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How Compact Cameras Can Survive in the Smartphone Era: By Radically Changing...
Here are the facts: Smartphones are ubiquitous, the compact camera market is fading and GoPro's got the action market locked up. So you'd think the last thing an upstart design firm would do is create...
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Eye-Opening Info-GIF of Different Commuting Methods
Cameron Crowe's Singles perfectly captured what dating was like in the pre-Tinder, pre-cell-phone, pre-internet early '90s. Today the film looks quaint, revealing a bygone time when single minglers met...
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Different Ways to Store Pliers, from Store-Bought to DIY
Pliers are tricky things to store. They don't lend themselves to pegboad, as wedging them into a hook by their crotches is defeated by simple gravity. If you obey gravity and store them flat in a...
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Fantastic Design Student Experiments from Japan
We last looked in on Kobe Design University's "Design Soil" student experiments in 2011, when we got a look at Akinori Tagashira's killer flatpack Corker stool:In the years since, KDU's students have...
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Core77's Top 5 Ultimate Gift Guide Showdown: Week 1 Winners
This holiday, share your Ultimate Gift Guide with Core77 for a chance to gift yourself some fun prizes. We're on the lookout for your Top 5 gift ideas for the holidays and will reward the best gift...
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Furniture that Hides
I don't own many pieces of furniture due to the space they take up. And while I am fine with making my guests sit on the floor while I sit up high in an expensive office chair, some folks with...
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Weekly Maker's Roundup
Thankfully for those of us looking to learn, YouTube is now awash in makers regularly posting new videos. Through their efforts we can learn new techniques/tips/tricks, gain insights into tools and...
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CNC Machine Made Out of Lego Helps You Produce Stop-Motion Animations
Industrial designer Arthur Sacek has an unusual blend of specialities: Product design, LEGO, computer graphics and digital fabrication. A current project of his, the Lego Pinpoint Animator, is a good...
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Making an Affordable Luxury Candle
It should come as no surprise that somewhere in Brooklyn there exist two bearded men in a giant warehouse running a candle start-up. While the story reads like something out of a hipster fairy tale,...
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Nohemi Gonzalez, Industrial Design Student at CSU, Killed in Paris Attacks
On Friday, as the horror unfolding in Paris began popping up on news outlets and social media, administrators at California State University Long Beach began to worry. "[We have] 18 students...
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Making it Modular: A Talk with BLOCKS Co-Founder Serge Didenko
As people who build hardware know, there are important reasons both from the electronic and manufacturing standpoint that you reduce complexity, limiting the number of PCBs, parts and components....
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Car Vending Machines
When your business' profits is based on repeat customers, you have a built-in incentive to provide good customer service. But when your business is based on selling one-time purchases, there is a...
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Core77 Questionnaire: Michael Bierut
This is the latest installment of our (slightly revamped) Core77 Questionnaire. Previously, we talked to Rolf and Mette Hay.Name: Michael BierutOccupation: Graphic designer. We're in a world now where...
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ArtCenter in the City
ArtCenter College of Design has unveiled plans to expand their campuses into an urban center of art and creative education. Designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture with contributions from Tina Chee...
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A Screwy Alternative to Floating House Numbers
Designer/builder Bryan Scott was "looking for a way to save money on modern standoff house numbers (which can cost up to $50 per number online)," he writes. Using a box of leftover stainless steel...
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Wall-Mounted Standing Desk, Yea or Nay?
Much of the furniture we use—chairs, tables, desks, dressers—has been in existence in some form for centuries or millenia. So it's always exciting to see someone attempting to create furniture with a...
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Reference: The Ultimate Wood Joint Visual Reference Guide
Dating all the way back to Neolithic times, the mortise and tenon is the oldest wood joint known to mankind. While the specific provenance of the joint is unknown, I'm willing to bet the inventor...
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Rethinking the Toothbrush
For this first video, I considered something quite simple that popped into my mind and seemed worth exploring further: the size of things. We don't really think about this too much—well, unless it's an...
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Story Hopper: Design Stories Worth Sharing
I always say that I try to make the world better by making things, and usually I (and most designers) do this by making a thing or a product. My training in design taught me to create physical things...
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Max Lamb's Simple Story of "Man, Rock, Drill"
Man, Rock, Drill is a pretty direct way to title a show of handmade marble pieces, but in the case of furniture designer Max Lamb's current show at Johnson Trading Gallery, its forthrightness is...
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