And even if one is flashed in your face, afterwards as you're sitting on the curb wearing zip-ties you probably won't be thinking "Gee, I wonder...
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Adventures in Laser Kerf Bending…Steel
Judging by the traffic it looks like you, our readership, like reading about bending wood. Whether it's the plastic bag method, the hot-pipe method or the laser method.Speaking of that last one, an...
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Re-thinking Record Players: Pro-Ject Audio's Minimalist Form Factors
When we saw this photo, we thought we missed something in our History of Braun Products series. This minimalist turntable certainly looks like their handiwork:But nope, that's the Essential II model...
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Clever Tool Design: Wiha's Hex Key Set with a Surprise
The German manufacturer Wiha brings some seriously kick-ass innovation to modern-day users of hand tools. If you don't believe us, check out their stuff that we saw at Holz-Handwerk last year.Here's...
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Who Knew? New York City Has a Floating Prison
Most people know that New York City has its own little Alcatraz, called Riker's Island. But few know that there's another prison in the East River, this one floating next to the new Fulton Fish market...
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Core77 Visits Festool, Part 6: Behind the Scenes with Their Testing &...
In the design process post we saw what goes into the development of a new Festool power tool, over at the company HQ in Wendlingen. But once the designers and engineers have the tool off of their desks...
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The Role Cars Actually Play in Our Lives
Car commercials are always about their vehicles' mechanical prowess, showing it zip along deserted country lanes or mysteriously empty cities. The car is always the star. But over the weekend Toyota...
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Toys of the Future: Vai Kai Launches a Connected Device for Kids
Nearly two decades ago, Marc Prensky perfectly defined that awkward feeling of explaining how to use an iPad to your grandparents by coining the terms 'digital native' and 'digital immigrant.' Having...
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CEO Dramatically Proves His Company's Armored Cars are Bulletproof
Texas Armoring Corporation has released provocative videos before. After a much-publicized event where a man was dragged out of his car and publicly beaten in NYC, TAC released a video of their...
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2015 Core77 Design Awards: Category Spanning Projects
Several of the entries this year successfully addressed needs and criteria across multiple categories, and were rewarded with recognition from two or more panels of judges. These are the entries that...
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