By Rain Noe - May 27 New

A Bare Bones Kit for Getting Started with Hand Tools, Building a Swedish Torch Camp Stove, Outdoor Furniture & More

Part 2 of this week's Makers Roundup

By Rain Noe - May 26 New

How to Make a Knife Show Display, an Outdoor Storage Bench, the "Don't Drive Yourself Crazy" Approach to DIY & More

Part 1 of this week's Makers Roundup

By Core Jr - May 26 New

Wheeled Vehicles from the Bay Area Maker Faire, Upsetting Street Design Mistakes and Remembering When "Special Effects" Were a Builder's Job

A weekly selection of great links hand-picked by Core77 editors. Get 'em while they're hot.

The Core77 team spends time combing through the news so you don't have to. Here's a weekly roundup of our favorite finds from the World Wide Web:

By Mid Century Mobler - May 26 New

Mid Century Modern Find of the Week: Danish Modern Entry Chest

This Danish modern entry chest hails from the mid-1960s and is crafted in rosewood and copper. Two drawers provide storage. We've had a few other pieces with this same copper relief by Mobel Intarsa, which this chest may have been made by, but as it is unmarked, there is

By Malory Johnson - May 26 New

Design Experience that Matters: How to Build a Z-Rack Whiteboard and Save $150

This studio hack will make your space more productive for less money

Every design studio goes through mountains of post-it notes while brainstorming and charting ideas. We love the portability of flip-chart posters, but even after moving to a big studio in Salem we never had enough wall space. Then we found Make Space by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft at

By Rain Noe - May 26

3D Fuel's Water-Soluble Filament for 3D Printing

HydroSupport filament allows you print to support structures without the hassle of removing them

3D Fuel is an American and European manufacturer of 3D printing supplies. "After conducting a survey with its user base," 3D Printing Media Network writes, "3D Fuel found that the most desired material to add to its offer was: Water soluble support filament." Thus they've come up with HydroSupport, a

By Shannon Rogers - May 25

Hand Tool School #32: Which Saw to Get First

I get asked which saw a beginning woodworker or even someone wanting to use more hand tools should buy first. There are a lot of things that make this answer "it depends" but I feel pretty strongly that it should be a carcass saw. This video is a detailed look

By Rain Noe - May 25

Amazon's NYC Bookstore Transposes Digital Conventions Onto a Physical Environment

…which begs the question: Why?

Amazon has been opening physical stores for two years now, and today they open their first physical bookstore in New York City. It is interesting to see how they've essentially transposed their digital strengths into an actual environment, rather than aping the design conventions of a Barnes & Noble or

By Rain Noe - May 25

Video of Why Marc Newson Made This Stunning $12,000 Hourglass

It takes a lot for me to be absolutely smitten by an object, but this is it. Marc Newson, in collaboration with Hodinkee, sought out hard-to-find craftsmen to create this stunning, tactile, ultra-designed hourglass. If that sounds frivolous to you, I'd ask you not to pre-judge, and just watch why

By Steven Johnson - May 24

Steven M. Johnson's Bizarre Invention #167: The Real Life Vehicle

Steven M. Johnson's "Patent Depending" series of inventions range from social commentary to plain ol' bizarre, and they always give us a laugh. So we've contracted him to let us publish one every week.

By Emily Engle - May 24

Vitsœ's 'The Strong collection' Gives an Intimate Glance Into the World of Braun Product Design 

Braun collector and Dieter Rams fan Tom Strong believes the desire to collect is, "as insidious as marijuana"

Tucked away in Soho was one of our favorite exhibits on display during NYCxDesign: The Strong collection. On display at Vitsœ's NYC location, the exhibit featured around 75 items from Tom Strong's 250+ item collection of Dieter Rams-designed Braun products. Strong's diverse collection ranged from tabletop cigarette lighters to electric

By Joel Moskowitz - May 24

Tools & Craft #48: A Look at Violin Makers' Planes

A short history of a specialty tool

Luthiers have a problem. When making a stringed instrument, the belly (front) and back need to be thin in the right places so that they will vibrate correctly, and thick and strong in other places so that string tension doesn't break the instrument. To do this they must carefully remove

