NYC-based designer Max Simon, who refers to himself as a "Furniture Rabbi," designed this chair: Image: Megosu Image: Megosu Image: Megosu Yep, those are scaled-up Erector Set pieces that Simon fabricated, as that was one of his favorite childhood toys.Image: Megosu He even made … | Continue reading
To me this small, easily-missed object is an example of just perfect design. Industrial Facility, a/k/a Kim Colin and Sam Hecht, designed this minimal, simple and elegant bag hook to mate with the steel legs of Herman Miller's OE1 table/desk (which they also designed)."We leverag … | Continue reading
Following our coverage of Greenpeace's "Circular Claims Fall Flat Again" report, a communications firm representing the Association of Plastic Recyclers reached out to us. Stephen Alexander, APR President, put out this counterstatement:"While APR is still reviewing the report, it … | Continue reading
Volkswagen has kitted out one of their ID.4 EVs with an on-board drone and a roof-mounted launching platform. Called the Drone Command Concept, it was developed in conjunction with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the energy provider that powers the homes of some 10 million Tennes … | Continue reading
Polyurethanes are an incredibly versatile and useful family of materials. By altering the raw ingredients, additives and manufacturing processes these materials can be customized to perfectly suit a wide range of product applications including foams, fibers, coatings, elastomers … | Continue reading
Udi Rubinstein, a software developer, writes:"I don't have any design background but a few years ago I came up with an idea for a self-closing jar after a colleague of mine kept leaving the cookie boxes open. The mechanism is very simple and uses gravity to close the jar after th … | Continue reading
I'm opposed to the idea of this product, but I really admire the outside-of-the-box thinking.Moonwalkers are add-on footwear—you step into them with your normal shoes already on—that have wheels on the bottom. But they're not rollerskates. Instead they're packed with sensors and … | Continue reading
For the fourth year in a row, this Halloween candy maker Mars Inc. partnered with recycling company Rubicon Technologies on this "Trick or Trash" initiative. "Request a special Trick or Trash™ bag so you can reduce waste and recycle your Halloween Candy Wrappers," Mars writes.The … | Continue reading
A plumb bob is a handy tool, but until recently hasn't been improved much since the time of the Egyptians. A modern update that's a lot more convenient to use is this Plumb-Rite by Tajima.The protruding knob you see is actually the butt end of a setting pin. To hang the tool, you … | Continue reading
Earlier we looked at Danish company Dolle's in-ceiling storage system, deeming it ideal for tall people who live in small apartments with high ceilings.That system's opposite is perhaps this Hong Kong apartment, designed by Sim-Plex Design Studio, with copious storage built into … | Continue reading
Veteran industrial designer Kelly Custer, the founder of design studio Knack, is already a pro sketcher; indeed, she was the instructor of Offsite's Real World Sketching class. But as evidence of the power of continuing education, even Custer found a helpful design sketching cour … | Continue reading
Industrial designers Frederik Brückner, Christoph Gerdesmeyer and Jonas Krohn teamed up to create this attractive, precise and relentlessly German object: The Supertamp, a precision tamping device for espresso grinds. "Tamping espresso seems to be an easy thing to do, however, it … | Continue reading
This Torso cabinet, by Stockholm-based industrial designer Mars Hwasung Yoo, was created from mass-produced broomsticks:While the material choice was apparently for fanciful purposes, this type of construction would lend itself well to an area where bamboo was abundant.I'm diggin … | Continue reading
The Svolta is a simple wooden shelf system by Carlos Platz, done while studying Industrial Design at Germany's Kunsthochschule Kassel. At first blush, the shelves seem basic, normal:"Svolta is a simple wooden shelf. Despite its light appearance, it offers unexpected stability. Th … | Continue reading
This unusual and unnamed chair was created by Swedish furniture designer/builder OD Form, a/k/a Olof Davidsson:Here's Davidsson putting it together: I couldn't find much about Davidsson himself, other than that he holds an unnamed degree from Sweden's Capellagården School of Craf … | Continue reading
Stationary bikes never feel natural, because they're rigidly upright, with no side-to-side play. In real cycling the bike is often wavering off-center as your legs pump.An Austrian startup called Curveplate aims to provide a more realistic feel with their eponymous product. Two c … | Continue reading
