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March 04
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By Mason Currey - Mar 04
Tech Specs: Ladies & Gentlemen Studio
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By Sam Jacob - Mar 04
The Real Smart City
The Smart City is a huge, vague and ubiquitous idea. The phrase—so insistent yet so slippery—suggests a way we can understand how cities work and how we might get them to work better.
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By Sam Dunne - Mar 03
Hackaball: A Toy for 21st Century Launched on Kickstarter
Creators Made by Many give us an insight on an epic 2-year design process
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By Core Jr - Mar 03
Core77 Techtacular Forum Frenzy: Automation Arguments
A controversial tech topic showed back up in the forums over the last year: the onward march of automating design. With the steady progress towards smarter programs and ever greater computing power, some designers look...
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By Rain Noe - Mar 03
How Ikea is Managing Their Natural Wood Push
Core77 talks to IKEA about the NORNÄS range, their new natural pine line of furniture.
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By Rain Noe - Mar 03
Tools That Change the Way We Design & Build: The Festool Domino
For the Core77 Tech-tacular, a look at a game-changing power tool of such unique utility and intelligent design that the capabilities of the tool itself actually change the way we are able to design and build.
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By Mason Currey - Mar 03
Tech Specs: Paul Hoppe, Art Director at Local Projects
The NYC–based art director on prototyping through code, building interactive installations—and being careful not to let new technology get in the way of the story.
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By Core Jr - Mar 03
Design for All Life
With the Biomimicry Center opening today at Arizona State University, the Co-Director argues for a new locus for design—moving beyond anthropocentrism and towards biocentrism.
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By Rain Noe - Mar 03
Jenny Nordberg's Five-Minute Furniture
A recent furniture project exhibited at the Stockholm Furniture Fair challenges conventional wisdom for the sake of exploration.
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By Rain Noe - Mar 02
The Sweater Stone, Patagonia, Product Longevity, and How to Keep Customers for Life
A lesson in how sustainability can cultivate customer loyalty for retailers and brands.
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By Carla Diana - Mar 02
Embracing the Wild World of Wearables
A look at what's ahead for design when the worlds of technology, fashion and wellness collide.
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By Mason Currey - Mar 02
Tech Specs: Thomas Murray, Senior Industrial Designer at Bresslergroup
In the first of our ten tech-centric Q&As, Murray talks about the industry-wide transition from analog to digital sketching—and his personal aversion to cordless mice.
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By Mason Currey - Mar 02
Introducing 'Tech Specs,' Our Interview Series on Designers' Digital Tools
Starting today, as part of our 2015 Tech-tacular, we’ll be publishing Q&As with ten designers about their computer setups, most-used software, favorite apps and biggest tech gripes.
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By Core Jr - Mar 02
Welcome to the Core77 Tech-tacular!
Over the next few weeks we explore the myriad ways that new technologies are shaping the future of design.
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By Carly Ayres - Mar 02
Making It Count
Tangram's Smart Rope displays workout data in midair, thanks to LEDs embedded in the rope itself.
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By Rain Noe - Mar 02
The World's Most Beautiful Staircase is in Portugal
Inside what may be the prettiest bookstore in the world… …is what has got to be one of the world's most beautiful staircases.
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By Rain Noe - Feb 27
Hell in a Handbasket: The Real Problem with the "White or Blue?" Dress
Idiocy is in the eye of the beholder
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By Rain Noe - Feb 27
The "Shotgun Balloon Drop:" Thrill Seeker Hoisted 8,000 Feet High, Blasts His Balloons Out With a Shotgun
It's not exactly the sequel to "Up"
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By Rain Noe - Feb 27
Tom Sachs' Updated "Love Letter to Plywood"
It was two years ago that we first showed you Tom Sachs' "Love Letter to Plywood" video, and we didn't realize he'd since updated it. The video is part of his "Energies & Skills" series on studio practices, which are...
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By Rain Noe - Feb 26
Web Series for High Schoolers Choosing Future Careers Looks at Industrial Design
ID scored an 83 out of 100
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By Jeri Dansky - Feb 26
Organizing the Toys: 11 Designs for Boxes and Bins
Thoughtful designs for storing both large and small toys, which both parents and children can appreciate
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By LinYee Yuan - Feb 26
Design Indaba 2015: Three Blue Sky Student Projects Worth Exploring
Young designers presenting work in progress provoked a wide-ranging conversation about design for the future.
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By Rain Noe - Feb 26
Clever Design/Build Techniques: Using Sprung Wood as a Latching Mechanism
No hardware necessary!
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By Rain Noe - Feb 25
Natural Disaster Prompts Charleston to Create School for Rare Building Arts
ACBA preserves dying trades and produces in-demand craftspeople
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By Rain Noe - Feb 25
Ex-Sheriff Invents a Bullet-Dampening Device
It basically "hacks" the first bullet fired to render it nonlethal.
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By Rain Noe - Feb 25
Look Inside an Elite Cyberwarrior's Surprisingly Designed Base of Operations
It's like a steampunk fantasyland!
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By Teshia Treuhaft - Feb 25
Thinking Outside the Cardboard Box: DODOcase Brings Customizable VR to the Masses
The San Francisco-based DODOcase creates a customizable version of their Cardboard VR Viewer on the heels of Google 'Cardboard.'
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By Hand-Eye Supply - Feb 24
Farm & Field Lockback Pocket Knives
Sometimes super practical tools come in super cool packages. The Farm & Field Lockback pocket knife is a well-built, medium-sized, versatile knife with style that cuts deep. Traditionally used for farm and field work...
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By Kat Bauman - Feb 24
Empathetic Design: A UMich Charette On Ebola
Powerfully simple designs for better Ebola response starred at this UMich design charette
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By Rain Noe - Feb 24
Shannon Rogers Recreates Roubo Device to Demonstrate Old-School Resawing
This thing can cut wider boards than your bandsaw can, and it looks surprisingly doable
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