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A Chemical-Free Way to Preserve, and Beautify, Wood: Set It on Fire
In the Manhattan blocks surrounding us are a Maya-Lin-designed museum with exterior wood cladding, a French restaurant with exterior wooden planters, and a bar with an outdoor wooden bench. These...
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1-Hour Design Challenge: Sex Toys of the Future
2016 is the year of the intelligent sex toy. Once simple products focused solely on ergonomics, sex toys are now enhanced with highly advanced technologies. For example, KIIROO is a teledildonic...
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Welcome to the Core77 Sex-Tacular
Make this Valentine's Day Sex-tacular! Before you swipe right in search of that new Tinderoni or text your ex, sit down, deep stretch and sketch out some ideas for your fellow beloved Core77ers....
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A Ubiquitous Sex Toy in Desperate Need of a Redesign
While I admittedly dread the seasonal turnover from tinseled holiday wreaths to heart-shaped chocolate boxes, this year I have something new to look forward to. Ti Chang and her team at Crave have...
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Gregory Kloehn Turns Construction Waste Into Livable Shelters for the Homeless
If there are two things American cities have a seemingly endless supply of, it's homeless people and trash. Now someone has figured out how to turn one into a positive for the other. It's been five...
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Video Visualizations: If the Solar System's Planets Were Closer to Earth
What happens when an astronomy enthusiast develops Autodesk 3ds Max skills? YouTube user Yeti Dynamics uses the program to create solar system "What if's," depicting what our sky would look like with...
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Design Job: Don't Sit or Lay Down—Fetch This Product Designer Position at...
Candidates will research, create and execute innovative concepts and designs that support the building of performance dog gear that enhances and inspires exploration for outdoor adventurers and their...
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Crazy-Looking Russian Amphibian Vehicle
From Russia comes this bizarre-looking, go-anywhere vehicle:Called the SHERP, it was developed by St. Petersburg mechanic Alexei Garagashyan, and it's essentially an enclosed ATV more than it is a...
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Helen Hughes Dulany, 1930s Socialite Turned “Over-Worked Genius” of...
This is the latest installment of our Designing Women series. Previously, we profiled the Parisian furniture designer Maria Pergay.Helen Hughes Dulany pictured in the Chicago Tribune in 1934, with the...
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Reader Submitted: The Grid: A Modular Backpack for Urban Nomads
The Grid is a modular backpack designed for the modern creative on the go; simple, stylish, durable and practical.A high functional, modular backpack that opens up endless possibilities for...
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Meet the Jury: Jon Winebrenner on How to Tackle the 1-Hour Design Challenge
2016 is the year of the intelligent sex toy and we're celebrating with the Core77 Sex-tacular, an exploration of the ways that design and technology will shape the future of sex and intimacy. For our...
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Sneaker Design Competition: Win $20,000-Plus and See Your Design For Sale at...
Talented footwear designers among you, here's a competition that's too good to pass up: The winner of the Pensole World Sneaker Championship will not only snag $20,016, but will see their winning...
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Finally: A Retailer That Only Sells Things That are Built to Last
I am so sick of the fact that we must constantly buy things, throw them out and buy new ones. I can't stand the appliance that breaks, the cheaply-made tool that fails, the object that's suddenly...
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Design Job: Passionate About the Great Outdoors? Become Jack Wolfskin's next...
Ideal applicants have a degree in product design or industrial design and 3-5+ years of footwear design experience with a well-established outdoor or athletic footwear brand. Passionate, self-starting,...
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Rags2Riches Lessons for Social Impact Entrepreneurs
Looking around, many of us see issues that we feel should be taken care of. It can vary from wicked problems like climate change to smaller—yet important—issues such as garbage on the streets to common...
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IDEO Joins Kyu
On Tuesday, IDEO announced that it has joined kyu, a collective of creative companies owned by the Tokyo-based Hakuhodo DY Holdings. Kyu bought a minority stake in the 25-year-old design...
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Organizing the Office: Desks With Storage
Many desks on the market now are basically tabletops; there are no drawers or other storage mechanisms. But as I've noted before, many end users still need to keep a few things besides a computer close...
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Meet the Jury for the 1HDC: Judith Glover on Improving the Sex Toy Industry
Judith Glover is a design professor at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia and one of our judges for the Sex Toys of the Future 1-Hour Design Challenge. We first came across her after reading an article on...
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Rare, Majestic Bird Keeps Photobombing Northern Lights Observation Camera
The Northern Lights are an elusive spectacle. To help you see it, the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, a Canadian nonprofit research facility, has set up an observation camera with a live feed...
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From the Archive: A Former frog Designer on Why He Started a Sex Toy Company
Ethan Imboden worked as an industrial designer for firms like Ecco and frogdesign, cranking out designs for everyday products (i.e., staplers and monitors), but grew to feel that he had something more...
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