Single Markers Designed to Replace an Entire Set
As we saw here, industrial designers and ID students need to carry a lot of markers. But now Indiana-based Chameleon Art Products reckon you can reduce your collection and perhaps gain some desk space...
View ArticleDesigner & Books Fair 2015 + An Exclusive Deal for Core77 Readers
This weekend you have the rare chance to hear Milton Glaser speak on his life's work and cut in line for first priority seat access.That's right, we're partnering with Designers & Books and the...
View ArticleMore Unusual Dice Designs
As we saw a few years ago with Chuck Stover's work and yesterday's post about Nvenom8 Designs' two-sided rolling die, Shapeways and 3D printing have become a go-to source for unusual dice designs. Here...
View ArticleWhere Your Wood Comes From: Here's How They Stuff Logs Into Shipping Containers
Let's say you're a furniture designer in California working with English Ash. You pick your wood up at a supplier, where it sits neatly stacked in the yard. You know that prior to that, the wood came...
View ArticleBeijing Design Week 2015: The Joy of Joinery
The use of wood is by no means a trend, at least not in the sense that it is a new phenomenon. After all, China has a 7,000-year tradition of sunmao, or mortise-and-tenon joinery, dating back to the...
View ArticleThe First Shipping Container House We've Seen That Actually Looks Awesome
To be blunt, most houses we've seen that are built out of shipping containers look like total crap. So our hats are off to architect David Fenster, who designed this beautiful 1,200-square-foot home,...
View ArticleReporter's Theory: The VW Scandal was Due to Their Corporate Culture
Let me tell you how a car salesman once quickly sold me on a Volkswagen. He was a large, obese man, which is relevant. On a test drive, he sat in the passenger seat and my father sat in the rear seat...
View ArticleWhat Do You Think of the Design of TiVo's Bolt?
TiVo has unveiled their new Bolt set-top box, and every article written about it cannot help but mention the physical design. That's because it looks like this:While the odd shape is arguably...
View ArticleMake Your Transportation Design Models Look Real by Weathering Them
Those of you enrolled in Transportation Design programs will shortly be making clay models, if you're not already. Eventually you'll paint them and present them at crit. And no matter how different...
View ArticleClever Glue Bottle Design
Here's a great example of how clever design features can be packed into something as simple as a bottle. Billed as "The glue bottle that sucks," FastCap's GluBot shows that by analyzing how things are...
View ArticleIn a Massive Brooklyn Garage, a Man is Patiently Repairing 58 Classic Cars
For auto design lovers it's hard not to pine away for the 1950s, when America released bold, original shapes that became the envy of the world. Outside of Cuba or a retro auto show, you're not likely...
View ArticleDesigning Plastic Products 'With Soul'
When Dan Black—who recently bought out business partner Martin Blum to take on sole ownership of renowned UK industrial design house Black+Blum—launched a dishrack inspired by the skeletal shapes of...
View ArticleNew at Hand-Eye Supply: Say Hi to Hay DK
We got a look at how the Danish team Hay does design in last month's Questionnaire with Mette and Rolf Hay. Now you can pick up their fresh collection of desk and kitchen tools at Hand-Eye Supply!Hay...
View ArticleMaking an Umbrella Stand That Knows If It's Going to Rain
If you live in the Northeast, Hurricane Joaquin probably served as an unpleasant reminder of what you’ll no doubt have more of this fall and winter: blustery winds, sky-splitting rain and a general...
View ArticleScott Rumschlag's DIY Motor-Free, Height-Adjustable Standing Desk
Though trained as an engineer, Scott Rumschlag quit his engineering office job after less than a year due to his "extreme dislike of sitting all day." Now that he's switched to building things for a...
View ArticleLuxury Communal End-of-the-World Shelters
Disaster preppers are often thought of as DIY blue-collar folk, steadily stacking cans inside their self-modified underground shipping containers. But Robert Vicino, founder of the Vivos Group, is...
View ArticleJapanese Woodworking Madness: A Three-Way Wood Joint
Shinobu Kobayashi is a Japanese woodworker based in Australia, currently studying Scandinavian techniques in Sweden. The three-continent background appears to have done him well; working in concert...
View ArticleTonight at Curiosity Club: Secret Knowledge & The Puzzle of Your Creative...
Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club we'll dig into some of life's biggest questions about career, inspiration, and managing to feed ourselves. Noah Kleiman gets deep on Secret Knowledge &...
View ArticleEllen Manderfield's Sincere Approach
In 1987 Ellen Manderfield wrote, “There is much to be said for the industrial design profession, and there is room for the feminine touch—with a sincere approach and the right attitude, one can go...
View ArticleHighlights from the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show
Top picks from the array of concepts and production cars from the 2015 Frankfurt Auto ShowConceptsPorsche e-missionThe Porsche e-mission is the car of the show for me – a masterful morphing of the...
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