Rocket Steel

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

The Car, Gadgets, and Tricks Used to Drive From NYC to LA in 27.5 Hours Without Getting Caught by Police

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Currently Crowdfunding: Stay Fresh With an Eco-Conscious Cooler, Turn Your Smartphone into a Microscope, and More

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

UK Police Emergency Tow Vehicle Can Arrive Quickly--Because It's a Modified Motorcycle

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

Pablo Escobar's Brother Now Producing and Selling a Foldable Smartphone

...and I don't know what the hell is happening anymore | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Good Design: Cup Shelf Next to Office Entry Keypad

(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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Good Design: Airline Seatback Designed for Smartphone and Tablet Viewing

(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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

This Cool Programming Tool Idea Helps Designers Incorporate Coding Into Prototyping

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Start Your Career as a Junior Graphic Designer at Snow Joe in Carlstadt, NJ

Help develop the packaging, presentations, marketing collateral and more for multiple brands | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

This Rain-Catching Panel Could be a Solution for Drought-Stricken Urban Areas

Eindhoven grad Shaakira Jassat wants to make water conservation "visible and engaging" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

More Package Design Deception: Signal Snowboards Ships Theirs Disguised as Fluorescent Light Bulbs

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

The Car, Gadgets, and Tricks Used to Drive From NYC to LA in 27.5 Hours Without Getting Caught

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

How to Start a Community Movement, According to an Expert

See Diana Verdugo, Partnerships Lead at Formlabs, speak on the topic (and 3D printing) next Thursday at A/D/O in Brooklyn | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Gift Like It's 1999

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Playing With Loose Parts

The DIY modular furniture system allows the owner to customize their furnishings | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Mechanical Genius Needed at Creative Engineering in Bronxville, NY

Exercise your mastery of mechanical problem solving in a collaborative and fun environment | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

"Shark Tank" Millionaire Explains Why Buying or Leasing a Car is Stupid

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

New Transportation Design Form: A Three-Wheeled Electric Off-Road Skateboard

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Trick for Putting Someone Out if Their Clothes Catch On Fire

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Laura Kampf's Clever Repurposed Workbench Modifications

A sliding power strip, movable lighting, camera mounts and more | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

ArCATecture: Multi-Story Swiss Cat Ladders

Designer Brigitte Schuster documents the Swiss phenomenon of cat-based infrastructure | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Bon Appétit! This Film-Inspired Meal Kit Is Changing Culinary Entertainment 

by Sally Lee, Angela Pak, Amber Wang, Ally Xiao for ArtCenter College of Design | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

"You Just Take Away Everything Unnecessary."

A Review of "User Friendly," the new book by Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Stanford Researchers Develop Tactile Display to Make 3D Modeling More Accessible for Visually Impaired Users

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Those Smartphone Action Grips Used in the iPhone Snowball Fight Video Came from a Kickstarter Campaign

Inventor Vadym Chalenko turned his 3D printer into a thriving company | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Dig Into the Data as a Design Researcher at Generac

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

"John Wick" Co-Director Directs Epic Snowball Fight Video--as Apple Commercial

Former stunt coordinator David Leitch shot "Snowbrawl" on an iPhone 11 Pro, of course | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

New Transporation Design Form: A Three-Wheeled Electric Off-Road Skateboard

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Gifts for the Sustainably Minded

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Travel Hoodie With a Built-In, Self-Inflatable Neck Pillow

The Pillowdy is an alternate design to the Aros Sleep Hoodie | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

A Hi-Tech "Polite" Automated Luggage Carousel

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Noah Lorang's 3D Topographical Maps

See your state, country or region in an entirely new way | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Examples and Demonstration Board of Laser-Cut Flexures in Delrin

Plus a million other projects that fabricator Amy Qian is working on, like a bamboo bicycle frame-building jig | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: No More Excuses - Join the NOBULL Team as a Footwear Designer in Boston, MA

Get in at the ground level of a rapidly growing business with a small team of bright, passionate, and hardworking individuals | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Reader Submitted: CRAVT - appreciation and value for the art of music

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Embrace Your Staleness!

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Check Out the Oregon Ducks' Fancy Nike-Branded Disappearing Portable Toilet

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

3D Printing a Skateboard with Carbon Fiber Reinforced PLA Filament

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Drawn in 60 Seconds: Using CAD, Guy Draws Tesla Cybertruck in One Minute

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

The Weekly Design Roast, #27: Special Firewood Edition

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Can Technology Help Preserve Long Lasting Global Cultures and Heritage?

Rebecca Hui's company Roots Studio helps village communities get paid for their original artwork | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Using CAD, Guy Draws Tesla Cybertruck in Just Sixty Seconds

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Gifts for the Home: Well Designed & On the Cheap

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

Currently Crowdfunding: Try a New Kind of Musical Instrument, Make an Award-Winning Pour-Over, and More

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@core77.com | 4 years ago

How the GAMMA Design is Helping Us Know More about Life Beyond Earth– And Will Maybe Even Get Us There

Created by Autodesk and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab for NASA JPL | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

An Interesting Design Approach to Portable Seating: The Mini Max Stool

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Small-Town Newspaper Prints Full-Page Pattern, to Ensure It's Upcycled as Wrapping Paper

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


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Crayola Finally Lets Kids Pick Only the Crayon Colors They Want

Their "Pick-a-Stick" initiative, for those who want to avoid bundling | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago