The decision to design Starship—the rocket that will carry us to the moon and Mars and back—using steel is perhaps Elon Musk's best idea ever. | Continue reading
Taking turns driving, two men have broken the speed record for driving from NYC to LA, the so-called Cannonball Run. As Road & Track reports, Arne Toman and Doug Tabbutt made the 2,825-mile trip in a blistering 27 hours, 25 minutes. (Previous record: 28 hours and 50 minutes, set … | 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
...and I don't know what the hell is happening anymore | Continue reading
(This new "Quick Hits" series of posts will be short 'n sweet examples of good design. Debates welcome.) Back when I worked corporate, all departments were silo'd off with tap- -to-enter badge reader pads. Other companies use keypads, like this Swedish office--where someone has t … | Continue reading
(This new "Quick Hits" series of posts will be short 'n sweet examples of good design. Debates welcome.) The airline carriers have to be thrilled that people now travel with their own screens. It's got to be cheaper for them to install this folding smartphone/tablet viewing shelf … | Continue reading
Help develop the packaging, presentations, marketing collateral and more for multiple brands | Continue reading
Eindhoven grad Shaakira Jassat wants to make water conservation "visible and engaging" | Continue reading
First we saw Dutch bicycle manfacturer VanMoof printing flatscreen TVs on their shipping boxes, in hopes handlers would treat them more gently. Now we've learned that California-based Signal Snowboards is pulling a similar shipping-damage-avoiding trick with their snowboard packa … | Continue reading
Taking turns driving, two men have broken the speed record for driving from NYC to LA, the so-called Cannonball Run. As Road & Track reports, Arne Toman and Doug Tabbutt made the 2,825-mile trip in a blistering 27 hours, 25 minutes. (Previous record: 28 hours and 50 minutes, set … | Continue reading
See Diana Verdugo, Partnerships Lead at Formlabs, speak on the topic (and 3D printing) next Thursday at A/D/O in Brooklyn | Continue reading
The DIY modular furniture system allows the owner to customize their furnishings | Continue reading
Exercise your mastery of mechanical problem solving in a collaborative and fun environment | Continue reading
Before he became a judge on "Shark Tank," Kevin O'Leary founded and ran an educational software company. When Mattel acquired it in 1999, O'Leary became a multimillionaire (current estimated net worth: Roughly $400 million). Until a couple of years ago, he drove a Mercedes SUV, a … | Continue reading
It's rare that we see designers invent an entirely new form of personal transportation, with most new scooters, say, being variations on an existing theme. (Hoverboards were an admittedly fresh design, but they have the unfortunate tendency to burst into flames.) The Ireland-base … | Continue reading
What should you do if your clothes catch on fire? "Stop, drop and roll" is the method drilled into American schoolchildren's heads. But what about if your buddy's clothes catch on fire? As fun as it might be to blast them with a fire extinguisher, the Indonesian military favors | Continue reading
A sliding power strip, movable lighting, camera mounts and more | Continue reading
Designer Brigitte Schuster documents the Swiss phenomenon of cat-based infrastructure | Continue reading
by Sally Lee, Angela Pak, Amber Wang, Ally Xiao for ArtCenter College of Design | Continue reading
A Review of "User Friendly," the new book by Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant | Continue reading
Inventor Vadym Chalenko turned his 3D printer into a thriving company | Continue reading
There’s never been a better time to work at Generac. We’re shaping the market and investing in new companies and new technologies. Our rapid growth equals rapid career advancement opportunities for those who want to be challenged and enjoy a fast-paced, high-performance culture.O … | Continue reading
Former stunt coordinator David Leitch shot "Snowbrawl" on an iPhone 11 Pro, of course | Continue reading
It's rare that we see designers invent an entirely new form of personal transportation, with most new scooters, say, being variations on an existing theme. (Hoverboards were an admittedly fresh design, but they have the unfortunate tendency to burst into flames.) The Ireland-base … | Continue reading
The Pillowdy is an alternate design to the Aros Sleep Hoodie | Continue reading
It's admittedly a low form of stress, but we've all stood at a crowded luggage carousel and watched in dismay as our bag approached--partially covered by someone else's bag, like one was trying to pin the other. With people jammed in on either side of you, you'll have a brief | Continue reading
See your state, country or region in an entirely new way | Continue reading
Plus a million other projects that fabricator Amy Qian is working on, like a bamboo bicycle frame-building jig | Continue reading
Get in at the ground level of a rapidly growing business with a small team of bright, passionate, and hardworking individuals | Continue reading
CRAVT consists of four products that all support the concept of bringing back appreciation and value to the art of music and making it appealing to new generations. All items combined, CRAVT provides the user with an ultimate valuable and high-quality experience. To achieve a dig … | Continue reading
In a design rut? Good. Stay there. Here's how to make the most of the glorious furrows you've built for your brain. | Continue reading
Phil Knight is not only the billionaire co-founder, ex-CEO and now Chairman Emeritus of Nike; he's also a philanthropist and key benefactor for his alma mater, the University of Oregon, to whom he's donated $797 million to date. The U. of O.'s football team, the Oregon Ducks, app … | Continue reading
James Bruton is an ex-toy-designer (coming from the EE side, not the ID side) who now shares videos of his experiments and inventions on YouTube. Bruton recently got his hands on some of MatterHackers' carbon-fiber-reinforced PLA filament, and 3D-printed it alongside regular PLA … | Continue reading
Here's an angle (pun intended) I'd not thought of with the Cybertruck: It's probably the easiest, fastest vehicle you could possibly draw in CAD. Faster than any Volkswagen Thing, Mercedes G-Wagen or '80s Volvo. Here's Blender whiz CG Geek doing it in sixty seconds (undoubtedly e … | Continue reading
True story: Another design blog wrote about these "incredible series of design ideas" based around firewood storage. That might not sound like Core77's bag, but this "design exercise" has all the elements of a design roast: Models doing silly things, aesthetics at the expense of … | Continue reading
Rebecca Hui's company Roots Studio helps village communities get paid for their original artwork | Continue reading
Here's an angle (pun intended) I'd not thought of with the Cybertruck: It's probably the easiest, fastest vehicle you could possibly draw in CAD. Faster than any Volkswagen Thing, Mercedes G-Wagen or '80s Volvo. Here's Blender whiz CG Geek doing it in sixty seconds (undoubtedly e … | Continue reading
Created by Autodesk and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab for NASA JPL | Continue reading
I spotted this GIF, and thought this might be a new invention from China: I was wrong. After some digging, I found it's called the Mini Max Stool and was designed by Israeli inventor Yosef Zaifman. Zaifman runs Safrut, a company that produces injection molds, so he knows plastic | Continue reading
I think buying wrapping paper is both stupid and wasteful. There's already a bunch of stuff lying around that can easily be repurposed in its place. Here are some things I have wrapped gifts in: 1. NYC subway maps, when they were still being printed 2. The comics section of | Continue reading
Their "Pick-a-Stick" initiative, for those who want to avoid bundling | Continue reading