A regular part of farm life is repairing or replacing damaged fencing. I go through a lot of fencing staples, which can be a pain to hammer in, and are always a pain to remove. Worse, they're single-use. The only good thing about them is they're cheap.Montana-based Curt Almy has … | Continue reading
Is now a good or bad time to be a footwear designer? Things seem to be spinning off in a weird direction. Next month Crocs will release a new footwear line designed in collaboration with…7-Eleven.On November 7th (i.e. 11/7 in the 'States, 7/11 in most other places) the duo will r … | Continue reading
After years, earlier this month I finally took a vacation. I traveled into the Appalachians to take a one-week hand-tool-only timber framing course with Mr. Chickadee. It was absolutely fantastic.Under MC's instruction, cutting the joinery is straightforward, but relies on precis … | Continue reading
Irony: The tech companies whose devices and services keep us up late, are also interested in selling us devices that supposedly help us manage our sleep.Amazon is releasing this handsome, vaguely Muji-esque Halo Rise device that will supposedly help you "sleep smarter, sleep bett … | Continue reading
In celebration of their 50th anniversary, musical instrument manufacturer Roland has re-thought the form of the grand piano with this 50th Anniversary Concept. Intended to signal that "Roland and our pianos will never stop evolving," the instrument contains "sound field realizati … | Continue reading
Glass is now practically impossible to recycle in America. After my local recycling center stopped accepting glass, I switched from bottled beer to cans. I hate drinking out of cans, so my solution is to leave a glass tumbler in the freezer, and break it out when it's beer time. … | Continue reading
After graduating from Purdue University, sculptor Guarav Nanda landed a job many ID grads would kill to have: Doing clay modeling for GM.Nanda worked on interiors, which are of course designed to hold humans, but after seven years he began itching to make something else to hold h … | Continue reading
A new Greenpeace USA report called "Circular Claims Fall Flat Again" contains sobering statistics for designers who work with plastic and the consumers who think they're recycling it. The report finds that "U.S. households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste i … | Continue reading
Lighting manufacturer Gantri, who has made the pipeline for independent designers to produce their lighting designs a more tangible reality, just dropped their largest collection of new sustainable lights. The whopping 20 light release includes collections of table, floor and tas … | Continue reading
3D printer manufactures like Stratasys send manufacturing samples to potential customers, to show off what their machines can do. These samples are typically crafted by engineers to showcase specific capabilities of their machines. However, Stratasys recently asked Kuchik & Amita … | Continue reading
With smartphones, tablets and laptops from competing manufacturers looking ever-more similar, it will probably be tech-driven form factor improvements that become the design differentiators. "I believe form factor innovation is a very dynamic space," says Luca Rossi, President of … | Continue reading
One of the stranger vehicle designs from the "Star Wars" universe is the Slave One craft piloted by Boba Fett. With the transmission in "P," the ship sits on the ground like this:But once shifted into "D," it flies through the air in this orientation:I thought of this when lookin … | Continue reading
TinyCircuits is an open source hardware manufacturer based in Akron, Ohio. The firm cut their teeth over a decade ago by developing the TinyDuino, a miniaturized Arduino-compatible platform that enables users to build their own tech objects using small expandable modules.Several … | Continue reading
I keep forgetting that every once in a while, Bugatti will design a pool table or Porsche Design will do a folding TV. So it shouldn't surprise me that Pininfarina designed a high-end expandable dining table, for Italian furniture manufacturer Calligaris.The Orbital table, which … | Continue reading
If you can build a phone, can you build a car? Apple supplier Foxconn, a/k/a Hon Hai Technologies, thinks so. The Taiwanese company is already the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, with a powerful supply chain that stretches into 24 countries, and they're betting … | Continue reading
If you'd like your child to grow into a full-time gamer, and what parent wouldn't, it's best to get them started early. A good step would be to buy them one of these "gaming beds" available in the UK.Here's the actual product copy (except for one comment in brackets) for this Noa … | Continue reading
