New British Currency Hails Heroes of the Industrial Revolution
While it's unlikely we'll ever see portraits of industrial designers gracing any country's currency, the UK is at least presenting Industrial Revolutionaries: On Friday the Bank of England announced a...
View ArticleCore77 Design Award 2011: Simple Bots, Notbale for DIY / Hack / Mod
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the...
View ArticleA Different Sort of Mag-Lev, as Demonstrated with Toy Train Set
On Friday, we had a look at a levitating lamp by Ger Jansen, who develops and sells proprietary electromagnetics as Crealev. In the same vein, this video of a toy mag-lev train is not the conventional...
View ArticleA Better World By Design: Young Entrepreneurship Networks
One of the highlights of A Better World By Design 2011 was the fantastic panel on Young Entrepreneurship Networks on the morning of day two. The panel included Mathias Holzmann of Palomar5; Adriana...
View ArticleAdobe Goes Cloud and Touch
Today Adobe announced their forthcoming Adobe Creative Cloud, their subscription service enabling sharing, viewing and syncing CS files. More exciting was their simultaneous announcement of Adobe Touch...
View ArticleBeijing Design Week 2011: Chinese Stuff, Everyday Chinese Design
Gold piggybank from the Chinese Stuff exhibition at Liangdian Design Center Continuing on the trend of presenting everyday objects curated through a designer's lens, three exhibitions curated...
View ArticleCore77 Design Award 2011: SShoe, Student Notable for Soft Goods / Apparel
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the...
View Articletool, Inc. Product Design and Development is seeking a Lead Mechanical...
Lead Mechanical Engineer tool, Inc. Product Design and DevelopmentMarblehead, Massachusetts Our Product Development team is looking for a Lead Mechanical Engineer with at least ten years of experience...
View ArticleGet on the Fast Track to the Mobile App! Windows Phone App Design Challenge
Calling all mobile app designers! Core77 and Microsoft have teamed up to put you on the Fast Track to the Mobile App—an app design challenge for Windows Phone. We're challenging you to push the...
View ArticleDesign Education: Brilliance Without Substance
We are now in the 21st century, but design curricula seem stuck in the mid 20th century, except for the addition of computer tools. The 20th century developed craftspeople capable of magnificent...
View ArticleFlotspotting: Joe MacCarthy's Book of Dreams
If his frequent updates are any indication, Oakland, California's Joe MacCarthy has been as busy as ever, cranking out fantastic new work even as he's finished designing and editing his first book...
View ArticleCork: Letting the Material Lead
This is the first piece in a series exploring cork from designer and educator Daniel Michalik. As a prelude to this series, Michalik produced a beautiful photo gallery documenting the cork harvest....
View ArticleMore Substantial Cardboard Furniture by Ruben der Kinderen
Earlier this week, we had a glimpse at "Move It," a collection of cardboard furniture at Tent London during last month's London Design Week 2011. Designer Ruben der Kinderen completed his degree at...
View ArticleCore77 Design Award 2011: Plug-In-Play, Notable for Interactive / Web / Mobile
Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year's Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the...
View ArticleMatroshka Space-Saving Furniture System is Alive and Well
Last year we posted on Matroshka, a system of space-saving furniture inspired by Russian nesting dolls and conceived of by then-Mid-Sweden-University-ID-students Sara Remnerth, Anna Fossane, and Anna...
View ArticleFor Design Researchers: The NewProductWorks Collection, a Supermarket...
Back when I was doing structural package design at a multinational, I always enjoyed visiting their Product Room. Every time one of the designers went overseas for business, they made it a point to...
View ArticleBeijing Design Week 2011: Rethinking Bamboo at the Beijing Design Triennial
Bamboo Electric Vehicle, Professor Matsuhige Kazumi, Kyoto University Traveling through Asia, it's incredible to witness men scaling sky-high scaffolding constructed entirely out of bamboo. A...
View ArticleTarget is Seeking a Design Manager - Newborn, Infant, Toddler in Minneapolis, MN
Design Manager - Newborn, Infant, ToddlerTargetMinneapolis, MN Develop big ideas, graphic concepts and technical designs that achieve Target's overall product strategy, quality and financial...
View ArticleFailed Phone Designs
In ID school you fail if your designs suck; in the real world you can fail even if your designs are good. Once you're sharing project space with engineers, marketers, interface designers, accountants,...
View ArticleKnoll x Core77 Secret to Your Success Generation Chair Winner!
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory -Ralph Waldo Emerson What's really interesting about sitting is that it requires movement. The folks at Knoll tell us that "the freedom to move is vital,...
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