The People's Forum by Karol Kawiaka: Entry for the Washington Monument...
The six finalists for the Washington Monument Grounds Competition were just announced. The competition is centered around the Washington Monument and the fact that, despite centuries of planning, the...
View ArticleCore77 Design Awards: A Trophy for One & All
The Core77 Design Awards recognize that creation is rarely the result of solitary effort. Design is a team sport! So we commissioned the team of Rich Brilliant Willing to design the inaugural award by...
View ArticleThe Stick Bomb: Letting Wood Express its Kinetic Energy
Having spent time in the shop, we all know the line that wood is still alive even after it's dead. Sawn boards have an elasticity and flex that we attempt to master with screw guns and glue-ups (and...
View ArticleTonight: Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club presents Matt Foster of Foster Knives
Tonight, Core77 enthusiastically welcomes Matt Foster, Co-Owner and Designer of Foster Knives, to the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club hosted at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and...
View ArticleToto Promoting Green Initiatives with a Toilet on Wheels
If there's one thing this Yank loves about globalism, it's seeing commercials and marketing concepts that would never get greenlit in the 'States being happily advanced by other countries. A good case...
View ArticleKickstarter Hits a Million
Some of you one million backers have really knocked our Kickstarter picks out of the park—in fact, this weekend saw the successful funding of Teagueduino and Makeshift Magazine, while Stefan...
View ArticleBeijing Design Week 2011: Sun Wentao, Scholars' Rocks
Sun Wentao at Liang Dian Design Center A rock for the ages? One of the recurring themes we saw from our survey of Chinese designers presented at Beijing Design Week was the use of new materials (lucite...
View ArticleLive! Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club: Matt Foster of Foster Knives "Designing...
Join us for a presentation by Matt Foster of Foster Knives: "Matt Foster has spent his entire career working in the sporting goods and shooting sports industry. His professional experience with knives...
View ArticleUpstaging the Pop-Up Shop: Tom Dixon's Flash Factory
This video is admittedly more flash than substance, but perhaps that's fitting; it highlights Tom Dixon's Flash Factory, launched last week at Manila's MOS Design Building the last stop in a series of...
View ArticleIn-Mouth Cameras: The Future of Food Photography?
The confluence of food blogs, cable television culinary shows and cheap digital photography means I can't go to a restaurant with six friends anymore without two of them breaking out a camera and...
View ArticleCUNY - City College of New York is seeking a Asst. Professor - Visual...
Asst. Professor - Visual Communications / Graphic Design CUNY - City College of New YorkNew York, New York The Department invites applications for the tenure track position of Assistant Professor in...
View ArticleDesignPhiladelphia 2011: Kickoff October 13th
The city of brotherly love celebrates National Design Week with 11 days of programming showcasing the works of over 450 designers. True to it's host city name, DesignPhiladelphia's programming has a...
View ArticleEmpathy on the Cyber Frontier: Personal Chronologies & Humble Assistants
We are finally realizing what the web has been promising us for so long: Human interfaces. Well, let's not get carried away. What we are really seeing are the signs that software products are finally...
View ArticleMixcv Re-imagines Minimalism
Swiss "manufacturer/conceptualizer/producer" mïxcv recently debuted its inaugural collection of furniture and lighting at Cité de la Mode et du Design during Paris Design Week last month. Designers...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2011: Esterni - In the Public We Trust
A seat with a found typewriter provided a lot of fun, particularly for the kids of the digital age, who never had used one of those before... Anybody who has ever been to the Salone in Milan, will be...
View ArticleThe QDrive Sounds Cool... But What Does It Actually Do? (No, Seriously...)
We've seen some awesome work from Delaware's House Industries in the past, from a cast-iron ampersand to a one-day pop-up shop and most recently, a sweet limited-edition Eames LTR. Their recent...
View ArticleBuilding a Successful Furniture Business from the Ground Up: Hellman-Chang,...
Hellman-Chang is a New-York-based furniture line that makes their pieces the old-fashioned way: By hand. Tour their 8,000-square-foot facility in Brooklyn and you'll see mortise-and-tenons, glue-ups...
View ArticleOne Man's Trash Is Another Man's Lamp: Matteo de Colle's Upcycled Lighting
Earlier this summer, we took a look at recycling, the good ol' fashioned way, as well as a couple variations on upcycled lamps. This is precisely the obsession of Italian designer Matteo de Colle, who...
View ArticleTandem Product Design is seeking a Industrial Designer in Los Angeles,...
Industrial Designer Tandem Product DesignLos Angeles, California Tandem Product Design, a fast-growing ID consultancy with expertise in consumer electronics and medical products, is currently looking...
View ArticleEcoVea: A Shower that Recycles
I associate business trips and hotel rooms with long showers. When you grow up with a lot of siblings or in an apartment building with apartment-sized water heaters, you learn to take nothing but...
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