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Jeffrey Kapec on the state of the art of digital manufacturing in orthopedics
Jeffrey Kapec, principal of Tanaka Kapec Design Group, has a fascinating article up on Orthopedic Design & Technology called "Digital Manufacturing Opportunities in Orthopedics." In the piece, Jeff...
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Rem Koolhaas' Lo Res Project
United Nude is a brand collaboration between Rem Koolhaas and shoemaker Galahad Clark, and for two years the pair have been quietly collaborating on something called the Lo Res Project. Using a 3D...
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Introducing New Core77 Columnist Andy Polaine!
We're thrilled to welcome long-time Core77 contributor Andy Polaine to our list of columnists. You may know him from his Core77 broadcasts, where he interviewed the likes of Troika and Jason Bruges,...
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Access, not ownership is the route to better products
I really don't want to own another laptop, mobile phone or TV ever again. In fact, as I look around my home, I realise there are quite a few products that I feel the same way about, especially in the...
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Open for Branding Week 3: Exploring the Possibilities
Continuum continues their series Open for Branding, where they are sharing, from start to finish, their latest branding project for the new, nomadic Design Museum Boston. They're asking for your...
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Materials: Reynobond ACM allows retrofitted skyscrapers to get LEEDs
The distinctive spire of the Chrysler Building, completed in 1930, is clad in a material called Enduro KA-2, a special German variant of non-rusting stainless steel. It was pretty cutting-edge for its...
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Design competition to remake several square miles of Los Angeles
Manhattan is only a few miles wide and roughly 10 miles in length, and just about every square inch has been developed. So it blows me away that cities like L.A. still have miles of property, in the...
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The Solar Suitcase, powering schools in Africa
Sam Aquillano and Derek Cascio, and their team at Design Museum Boston, are collaborating with Smallbean to develop the next generation of something called The Solar Suitcase. The Solar Suitcase is...
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Daily Candy is seeking an Information Architect in New York City
Information Architect Daily CandyNew York, NY Daily Candy is seeking an information Architect to elicit, analyze, specify and validate the business needs of project stakeholders, and design and...
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The Flat-folding ThinBike: Tailor-made for Narrow Spaces
This week, Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger, introduces his ThinBike, a flat folding, full-size, ghostly white urban bicycle that goes from 22 inches across to less than 8, perfect for stashing...
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The Move-It Kit uses cardboard to move cardboard
Couple weeks ago I bought a 16" fan, and I carried a knife with me to the store. The knife wasn't to negotiate the price: Whenever I have to carry a large cardboard box home that I know is too big to...
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Attention illustrators: Can you come up with a series of "Lifestyle...
Design Addict recently posted about this book called Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s, "a colossal survey of magazine artwork from the Swinging Sixties" that showcases the colors, fashions, and style...
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Neo-Utility at the New York International Gift Fair 2010
Some interesting stuff is rolling into our mailboxes as the New York International Gift Fair 2010 gets closer and closer. Seems that the fair is ramping it up a bit, bringing in some younger designers...
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Swiss Design Network Conference seeks proposals for workshops about Design...
"Negotiating Futures - Design Fiction" is the theme for the 6th Swiss Design Network Conference, taking place in Basel, Switzerland at the end of October. Sounds good, especially after the...
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Solutions for saving a wet cell phone: The Dryer Box machine, or plain ol' rice
Two places where I will never touch my cell phone: In a bathroom and at the edge of the subway platform. I've heard too many tales of people dropping their mobiles onto the tracks or into the toilet,...
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Norelco's design-y Sensotouch 3D: Strong enough for a man, but designed by a...
Every time I see a new, fancy-shmancy shaver on the market I'm tempted to run out and buy one, especially when it's been heavily industrial-designed, like Norelco's forthcoming Sensotouch 3D. But then...
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The (online) bestselling Japanese object in China is...a cheap pen set? Why?
China is so often thought of as the World's Factory, it's easy to forget they're also a major, and growing, global purchasing force; producing all those inexpensive products and items of clothing has...
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Product design students turn a destructive tree into class projects
The industrial design version of turning lemons into lemonade: After an oak tree collapsed on the University of Oregon campus, destroying the Provost's car, the school harvested the oak and handed it...
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Trunz Water Systems' eco-powered magic box for disaster relief
While that just looks like a box with solar panels attached, that box makes the stuff life is made of. Swiss company Trunz's Water Systems 200 is a solar-powered water filtration system that sets up...
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