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Fast Track to the Mobile App: Developing Apps, Wireframes to Prototypes
With our Fast Track to the Mobile App winners, there are two parallel lines of development: those who are working with Microsoft developers, and those who are doing their own...
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The Quirky Stem: When Life Gives You Lemons, Design a Clever Product
A brilliant Quirky object currently undergoing production is the Stem, a quick, novel and efficient way to get that citrus zing without breaking out the knives. Spray it, don't squeeze it! Stem is...
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With New See-Through Display, Samsung Puts the Window in Windows
Samsung's new Smart Window is a 22-inch LCD touchscreen that can perform a neat trick: It can disappear completely. On display at CES, the Smart Window was rigged up in a booth that looks out onto a...
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Guns, Hunting and the Great Outdoors: Introduction to the 2012 SHOT Show
Designer George Nelson once said, "There is a silly myth that generals win wars. What the facts show is that designers do." Firearms and design have a shared history extending at least as far back as...
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A Look at Knife Rolls
A friend of mine enrolled in the French Culinary Institute, using my apartment as a locker to store her gear since the school is nearby. The FCI gives students a complete set of cutlery and utensils...
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Thermaltake and BMW DesignworksUSA Continue Level 10 Design Collaboration
As you can see above, PC manufacturer Thermaltake USA makes PC towers with pretty bold designs. The most notable of these is probably their BMW-DesignworksUSA-designed Level 10, shown in the large...
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Seo Young-Deok's Sculptures Are Of the Chain
No, that's not a typo: Korean artist Seo Young-Deok's latest series of nude sculptures is made entirely from lengths of chain of both the medium-gauge household variety and bicycle chains. The color...
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Core77 speaks with Father and Son, Alessio and Giovanni Alessi about working...
At Design Miami, we had the opportunity to sit down with Alessi's President Alessio Alessi and his son Giovanni Alessi Anghini, an industrial designer. Traveling with their family, they were on the...
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Interesting, Hidden Designs in Nature: A Closer Look at Sand Crystals
They look like Japanese snacks, but can you guess what these things really are?(more...)
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Blurb is seeking a Creative Director in San Francisco, California
Creative Director BlurbSan Francisco, California Blurb, a creative publishing and marketing platform, is looking for a Creative Director to serve as an idea generator, a strategic partner for internal...
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Core77 Design Awards 2012: Open for Entries
Today is the day! We are excited to announce the launch of our second annual Core77 Design Awards! We are officially open for entry and we want to see your most original and impactful design projects...
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Local Motors DRIVEN Design Competition for Five World Cities
"Co-Creation Community" Local Motors continues their fostering of geography-specific vehicle designs with their DRIVEN design competition, which begins today. The Design of Relevant and Innovative...
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SHOT Show 2012: First Impressions on the Slide Fire
Reporting & Photography by Barbara Eldredge; images courtesy of Slide Fire After a day of firing guns at the SHOT Show's "Media Day at the Range," one invention sticks out in my mind: the Slide...
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Billy Wilder is responsible for two famous Eames chairs
I love Billy Wilder and I Iove Charles and Ray Eames, but I never thought those two loves would ever unite in a meaningful way. For Eames-o-philes, however, Wilder's unlikely influence on the brand is...
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A Look at Tool Rolls
Like knife rolls, tool rolls are a great way to transport a collection of implements in a compact and secure package. There seems to be a greater variety of tool rolls than knife rolls on the market,...
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Fencing Finally Filmed the Way it Should Be
I've been a fencer for nearly 12 years (DCFC, represent). The thing that's always bugged me about the sport is how little or poorly fencing is portrayed on TV and in the movies (Sunshine being the one...
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"Brooklyn's Rube Goldberg"
Currently at nearly 3.6 million hits and counting, this YouTube vid on a Rube Goldbergian contraption that's not afraid to break glassware, employ open flame, and inconvenience a hamster would be the...
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Fresh "Fruit Bowls" by Rogier Martens
Dutch designer Rogier Martens is pleased to present a new series of hand-blown glass fruit bowls that take their final form based on (what else?) bowls of fruit. He notes that Leerdam, "the Glass City...
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Forget Commercials: Make a Good Craftsperson Video
This Alfred Dunhill leather case construction spot is one of the best "objects being made" videos I've seen recently, and I've sat through a lot. The recent rash of such videos makes it harder for...
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APCo Worldwide is seeking a Graphic Designer in Washington, DC
Graphic Designer APCo WorldwideWashington, DC APCO Worldwide, a global corporate advisory, public affairs and strategic communication firm headquartered in Washington, DC, has an opportunity for a...
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