The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Transportation category honors vehicles, systems or modes of transportation used to get people or objects from one place to another, for private, public, commercial or industrial purposes. Examples include: planes, trains, automobiles, buses, bikes, … | Continue reading
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards Visual Communication category honors all visual and graphic design, branding and identity projects for print, digital or physical environments. Examples include: logos and identity systems, environmental graphics, signage, typefaces, infographics, mo … | Continue reading
German lawn equipment manufacturer Stiga has a push-mower handlebar called the Fulcrum that looks, well, overengineered: That's because it performs a couple of neat tricks. It's of course height-adjustable, but can also be made to tilt to the side for when you're mowing right up … | Continue reading
This must've been a fun, and challenging, project to design for. The Stargaze, by outdoor gear manufacturer Nemo Equipment, borrows elements from the hammock, the rocking chair and the folding chair to deliver a different way to sit.The legs and frame can be used on uneven ground … | Continue reading
On a trip to Hawaii, I was surprised to see that pineapples actually grow out of bushes; I'd naively thought they grew in the ground like potatoes, with the crown sticking up out of the ground.By Suniltg at Malayalam Wikipedia - Transferred from ml.wikipedia to Commons by sreejit … | Continue reading
The Arch bench, by ex-Bang-&-Olufsen industrial designer Shinya Oguchi, is perhaps the most minimalist design for a bench I've ever seen:"The steel thickness is just 3.2mm. It is very thin but it is steady thanks to the arch structure. The converged points of the arches become le … | Continue reading
Free to enter, The Design Intelligence Awards offers a $750K prize fund and provides a platform to accelerate international trade, increase connectivity, and open commercial opportunities for design entrepreneurs. The DIA entries are open to two distinct groups allowing work at e … | Continue reading
AirBNB has announced a design competition to create a kooky rental structure—that they'll fund, to the tune of $100,000, for you to build and rent out on their platform. They're pledging $10 million in total, so "One hundred people with the craziest ideas will receive $100,000 ea … | Continue reading
Here's some outside-of-the-box thinking from French industrial designer Alexandre Picciotto:"Unit is modular furniture that uses pressures against the floor and ceiling. It allows you to build a desk or shelves without tools and permanent [installation]." This reminds me of the a … | Continue reading
This year Ford of Europe's design team was handed what Design Director Amko Leenarts calls "a dream opportunity:" To design a racy, futuristic and green version of Ford's iconic Transit van.A little background: In 1971, 1984 and 1995 Ford produced promotional "Supervan" vehicles … | Continue reading
Bloomberg reports that Apple is preparing to release a "flood of new products" in late 2022 and early 2023: New iPhones, Apple watches, Macs, iPads, AirPods Pro, HomePods and their first mixed-reality headset. Buried at the bottom of the article is a small mention: They've also f … | Continue reading
Those who work in offices know the universal temperature settings rarely please everyone. With this in mind, UK-based industrial designer Tony Elkington of Studio Elk conceived of this Stratum – Workplace Thermal Comfort concept:"Stratum is a desk mat that gives office workers co … | Continue reading
Another #vanlife UX problem tackled by German manufacturer Froli. Space is tight when you're living in a camper, and your cupboard has to be as compact as possible. But putting glassware together in a jostling vehicle presents problems: At best there's an annoying and constant cl … | Continue reading
Barcelona-based industrial designer Titus Lotgering developed a quirky chair concept that "reclines through a somewhat experimental method inspired by the famous air-filled sneakers," he writes: Mindful of Beaverton-based lawyers, he never mentions the inspirational brand by name … | Continue reading
Glass is infinitely recyclable, and in Europe 90% of it gets recycled. In America, the number is a disappointing 33%, with the rest going in landfill. Why? In a nutshell, we Americans can't be bothered to properly separate glass for recycling, making it impossible to harvest. It … | Continue reading
Those pursuing #vanlife need comfortable sleeping surfaces; the lifestyle is untenable if you can't get a good night's sleep. However, weight must be minimized for the sake of gas mileage, so a real mattress isn't advisable. What to do?German manufacturer Froli has devised a way … | Continue reading
