Subversive Office Design: A Super-Slow Elevator Intended to Host Standing Meetings

It sets a time limit on meetings, while encouraging others to take the stairs | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

The Complete Translated Text of China's Incredible Single-Use Plastics Ban

Design educators: A lot of these points would make perfect design student projects | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

China Enacts Massive, Speedy Single-Use Plastics Ban

By the end of 2020, China's plastic waste landscape will have improved sharply | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Good Vibrations Calculated to Ease Your Stress

There was no shortage of wearables showcased at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, but only one –– claims Apollo Neuroscience Inc. –– that uses finely tuned vibration frequencies to calm or energize you, or improve your recovery from stress. The young Pittsburgh firm, co-founded by the husba … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

East Africa's Two-Wheeled Taxis Get a Visual Makeover

Meet Mad Max Rider, Rasta Rider and other "boda boda" riders | Continue reading


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An Interview with HGTV Dream Home Designer Brian Patrick Flynn

How do you design a single home for millions of potential clients? | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Tee Up a New Career as an Industrial Designer at PING in Phoenix, AZ

You should be talented and motivated of course, and it helps if you love golf | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

U.S. Space Force Debuts Forest Camouflage Uniforms, Drawing Ridicule

The U.S. Space Force, the new branch of America's military, has rolled out their official uniforms. And they're…patterned in forest camouflage. The Space Force has defended the uniforms by tweeting "USSF is utilizing current Army/Air Force uniforms, saving costs of designing/prod … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Inside HGTV's 2020 Dream Home, Which They're Giving Away for Free

The $1 million house is being given away with $250,000 in cash and a brand new Honda Passport | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

WaPo's Hilarious "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sleeping Positions on a Plane"

I really shouldn't be cut-and-pasting another publication's images, but I did want to urge you to click their link, so figure I can get away with a few. The Washington Post has commissioned a hilarious series of illustrations to create their "Illustrated encyclopedia of sleeping … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Self-Healing Bricks That are Grown From Bacteria

CU Boulder research team figuring out how to grow eco-friendly building materials on-site | Continue reading


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Three Things We Learned About the Future of Driving At CES 2020

The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

An Apple Store Concept Video From the 1990s

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Reader Submitted: Keywing Key Turner

The Keywing is an innovative and thoughtfully designed new product that clips onto household keys. Once in place, it creates a larger surface area and longer lever, making keys much easier to hold, grasp and turn, and locks much easier to open. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Liberty For Plant Life in The City

Among urban planners, designers, and architects, the need to revitalize ecology in urban settings has not gone totally ignored. Though hardly enough has been done to temper the ever-expanding urban sprawl or to invite biodiversity into cities, one musn't look far to find a growin … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

CES 2020: Are Smart Homes Undermining Our Sense of 'Home'?

CES indicates we're still a far way off seeing technology for the home that genuinely fosters our sense of comfort, wellbeing and community. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Currently Crowdfunding: TiGr's Latest Bike Lock Innovation, a Surprisingly Beautiful Litter Box, and More

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Watch All of the Presentations from "Moving Forward: Conversations on Transportation Futures" at CES 2020

Our CES 2020 program looked at future automotive design trends, consumer preferences, and urban infrastructure. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Lisbon-Based Design Studio MOR Debuts New Store and Lighting Collection 

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Design Job: Chart a New Direction as a Senior Industrial Designer at Garmin!

