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:
A history of alternative and independent music mapped out to the circuit board of an early transistor radio.
A new show in London on Californian design.
This coffee table is inspired by Princess Leia's side buns. Not seeing it.
Will Amazon’s New Echo Show device be watching you?
Remember when you could sell anything in epic 'void-deserts'?
How Tech developed our notion of Witches.
Discuss & debate this sandwich mentality chart.
Karim Rashid and Stratus Vineyards designed the 'Decant' wine bottle that filters as you pour. We tried the wine ourselves and can confirm it's tasty.
A 'how it works' article that explains popular artworks that mess with your mind.
Nothing new for designers but good pics and a nice layout.
Cartoons! They carpet the walls of our studio, and they make frequent appearances in Design that Matters presentations and TED talks. In his 2009 book The Back of the Napkin, design thinker and professional doodler Dan Roam demonstrates how simple cartoons can help us to explain and visualize complex concepts,
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.
Here's the type of machine that shirt manufacturers use to fold shirts into perfect rectangles off of the production line: You can find low-tech manual versions online and at big-box stores for about $10 to $25, but this guy made his for a dollar:
The newest Blade Runner 2049 trailer is out and the visuals are worth getting excited for. I promise we aren't pivoting to a fan site for Ridley Scott adjacent projects, but good set design deserves as much love as we can throw at it. It's not that I'm anti-CGI, but
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