Design Job: Think Off The Wall as Creative Director, Special Projects at Vans in Costa Mesa, CA

Bring large-scale projects to life that sit outside the standard product development process | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Chinese Government Fighting Coronavirus Using Drones With Speakers to Follow People and Tell Them To Put Masks On

This has to be seen (and heard) to be believed. In response to the growing Coronavirus, the Chinese government has been deploying safety officers mic'd up to speaker-carrying drones, according to The Global Times. These drones then harangue people in cities to wear masks, and tel … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

How FIU Architecture Students, and the Robotics & Digital Fabrication Lab, Pitched in for Super Bowl Security

Yesterday Super Bowl LIV went off without a hitch (well, at least for the Chiefs and their fans; sorry, San Francisco). More importantly, there were no major security issues--and, interestingly enough, a group of architecture students from Florida International University helped … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Upcoming "Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan" Exhibition in London

"We regard windows not only as a part of architecture, but as being related intimately to people's lives and physical actions" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Amidst Moustache Mug Comeback, Someone Designed a Retrofittable Version for Booze

After writing about the colonialism-based invention history of the moustache cup, which went out of style in the 1930s, I should've figured the hipster groomed moustache crowd would have recently reinvigorated the market. And in fact they have. While you can still buy 19th-Centur … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Visual Quiz: How Many Triangles are in This Drawing?

Geometry was one of the only things I was good at in high school…but I blew this quiz. Am assuming some of you will make the same mistake I made and others will nail it: After you've figured it out, scroll down for the answer. . . | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Watch Researchers in 1989 Predict Smart Home Technologies in 2020

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Drinking Mugs Designed to Protect Moustaches Were Once a Thing

We all know Vikings had beards and moustaches, and if we look at the tankards they drank from--often made of horn--we can see no provision to protect their facial hair from getting soggy. Unsurprising, as the Vikings were known more for their nautical brilliance than their hygien … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

This App Allows You to Use Two Cameras on a Single iPhone At the Same Time

A boon for the mobile content creator: The FiLMiC Pro app has a clever multi-cam feature that allows you to exploit the multiple cameras on the iPhone XS/XR and 11. Now you can choose more than one camera and record video from them simultaneously--including from opposite faces of … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Currently Crowdfunding: A Less-Icky Toilet Brush, a Vintage-Inspired Instant Camera, and More

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Who Knew? Motorcycle Hearses are a Thing

Until I saw the photo below, it never occurred to me that hardcore bikers want to ride until the very end: Image credit: PrezzyPutin Image credit: PrezzyPutin Yes, motorcycle-based coffins (hearse-cycles?) are a thing. In fact, a longtime rider named Garland Crabb has been runnin … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Create the Smart Home of Tomorrow as a Senior Industrial Designer at arlo in Irvine, CA

Make an impact in this senior position working across the product line of this fast growing IoT company | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Different Design Approaches to On-Demand Kitchen Counter Space

Like many of you, our kitchen is too small and we don't have enough counter space. The main weekly PITA is when the wife and I return with groceries. To avoid using plastic bags, we shop using a duffle bag and a backpack that we pack to the gills. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

14 Museums in Paris Make 100,00 Images Available for Free Download

It's a killer archive filled with things you've probably never seen before | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

So Here's What the Surface of the Sun Looks Like

It's childish, but one of my favorite Ali G. moments was when he asked Buzz Aldrin "What was it like to be the second man to walk on the sun?" Well, now we actually know what the sun's surface looks like. The National Science Foundation pointed their ginormous Daniel | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Furniture Rises From The Ashes

For industrial designers, craftspeople, or anyone who creates, the question of what can be reused becomes more pressing by the day. Plastics, paper, metal, food-waste, textile, wood, glass, concrete, etc., when a product or a material is all used up, those of us living and workin … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Design Professor's Advice on Design Crits: How to Give Them, How to Take Them

"It is up to both the givers and the receivers of the critique to make this happen" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Here's the Letter I Wrote to a Parent Asking About Industrial Design Schools for Their Child

Through random circumstance, I recently met an engineer with two teenaged children. The older of the teenagers is a junior in high school and interested in pursuing industrial design. After learning what I did for a living, the engineer sent me an e-mail asking advice about ID sc … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Introducing the Six Project Finalists in the 2020 Lexus Design Awards

Each project centers around either social impact or environmental issues | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Taco Bout a Great Job - Brand Designer at Dos Toros Taqueria in New York City

Focus on visual design and creative ideation across all platform | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Atari is Opening…a Chain of Hotels?!?

