Different Methods for Using Pencils All the Way to the Freaking End

I am in complete awe of this: Props to Elizabeth Ingram, the 4th-grade teacher in Texas who posted it. Extra props to her or whatever student whittled that thing down. If all of us used every consumable on Earth that thoroughly, the environment would be in better shape. (Not | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

The Old-School Contraption Architects Once Used to Simulate the Sun Passing Over a House Model

It's called a Heliodon, and prior to software this is how you checked for solar exposure and shadows | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Somewhat Elevated Gifts for a White Elephant Holiday Party

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Alternative Japanese Design for Moving Subway Barriers: Minimum Viable Product, or Best Solution Within Constraints?

In New York City, you can still get killed by standing too close to the edge of a subway platform with your earbuds in. Each year a few people who aren't paying attention get pushed in front of a train by a crazy person. NYC still hasn't bothered installing the | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Silicone Valley: A Design Intervention Meant to Encourage Healthier Technological Habits

Rethinking how our bodies can adapt to technologies, keeping our well being at the forefront. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Design Job: Heat Up Your Career As A Product Designer At Creative Outdoor Solutions in Mooresville, NC

Work in a beautiful hundred-year-old textile mill that creates an inspiring backdrop for product design | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Reader Submitted: Guitar made from LEGO - aka the "LEGOcaster"

I made a guitar out of LEGO bricks and epoxy resin. While the shape is inspired by the Les Paul, I'm calling it the "LEGOcaster" - too fun to not do it! | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Packaging A Seed

The biotech startup uses a bold packaging strategy to communicate their strong commitment to sustainability and design | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Here's What Happens When You Don't Design for Disassembly

The VRS Car Dismantler provides a sobering look at what your car actually is | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Fan-Made Tesla Cybertruck Mods are Coming in Fast & Furious

So, this is a bit frustrating. For every person who manipulates an image of the Tesla Cybertruck with their desired design changes and posts their creation… ...there are more folks just Tweeting modded images of the truck without crediting who created them: It's a pity, as some | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

How Can Technology Help Fix the World's Broken Food Systems?

Suma Reddy, CEO of Farmshelf, explains how her hydroponic farm system is helping grow food 2-4 times faster using 90% less water | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

The Sociologist and Space Engineers Behind Orba, Artiphon's New Instrument for Everyone

Dr. Mike Butera went from academia to making radically accessible music-making devices. His latest, Orba, packs more technology into a simpler interface. | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Win a Sonos Move Speaker in Our 2019 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 | 5 years ago

Yea or Nay? The Alpen Bike Capsule, "A Proper Home For Your Bike"

Does it do a good enough job of integrating into its surroundings--and does it need to? | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

You Have a Chance to Win a Sonos Move in Our 2019 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 | 5 years ago

3D White House Cutaways: Did You Know the Oval Office is Not Actually Inside the Main Building?

I feel like a dope--all these years of looking at the White House, and I never realized: The Oval Office isn't even in the main building (a/k/a The Residence). I always assumed that the Oval Office's shape corresponded with the curved facade of the South Portico: But while there | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Elon Musk Explains the Manufacturing Reason Why the Cybertruck is All Flat Planes

...but I still don't think the designers got it right | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

To Help Improve the Refugee Experience, This Design Team Created a Tangible Welcome Committee

by Raphael Katz, Abhishek Kumar, Rina Shumylo, Juliana Lewis, Sareena Avadhany for CIID | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Elon Musk Explains the Manufacturing Reason Behind Why the Cybertruck is All Flat Planes

...but I still don't think the designers got it right | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

What are the Most Traded Goods Between the U.S. & China?

If a trade war breaks out, what will we pay more for, and how could our jobs be impacted? | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Researchers Create a Levitating 3D Pixel That Can Move Fast Enough to Draw Images With Light

You have to see this "volumetric display" to believe it | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

You Can Now Spend the Night in a Physical Recreation of an Edward Hopper Painting of a Motel Room 

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has re-created Hopper's "Western Motel" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Kids in Finland Commuting to School by Bicycle and Sled, in Snow, at Negative-22 Degrees

"You can use your single-speed upright granny bike with summer tires all year long" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

The Weekly Design Roast, #26: Special Tesla Cybertruck Edition

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@core77.com | 5 years ago

Design Job: Sharpen Your Skills as an Industrial Designer at Product Ventures in Fairfield, CT

Product Ventures, a renowned design consultancy, specializing in product and packaging innovation, is looking for an exceptional Industrial Designer candidate with 3-5 years of experience. This person should be passionate about structural design and have a good understanding of h … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Downloadable Plans for 3D-Printed Guns, Backed by Trump Administration, Blocked by Federal Judge

