14 Ways to Organize the Kitchen Silverware Drawer
Without some sort of organizational product, kitchen silverware drawers would be a mess. But cutlery collections can be small or large, and drawer sizes vary tremendously. So what's a designer to...
View ArticleA Simple Product Design That's Perfect for Lone Reporters, But Will be Abused...
Starting in the '90s, New Yorkers began spotting an unusual sight on the sidewalks: A lone man or woman in business attire slapping foundation on his/her face, setting up a camera on a tripod,...
View ArticleFord's Strange Take on Car Sharing
In recent years automakers have discovered that Millenials are not as interested in car ownership as previous generations. With car-loving Boomers and Gen-X'ers only getting older, the writing is on...
View ArticleWhat Would Your Apartment Look Like in Another Person's Hands?
City dwellers among you: Depending on what type of building you live in, above and below you might be dozens of other apartments with the exact same footprint as yours. I'm not talking about your...
View ArticleUh-Oh: Beats Teardown Apparently Used Beats Knockoffs
Many of you took an interest in the Beats teardown post from earlier this week, and we learned a lot about metal being added to a variety of product designs (thanks commenters!). However, a few...
View ArticlePushing Boundaries: A "Borderless" Smartphone Design with Touch-Sensitive Edges
ZTE's Zubia Z9 smartphone boasts a full-bleed screen, touch-sensitive edges and a novel way—which the company calls Frame Interactive Technology--to interact with the device. Before we can discuss its...
View ArticleThey Promised Us Jetpacks...and Might Just Be About to Deliver
Considering the onslaught of incredible inventions that the march of modern technology has unleashed on the world in recent years, it is perhaps surprising that dreams of the sci-fi staple jetpack have...
View ArticleGet The Black & Gold Summer Combo: Kat Knife and Hand-Eye Cap
Strike it rich with two bold summer favorites, together at a super hot price: get the HES-favorite Messer Kat Knife and the all new Hand-Eye black and gold snap back for only $42.00! You'll save a...
View ArticleAn "Underutilized Design History Resource:" The Times' 129 Years' Worth of...
It's ironic that most of us will spend all day trying to avoid modern-day advertisements, but will eagerly burn up an afternoon looking at vintage ads. Particularly the designers among us. Upon...
View ArticleLindsey Adelman on the Making of Her New Collection of 'Sculpturally-Driven...
Lindsey Adelman has made a name for herself creating luxury chandeliers that delicately balance the organic and the refined. With her latest collection, however, the lighting designer is applying that...
View ArticleBosch Engineer Explains How to Organize Your Refrigerator
I keep vegetables in the crisper drawer and put the eggs in that thing that's shaped like eggs. Other than that my refrigerator is a total free-for-all, with the beer, meat, snacks, beer, leftovers,...
View ArticleA Table Saw that Flips Over to Become a Miter Saw
During Core77's Festool trip in Germany, our hosts brought us to a massive power tool dealership and showroom called Miller Maschinen und Werkzeug (Miller Machine and Tool). This company sold...
View ArticleSave the Date! The Core77 Conference Comes to LA October 23, 2015
Save the date, folks! Our second annual Core77 Conference is happening on October 23rd, 2015 at the beautiful Vibiana in Downtown Los Angeles. #CoreCon2015 is shaping up to be an even bigger event than...
View ArticleAlternative Early Traffic Signal Designs
A traffic light is designed to provide three pieces of information: Red, yellow and green. But a subset of impatient drivers want more information. Thus we do the trick of memorizing the amount of...
View ArticleIncase's Moses Aipa on Bridging the Gap Between Product and Graphics
Name: Moses AipaOccupation: VP of brand and creative at Incase Location: Southern CaliforniaCurrent projects: We have a ton of things going on right now. The biggest thing that I'm working on is the...
View ArticleFormLabs Creates New "Tough Resin" for 3D Printing
Formlabs are continuing to create new resins for their Form 1 3D printer. Last year they rolled out their Functional Resins in "Flexible" and "Castable" flavors, and this year they're adding "Tough...
View ArticleYea or Nay on These Edge-Guided Scissors?
More than a few press outlets have called this product design a "genius" invention, but it's left me scratching my head.Inventor Tamas Fekete has designed the Vector scissors, which have the following...
View ArticleSALt : A Lamp That Runs on Salt and Water
During a recent trip to the Philippines, I had the great pleasure to encounter some amazing people working within the fields of social innovation and development. One of these people, Aisa Mijeno, is a...
View ArticleUltimate Product Testing: Toyota Employees Take Massive Five-Continent Roadtrip
In a bid to better understand how their vehicle technologies hold up in real-world conditions, Toyota has launched the Five Continents Driving Project, whereby they send their engineers on epic road...
View ArticleThree Ways to Identify Different Wood Types
When the wine shop across the street from me packed up to move, I saw a new dumpster out front and a huge stack of empty wooden wine cases inside the store. Doing the math, I asked the owner if I could...
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