With increasing regularity, the journalist of today must check to see that it isn't April 1st when reading through press releases. The latest I-bet-I'm-being-punked bit of news that needed a sniff test was: Atari, the video game giant of the '70s and '80s, is apparently opening a … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Explaining Why the Former Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture School is Shutting Down

There are plans for his teachings to continue, albeit not for college credit | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Knives, Entrepreneurial Design and Nike - The James Brand Founder Ryan Coulter Speaks with Michael DiTullo

The Season Premiere of the New Core77 1:1 Interview Series on Youtube | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Layer's New Vehicle Concept Aims to Make Ridesharing More Appealing

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Incredible Architectural Shots: Built Environment Photography Award Winners Announced

The Chartered Institute of Building's annual contest draws photographers from over 100 countries | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Magway's Underground System is Like Hyperloop for Packages

Since moving from New York City down to the rural South, I've learned a lot. In general service is slow, and unlike in New York, people waiting in line will talk to each other. Recently, at the DMV I was in line with a young man who had just earned | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Demonstration of Hyundai's Automatic Parking Feature, With Thick Boston Accents

To market their Remote Smart Parking Assist technology on their 2020 Sonata, Hyundai hired a certain office worker, a certain Captain and SNL alum Rachel Dratch for a commercial to air during the Super Bowl. All three hail from Massachusetts, as quickly becomes obvious: You'd thi … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

The Missing CAD Link for Furniture Designers Working With Wood and Composites: Woodwork for Inventor

It automates everything from accurate BOM generation to production drawings | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

An Update on China's "Six-Day Hospital Build" to Tackle Coronavirus in Wuhan

It's remarkable that you can speed up footage of humans building things in a group, and it totally resembles insect behavior: That's footage of construction workers in Wuhan, racing to build a 25,000-square-meter (270,000-square-foot) hospital to handle the sudden rise in Coronav … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Robot Hand That Uses Acoustic Levitation to Move Objects Without Touching Them

A couple of months ago, we saw UK researchers levitate a 2mm polystyrene bead using ultrasound waves. They then manipulated that bead through space and projected onto it, allowing it to "draw" like a 3D pixel. Now a separate research team at Switzerland's ETH Zurich is also exper … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

How Will Climate Change Impact Our Everyday Life?

An immersive exhibition imagines what an apartment in Singapore might look like in the 23rd Century | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Surprise: The Space Force Logo is Not a Rip-Off of the Star Trek Logo

After President Trump Tweeted this on Friday the internet erupted with outrage (of course), stating that the new Space Force logo was a rip-off of the StarFleet Command United Federation of Planets logo used in the Star Trek franchise. Here they are side-by-side: The truth isn't … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Another Example of a Car "Designed to Break in Half" in a Crash: A Tesla Model X

Some years ago there was a much-covered Lamborghini crash in Brooklyn, where a $400,000 Aventador hit a tree and cracked in two: News outlets at the time claimed the car was "designed to break in half" in the event of a crash, to safely dissipate energy away from the | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Look at Kobe Bryant's Helicopter, the Sikorsky S-76B

R.I.P. Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Sign Up For a New Career as a Senior Designer at Signature Creative in Los Angeles, CA

Established in 2004, Signature Creative is a digital product and design agency helping startups, rising companies and Fortune 500 businesses successfully launch products from concept to commercialization. Signature Creative has been an innovation leader creating emotional experie … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Lithium-Ion Batteries: Expecting More (Energy)

As designers create products through which people interface with the world around us, it is not beyond us to be considerate of how much stored electric-energy is necessary to go about our day. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Reader Submitted: Jacob chair

This product is an evolution of an object through the time, a current translation of an old fashioned wooden chair. From a carpenter father to his industrial designer son. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Jumpstart Your Career as an Industrial Designer at Stafl Systems in San Francisco, CA

Help create products and interfaces for the electric vehicle market | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Review of the Nebia by Moen Atomizing Showerhead

Here's what it's like to shower in a mist rather than a spray. (It's not good) | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Reader Submitted: P.E.T MINI - Worlds first Recycled Electric Skateboard

PET MINI is an Open Source, Recycled Electric Skateboard for urban transportation. With the goal to end stressful commutes while simultaneously giving you the perfect last mile recycled green vehicle. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Reader Submitted: Canopy

The Canopy is an interactive artworks that invites participants to power their own experience with bike-driven generators. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Currently Crowdfunding: The Latest Nebia Showerhead, Gravity-Defying Wooden Block Toys, and More

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Color Me Impressed - Join Amazon Lab126 as a Senior CMF Designer in San Francisco, CA

Help develop color, materials and finishes for consumer electronic devices from home to mobile, from product to accessory | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Bicycles with Airless Tires to Debut at Tokyo Olympics

Pneumatic, airless tires have been a long time coming, but have yet to crack the consumer market. Bridgestone may change that, or at least get them into the public consciousness; as tire sponsor of this summer's Tokyo Olympics, the company will provide a fleet of bicycles (presum … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

California Passes Bill SB 372, to Make Beverage Manufacturers & Distributors Responsible for Recycling

"That incentivizes them to make the packaging more recyclable in the first place" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Malaysia Now Returning 150 Shipping Containers of Unsolicited Garbage to Source Countries, Including U.S.

Environment Minister says they're not "the garbage dump of the world" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Malaysia Now Returning150 Shipping Containers of Unsolicited Garbage to Source Countries, Including U.S.

Environment Minister says they're not "the garbage dump of the world" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Gig Alert: Industrial Designer Needed for Business/Engineering Class Project at Northeastern U in Boston, MA

Generate ideas, initial concepts and refined designs in this short-term project | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago