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By Rain Noe - Mar 04
A No-Electricity Lathe, a Clever Tool for Fixing Hole Screw-Ups and No-Welding Metalworking in This Week's Maker's Roundup
You'll also see The Wood Whisperer working that fee-yancy $2,600 Multirouter
Looks like Jimmy DiResta's not the only one who needed a new toolbox (see latest episode of DiResta's Cut). Here Jay Bates knocks up an oak tool tote featuring hand-cut dovetails and interior organizers, and his attention to detail in both craftsmanship and design is on
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By Core Jr - Mar 04
Top 5 Instagram Videos of the Week
A selfie stick prediction from 47 years ago and a cheeky little robot make up this week's winners
Here's a roundup of our favorite videos featured this week on Core77's Instagram feed!
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By Core Jr - Mar 04
The Promise of Airships, Team-Building Tips From Google and the Strange Art of America's Secret Societies
A weekly selection of great links curated by the Core77 team
Core77's editors spend time combing through the news so you don't have to. Here's a weekly roundup of our favorite stories from the World Wide Web.
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By Allison Fonder - Mar 04
A Few Things You Should Know About the "Darkest Material Ever Made"
A brief look at the science behind Anish Kapoor's new signature color Vantablack
The color Vantablack has recently taken the world by storm after artist Anish Kapoor announced that he has acquired exclusive rights to the use of this color. According to sources and scientists, it is the blackest substance known to man and absorbs as much as 99.6% of light.
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By Allan Chochinov - Mar 04
The Heroic Future: How Do We Imagine the Better World That We Need?
Allan Chochinov chats with Alex Steffen about the importance of looking at the future in a new way
Alex Steffen, Core77 friend, longtime environmental advocate, and founder of the beloved Worldchanging, has recently launched a Kickstarter campaign—The Heroic Future—to fund an a live documentary series about “reimagining the world of tomorrow, in order to rebuild the world today.” Core77’s Allan Chochinov sat down with Alex to talk about
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By Sudha Kamath - Mar 04
National Industrial #DesignDay is 3.5.16
@IDSA Asks: Why Does ID Matter to You?
"Why does ID matter to you?" That's what the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) wants to know on National Industrial Design Day—March 5, 2016. Join the conversation on @IDSA #DesignDay on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. "Design now has the power and gravitas to affect real change," says IDSA Board
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By THAT! - Mar 04
Reader Submitted: FreezTHAT: Ice Cube Tray Freezes Ice in 10 Minutes
FreezTHAT! is a flexible and BPA-free silicone tray that can release frozen treats with a gentle twist. We also designed the tray to fast freeze water into ice with its unique triangular freezing design and internally sealed cooling gel. The cooling fluid stores up coldness from the freezer and rapidly
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By Kat Bauman - Mar 04
Knog's New Oi Bell: Unnecessary But Excellent
Low Profile, Big Ding
Just a couple days in and Knog has hyper-kickstarted their new Oi Bike Bell, a simple accessory that is both super trim and slightly silly. Options for all your bling ringing.As an aesthete, I have a love-hate relationship with safety equipment. It's an easy kind of thing to resent
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By Rain Noe - Mar 04
British Product Designer Pioneers Method to Recycle Chewing Gum Into Moldable Plastic
Anna Bullus is keeping sidewalks clean while producing a new sort of polymer
While studying product design at the University of Brighton, Anna Bullus gave herself an interesting project: She'd pick up every single piece of litter she could find on the way home, then Google each one to see if it was recyclable and how. Inside an empty bag of potato chips
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By Coroflot Jobs - Mar 04
Design Job: Tired of the Corporate Grind? Become Lifestyledesign's next Industrial Designer in Santa Barbara
Work in a fun and energetic environment—exciting projects and great clients await you!
Seeking talented, keenly aware and detail driven designers with a proven track record of success! Ideal candidates have a solid history of creating persuasive and impactful design solutions, utilizing 2D/3D CAD, stemming from their 3-5 years experience. A degree is required, as is the knowledge of manufacturing processes (hard/soft goods).
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By Kat Bauman - Mar 04
Will 4th Wave Coffee Have WiFi?
