It sets a time limit on meetings, while encouraging others to take the stairs | Continue reading
Design educators: A lot of these points would make perfect design student projects | Continue reading
By the end of 2020, China's plastic waste landscape will have improved sharply | Continue reading
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
Meet Mad Max Rider, Rasta Rider and other "boda boda" riders | Continue reading
How do you design a single home for millions of potential clients? | Continue reading
You should be talented and motivated of course, and it helps if you love golf | Continue reading
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
The $1 million house is being given away with $250,000 in cash and a brand new Honda Passport | Continue reading
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
CU Boulder research team figuring out how to grow eco-friendly building materials on-site | Continue reading
The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed | Continue reading
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
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
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
Our CES 2020 program looked at future automotive design trends, consumer preferences, and urban infrastructure. | Continue reading
The Core77 editors hand-pick jobs from Coroflot for our audience, today, check out this opportunity at Garmin International | Continue reading
A vital tool in the form of maps and datascapes | Continue reading
"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
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
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
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
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
Photographer Chris Bray has come up with a novel way to deal with a crab mass migration | Continue reading
It will be called the Woven City and house up to 2,000 people full-time | Continue reading
Learning how to learn, and how to collaborate are key to student success | Continue reading
The pTrumpet and its siblings have made things more affordable and durable for children's sake | Continue reading
It was designed so that the head would never loosen | Continue reading
A skill that will take you very far in life. | Continue reading
Self-taught cartographer Anton Thomas used simple colored pencils and ink to tell the story of a continent | Continue reading
The path to designing and manufacturing even the simplest of tools is twisted and treacherous. | Continue reading
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
Develop new products and take them from idea to production | Continue reading
I bet they call the Gyro Bowl something else in Greece | Continue reading
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