If you're a working designer, you're currently working from home. For some of you that's new, for others it's old hat. On the Core77 Boards, working designers are currently sharing their tips and comments on WFH. Forum Moderator Mr-914 kicks it off: "I've worked at home a few tim … | Continue reading
StatGear's Hygiene Hand, a small handheld object made of brass for its antimicrobial properties, was designed so the user can avoid touching potentially germy surfaces. It's currently killing it on Kickstarter ($60,000 pledged on a $5,000 goal at press time). As you can see by | Continue reading
Their creative collaboration combines off-the-shelf components with digital fabrication and ingenuity | Continue reading
The "Isolation Chair" hashtag has gone viral. If you've not heard of it, it resembles a first-year Industrial Design school assignment: Grab some random materials and quickly assemble them into the likeness of a chair. It started because during the social lockdown, Barcelona-base … | Continue reading
A card game that reminds us our thoughts aren't real, humor heals, and mindful awareness helps build a calmer outlook on life. | Continue reading
Simple preparations mean you don't have to touch what everyone else is touching | Continue reading
With projects on hold, we don't need the dust protection as much as they need the virus protection | Continue reading
Wearing gloves to protect yourself from germs isn't much help if, in the process of removing them, you accidentally wipe those germs all over your bare skin. Here's the right way to take them off. As seen here in the video on facemasks, healthcare professionals are trained to rem … | Continue reading
Car interiors contain everything from plastic, metal and glass to leather, fabric and rubber. Cleaning and disinfecting them requires different approaches. Learning these techniques can be helpful for disinfecting not just your car, but a variety of items that you carry in and ou … | Continue reading
In search of some visual peace amidst all of the bad public news, I've been trawling art websites and just stumbled across the work of David Hansen. Hansen, an architect with 25 years of experience, creates wonderful and evocative images of cities and architectural spaces using a … | Continue reading
If you're unexpectedly working from home, don't feel bad if your neglected home office isn't exactly Instagrammable. Someone always has it worse than you, as these photos clearly show. "Conveniently close to the fitness center" "The trick to not getting crumbs in the keyboard: Se … | Continue reading
For disaster preppers who don't want to do the prep (and have 4-star tastes) | Continue reading
This past February a report from Greenpeace confirmed suspicions about how few plastics, despite being explicitly labelled as recyclable, are not actually being recycled. Looking at this new data, the facts of how much waste single-use plastic is creating through the ill-equipped … | Continue reading
We sit down with the design innovation firm's studio director Yosuke Ushigome to learn more about their practices & their limited run series for Core77 | Continue reading
Dan Grossman, Design Director of Industrial Design, doubles as Professional Alumni Mentor at the Savannah College of Art and Design. | Continue reading
A key innovation: It does not need to constantly take on or lose air | Continue reading
I guess you could say he's a fan of the recommendation | Continue reading
ChopValue recovers value by transforming trashed single-use items into sustainable profits | Continue reading
As automakers get pressed into service against COVID-19, even McLaren is "looking at how to design a simple version of a ventilator" | Continue reading
A YouTuber called The Q decided to make "invisible" wheels for his bicycle, by using (d'oh!) Plexiglas. While this is of course a terrible idea--aside from the added weight, Plexi doesn't deal with stress very well--it was actually fun to watch him make it: You'll | Continue reading
Slovenia-based graphic designer Jure Tovrljan has modified the logos of famous companies to reflect social distancing. While some are a mere play of words on that corporation's catchphrase, others are compelling visual rearrangements: | Continue reading
Just days after Brookline, Massachusetts un-banned Styrofoam, to make takeout/delivery easier for restaurants to manage, the entire state of Maine has reversed a plastic bag ban. This week Maine Governor Janet Mills announced that the ban, which was supposed to start in April, wi … | Continue reading
After a fan of Elon Musk tweet-asked him to make ventilators, to deal with the looming shortage, Musk--who has been downplaying the severity of the COVID-19 crisis--sent the following reply: Statistician Nate Silver followed up, and got the following response from Musk: Followers … | Continue reading
Speed. Quality. Price. These three factors are paramount when product designers and engineers want to get a handle on how best to produce their custom parts. And David Matten knows a bit about the frustration related to doing just that. Matten, a mechanical engineer working for P … | Continue reading
A 3D printing startup in Italy saves the day by producing a critical replacement part for a medical device. This points to a potential role industrial designers could play in the fight against COVID-19. Patients hardest-hit by COVID-19 will need to be placed on ventilator machine … | Continue reading
Apple has announced their new iPad Pro, which features a bunch of techie upgrades I don't care about and three UI design changes that did catch my interest. The first is that although you can still type on an on-screen keyboard… …they've also designed an optional keyboard that se … | Continue reading
You can sanitize things without touching them, but you have to know what you're doing | Continue reading
Everyone not living under a rock now knows that 20 seconds of handwashing is enough to kill virus particles. But Vox put together a fantastic demonstration, using a black light and some helpful explanations of how fat behaves in water, so that you can see and understand exactly w … | Continue reading
Here are the steps trained healthcare professionals take--and why they should get the masks before us | Continue reading
Beards and mustaches that do/don't interfere with a good mask seal | Continue reading
As an unexpected reaction to COVID-19, a Boston suburb has lifted a six-year-old ban on Styrofoam. Like many of you, I saw encouraging stories in the news detailing how countries in COVID-19 lockdown, like China and Italy, saw improved air quality. With travel down in the U.S., I … | Continue reading
This isn't design-related, but came up at our editorial meeting today | Continue reading
Now that facemasks are a hot item that everyone wants to buy, why aren't the world's factories ramping up production of them? They can't, because one of the machines required to make the seemingly-simple objects is fiendishly complicated to make. The filtering properties of the m … | Continue reading
Misinformation has made people believe that the N95 mask is a magic shield against Coronavirus/COVID-19. It isn't. It's thought to be effective for healthcare workers trained to use them, but it seems unlikely that laypeople will get the same benefits out of them. Here's why. 1. … | Continue reading
Pollulate is face wrap containing a growable filter. The filter is planted instead of thrown out and grows into an indian mustard plant that absorbs particulate matter in the soil. With the exponentially growing number of COVID-19 cases every day, the demand for facial protection … | Continue reading
The fashion-tech pioneer's textile project pays tribute to the women of the Bauhaus and Jacquard looms and opens new possibilities for contemporary designers. | Continue reading
These species are large and tough, but soft and fuzzy | Continue reading
While shaking hands is a common greeting, deal-sealer or sign of amity in many parts of the world, it's also a great way to transmit germs. (See: Final scene of Contagion.) Some have been making do with fist- and elbow-bumps, but given the current stress on social distancing I th … | Continue reading
A new study reveals how long the COVID-19 virus can survive on a variety of different and common materials. The research, conducted by U.S. government scientists from multiple organizations as well as UCLA and Princeton, looked at four likely materials: Air, as that's what transm … | Continue reading
As panicked consumers strip supermarket shelves bare, some products and brands are notably left untouched. I shot this yesterday at my local Walmart. Ramen is nowhere to be found, though there is still some organic rice. Slate made a hilarious compilation of what people don't wan … | Continue reading
Delicate yet sturdy. Our twist collection tells the story of a harmonious juxtaposition of form and material, inertia and motion. On one side: concrete. Solid, straight, mineral. Concrete anchors each piece while structuring your living space. On the other side: metal. A slender … | Continue reading
If you need something silly to laugh at amidst all the COVID-19 news: Ikea has taken the little white "pizza saver" dollhouse table you find inside a pizza box, and scaled it up to actual table size. This is apparently a marketing gimmick dreamed up | Continue reading