Inspired, practical, unique — this season let the people who design stuff point you to the best stuff. Explore seven categories of gifts for creative-types, sourced and ranked by the industrial design community of Core77. | Continue reading
There is a category of shoddy promotional item known as the carabiner mug. It's the kind of freebie you eagerly grab at a trade show because it seems nifty, and when you get home you wonder why you bothered; they're tiny and usually hold just 7 or 10 ounces, and | Continue reading
Dekay King describes himself as "an ordinary office worker" who's been working at an architecture firm for 11 years. In 2019 he stumbled upon woodworking as a hobby, and now uses his shop time to explore different sorts of mechanisms for shop furniture, some of them quite clever. … | Continue reading
London-based furniture designer Tomás Alonso created these simple, attractive, flatpack A Frame Tables. "A series of tables and side tables in different sizes and diameters that rely on a very simple trestle type set of legs which can be folded completely flat | Continue reading
One of the clients of the design-build firm I'm working for is insisting on a cast-iron wood stove for one of the rooms. It doesn't really fit the space, but they want it, and I get it; I feed ours daily, it's low-tech, romantic, scratches the cottagecore itch, et cetera. | Continue reading
When you hear about pickup trucks and guns, you likely think of America. But Switzerland is another country where a robust hunting culture coexists with 4x4s, and Zurich-based Black Sheep Innovations serves both markets. The company specializes in modifying the kinds of pickups c … | Continue reading
Struggling to exercise on leave, Anna Samuels created a smart punching bag that brings professional gym quality home. | Continue reading
By Giulio Grosso, Beatrice Citterio, Lucia Galiotto and Roman Fenske | Continue reading
In advance of the L.A. Auto Show, I'm at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures for the west coast launch of the new Range Rover. Auto show aside, this is the perfect city to launch the new model. Los Angeles is practically the Range Rover capital of the world--you see | Continue reading
This four-legged robot with wheels for feet makes Boston Dynamics' Spot robot look positively primitive. Created by Swiss Mile, a spin-off from ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab, the robot can not only hit nearly 14 MPH, but it can also climb stairs (forwards or backwards, it's al … | Continue reading
By Giulio Grosso, Beatrice Citterio, Lucia Galiotto and Roman Fenske | Continue reading
The installation features the Lexus LF-Z Electrified Concept Car, a future-forward vehicle previewed earlier in 2021 | Continue reading
Way back in 1994, Japanese product designer Yukio Shinoda conceived of a water-based display that uses bubbles for pixels. Here's his original concept sketch: More recently, he decided to finally realize the concept. Using a laser cutter and his knowledge of electronics, Shinoda … | Continue reading
Guide the computer as it creates concepts, then print on demand when you're ready | Continue reading
The company unveils the car in Miami, with Abloh's family's blessing | Continue reading
Stone Offroad Design's RISE 4x2-950, based on a Mercedes cargo truck | Continue reading
Let's say you've got a camera-equipped quadrotor drone with a 30-minute flight time, but you want to send it aloft to continuously observe an area for 45 minutes. What to do? It would be helpful if it could land in a high location—like say, a tree branch—to conserve energy while | Continue reading
Pelican makes these rolltop Dayventure Backpack Coolers, which feature dual closed-cell-foam-insulated storage compartments separated by a watertight zipper. Either compartment can be loaded with ice, though from a UX standpoint it makes more sense to carry the wet stuff in the b … | Continue reading
I once visited White Sands National Park in New Mexico, and even with sunglasses on, it was positively blinding. At least the sun goes down in New Mexico. Imagine being in the similarly all-white landscape of the Arctic during that time of the year where the sun sticks around 24- … | Continue reading
This object falls into the category of "I'm sad this exists, but I understand why it does." With Swan, industrial designer Oneseo (a/k/a Wonseo Choi) addresses the fact that many people, particularly in his home country of South Korea, eat their meals while staring into a smartph … | Continue reading
I know a retired couple that owns a small airplane. The husband has a civilian pilot's license, and I was fascinated to learn that they routinely travel from New York to Colorado on vacation—by flying themselves. It's an 8-hour flight, but "We always stop in Illinois, to make it … | Continue reading
I thought that Snactiv, a pair of wearable chopsticks that let you eat messy snacks while keeping your fingers clean enough to type, were ridiculous. But they were successfully Kickstarted with $41,700 in funding. Now there's another eat-without-touching gizmo on the crowdfunding … | Continue reading