Design Evolution & Future of the Coffee Shop
Without assuming too much about your particular tastes, you probably know coffee has come a long way in the last century. It's been everything from a quick morning drink for laborers, an unassuming textbook accompaniment, and a scientifically studied subject of gustatory passion. So it fits that our coffee-procurement places
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By Rain Noe - Mar 03
Goodyear's Trippy "Eagle 360" Concept for Spherical Tires
Spheres and doubts
Here's a concept that those of you who enjoy putting flashy rims on your car won't like. Goodyear's "Eagle 360" concept tire is completely spherical, precluding you from showing off LED-riddled spinners as you cruise the boulevard. These spherical wheels would work via mag-lev (duh)... ... and the company has
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By Rain Noe - Mar 03
Kayleen Pike's Impressive Bodypainting Skills
Her canvas goes everywhere with her
What do you do when circumstances prevent you from doing the thing you love? Calgary-based Kayleen Pike loves cosplaying so much that she started a company, Canada Cosplay, through which she sells her custom-made hats and hoodies made for the art. But Pike, 28, also suffers from congenital arthritis in
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By Rain Noe - Mar 03
Eye Candy: SIGGRAPH's Best-of-the-Best Computer Animation Sizzle Reel
Five years' worth of rendering greatness, all in one video
SIGGRAPH 2016 is coming up in July, and given that this year's theme is "Render the Possibilities," their publicity team has put together a video showing you just how wide those possibilities are. After combing through the last five years' worth of submissions for their annual computer animation festival, they've
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By Core Jr - Mar 03
The Future of Sex and Tech
A Sex-tacular Wrapup
What will sex toys look like in 2050? Will porn finally make virtual reality popular? Are we in the midst of a design revolution in erotic products? Over the last month we've explored the frontiers of intimacy and technology through our special editorial series, the Core77 Sex-Tacular. Through conversations with
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By Allison Fonder - Mar 03
This Phone Charging Chair Feeds Off Your Fidgeting
More jitters, more juice
Most might regard their own nervous ticks to be highly annoying and mostly unnecessary, but what if those our fidgety movements could be used for the greater good? Well, maybe not the greater good, but at the very least to charge your phone. This brings us to MOOV,
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By Jeri Dansky - Mar 03
Sex Toy Storage Beyond the Nightstand
Products to handle a few special toys or a large collection
There are plenty of ways to store sex toys without using products specifically designed for that purpose. But there are a number of interesting design features on the products that are designed for organizing sex toys. The Joyboxx has a removable tray which can serve as a "bedside coaster for
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By Teshia Treuhaft - Mar 03
The Funtastic World of Jaime: A Talk with Jaime Hayon at Design Indaba 2016
We talk to Artist/Designer Jaime Hayon about finding inspiration and staying playful.
When you decide to become a designer, the path might not be completely clear—but traditionally, it has some key features and check points. Attending the right design school, getting the right client, innovating in a particular material, style, etc usually top the checklist for a successful design career. However for
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By Eric Ludlum - Mar 03
Roll out a Rietveld Beach Buggy this Summer (If You Start Making it Now)
Did you know the plans are available? Did you know he even made a beach buggy?
Dear Reader, are you perhaps … looking to freshen up the scenario for your design history reenactment group? … a sun-loving DIYer caught in-doors, seeking to evade a persistent winter? … a creative-type in a gestational holding pattern while awaiting a Spring delivery? If you are then read
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By Coroflot Jobs - Mar 03
Design Job: Get Groovy in Viceland as a Motion Graphics Designer at Vice Media in New York.
Join the industry leader in producing and distributing the best online video content in the world!
The designer’s primary duty will be that day-to-day handling of design projects, focused specifically on motion graphics. They should have 2-4 years of experience, a Bachelors degree, and a strong proficiency and experience in the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects (Cinema 4D a plus).
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By Rain Noe - Mar 03
Industrial Design 101: Quickly Generating Abstract Form Ideas With Simple Materials
3D sketching with nothing more than an X-Acto knife, paper and a stapler
If you're designing a tool, a shop jig or a minimalist housing for an electronic device, you'll pretty much hew to the Form Follows Function rule. But there are plenty of other object categories--say, footwear, automotive or furniture--where you have an opportunity to integrate more abstract trappings. This can
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By Allison Fonder - Mar 02
Check Out These Addictive "History of Great Inventions" Videos
Testing out old invention patents—the good, the bad and the stupid
I'm just going to go ahead and say especially to you DIY-ers that I'm sorry in advance: if you haven't already seen this, you're about to get lost in an internet K-hole. MAKE recently resurfaced in an article Steve Hoefer's 2013 video series for the site, "Make: Inventions", in which
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By Alexandra Alexa - Mar 02
NASA's Graveyards: Haunting Images Reveal Remnants of the Space Race
The facilities that once captivated us are now abandoned and left to the elements
Last night, astronaut Scott Kelly landed in Kazahkstan after spending 340 days in space. His seemingly idyllic landing and adventures over the past year (documented here in a film by TIME Magazine and PBS) have rekindled our public imagination for the deep mysteries that lie beyond Earth. The Soyuz
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By Rain Noe - Mar 02
A DIY Dual-Drawer Toolbox in this Episode of DiResta's Cut
"I know I'm going to get a letter from Festool saying 'That's not how you're supposed to use that'"
Toolboxes are handy for keeping things all in one place, but they aren't much good if you can't quickly access everything in them. The classic problem is that you need to fish to reach what's in the bottom. For the past ten years Jimmy DiResta has lived with this design
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By Allison Fonder - Mar 02
Artist Robert Irwin is Building a Surreal Space in the Texas Desert
The Chinati Foundation in Marfa is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter for the installation's courtyard garden
Robert Irwin's prolific status hasn't prevented him from remaining somewhat in the shadows—fittingly, this temperament is further visualized in the minimalist art he produces. Originally a painter turned installation artist, his pieces over time moved from small to large, from flat to fully experiential. If you don't already know of
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By David Ciernicki - Mar 02
Reader Submitted: Major Tom: A New Modular System for Furniture
Major Tom is a modular system. It allows quick and easy assembly, disassembly or modification of furniture pieces. One piece from the collection is a tabletop equipped with a modular panel that can be connected with legs in just a few seconds. Depending on the situation, an extension module transforms
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By Ed Stubbs - Mar 02
How to Build Your Own Supercar, Part 2
We catch up with Carlos Salaff to get an update on his visceral supercar vision, Caden
I admire Pagani's interiors for their materials and the artistic form that he creates. You know, even in high end luxury cars there's a lot of plastic, so when I see the interior of the Huayra for example, it's stunning, high-quality, there are real materials...it's honest.
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By Rain Noe - Mar 02
Luxury Interior Design from the 1970s
In Palm Springs, a mysteriously untouched time capsule of a house
Here's a bit of a mystery. Up for sale is this tony, fully-furnished 3,350-square-foot house in Palm Springs, which was built in 1969—and appears to be completely untouched since the original owners moved in. What's strange is that the house was sold in 1994 to a second owner, who apparently
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By Coroflot Jobs - Mar 02
Design Job: Not Everyone is Cut Out to be an Industrial Designer at Inertia in Toronto. Have you got what it takes?
At Inertia you might work on a secret device used by spies or design a device to help war vets shower independently for the first time.
This position separates the great from the good, requiring a rare mix of spectacular smarts, creative problem-solving, first-rate communication skills, healthy work ethic and a strong desire to have fun. Candidates should have real-world CAD surfacing and modeling skills, rock star sketching abilities, and ninja-level Photoshop and Illustrator skills.
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By Rain Noe - Mar 02
The Elide Fire Ball: A Passive Alternative to Fire Extinguishers
To improve its performance, just add curry
I once got sprayed with a fire extinguisher at a bar, my reward for trying to defuse an argument between two hotheads. That's the extent of my experience with fire extinguishers, though I've often wondered: Would I have the wherewithal to put out a fire with one? It's not
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By Rain Noe - Mar 01
"Maker Story" Parody Videos are Becoming Better Than the Real Thing
We propose a toast
In our Weekly Maker's Roundup we show you videos of people making things. Often they'll explain what they're doing and how, in hopes you'll pick up a tool and give it a shot yourself. What you won't find is any romanticized pontificating about "what it all means." The guys and
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By Alexandra Alexa - Mar 01
Claude Parent's Vision for a Tilted World
Exploring the French architect's lesser-known body of work
In a visionary field like architecture, some ideas develop before their time. That is true of Claude Parent, the French architect and utopian thinker who passed away over the weekend on February 27th, one day after his 93rd birthday. Over the course of his career he built up a
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By Rain Noe - Mar 01
Design Entrepreneurs Find Success By Focusing on Laser Cutters and Lakes
Lake Art's beautiful bathymetric product designs
In a nutshell, you need two main things to become a successful design entrepreneur: 1) The ability to design unique things that people want to buy, and 2) The means to produce those things. A small family-run business called Lake Art in Harbor Springs, Michigan has nailed both.
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