By Rain Noe - May 24

Movisi's Lego-like, Lightweight Modular Furniture

The Grow system is "made from 95% air"

German manufacturer Movisi (pronounced "move easy") has created a lightweight and modular furniture system called Grow. The system is based around a single component that the user can attach to others via tool-free connectors; they can then build them out, like Legos, into seating, storage or room-dividing units. The

By Rain Noe - May 24

Microsoft's Beautiful, Design-ey New Surface Pro

The design mantle is no longer Apple's

Now that Apple has slowed down on innovative design, it's great to see that Microsoft is picking up the slack. Yesterday they put out a video of their new Surface Pro, and the thing looks amazing: I'm digging not only that they've developed their own style for the video—remember that

By Rain Noe - May 24

Woodworking: Clever Japanese Technique for Getting Perfect-Fitting Joinery

It's called "kigoroshi" and it ensures there's no gaps

A half-lap joint is good-looking, functional and, once you get good at it, quick to cut with hand tools. But even if you get the joint to fit snugly, the intersections may show ugly gaps due to slight imperfections in your sawing or chiseling technique. Traditional Japanese woodworking has a

By Rain Noe - May 23

An Exhibition of Crazy, Never-Built NYC Architectural Concepts

The Queens Museum is trying to get "Never Built New York" off of the ground, and needs your help

You might know that in the 1940s there were plans to build an airport right over Manhattan. But did you know that Buckminster Fuller wanted to build a climate-controlled dome over midtown in the 1960s? Or that in the 1880s, a pneumatic overhead railway was proposed for commuters? Or that

By Fictiv Inc. - May 23

Strain-Relief: Design Tips for Durability and Aesthetic Appeal

When designing for strain-relief, don't make the mistake that Apple did

You reach over to plug in your phone, and you feel that spark – and not in a good "I love this product!" kind of way. The wire is broken, and yet another charging cable is about to make its way to a landfill, while you have to make a

By Kat Bauman - May 23

Spotted On Coroflot: A Cube of Coffee

A very square solution to coffee clutter

Coffee gear can take over a counter quickly. Is integrated storage a reasonable solution? In a world where pour over coffee takes several discreet tools and a cubic Nescafe unit the size of a microwave is an acceptable appliance, Sam Cho's Coffee Cube suggests a return to the blocky but

By Allison Fonder - May 23

IKEA Head Designer Marcus Engman on How Their Team is Working to Fight Climate Change

Engman will be speaking today at the What Design Can Do conference about IKEA's sustainability initiatives

Since taking the role of head designer at IKEA several years ago, Marcus Engman has led a great effort to match the most well-known furniture company in the world with the best designers working in the business today. Why? Because he believes that high-quality design should be accessible to anyone.

By Rain Noe - May 23

Bentley's New Trim Package for Falconry Enthusiasts

I'm a mother falcon baller, son

I don't mean to complain, but there's a lot of times when I'm driving around in my $229,100 Bentley SUV and I still feel like something is missing in my life. While I can distract myself by pursuing my passions, like hunting human beings for sport--they really are the most

By Arthurious Journal - May 22

Three Key Trends Spotted at Sight Unseen OFFSITE 2017

Notes from one of New York's most innovative and forward-thinking design shows

Set up as a gallery exhibition on the ground floor of 100 Avenue of the Americas in SoHo, Sight Unseen Offsite showcased some of the most innovative designers working today. Unlike other design week shows, the editors of Sight Unseen almost dictatorially command who gets to participate or not —

By Core77 Design Awards - May 22

Save the Date - 2017 Core77 Design Awards Results Celebration

Join us on June 8th at A/D/O in Brooklyn

We're looking to kick the summer off right. In honor of the 7th season of the Design Awards coming to a close, Core77 will be hosting an inaugural party at A/D/O in Brooklyn, NY on June 8th, to coincide with the release of the Awards results earlier in the day.

By Kat Bauman - May 22

A Floating Shelf To Get Hung Up On

Raketa's hovering platform with a Red Dot nod

There are enough "floating shelf" designs floating around the internet to make a whole separate Pinterestesque website dedicated to them and their unstable storage promises. Raketa's Circulum shelf offers top-down storage with few of the standard flaws. Hanging shelves are prone to a few flaws: the swinging effect that can