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Combat Footage Captured by Jedi Knight with GoPro Camera
For years we've praised GoPro, whose tiny, ruggedized cameras have arguably altered videography more than drones and smartphones. While drones provide interesting overhead angles and iPhones provide...
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Mark Your Calendars for the Bigger, Better 2015 Core77 Conference
To all those who don't believe a sophomore performance can be as good, if not better than the original, prepare to be challenged by the 2015 Core77 Conference. We took the best parts of our inaugural...
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On the Brooklyn Waterfront, an Innovative "Pump Track" for Skateboarders
At its inception skateboarding was called "sidewalk surfing," as the Californian youths who invented it were seeking a dry-land surfing equivalent. Both sports were initially done barefoot, but over...
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Tonight at Curiosity Club: 120 Years of Buckminster Fuller
Everybody loves Bucky, but what did his visionary work really produce? At tonight's Curiosity Club author and archivist Trevor Blake will open that question and likely leave us with more. His talk,...
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Aino Aalto's Mellow Vitality
In our last post, we looked at Lella Vignelli's often-neglected work as a designer. Today's subject, Aino Aalto, has a strikingly similar biography. Aino Aalto, circa 1940, © Artek archive...
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San Francisco's 'Parklets' Transform Sidewalks into Parks
The High Line underscored a simple truth that permeates every city: good public space tangibly generates better quality of life (and extra zeros on nearby real estate). But while many cities are...
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What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 4: Tools
All Industrial Design programs have shops filled with stationary, power and hand tools. But students are still required to carry some basics as we learn the craft of putting things together.Hot Glue...
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How a Failed Super-Blimp Project Led to an Indoor Tropical Island Paradise in...
The sky was the limit for Cargolifter AG, the German company that designed a gigantic heavy lift airship in the 1990s called the CL 160. The super-blimp was meant to carry 160 metric tons over a...
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Those Easter Island Statues Aren't Just Heads, They Have Bodies That are...
Of all the ridiculous arguments you'll overhear on the NYC subway, most are not worth your time to listen in on; it's obvious that St. Mark's Place is not within "the Lower East Side" and everyone...
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Trucks Go Deluxe for Big Bucks
I live above a plumbing supply store, so I know what plumbers drive: Trucks and vans. But the other day I ran into a plumber (a fiftyish Master Plumber who owns his own business) whom I hired for a job...
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Drones Hamper Californian Firefighting Efforts
Earlier I bitched about self-entitled folks taking photographs to the potential detriment of others. But this is way, way worse.On Friday a wildfire broke out in California. Unfortunately for a group...
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Sonos PLAY:1 Tone is a Study in Minimalism
Sonos recently released a new limited edition offering of their flagship PLAY:1 wireless speaker—the Tone is a monochromatic matte black or white speaker in a soft touch finish. To celebrate the...
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What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 5: Cases to Go Places
Thus far in this series of what ID students had to carry or own in school, we looked at:- Drawing Implements- Drawing & Drafting Supplies- Paper- ToolsOf course, none of these items carry and...
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The Art of Urban Camping, Amsterdam Style
When you think of urban camping you might very well imagine pitching a tent in your friend's back garden or even sleeping on a park bench—solutions that are pragmatic in the moment but not the most...
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Man Builds Palm-Thatched Huts and Other Structures in the Wilderness,...
If you had to grab three things from your shop to use for survival in the wilderness, what would you bring? Let's look at some quick options:Bad Picks - Tracksaw- HVLP spray gun- 1/2"-shank Roman ogee...
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Removable Shop Drawers for Better Tool Transportation and Storage
Something I like about the EZSTAX system is how the designers have considered the entire process of clothes storage, from laundry room to closet. Thus the system is meant to be brought to the laundry...
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Organizing the Business Cards
While some of us keep all our contact information in digital forms, many people still prefer to keep paper, including business cards. But for business cards to be useful, they need to be kept where...
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"When Furniture Kills:" Let's Cut Through the Hype
There is actually a headline going around this morning that refers to "Ikea's Deathtrap Drawers." Are you kidding me?Here's what the headline, and other shrill ones like it, are referring to. It's come...
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A Startling Portrait of African Cities—And How China is Building Them
If a continent's infrastructure is its' bones, then Africa is growing up quickly. From 2000 to 2010, six of the ten fastest growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa, and the region had to accrue...
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Hell in a Handbasket: Amidst the Drought, Californians are Painting Their...
This is being presented as a "drought hack," demonstrating how far one can stretch the definition of the latter word.Amidst California's recent drought, a lot of folks' lawns are unsurprisingly dying....
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