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By Rain Noe - Sep 24
Professor of Sustainable Design on Why Students Should Take Existing Products Apart
Learning through teardown
Following the hullabaloo around the now-infamous Beats teardown debacle, we're excited to announce we've got our own teardown series in the works—this one done by a seasoned industrial designer! We're not yet allowed to say what the first object we're tearing down is, but we can tell you it's a
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By Rain Noe - Sep 17
2015 Dyson Award Finalist Faves: Shock-Absorbing High Heels
Yasuyuki Yamada adds ergonomic comfort to a painful style of footwear
I have plenty of female friends who enjoy wearing high heels for their aesthetic value, but I don't know a single one who claims they're comfortable. And I think we've all seen the woman with the spaghetti strap dress walking home from the party barefoot at the end of the
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By Rain Noe - Sep 17
2015 Dyson Award Finalist Faves: An Easy Way to Turn All Plugs into Mag-Safe-style Connections
Matthew Burton's "Connect" is a better way to plug in
This next Dyson Award finalist is Matthew Burton, who's studying Industrial Design at the University of Houston, where he crossed paths with fellow student Justin Farley. Farley, who has cerebral palsy, is the founder of UNlimiters, a website that showcases product designs that help the differently-abled live independently. Some
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By Rain Noe - Sep 17
2015 Dyson Award Finalist Faves: A Clever Way to Carry Clean Water in a Dirty Oil Can
Chloe Louisin's Wat'bag solves a problem faced by millions
We're pleased to see that design students around the world are killing it! This year's James Dyson Award received a record 710 entries, and the judges have finally whittled them down to 20 finalists, released today. We're going to show you some of our faves. First up is Chloe Louisin,
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By Estefania Acosta - Sep 17
The City Disrupted: How MIT's Changing Places Group is Redefining Urban Futures
The research team led by Kent Larson is learning how to deploy emergent technologies to create a "nervous system" for cities
A future where cities are any more crowded than they already are is commonly imagined as a dystopia. But when Kent Larson looks at the current estimates placing 60% of 9 billion people in cities by 2030, he only sees opportunities to radically reimagine the way our cities work. As
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By Alexandra Alexa - Sep 16
Harvard Launches Design Engineering Master's Program to Tackle Multi-Scale Problems
Next year, the Graduate School of Design and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will join forces in a uniquely collaborative, open-ended program
The evolution of design education will take another step forward in the fall of 2016, when Harvard University will begin offering a Master in Design Engineering. The two-year program—which will be taught by faculty from both the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering
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By Ed Stubbs - Sep 16
J Mays Goes to College
The designer on his new role at the RCA, autonomous cars, and the advice he'd give himself if he were a young designer today...
J Mays, one of the world's most influential automotive designers, will be contributing to the RCA's prestigious Vehicle Design programme as a visiting professor from September 2015. As outgoing Chief Creative Officer of Ford he oversaw the design of many of the brand's best-selling cars; Fusion/Mondeo, Focus, Fiesta, Taurus,
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By Core Jr - Sep 16
LoanGifting: How a New Web Platform is Poised to Make a Dent in the Student Loan Crisis
Launched just in time for back-to-school, the support network seeks to help students help themselves
Sometimes the most powerful work is the result of simple yet strategic connections drawn between previously unconnected factors. In the case of RKS Design's latest project, LoanGifting, the initial idea seemed so straightforward that the whole team was left wondering: "How has nobody come up with this yet?" Stemming from
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By Core Jr - Sep 04
Back to School: A Peek Behind the Scenes
Insights on the evolution of design education
And we're back to school with a roundup of our editors top picks for design students. Celebrating our anniversary has been a great way to remember how it all got started—as a student project for an industrial design program at Pratt. Now, 20 years later, we're proud to continue providing
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By Alexandra Alexa - Sep 04
Back to School: Our Best Advice
From documenting your work to sounding smart in a crit and learning how to take sketchnotes—we've got you covered
The beginning of the school year is a magical time. Nine months brimming with the promise of creative productivity lie before you: is there anything you can't do? This will certainly be a year full of studio epiphanies, happy collaborations and eye-opening lectures. But it's hardly ever so simple. There
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By Rain Noe - Sep 04
Back to School: What Industrial Design Students Once Had to Carry
Current ID students, be thankful it's not the early '90s anymore
Welcome back, ID students! Back in July—when you were doing shots of Jaegermeister while swiping left or right, or whatever it is you hooligans do on summer break—we were reminiscing about the mass of items industrial design students had to carry in the early '90s. In that pre-computer era,
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By Rain Noe - Sep 04
Current ID Students: What's Your Everyday Carry?
Send us your shots, win some swag!
You've seen what we former ID students once had to carry. But for those of you currently in school for ID, what items do you carry each and every day? Don't tell us—show us! Snap a photo, "everday-carry"-style as seen below, and send it to us (details at the bottom
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By Rain Noe - Sep 01
UCLA's Trippy Augmented Reality Sandbox
It's like real-time version of Sim City, but with physical interaction and nature
Sim City fascinates millions of players who are able to manipulate urban environments to their liking. UCLA has created a kind of nature-based alternative, and one that looks more satisfying in that the user physically manipulates an actual material, sand in a sandbox. An Xbox Kinect reads the shapes you
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By Carly Ayres - Sep 01
Building A Rubber Band-Powered Race for the Ages
Designing Art Center's beloved Formula E(lastic) car competition
Ready, set—snap! Earlier this month, Art Center College of Design hosted their annual Formula E competition (the 'E' is for elastic) where students, professionals—and anyone else crazy enough to participate—are invited to build and race rubber-band-powered toy cars. The main competition takes place on the art school's Pasadena campus, but
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By Rain Noe - Aug 26
When Stormtroopers Keep You Warm: Design Teacher Repurposes Spent Gas Canisters as Sci-Fi Stoves
Alex Dodson's "Burned by Design" business is on fire
Alex Dodson describes himself as "a technology teacher at a secondary school tasked with inspiring the next generation of designers." We've no idea what he does in the classroom, but we're guessing his sideline business, "Burned by Design," takes care of the "inspiring" part. UK-based Dodson has artistic talent, welding
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By Joey Zeledon - Aug 26
Learning to Sketch vs. Sketching to Learn
5 Lessons from Sketching Lab 2015
Sketching Lab is an annual design conference in San Jose, Costa Rica that promotes the design process and visual communication techniques for students and young professionals in creative industries. Every year, Sketching Lab covers the basics of how to draw, and this year I hosted a session that explored the
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By Rain Noe - Aug 24
What Do the Students Experience in SVA's Products of Design Program?
Filmmaker Michael Chung's video gives you a taste of the grad life
We here at Core77 wouldn't have let founding partner Allan Chochinov out of the office four years ago, if he hadn't gone off to do an important thing: Co-founding and chairing the School of Visual Arts' Products of Design MFA program. Chochinov has been toiling away at the innovative program
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By Rain Noe - Aug 14
Fantastic Concept Work from the FZD School of Design
There is a parallel field to industrial design—and it looks like more fun
Practicing industrial designers: Are you getting sick of doing ID? Maybe you should switch to ED, or Entertainment Design. That's the field where you generate blue-sky concepts for interiors, objects, vehicles and even characters for movies or videogames, without having to worry about the hassles of mass production. The overlap
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By Rain Noe - Aug 12
MIT Figures Out How to Give a Robot the Reflexes of a Human
Short answer: Mind-meld the robot to a human
If I shove you, you might sway for a second, but your body will automatically correct the imbalance and right you. If you don't believe me, try it now; select a co-worker and randomly shove them. Have you done it? Good. Now we only have a few moments before they
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By Rain Noe - Jul 28
Education Stats: Who Puts in More Hours, Design Students, Architecture Students or Law Students?
Also, what facilities can most college students do without?
The UK's Higher Education Policy Institute has released their annual report detailing how many hours college students put in towards learning their chosen field. The students are divided by admittedly rough majors; Architecture students are folded in to "Architecture, Building & Planning" while Industrial Design is lumped in (we
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By Rain Noe - Jul 22
What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 5: Cases to Go Places
ArtBins 'n things
Thus far in this series of what ID students had to carry or own in school, we looked at: Drawing Implements, Drawing & Drafting Supplies, Paper and Tools. Of course, none of these items carry and organize themselves. So in addition to whatever backpacks and messenger bags
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By Rain Noe - Jul 21
What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 4: Tools
"This is my ruler. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me my ruler is useless...."
All Industrial Design programs have shops filled with stationary, power and hand tools. But students are still required to carry some basics as we learn the craft of putting things together. Hot Glue GunThe quintessential tool for adhering anything to anything, and the bond was always guaranteed to last until
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By Will Gibbons - Jul 20
The Path to Global Design Director
Insights for climbing the coroporate ladder from Haworth's Global Director of Design & Innovation
Whether you just landed your first industrial design internship, are a Junior designer, or managing a small army of industrial design talent, you've probably wondered how high you'll climb the corporate ladder. Of course, the number of rungs on that ladder will vary depending on the size of the organization.
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By Rain Noe - Jul 18
What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 3: Paper
That's a lot of dead trees
Sketching, rendering and drafting are such huge parts of industrial design, and all three used to be done on paper. As ID students at Pratt we had to stock a lot of the stuff, and you'd see us riding the subway carrying those huge white plastic Pearl Paint bags filled
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By Rain Noe - Jul 16
What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 2: Drawing and Drafting Supplies
It's hip to T-square
In Part 1 we looked at all of the things industrial design students had to carry, just to make marks on paper. Chances are a lot of that list overlaps with modern-day ID students' EDC. However, this list is bound to differ, and aren't all exactly things to "carry," but
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By Rain Noe - Jul 15
What Industrial Design Students Had to Carry, Part 1: Drawing Implements
Tuition was one thing. Keeping yourself in design $upplies was another
In the entry about the Manual Labor of Design, we see the on-camera designer wielding the former tools of the trade. This gave me a flashback to the sheer amount of items I had to purchase, carry and keep stocked as an Industrial Design major back at design school. Because
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By Rain Noe - Jul 14
From Japan, a Brilliant Notebook Hack for Organizing Your Notes
A simple trick to easily index and find the information you need
My notes are a mess. I desperately wish I could carry just one notebook, but every time I've tried it, I can never find the information I need at the moment I need it. So I've resorted to doing this: That's me capturing all of my projects on loose sheets
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By Rain Noe - Jul 13
Video Demonstration of the Manual Labor of Design
Before computers, everything really did used to take this long
Industrial design used to be a mess. I don't mean the field, I mean the work. ID'ers of a certain age will remember flushing spray guns in the model shop, the pain of cleaning and refilling a Rapidograph, the horror of knocking a box of mechanical pencil leads onto the
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By Rain Noe - Jul 07
Shocking Infographic of American High School Graduation Rates by Geography
State of disgrace
America has some great colleges, and folks send their kids from around the world to attend our Ivy League schools and design schools. So what the heck is wrong with our high schools? The Hechinger Report's Data Editor Sarah Butrymowicz put together this infographic showing U.S. high school graduation rates
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By Ed Stubbs - Jul 02
8 Visions of the Future of Transportation Design from RCA
Highlights from RCA's 2015 MA Vehicle Design Show
True to form, the RCA's 2015 MA Automotive Design show featured some challenging abstract concepts that shun outright technical feasibility for provocation of thought. As usual, the standard of work was high, with a diverse cultural perspective. From a Stradivarius-inspired sportscar to an autonomous crop-munching tractor, here are some of
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By Sam Dunne - Jun 23
Human vs. Toaster: Proof That Pedal-Power Is Not the Next Sustainable Energy Solution
World champion track cyclist übermensch Robert Förstemann attempts to toast one slice of bread with his legs. And only JUST manages.
It's around this time of year that we catch the first glimpses of the next batch of remarkable design talent soon to be unleashed on to the world. It's also a time—reminiscing whilst pouring over graduation projects—that we're reminded of our own college-day optimistic naivety. I mean, just look
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By Rain Noe - Jun 23
This Electric Multitool Seems Tailor-Made for ID Students
The 3D Simo Mini can cut, solder, burn, and 3D draw
Assuming design schools today still have you making models with your hands, the 3D Simo Mini seems like the perfect tool for the industrial design student. We used to constantly be cutting foam with knives or hotwires and soldering wireframes together; this tool can do both of those, as well
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By Core Jr - Jun 22
ENGENDER: Design Interventions From SVA Products of Design
Work That Explores the Overlap Between Gender and Design
As part of NYCxDesign, the students of the MFA in Products of Design at the School of Visual Arts presented—or more appropriately, performed—Engender, a roving band of design interventions that were at once provocative, daring, and, well, very entertaining. Participants were invited to modify their body shape using a
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