The many twists and turns of the Defense Distributed case, plus a sordid sidebar | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Cool Specialty Hinge Allows You to Turn an Ordinary Door Into a No-Flap, Disappearing Pet Door

You'll need to make one cut with a circular saw | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Unocup (Folding Takeout Coffee Cup That Needs No Plastic Lid) Update: Now Live on Kickstarter

Last week Core77 correspondent John P. Kazior brought you news of the Unocup, a takeout coffee cup that requires no plastic lid. This week its designers, Tom Chan and Kaanur Papo, have launched a Kickstarter to make the Unocup a reality: If you think about | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

To Prove Electric Car Safety, German Organization DEKRA Runs Gnarly Crash Test

Due to a few highly-publicized incidents, there are people who are convinced that electric cars, due to those pesky lithium-ion batteries pose a greater fire risk than gasoline-powered ones. For the record, the NHTSA concluded in this 2017 report (PDF) that electric car fire risk … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Workshop Hack: How to Use a "Ticking Stick" to Duplicate Both Rectilinear and Organic Shapes Precisely

This is a workshop hack video currently gaining steam on YouTube (about 1.7 million views and counting). It's from the SeeJaneDrill channel, where host Leah demonstrates the "ticking stick" method of duplicating an irregular shape: Leah's method of using the stick is simple enoug … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Japanese Researchers Discover 143 "New" 2,000-Year-Old Earth Drawings in Peru

Geoglyphs are the rocky cousins of crop circles. Ancient civilizations drew large pictures--some of them a half-mile wide--on the ground by stacking rocks, or removing them to expose lighter-colored soil beneath, in order to create lines. The best-known geoglyphs in the world are … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Bloomberg is a Billionaire Because He Backed Good Design

His "computers for virgins" design approach has made him a rich man | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

This Furniture Company Says Canadian Design Isn't a Look—It's a Value System

EQ3 wants to be a shining example of a holistic design business | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Currently Crowdfunding: A Game That Makes STEM Education Screen-Free, a Bike Tracking Device, and More 

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@core77.com | 5 years ago

Design Job: Help Shape a Growing and Unique Design Program Exploring the Future of Human-centred Design

Join the faculty of the Glasgow School of Art as a Lecturer in Design Innovation, Environmental and Ecological Design in Forres, Scotland | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

How Can You Use Data to Design Better Products?

Watch this panel on the topic from the 2019 Core77 Conference, 'The Third Wave' | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

A Process For Working With Nature (Not Against It)

At one time in design history, not so long ago (though it feels like forever ago), the designer would rely on the environment around them to provide the material of their creation. They might wade into the tide, walk into the forest, scale the mountain, go into whatever space was … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

"Trump Administration's Effort" to Allow Downloadable Plans for 3D-Printed Guns Blocked by Federal Judge

The many twists and turns of the Defense Distributed case, plus a sordid sidebar | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Reagan Ray's Visual Database of Vintage Logos

Record labels, car brands, video game consoles, '80s action figures and more | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Design Job: Start Your Career as a Design Assistant at Apparatus in New York, NY

Work in the studio where they design lighting, furniture and objects | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

What if Our Clothes Were Alive? One Designer's Biotextiles Help Remove Harmful Toxins from the Air

by Roya Aghighi for Emily Carr University of Art and Design | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Researchers Discover Another 143 Trippy, 2,000-Year-Old Geoglyph Earth Drawings in Peru

Geoglyphs are the rocky cousins of crop circles. Ancient civilizations drew large pictures--some of them a half-mile wide--on the ground by stacking rocks, or removing them to expose lighter-colored soil beneath, in order to create lines. The best-known geoglyphs in the world are … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Watch John Maeda Speak on the Merit of Taking Design Risks at the 2019 Core77 Conference

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@core77.com | 5 years ago

Check Out This Cool Auto-Fitting Emergency Oxygen Mask Provided to Commercial Pilots

They don't get the cheap yellow cups that we do | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

An Extreme 1970s Mobile Home Resto-Mod

The GMC Motorhome hasn't seen these kinds of mods since the movie "Stripes" | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Researchers Discover 143 Trippy, 2,000-Year-Old Earth Drawings in Peru

If you told me you drew these while you were on acid, I'd believe you | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

As Cars Get Safer, Why are Crashes Increasing?

Car crash fatalities are down, but car crashes themselves are on the rise | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago

Portable Laser Engraver is a Smash Hit on Kickstarter

The diminutive LaserPecker Pro can be folded up and stored on a bookshelf | Continue reading


@core77.com | 5 years ago