MCAD's Collaborative Product Design Class, by Jeremy Faludi
For years, the Minnepolis College of Art & Design (MCAD) has been a leader in the United States for learning green design online. This past semester, a new class debuted there, with a new way of...
View ArticleWho Arted? Framing a Curatorial Intervention
What with all this Occupy _______ going on, it's easy to forget the many other messages and demonstrations we pass by on our daily routines. If you're familiar with the Brooklyn Navy Yards, you've...
View ArticleFlotspotting: Jose Hurtado's Tandem with a Twist
Spanish designer José Hurtado started out as an architect before shifting his focus to industrial design. Among the projects in his newly-launched portfolio, one project in particular jumped out: the...
View ArticleSHOT Show 2012: Concealed Carry
A number of arms representatives mentioned a recent increased demand for smaller handguns for "protection." To appeal to this market, Ruger, Colt, Kimber and others introduced smaller handguns at this...
View ArticleMade in the USA: Seven under 27 at Cleveland's 2nd Shift Studio
Over the past year and a half, Ohio-based 2nd Shift studio has quietly designed, developed and produced half a dozen products. The company takes its name from the fact that the seven like-minded...
View ArticleDiller Scofidio + Renfro's winning proposal for Aberdeen City Garden
Earlier this week it was announced that Diller Scofidio + Renfro's proposal for Scotland's Aberdeen City Garden had been chosen over an impressive group of entries that included leading architecture...
View ArticlePre-Mag-Lev: Super-Fast Slot Cars...and What are These Cases?
There's eight slot cars pictured on the track in the first shot above, but they're moving so freaking fast they're captured on-screen only as blurs. It's a screen-cap from an international...
View ArticleTime Bicycles: Carbon Fiber Weaving and Resin Transfer Molding
This video could've done with some sound (and less distracting editing), but it provides an interesting look at how a carbon-fiber bicycle comes together. France's Time Bicycles uses a manufacturing...
View ArticleSteelcase, Inc. - Coalesse is seeking a Sr. Industrial Design, Principal in...
Sr. Industrial Design, Principal Steelcase, Inc. - CoalesseSan Francisco, California Coalesse is a division of Steelcase, the world's leader in office environments, that provides premium furnishings...
View ArticleMaking Promises at the End of Time
Image from the Mayan ruin site Palenque: Templo de la Calavera ( Temple of the skull ), by Peter Andersen Every couple of years a crackpot comes along and prophesizes the end of the world. Fortunately...
View ArticleLo-Lo Ma: New York City's new homegrown borough
By the time New York celebrates its 400th anniversary in 2025, one million more people will be nestled amongst its already cramped streets. Other cities around the world are dealing with density in...
View ArticleNissan Potentially Porting "Scratch Shield" Material Over to Consumer Products
Design diversification: BMW DesignworksUSA, Porsche Design and Mercedes have all expanded their initially auto-based design talents into other sectors, and now Nissan is taking steps in this...
View ArticleIxDA Interaction12 Preview: State of Interaction Design: Diverging, by David...
In anticipation of the upcoming IxDA Interaction12 Conference taking place in Dublin, Ireland February 1–4, Core77 will be bringing you a preview of this year's event. Follow us as we chat with...
View ArticleThe Return of Teardrop Trailers
image via Nick's Teardrop Trailer Here's an item from America's past I would not have imagined would make a comeback: The teardrop trailer. First produced during the Great Depression and designed in...
View ArticleCharles and Ray Eames: The Filmmakers
From "Powers of Ten" Charles and Ray Eames were two of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th-century, but since they eschewed the term "artist," considering it pompous, let's instead call them...
View ArticleThe Tamaggo 360 Imager
This egg-shaped device is the Tamaggo, a "360-imager" (basically a digital camera with a wraparound lens) due to hit store shelves later this year. The Montreal-based company of the same name is...
View ArticleThings That Look Like Other Things: "Mino" by Giovanni Tomasini
Young Italian designer Giovanni Tomasini is pleased to present his latest project, the "Mino" garden gnome, a traditional lawn ornament made of compost:The garden dwarf tradition is older than what is...
View ArticleNike's FuelBand Goes Beyond the Watch
Nike's latest piece of wearable technology is the FuelBand, which resembles a futuristic, minimalist watch. The device contains an accelerometer that tracks your motion and calculates calories burned....
View ArticleIMM Cologne 2012: Digital Crafting Collection by Great Things to People
Good Things to People (gt2P) is a Chilean "parametric design and digital fabrication" studio that recently presented the three new projects that comprise their Digital Crafting Collection at the IMM...
View ArticleMTV Networks is seeking a Senior Designer in New York, New York
Senior Designer MTV NetworksNew York, New York As part of the Creative Department, the senior designers are responsible for the conceptual development and execution of all print design created in...
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