The Shuffle Chair is an interesting furniture experiment by design engineer Niklas Hagemann. "Inspired by the idea that two telephone-books, when shuffled together, are virtually impossible to pull apart (see Mythbusters), I created a paper chair held together by the friction bet … | Continue reading
Have you ever not been able to find your Legos, because they were stored in a box that was not itself shaped like a Lego? Well, me neither, but that's no reason to get all judgey. Lego licensing partner Room Copenhagen makes polypropylene storage boxes shaped like 2x2 and 2x4 | Continue reading
For better or worse, it provides a more clear expression of their new design direction | Continue reading
The Christmas before the pandemic started, California-based civil engineer and woodworker Tyemadeit created a 9-foot-tall Christmas tree out of 288 pieces of wood. Sure, assembly is a little tedious, but with the exception of the base, this thing'd be easy to transport flat: For … | Continue reading
I do miss the Wild West days of cell phones, before we'd all settled on glass rectangles. It's always fun to watch competing manufacturers trying to figure out the ideal form for a new thing, and it's not the home runs as much as the swing-and-a-miss designs that I find | Continue reading
Ripping off the Peloton: Little Tikes' Pelican lets you attach a tablet | Continue reading
Reminds me a lot of Industrial Design school class projects | Continue reading
This package design for sneakers was designed by Ümithan Üçok, an Industrial Design student at Turkey's Atilim University. "RamPack shoe packaging was developed to prevent throwing away shoeboxes immediately after purchasing. It functions as a shoe carrier and also a storage box, … | Continue reading
Cardbox Packaging is a package design firm with branches in Europe and the U.S. For the former market, where the EU banned disposable plastic cutlery earlier this year, Cardbox developed the flatpack, recyclable single-use Karlo Spoon: "It is made entirely from cartonboard, an ec … | Continue reading
Zeva Aero takes a fresh design approach with their Zero Personal Air Vehicle | Continue reading
Inspired, practical, unique — this season let the people who design stuff point you to the best stuff. Explore seven categories of gifts for creative-types, sourced and ranked by the industrial design community of Core77. | Continue reading
"Under/Over" highlights the work of over 25 artists and designers working in New York City | Continue reading
Remember that Laservision Softstop system from Australia? Designed to prevent truck drivers from slamming into tunnels too short for their vehicles, it's a water- and projection-based stop sign that's completely unmissable. TikToker vfxhd has lifted the concept, without attributi … | Continue reading
Rob Hallifax's One Deck Game Cards have been 3,000% funded on Kickstarter | Continue reading
My father-in-law recently fell prey to an unusual form of porch piracy. He arrived home to find a package on his porch, addressed to him, from a high-end department store. Inside was a very gaudy and expensive man-purse from an Italian fashion brand. When he called the store to i … | Continue reading
Frustrated by Pictionary's cheapie timer, MakerPaul 3D prints a better solution | Continue reading
New York based Proteus Motion is reinventing strength training through their new resistance training machine, which measures strength in 3 dimensions. The Proteus System creates an equal amount of resistance in all directions of motion, creating the sensation of moving through wa … | Continue reading
The launch introduces new challenges to the manufacturing capabilities of Gantri, and kicks off an independent design venture for Smart Design | Continue reading
Danish architect and furniture designer Dan Svarth designed this unusual rocking chair, which looks like a deck chair: Here's how it rocks (sorry I couldn't find better video): It comes with a little rack so you can hang it from a wall: | Continue reading
DoCoMo developed a balloon-based drone that's safe to fly indoors and around people, as it's rotorless. Boston-based Cleo Robotics has taken a different approach, designing a bi-rotor drone that encloses the blades within a housing. Designed specifically to fly in "GPS-denied env … | Continue reading
Reducing the passenger count from 255 to 12 opens up some possibilities | Continue reading
Plastic model kits are typically injection molded in a single shot, with all of the parts held together in a lattice, known as the runner. (Some call them sprue cards.) For the past six months, Japanese toymaker Bandai has been collecting their customers' stripped runners for a r … | Continue reading
In New Zealand's Awatere Valley, vineyard owners regularly lose thousands of dollars in crops to an insect pest known as the weta. Pesticides are not an option, not only for reasons of health, but because the weta pest is endangered and protected. Thus the prevailing solution is … | Continue reading
Designer Gen Terao creates a phone for those of us who feel they're getting too big | Continue reading