You Have Until Midnight Tonight to Enter the 2019 Core77 Gift Guide Competition

Core77's Ultimate Gift Guide - Share Your Wish List Today for a Chance to Win Exciting Prizes! | Continue reading


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The Most Unusual Vehicle Designs of 2019

Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybertruck was not the weirdest one we saw this year | Continue reading


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Cool Architectural Interior Feature: This Kind of Looks Like a Fine Dining Restaurant on the Death Star

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


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Good Design: A Toilet Stall Lock Tray

While you poo in the loo, it holds things for you | Continue reading


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Best Illusion of the Year: You Can't Tell if This Shape is Rotating on the Horizontal or Vertical Axis

Frank Force's "Dual Axis Illusion" took 1st place in the annual contest | Continue reading


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The Weekly Design Roast, #29

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This 1966 Syd Mead Design for Ford Looks Like a Proto-Tesla-Cybertruck

The Ford Ranger II was well ahead of its time | Continue reading


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New York Exhibit Showcases Donald Judd's Collection of Works by Alvar Aalto and John Chamberlain

A study of how viewing art can be "coextensive with the other activities of living" | Continue reading


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Just One Weekend Left to Enter the Core77 Ultimate Gift Guide Competition

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Bringing an Old UI Design Back from the Dead: An App That Lets You Secretly Turn Your iPhone into an iPod Classic

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Swingset-Powered Phone Chargers at Dutch Train Stations

"People are willing to take a train later because they like to swing" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Help Shape the Future as Part of the Advanced Prototyping Team at Microsoft

They are looking for a skilled model maker to create physical prototypes for XBox, Hololens, Surface and more | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Currently Crowdfunding: A Minimalist Turntable for Vinyl Beginners, Help a Fleet of Drones Plant One Billion Trees, and More

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How to Apply UN Sustainable Development Goals to Your Design Practice

This panel from the 2019 Core77 Conference explains how these rules can be use as design tools | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

"Hi-Fi: The History of High-End Audio Design" Book

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Drive New Growth as a Business Designer at D-Ford in Palo Alto, CA

Combine strategic thinking with design acumen to help create new products and services | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Ambivalent-About-Killing Product Design? This Flyswatter Gives the Fly a Gambler's Chance of Survival

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Finally, Something Positive Comes Out of Smartphones, Facebook and Twitter: Two Guys With Mismatched Hoods Meet and Swap Them

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


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Sketch-y Gifts

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ETH Researchers Found a Way to 3D-Print Complex Glass Objects With a New Take on Stereolithography

So far, they've only been able to create small objects, no bigger than the size of a die | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Good Design: Curb-Mounted Handle and Footrest for Bicyclists to Hang Onto at Stoplights

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Roll Up Your Sleeves as an Industrial Design Intern at GE Appliances

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

"Future is Code for Eugenics": Liz Jackson at the 2019 Core77 Conference

Jackson discusses at the 2019 Core77 Conference how design briefs seeking to fix disabled people are creating a dangerous precedent | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Cool, Non-Pointy High-Speed Train Design: Tokyo's Narita Express, by Industrial Designer Kenji Ekuan

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

An Eco-Friendly Alternative to Bubble Wrap, 1: Easy-to-Dispense GreenWrap

You've probably seen it, but didn't know what it was called, or how it was dispensed | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Complicated Drawer Design That Uses Every Square Inch of "Blind Corner" Cabinet Space in the Kitchen

"Can you grab me the scissors? They're in the fourth lower triangle on the right" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Japanese Over-Design FTW: A Transparent Eraser, So You Can Actually See What You're Erasing

It took stationary company Seed five years to develop the Clear Radar eraser | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

An Alternative Design for Locking Door Handles

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Get an Industrial Design Job in this "Best Beach Town" and Mix Work and Play

Join Lifestyledesign and avoid the corporate grind in one of the most beautiful places in the world. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Expert Reviews Different Stormtrooper Helmets

Form follows function, even in a galaxy far, far away | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

6 Design Tricks for Upping Your Holiday Cookie Game

How to use advanced but manageable techniques for holiday cookie decoration that will impress all of your friends (even the designer crowd!) | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Goldfish Crackers Manufacturing Mystery

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Google Arts and Culture's Latest Online Exhibition Celebrates the Enduring Influence of the Bauhaus

The centennial is almost over, but there's still plenty to explore | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Meet the Dutch Company Transforming Plastic Debris into Floating Parks

It all starts with an ingenious litter trap designed to trap plastic pollution before it reaches the sea | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

If My Old Boss Was Giving Me Real-Time Feedback While I Tried to Design a Smartphone

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Details Debate: Ought Dining Chairs Have Handles on the Sides?

These chairs do. They're ugly but I bet they work well | Continue reading


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Design Job: Make Your Mark as a Product Designer at Willowtree in Columbus, OH

Bring your ideas to life as a key member of the design team at this fast-growing digital agency | Continue reading


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A Sketchy Café Trend: Interiors Designed to Look Like They're 2D Line Drawings

For those who want to drink coffee in an A-Ha music video | Continue reading


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A Playable "Six-Sided" Vinyl Record With Overlapping Tracks

This was manufactured by hand using a vintage record-cutting lathe | Continue reading


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The 2019 Wanted Design Student Winners: A Closer Look at the Team!

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The 2020 Core77 Design Awards Will Open for Entry on January 7

Make sure your vision for this year's awards submission is 2020—save the date! | Continue reading


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Thrifty Material Use: A Solid Wood Door Made When Times Were Tight

"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Good Design: Carpet-Based Orientation Cues in a Confusing Space

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Uber & Lyft Reduce Drunk Driving--and Increase Overall Alcohol Consumption

If ridesharing comes to your town, get a job as a bartender | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A New Milestone for 3D-Printed Construction is Reached in Dubai

Apis Cor claims "the world's largest" 3D-printed building to date | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

The Weekly Design Roast, #28

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

This Police Motorcycle Can Transform Into a Towing Vehicle

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Exercise Your Material Skills as a CMF Designer for Peloton in NYC

Work with the design team to use trends in colors and materials to strengthen the product branding strategy | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago