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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...

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Designer & 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...

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More 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...

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Where 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...

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Beijing 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...

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The 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,...

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Reporter'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...

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What 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...

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Make 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...

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Clever 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...

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In 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...

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Designing 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...

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New 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...

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Making 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...

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Scott 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...

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Luxury 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...

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Japanese 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...

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Tonight 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 &...

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Ellen 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...

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Highlights 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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