The Core77 editors hand-pick jobs from Coroflot for our audience, today, check out this opportunity at Garmin International | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Charge Forward in Your Career as a Senior Industrial Designer at Belkin

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

The 2100 Project Maps the Impact of Climate Change Across the Country

A vital tool in the form of maps and datascapes | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

How Woodworker Chris Salomone Turned His Son's Drawing Into a Functional Piece of Furniture 

"Even though in the end it has to look kind of weird and messed up, it has to look like it was done on purpose." | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Check Out the Cardboard Beds Tokyo 2020 Athletes Will Sleep On

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When Stores Have to Compensate for a Failure of Package Design

If there's one failure of package design that seems to be consistent across brands, it's the microscopic fonts used on medicine labels. It's crucial information on products often being purchased by elderly folk with less-than-stellar eyesight, but the brand name is always given w … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Currently Crowdfunding: Make a Custom Remote for Your Smart Home Devices, a Tool for Better Blade Sharpening, and More

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Disproving an Industrial Design Professor's Rule: Dishwashers Have Gone Invisible, Why Haven't Toasters?

While urging us to design unobtrusive objects, one of my Industrial Design professors used to say "No one wants a toaster. What people want is toast." It took me years to realize that that wasn't true. If you look one of the more popular toasters on the market… | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

(Almost) Good Design: Wheelchair Resting Place on an Urban Hillside

Someone in the municipality of Stratford, London realized how taxing it is for a wheelchair user to ascend this hill in a single go. Thus, this resting place where wheelchair users can take a break has been installed midway: Image credit: Stephen Hues I call it almost good design … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

IBM is Developing a New Battery That Can Be Made Without Heavy Metals

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

As Plastic Bag Ban Hits Thailand, Consumers Adapt With Variety of Household Carrying Items

The "innovation" that we see coming out of the world's top three economies--the U.S., China and Japan, in that order--are often technology-based, and of dubious value. (At the currently-running CES, you can see a summonable robot whose sole function is to bring you toilet paper i … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

DIY "Shoes" for Truck Wheels, to Avoid Killing Small Animals

Photographer Chris Bray has come up with a novel way to deal with a crab mass migration | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Finally, A Place To Compost Your Body When You're Done With It

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

The 2020 Core77 Design Awards are Now Open for Entry!

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Toyota is Building a "Prototype City of the Future" Near Mt. Fuji

It will be called the Woven City and house up to 2,000 people full-time | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

UPenn's Integrated Product Design Program Offers A Language of Design

Learning how to learn, and how to collaborate are key to student success | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Brass Musical Instruments Made of Plastic, Yea or Nay?

The pTrumpet and its siblings have made things more affordable and durable for children's sake | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

How to Make Abraham Lincoln's Mysterious Dovetail Mallet

It was designed so that the head would never loosen | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

CES Survival Guide: How To Properly Take Power Naps in Public

A skill that will take you very far in life. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

It Took Almost Five Years to Draw This Incredibly Detailed, Freehand Map of North America

Self-taught cartographer Anton Thomas used simple colored pencils and ink to tell the story of a continent | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Designing a Successful Tool: The Crucible Scraper

The path to designing and manufacturing even the simplest of tools is twisted and treacherous. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Good Design: A Simple Detail That Lets You See All the Way to the Back of a Tall Shelf or Cabinet Interior

For the height-challenged among us, it can be tough to see all the way to the back of a high shelf or cabinet. Considering this, these Amazon lockers have had a thoughtful touch added to them, to make sure you don't leave any unseen objects behind: Image credit: theone_2099 | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

The Weekly Design Roast, #30

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Currently Crowdfunding: A Simple but Powerful Pen, a Backpack With a Social Mission, and More

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: New Year, New Job - Work as a Senior Industrial Designer at Big Time Products in Atlanta, GA

Develop new products and take them from idea to production | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

The "Rapid Recap" System for Condensing Hours of Security Footage Into Seconds

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A Spill-Resistant Gyroscopic Bowl Designed for Toddlers

I bet they call the Gyro Bowl something else in Greece | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Beyond Industrial Design: Apply to SVA's MFA in Products of Design

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(Almost) Good Design: This Café's Spent Cup Stacking System to Minimize Trash/Recycling Volume

When I was living in Japan, I worked at an elementary school. After having lunch, each and every one of the students would take their empty milk cartons and meticulously flatten them. These flattened cartons then all went into the same transparent plastic bag, and I was surprised … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago