By Emily Engle - Jun 18

Design Challenge: Please Design the Logo for Trump's "Space Force"

Someone has to do it, so it might as well be the Core77 community

Trump just announced plans to create a military presence in space effective immediately: Based on the very minimal information we have been given, your brief is simple: Go forth and design a logo for "Space Force". The logo has to be as good as the Air Force logo, but different.

By Emily Engle - Jun 18

"Quickstarter" Encourages Creators to Crowdfund their Small-Scale Passion Projects

From zines to clever wall hooks and everything in-between

Kickstarter has taken note of Oscar Lhermitte's clever "Quickstarter" model, recognizing it's positive message of showing that designers can learn just as much thinking on a smaller scale as they can thinking on a larger one. The crowdfunding platform just announced a landing page within their site called Quickstarter that

By Emily Engle - Jun 18

A Look Inside Instagram's New NYC Office

Complete with a tech vending machine and gelato bar

About one month ago, Instagram opened a new office housed in what used to be Manhattan's Wanamaker department store showroom. In their short time of existence, the expanding social media platform has come a long way since their very first office space, which was a few rented desks inside the

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Design for Social Impact Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Design for Social Impact Jury Team was led by Jennifer Rittner, Principal of Content Matters. Joining her on the panel were George Aye, Co-founder and Director of Innovation at Greater Good Studio, Marc Dones, Associate Director of Equity Initiatives and Sabiha Basrai, Graphic Designer/Owner of Design Action Collective

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Built Environment Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Built Environment Jury Team was led by Dror Benshetrit, Founder of New York based Studio Dror. Joining him on the panel were Charlie Gepp, founder of INTENTIONALLY BLANK, and Marc Thorpe, founder of Marc Thorpe Design.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Commercial Equipment Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Commercial Equipment Jury Team was led by Joe Hebenstreit, CEO of Shaper. Joining him on the panel were Gretchen Anderson, Head of Design at PG&E, Andy Logan, Founder & Creative Director of AWOL Company, Kiefer Limeback, CEO of Limeback Group, and Spencer Wright, Proprietor of ThePrepared.org.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Consumer Product Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Consumer Product Jury Team was led by Ti Chang, Co-founder & VP of Design at Crave. Joining her on the panel were Ivy Ross, VP of Design for Hardware at Google, Jörg Student, Executive Design Director at IDEO, Raja Schaar, Assistant Professor of Product Design at Drexel University.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Design Concept Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Design Concept Jury Team was led by Designer, Experimental Artist & Speculative Technologist Ani Lu. Joining her on the panel were Chris Woebken, Co-founder of Extrapolation Factory, and Engineer & Designer Dan Chen.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Interaction Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Interaction Jury Team was led by Joana Lehman, Executive Producer of Small Planet. Joining her on the panel were Brian Kelly, Director of Experience Design, Leslie Dann, Associate Partner of C&G Partners and Yumi Endo, Lead Designer at Humanitarian Data Exchange(HDX), United Nations OCHA.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Open Design Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Open Design Jury Team was led by Zach Kaplan, CEO of Inventables. Joining him on the panel were Carl Bass, self-unemployed robot builder and former CEO of Autodesk, Jason Busschaer, Director of Industrial Design at Stanley Black & Decker, and Porter Whitmire, Senior Director of Product Development & Innovation Management at Techtronic Industries.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Service Design Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Service Design Jury Team was led by Lingjing Yin, Lead Service Designer for FutureGov. Joining her on the panel were George Sheldrake, Service Design Consultant, J. Paul Neeley, Director of Neeley Worldwide, and Lauren Currie, Head of Design at Good Lab.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Packaging Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Packaging Jury Team was led by Chi-An De Leo, Creative Director & Co-Founder of Rice Creative. Joining him on the panel were Chuong Pham, Creative Director & Co-founder of Kaarem and Gregory Jewett, Co-founder of ATIQ.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Strategy & Research Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Strategy & Research Jury Team was led by Tatyana Mamut, Former Product Exec at Amazon, Salesforce, and IDEO. Joining her on the panel were Lionel Mohri, VP of Design at Intuit Innovation Practices, Nalini Kotamraju, Vice President of User Research & Analytics at Salesforce, Susan O'Malley, Head of Strategy, Office of the CEO at IDEO.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Furniture & Lighting Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Furniture & Lighting Jury Team was led by John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong Arndt, Co-founders of Studio Gorm. Joining them on the panel were Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm, Founder of Chris L. Halstrom, Christopher Specce, Professor of Furniture Design at RISD, Jamie Wolfond, Founder of Good Thing, and Thom Fougere, Founder of Thom Fougere Studio.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Transportation Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Transportation Jury Team was led by La Shirl Turner, Head of Exterior and Interior Color and Materials for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Joining her on the panel were Jun Ryu, Design Manager at FCA US, Kasia Lys, Lead Senior Designer at FCA US, Meredith Gannes, Design Manager at FCA US, and Shady Elias, Senior Designer at FCA US.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Visual Communication Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Visual Communication Jury Team was led by Jennifer Kinon, Co-founder of OCD | The Original Champions of Design. Joining her on the panel were Louise Fili, Director of Louise Fili Ltd., Min Lew, Partner at Base Design, Osi Imeokparia, Director of Product at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 14

Here Are Your Design Education Initiative Honorees for the 2018 Core77 Design Awards

This year's Design Education Initiative Jury Team was led by Susie Wise, Strategic Advisor, Designer & Coach of School Retool. Joining her on the panel were Juliette LaMontagne, Founder & CEO, Breaker / Chief Learning Architect of Bionic Solutions, Kareem Collie, Director of Design and Creativity for The Rick and Susan Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity and Tom Maiorana, Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at UC Davis.

By Emily Engle - Jun 12

Hector Silva Tells the Story of How Advanced Design Sketching and SQ1CON Came to Be

Hone in on your design sketching skills at the second edition of SQ1CON happening this July 13-14 in Chicago!

Advanced Design Sketching (ADS) is getting ready to host their second SQ1CON in Chicago this July 13 and 14 after a successful inaugural event last year. What began as industrial designer Hector Silva's pipe dream in grad school, ADS has now evolved into a multifaceted non-profit that puts on sketching

By Core Jr - Jun 11

WantedDesign School Workshop 2018!

This year's theme was "FUTURE HEIRLOOM," and the students crushed it.

With a rich history and an incredible track record of success, the WantedDesign's Design School Workshop launched at the start of this year's New York Design Week, NYCxDesign, mixing and mashing students and mentors from all over the world to share, to collaborate, and to learn. The co-founders of WantedDesign,

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 11

Joe Hebenstreit on How Augmented Reality Could Actually Be Used to Better Our World

A chat with the 2018 Core77 Design Awards Commercial Equipment Jury Captain before winners are announced this Thursday

For this year's Core77 Design Awards, we're conducting in-depth interviews with each of our jury captains to get in a glimpse into their creative minds and hear more about what they'll be looking for in this year's awards submissions.Joe Hebenstreit is at the forefront of an exciting new product that

By Core77 Design Awards - Jun 08

2018 Core77 Design Awards Winners Will Be Revealed Next Week

Stay tuned next Thursday, June 14th!

After another challenging year of jury review, we've finally reached a consensus of winners in the 2018 Core77 Design Awards! Stay tuned next Thursday morning, June 14th, when we'll be revealing winners on the Core77 Design Awards site and right here on Core77.

By Emily Engle - May 30

Our Favorite Skateboard Designs from frog's DECKxDESIGN Challenge

NYC-based design studios were tasked with rethinking the traditional skateboard

For this year's NYCxDesign, frog partnered with Art Start for the second year in a row to help bring creativity to NYC's homeless and at-risk youth through their DECKxDESIGN challenge. Following a successful inaugural year focused on dart boards, this year pivoted focus towards a different type of board—the skateboard.

By Emily Engle - May 29

Restaurant Nolla's Zero Waste Bistro Showed Off an Attractive Application for Recycled Walls During NYCxDesign

Zero waste from the window to the wall

During NYCxDesign, we were lucky enough to snag a seat at Helsinki-based Restaurant Nolla's Zero Waste Bistro pop-up located in the halls of WantedDesign Manhattan. We typically don't cover the food space, but we were mystified by this pop-up's interior design. From the wall's recycled material to the thoughtful menu

By Emily Engle - May 22

The Resulting Products of MakerBot's NYCxDesign Challenge

1 extremely broad brief + 17 designers = 15 very diverse projects

To celebrate this year's NYCxDesign, MakerBot hand-picked 17 New York City designers and put them to the test of designing and prototyping an object to improve daily life. The 13 individual designers and 2 design duos were each given a MakerBot Replicator and a few rolls of filament to

By Emily Engle - May 18

NYCxDesign Recap Days 1-3

A few of our favorite discoveries from our first three days exploring NYCxDesign

We're three days into NYCxDesign, and our calendars couldn't be more packed! Although we haven't hit ICFF yet, we've discovered plenty of smaller wonders around the city. There's so much going on that if you haven't visited our NYCxDesign Map, we suggest you do so before you get too overwhelmed.

By Emily Engle - May 17

Furniture Subscription Service Kamarq Pulls Majority of Collection Following Plagiarism Accusations

Design week drama.

New furniture subscription service Kamarq debuted their first collection yesterday morning, but it was a short lived celebration for designers Nicola Formichetti and PJ Mattan, as many design savvy New Yorkers were quick to point out the blatant similarities between their Elephant tables and Ana Kras' Slon collection with Matter

By Emily Engle - May 10

Nike Files Patent for Miniature Treadmills Inside of Sneakers

You think we're joking...

Let the below image sink in for a moment: Yes, what you're looking at is a miniature treadmill inside of a sneaker, and yes, this is a real patent that Nike recently filed. Looks like when a bunch of employees left Nike because of that sexual harassment scandal all of

By Core Jr - May 02

Navigate New York Design Week with Our NYCxDesign Map

We wish you a relaxed, carefree Design Week experience

New York Design Week is on the horizon, and you know what that means! Our NYCxDesign Map is back to help guide you through the city that never sleeps on your quest to discover great design. With countless exhibitions, parties and presentations to go to throughout the month of May,