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Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybertruck was not the weirdest one we saw this year | Continue reading
What is it: A dining platform inside Japan's largest museum, the National Arts Center Tokyo (NACT) Where is it: Japan, Tokyo, Roppongi district When was it designed: 2006 Who designed it: Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates, in collaboration with architectural design firm Nihon … | Continue reading
While you poo in the loo, it holds things for you | Continue reading
Frank Force's "Dual Axis Illusion" took 1st place in the annual contest | Continue reading
The Ford Ranger II was well ahead of its time | Continue reading
A study of how viewing art can be "coextensive with the other activities of living" | Continue reading
Enter a gift guide into our 2019 Core77 Ultimate Gift Guide competition and you might just be gifting yourself a speaker this holiday season | Continue reading
For those that miss the old iPod Classic with the click wheel interface, developer Louis Anslow wanted to write an app that would restore it to your iPhone. The problem was, Apple's review process for the App Store "generally prohibits the use of images from Apple products or int … | Continue reading
"People are willing to take a train later because they like to swing" | Continue reading
They are looking for a skilled model maker to create physical prototypes for XBox, Hololens, Surface and more | Continue reading
This panel from the 2019 Core77 Conference explains how these rules can be use as design tools | Continue reading
Before we listened to music on tiny wireless earbuds or small Bluetooth speakers, we needed larger, furniture-sized equipment to appreciate it. And that class of objects, due to their sheer scale, not only required more design work to execute, but also had an outsized presence in … | Continue reading
Combine strategic thinking with design acumen to help create new products and services | Continue reading
Back in New York I had a Buddhist roommate so devout, she wouldn't even kill mosquitoes. At one point she captured a cockroach--it took her 30 minutes, for chrissakes--and she carried it outside and left it by a trash can "so that it will have something to eat." Meanwhile, I | Continue reading
As a child, my earliest comprehension of mass manufacturing and interchangeability was seeing a white four-door car in our neighborhood with one brown door. This puzzled me and I sought explanation; my father explained that the car had probably been in an accident, and that you c … | Continue reading
So far, they've only been able to create small objects, no bigger than the size of a die | Continue reading
When riding a bicycle through Manhattan, me and a million other cyclists regularly performed this weird activity at a red light: Rather than stopping and putting your foot down, you snake your bike around in super-slow-motion between the waiting cars and the crosswalk--trying to … | Continue reading
About Us: GE Appliance’s Industrial Design Organization is a collaboration of Industrial and Interaction Designers, Consumer Insights Researchers, R&D Engineers, User Experience Research Specialists, and Model Makers. Interns are given the freedom and responsibility to contribute … | Continue reading
Jackson discusses at the 2019 Core77 Conference how design briefs seeking to fix disabled people are creating a dangerous precedent | Continue reading
The last time I visited Japan (over a decade ago) the Narita Express, the high speed train that whisks you from the airport to Tokyo, looked like this: However, it's since received a pretty sick re-design by industrial designer Kenji Ekuan, who famously designed the original Kikk … | Continue reading
You've probably seen it, but didn't know what it was called, or how it was dispensed | Continue reading
"Can you grab me the scissors? They're in the fourth lower triangle on the right" | Continue reading
It took stationary company Seed five years to develop the Clear Radar eraser | Continue reading
For dual sliding doors without a mortised lock, you'll often see people chaining the handles together, and fastening the chains tight with a padlock. That solution is somewhat effective, but inelegant and janky; you've got to take all of the slack out of the chain each time you l … | Continue reading
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Form follows function, even in a galaxy far, far away | Continue reading
How to use advanced but manageable techniques for holiday cookie decoration that will impress all of your friends (even the designer crowd!) | Continue reading
This person found a surprise in their snack food bag and snapped a photo, captioning it "My Goldfish are still attached to each other." Image credit: Darth Philious Looks to me like the Pepperidge Farm factory needs to touch up their stamping dies. Beyond that, one thing that | Continue reading
The centennial is almost over, but there's still plenty to explore | Continue reading
It all starts with an ingenious litter trap designed to trap plastic pollution before it reaches the sea | Continue reading
I came across this photo of the evolution of Google's smartphone designs over the years: Image credit: DemanKing3003 It reminded me of an early industrial design gig I had, where I worked under a micromanaging supervisor. I'd produce on-screen drawings while he stood behind me, t … | Continue reading
These chairs do. They're ugly but I bet they work well | Continue reading
Bring your ideas to life as a key member of the design team at this fast-growing digital agency | Continue reading
For those who want to drink coffee in an A-Ha music video | Continue reading
This was manufactured by hand using a vintage record-cutting lathe | Continue reading
Make sure your vision for this year's awards submission is 2020—save the date! | Continue reading
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" | Continue reading
When backpacking through Scandinavia, I took the cheapest method then available to get from Stockholm to Helsinki: An overnight berth in a cruise ship's steerage. I was in a shared interior cabin on the bottom level, below the waterline and obviously with no portholes. Navigating … | Continue reading
If ridesharing comes to your town, get a job as a bartender | Continue reading
Apis Cor claims "the world's largest" 3D-printed building to date | Continue reading
When archaeologists dig up a bench from ancient Chinese or Roman times, you can recognize it's a bench. When they dig this thing up in a thousand years, they're going to assume it was the result of a manufacturing defect. "My design cleverly prevents you from pushing | Continue reading
I was once stuck in NYC's Holland Tunnel in a traffic jam behind a mid-tunnel car accident. With both lanes of cars backed up, there was no way to get a tow truck through in the direction of travel; they eventually sent one in from the other end, driving backwards, | Continue reading
Work with the design team to use trends in colors and materials to strengthen the product branding strategy | Continue reading