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A Frontier Cabin With Yard, Hidden on a Manhattan Rooftop
It's not difficult to picture the style of cabins that American frontiersmen once lived in. But it's difficult to imagine one in the middle of Manhattan up on the rooftop of a building. And this one's...
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2015 Core77 Design Awards: Inclusion
Many of the projects this year not only allowed for a great user experience, but also promoted an element of social interaction. The added notion of inclusion to the design concept made the scope of...
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A Fun "Eye Test" for Designers
Of all the silly web games out there, this one is actually fun for Pantone-familiar designers. iGame's Eye Test presents a grid of colors, giving you 15 seconds to click the one tile that's off by a...
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Be Heard! Community Choice Prize Voting Ends Tonight.
Have you seen all the amazing designs and ideas that were honored in the 2015 Core77 Design Awards yet? If not, take a moment to browse the honorees and appreciate all the thought, innovation and...
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ENGENDER: Design Interventions From SVA Products of Design
As part of NYCxDesign, the students of the MFA in Products of Design at the School of Visual Arts presented—or more appropriately, performed—Engender, a roving band of design interventions that were at...
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Curiosity Club Takes Hollywood... Theatre
The truth isn't always what it's cracked up to be, but even bad facts can crack you up. Today, Monday June 22, the Hand-Eye Supply takes over Portland's Hollywood Theatre to spill our honest guts on...
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Casting Furniture From Sugar, Salt, Coffee Grounds, Ice-Cream Sprinkles and More
When seeking out materials to build furniture, the first items that come to mind are probably not ice-cream sprinkles, coffee grounds and salt. For Fernando Mastrangelo, however, those materials—along...
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Teardown Reveals Beats Headphones Contain Metal Weights to Give Impression of...
Prototype Engineer Avery Louie tore down a pair of Beats headphones to see what makes them tick (or thump) and what he found inside is pretty sad. Amidst "generic drivers" and the cost-reducing tricks...
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Rethinking the Way Storage Furniture Opens and Closes
It may or may not be practical, but Sebastian Errazuriz's work re-thinks how storage furniture permits us access to their insides. Earlier we showed you his Samurai Cabinet, which brought a bit of...
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How a System-Based Product Design Changed Consumer Behavior and Reduced...
Since the days of the disposable razor, more than a few companies have taken a system-based approach to product design. In other words they create a product whose accessories are proprietary. Whereas...
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Lora Lamm, Exuberant Rationalist
This is the fourth installment of our new Designing Women series. Previously, we profiled Marianne Brandt, Belle Kogan and Nanda Vigo.The 1950s were a good time to be a Swiss graphic designer in Italy....
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This Electric Multitool Seems Tailor-Made for ID Students
Assuming design schools today still have you making models with your hands, the 3D Simo Mini seems like the perfect tool for the industrial design student. We used to constantly be cutting foam with...
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How the Tessei, Japan's Crack Cleaning Squads, Turn Bullet Trains Around in...
Being a New Yorker, the year I spent living in Japan was a shock because the country is so spotlessly clean. It's as clean as it is for three reasons, the first two being that average citizens pick up...
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Core77 Visits Festool
On the occasion of their 90th anniversary, German power tool manufacturer Festool invited a small group of journalists to a weeklong media event at their headquarters in southern Germany. As the sole...
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Human vs. Toaster: Proof That Peddle-Power Is Not the Next Sustainable Energy...
It's around this time of year that we catch the first glimpses of the next batch of remarkable design talent soon to be unleashed on to the world. It's also a time—reminiscing whilst pouring over...
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Selfless Design: Samsung's See-Through Safety Truck
Third brake lights and SUVs were not common when I learned to drive in the '80s. That meant two things: People stopping short wasn't as easy to quickly spot, and for the most part, all cars were on...
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More Laser Kerf Steel Bending: The HandBend Furniture Design System
In addition to Taglio Laser's square steel pipe bending method, France's HandBend Furniture is giving the method a go. The latter company aims to ship you their products flatpack, and have you bend...
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A Brilliant Design Feature that All Cordless Drills Should Have
For the latest installment of his tips-'n-tricks-in-the-shop series, master maker Jimmy DiResta kicks it off with a bang: He directly addresses the people who design cordless drills, tells them what...
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Beyond Function: 'Print Shop' by UM Project at the Museum of Art and Design
When thinking of mechanical objects, we don't often consider their beauty as much as their basic utility; bulldozers are rarely described as elegant and table saws are prized more for their ability to...
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Meet the Winners of the Inaugural Core77 Community Choice Prize
After a flurry of tweets and Facebook posts (plus an untold number of emails/phone calls/favors called in we may never know about) the results of the very first Core77 Design Awards Community Choice...
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