We've covered the story of John Economaki before. To refresh your memory, he was a professional woodworker who became allergic to sawdust, ending his career. He then transitioned into designing what you might call "extreme precision tools," and his Bridge City Toolworks has been … | Continue reading
There's a thrilling scene in one of the Captain America movies where a heavily-armored SUV driven by Nick Fury comes under attack. The vehicle withstands an incredible amount of damage.There's a terrifying scene from last year, where a failed heist in South Africa yielded real-li … | Continue reading
South Korean ID consultancy Unichest designed this Rollable Display concept for Samsung:Completed in December of 2019, the concept was either derailed by COVID or otherwise deemed unfit for production. There is something intriguing about the concept. The form is handsome and rati … | Continue reading
UPDATE: We've hit a few logistical bumps in the road, and as a result we need to postpone the 2022 Core77 Design Awards Virtual Ceremony until next Tuesday, June 28th at 4 PM EDT.Since the awards ceremony will be everyone's first opportunity to hear about 2022 awards winners, thi … | Continue reading
Impossibly slender, this Gravitas line of outdoor furniture was designed by Düsseldorf-based Konture Studio. The pieces are low-maintenance and intended for either domestic or outdoor café use. "Thanks to the galvanizing and powdered coating, the ensemble of table and stools or b … | Continue reading
Industrial designer Craighton Berman has had 15 projects successfully Kickstarted, and even taught a university course on crowdfunding. Now he's distilled that knowledge into Crowdfunding for Designers, a 'zine "about designing and independently launching small-batch products, wi … | Continue reading
Your average tissue box offers no visual clue as to when it's nearly depleted. Admittedly that's not the biggest UX problem in the world, but it didn't escape the attention of designer Takashi Yasuda, whose Kyo Design Office created this Tissue Weight object, a two-piece design m … | Continue reading
Last winter the zipper slider failed on my heavily-used farm jacket. I ordered a replacement from Wawak, got the size wrong, ordered a second one, couldn't figure out how to get it on, then finally my wife pushed me out of the way and replaced it, prising the zipper stop off and … | Continue reading
I think most industrial designers would enjoy a challenge like this: To redesign a well-established object by using an entirely different construction to reduce the parts count. For their Magic Ride pedelec, Munich-based manufacturer Mocci's designers ditched the conventional tub … | Continue reading
Nerf has never had a mascot—you could argue they don't need one—but someone in Marketing over there decided it was time. So this month they're debuting Murph, an apparently non-binary character made entirely of Nerf darts:"We are thrilled to introduce Murph to fans, a mascot that … | Continue reading
As usual, the future has arrived looking a lot different than what we'd envisioned. Flying cars were promised, but as it turns out, the most workable personal flying device is a carbon-fiber bathtub mounted in a tubular aluminum frame with four arms each supporting two counter-ro … | Continue reading
Proof that you can't buy good taste: The Huayra Codalunga is a limited-edition hypercar of which just five will be made, at a starting price of €7 million (USD $7.35 million). For starters, the exterior looks like someone tried to create a series of expensive-to-fabricate surface … | Continue reading
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Bored out of his gourd, during the pandemic Dean Peterson started a TikTok where he earnestly reviewed public bathroom sinks. An example: It's strangely compelling, no? Other's thought so too. Peterson, a then-unemployed NYC filmmaker, continued populating the channel, and Sink … | Continue reading
To supply uninterrupted power to a disaster zone, you need to ship both a big-ass generator, and a tanker full of fuel to feed the thing. It would be easier if you could ship some magical version of the first thing that didn't require the second thing.That's essentially what Sesa … | Continue reading
Love Hultén's latest creation, the Doodlestation, is a very strange electronic musicmaking contraption with visual feedback. The freethinking designer has combined a Sequential OB-6 synthesizer, a Moog DFAM synthesizer, a theremin and other electronic tools with a custom-made MID … | Continue reading
