A variety of industrial designers have been asked to post YouTube videos answering the same seven questions. Those questions are: 1. How di d you get into industrial design?2. How do you explain your job to those who don't know what ID is?3. What inspirations have developed your … | Continue reading
Simone Brewster's designs went into production. She was frozen out and left unpaid | Continue reading
I can't imagine anyone actually falls for this kind of language, but thought I'd provide a translation anyway. | Continue reading
Zack and Cambry Nelson's Not-a-Wheelchair is production-ready--and half the price of the competition | Continue reading
Since bicycle ridership has thankfully been increasing during the pandemic, and because even cities with decent mass transit like Paris have created new cycling initiatives, you might wonder: Why would French authorities ban one of the first bicycle commercials scheduled to air o … | Continue reading
John Wright's zero-turn mower with turf treads can drive across a 50° slope! | Continue reading
Just turn the laptop upside down and tap on the back. Seriously | Continue reading
A frequent UX fantasy I have: I want occasional-use products to disappear when I don't need them. Ladders evoke this feeling often; we've got three on the property that we use regularly, and all three are a PITA to store and transport. So after seeing this cleverly-designed Murph … | Continue reading
It's a "how high" machine with some potentially tricky usage cases | Continue reading
A company called Metro Skyways has been working on VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) systems in an effort to realize practical and safe flying cars. "Our mission," the company writes, "is to manufacture the world's safest, quietest, most compact, high occupancy VTOL aircraft i … | Continue reading
As a former art director, automotive journalist Mark Takahashi has the background to speak design a bit better than his peers. In a recent video called "Car Design Trends That Need to Stop," Takahashi aired ten gripes encompassing aesthetics, ergonomics and anachronisms. Because … | Continue reading
Henry Ford would recognize the technique being used by this Ohio town | Continue reading
Meat is delicious, but it's bad for the planet (not to mention the animals that get eaten). Luckily we're now entering an era when plant-based meats taste just about as good as the real thing. And now Israeli start-up Redefine Meat means to boost the uptake of plant-based steaks, … | Continue reading
Domestic A/C units used to be the size of upright pianos | Continue reading
It seems likely that the term "Master Bedroom" will eventually be phased out completely, for its obvious connotations. The Department of Housing and Urban Development had been trying to jettison it since the '90s, according to Yo Chicago, and by 2013 the Washington Business Journ … | Continue reading
The Worx SD Driver is an example of the company's outside-the-box thinking | Continue reading
Sophia Rowland of ArtCenter College of Design wanted to find a way to make the most of neglected produce | Continue reading
As part of their design research, Ford commissioned global research and analytics consultancy Penn Schoen Berland to survey pickup truck owners in the U.S. While I wish Ford had made the entire report public, the few tidbits they did release contained enough surprises that I felt … | Continue reading
The award-winning creative team is back with Ultra, its sleekest gear yet. | Continue reading
Ford has done something unusual with the just-announced 2021 F-150: They went with a new exterior design that looks much the same as the last design. In other words, they undertook the expense of re-tooling for all-new body panels, yet did not gain the benefit of a fresh look. Th … | Continue reading
Apparently it gets sucked up through the roots and into our food, a new study shows | Continue reading
Just before the pandemic started, a Japanese startup called Donut Robotics had won a contract to provide their robot guides/translators to Tokyo's Haneda airport. With the subsequent collapse in air travel, the company worried they'd go bust. In survival mode, the company's engin … | Continue reading
Like a lot of fitness YouTubers, Rom GD has his own gym. Unlike a lot of them, Rom's gym equipment is all DIY, using household and salvaged items. Weights are made out of sprockets, or plastic bottles filled with sand, or concrete cast into paint cans and flowerpots; bushings are … | Continue reading
It looks like the design trend is here to stay, at least for a few years | Continue reading
It would hard to imagine a more urgent time to have a book debut into the world whose subject was "scale and complex systems." Neither the Covid-19 pandemic nor the racial justice reckoning was the raison d'être for Jamer Hunt's outstanding and necessary new book of course, Not t … | Continue reading
At least once a day, I need to take a break and do nothing for a few moments. I usually go onto the back porch and stare across the back pasture. Grass, animals grazing, trees blowing in the wind, that kind of thing. It would make for a very boring | Continue reading
The 2020 Core77 Student Showcase is your guide to design exhibitions by the class of 2020. Featuring hundreds of projects from dozens of schools worldwide. | Continue reading
"You can't be what you can't see," said Marian Wright Edelman, President & Founder of the Children's Defense Fund and a longtime advocate for disadvantaged Americans. It's difficult, for example, for the design industry to be diverse when that diversity is largely invisible. Some … | Continue reading
The design by Studio O+A is a winner in this year's Core77 Design Awards | Continue reading
The event takes place on Saturday, June 27th and all designers are highly encouraged to participate | Continue reading
Goldman Sachs isn't alone in creating their own font. To avoid having to pay licensing fees, brand after brand has designed or commissioned their own. For example: Apple Designed in 2015, Apple's new-ish San Francisco font is on the physical keyboards of their products and, of co … | Continue reading
Who knew Goldman Sachs had an in-house design firm? Goldman Sachs Design, as it's called, has even created their own font, Goldman Sans. While the font is freely available to the public, their licensing terms have stirred up a bit of controversy: If you're wondering what the rais … | Continue reading
Better customer experience, less waste: It looks like no-contact menus are going to become a thing. We first saw it pop up in Italy as a result of the pandemic, but Denver-based large format printing company SpeedPro was quietly developing "smart signage" technology using NFC and … | Continue reading
EyeWris is billed as "one of the biggest design changes in the history of glasses" | Continue reading
In the Liceu opera house in Barcelona, a string quartet gave a Puccini concert to an audience of 2,292 potted plants. The concert, held the day after Spain lifted their lockdown, is the brainchild of conceptual artist Eugenio Ampudia. According to The Guardian, he was inspired by … | Continue reading
YouTuber and digital fabrication enthusiast Ivan Miranda has created a sort of roving plotter that "prints" on sand, using fifty talons. The effect is reminiscent of skywriting or dot matrix printing: "I made a sand drawing robot with 50 miniature servos and a two half tanks," Mi … | Continue reading
Designer Scott Henderson gives an inside look at the face shield's rapid design process. | Continue reading
A material handling company named Keith Manufacturing has developed a Walking Floor®, a brilliant way to get cargo out of a truck without lifting a finger. When I first saw this GIF, I couldn't understand how it worked: And I thought for sure it wouldn't work with finer material, … | Continue reading
In 2002 Engineer Inc., a Japanese hand tool manufacturer, invented a dinosaur-inspired pair of pliers called Neji-saurus. Neji means "screw" in Japanese, and by giving these pliers a dinosaur-like jaw, they created the perfect tool for removing stripped screw heads: Here's how th … | Continue reading
The Rhino Brick needs architects and designers to integrate it | Continue reading
The DiFOLD Origami Bottle finds success in a crowded market | Continue reading
The Civility Mask has dual fans and is available for pre-order | Continue reading
The Q-Reel is large-scale cable management with a nifty trick | Continue reading
Following months of being cooped up at home, you've undoubtedly identified your home's design flaws. With return-to-work or -school dates uncertain, many of you will want to add solid, more soundproof interior doors. In the age of Zoom calls, the standard hollow-core door isn't c … | Continue reading
I had no idea the Apple Watch could even do this! When it's submerged in water, it automatically goes into "Water Lock" mode and the screen no longer responds to touch (presumably to protect internal components). Once you're out of the water, you can spin the Digital Crown, and t … | Continue reading