While pursuing a Masters in Furniture Design at India's National Institute of Design, Radhika Dhumal was trying to come up with a table design and sketched these:She spotted an insectoid quality in the sketches, and pursued it further:This was followed by roughly five weeks in th … | Continue reading
From Core77 reader JIAMING LIU: This project is a printed clay humidifier that can be used in many combinations, providing a flexible solution that can be combined in pairs or individually to suit different space requirements.Each has two parts, the upper part absorbs water and e … | Continue reading
Swiss appliance manufacturer Koenig makes this HeatsBox, a lunch box that "exactly meets the needs of the Swiss population in terms of hot meals," the company writes. The container features an all-around heating element, "for an even heating process that retains the fresh taste a … | Continue reading
On a farm at night, you live and die by the headlamp. I'm happy enough with my BioLite HeadLamp 330 that I've purchased a total of four units, so my wife and I each have our own and a backup; but I'm still looking into installing motion-sensing outdoor lighting at various points … | Continue reading
One Central Park is a two-tower (16- and 33-story) residential structure in Sydney, Australia. At the base is a five-story retail atrium, and French architects Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects did not want this atrium, nor the surrounding terraces, bathed in shadow.Thus No … | Continue reading
Most wireless charging pads have a single large coil in the center. In contrast, this aluminum-bodied Liberty Wireless Charger, by Eindhoven-based tech accessories company Zensd, features 16 small coils in an array. And the top surface is glass, allowing you to see the coils:Beyo … | Continue reading
The prompt was simple: How would *you* insert/use AI as a part of your product design process? This was the question that Juan Carlos Noguera, Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Rochester Institute of Technology, recently posed to his class of Industrial Design MFA stude … | Continue reading
This post is presented by the K-Show, the world's No.1 trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry. Visionary developments and groundbreaking innovations will again lead the industry into new dimensions at K 2022 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Emma Sandberg, Senior Experience Lead a … | Continue reading
Similar to the design we looked at yesterday from Lennart Ebert, this trestle from German industrial design consultancy Gerdesmeyer Krohn is minimalist and elegant.It has a key difference in the design, though; the center leg is on an unseen hinge that permits it to pivot in-line … | Continue reading
We live in a time when Herman Miller is making gaming chairs and Razer, a gaming computer and accessories manufacturer, is selling room screens. I can't decide if these are, technically speaking, decorative screens or not. The Razer Blue Screen is a portable, quick-to-set-up back … | Continue reading
I felt good about design the first time I saw, in a movie theater, a wheelchair user sitting next to their non-wheelchair-using companion. Empty space had been carved out of a row of seats to admit wheelchairs. (This practice didn't exist when I was a kid.)There's not many public … | Continue reading
You will be responsible for conceptualizing, visualizing, and designing new software integrated hardware products. In your designs you will consider many factors including user experience, usability, ergonomics, look and feel, and overall design language. You will collaborate wit … | Continue reading
The Sonu Sleep System is a mattress designed for side sleepers, and thus features channels for your arms.At first this sounded ridiculous to me, but I must admit the use cases look relatable (to me, a side sleeper):You cannot, of course, use regular sheets here. The company thus … | Continue reading
We are spotlighting a handful of projects that got posted in the past week by Industrial Design Firms over at our sister site Design Directory. For a convenient peek at what is new you can also visit our Firm Projects area here at Core77.- - - - - - - - - - - First up is London-b … | Continue reading
German furniture designer Lennart Ebert, who is also a trained Schreiner (Joiner), designed this stunningly simple and beautiful T3 Trestle: "T3 is a minimalist draft with an economic manufacturing process and distribution at the center of the design. In its production with 5-axi … | Continue reading
This post is presented by the K-Show, the world's No.1 trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry. Visionary developments and groundbreaking innovations will again lead the industry into new dimensions at K 2022 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Chris Lefteri: You developed a CMF Desi … | Continue reading