Pen manufacturer Aechy makes these unusual dual-tipped pens. One end is a conventional fine-tip rollerball, but the other end is essentially a rolling stamp that lays down a pattern. (I guess this is for folks who don't have the time to draw dotted lines, or for whom inconsistent … | Continue reading
Reddit poster vaguenonetheless provided no details of this boot-cleaning contraption, but it's safe to say this is an industrial facility, not something a guy rigged up between his garden and the back door:Being obsessed with boot-cleaning contraptions, I poked around on the inte … | Continue reading
Dutch designer MIRL "celebrates what surrounds us and reflects this in playful design concepts," reads her bio. "Driven by interaction, she rethinks the relation we have with our daily living environment and translates these ideas into products."Her +2Degrees series is an inventi … | Continue reading
The DiskDrive, by British startup Skarper, is a 6.6-pound object that snaps onto your bike, then powers it electrically by driving the rear brake rotor. Pop it off to recharge it (or prevent it from being stolen).Using the system does require you to swap out your existing rotor, … | Continue reading
Hay is re-releasing Swiss industrial designer Bruno Rey's handsome Rey Chair, which first went into production in 1971. (Originally called the 3300, the chair took on its designer's name as it grew in popularity.) Stool, barstool and table variants round out the Rey Collection. T … | Continue reading
Tokyo-based designer Nobuaki Sato created these Riffle LED lamps, in both desktop and floor-standing configurations, made of walnut veneer: What's crazy is that this is apparently the hinge:There's a stop-motion clip of it in the third frame of this Instagram post: Assuming this … | Continue reading
The Streek Active Cargo Trike is a compact cargo e-bike specifically designed for the Japanese market. For reasons of both storage and navigation, European- and American-sized cargo bikes aren't a good fit, literally, for the space-tight country. In contrast, Streek is just 1.9m … | Continue reading
European furniture brand Riluc offers, well, insane objet d'art furniture primarily out of steel; if you're a production designer on a Bond film tasked with creating the antagonist's lair, this here is one-stop shopping. The bulk of the pieces are designed by company founder and … | Continue reading
This is either a bizarre coincidence, or one of these designers has inspired the other. In February we looked at New Sources, a project by German designer Matthias Gschwendtner, whereby he digitally scans tree offcuts produced by the lumber industry, then uses computational desig … | Continue reading
A newcomer to the Core77 Discussion Boards asked the impossibly broad question: "What is the difference between designers?"By way of response, member Fluffy Data whipped up the following graphics:"On a spectrum:""Over time:" I wrote FD to ask about the graphics, and s/he explaine … | Continue reading
The amusing car-meme Instagrammer Calvin MotorSport has assembled a couple of silly-but-satisfying video compilations of quirky car features. The first: Deploying their headlight washers.0:00 Ferrari California / 0:11 BMW M3 / 0:16 BMW 5 Series / 0:26 Mercedes-Benz E-Class / 0:40 … | Continue reading
Here's an example of organic development of a tool, the type of thing that could only be designed by a person who encounters daily the problems it's meant to solve. Florida-based inventor Tim Viens is a boating enthusiast who initially used an ordinary adjustable wrench to remove … | Continue reading
Mark your calendars—we're getting ready to announce all our 2022 Core77 Design Awards winners next week! Core77 is excited to share the names and details of the winning projects in a LIVE awards ceremony, which will be participants' very first opportunity to hear who is going hom … | Continue reading
Designing an automotive seat requires a good understanding of manufacturability, specifically sewing. Whatever swoopy shapes and protruding bolsters you draw must contend with the reality of cut-and-sew construction, which limits the radii of design details, as the fabric either … | Continue reading
French company Plaxtil has used their technology to recycle used face masks into school supplies. Millions of discarded masks have been collected, sanitized, broken back down into plastic and molded into protractors, rulers and triangles for geometry classes.The company used to b … | Continue reading
Tokyo-based designer Ryota Akiyama, who specializes in "researching the nature of materials," came up with this Airbay, an experimental and non-obvious design for a chair:Constructed from a 1.2mm aluminum sheet and a 0.05mm PVC balloon, "Neither material in this form can perform … | Continue reading