By Rain Noe - Feb 14

CCAD Industrial Design Students Studying Effect of Technology on Mental Health

Here's a dispatch from the school's "Unplugged Day"

According to the Columbus Dispatch, a group of industrial design students at the Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) are working on "a multi-semester project to examine the impact of technology on mental health." As part of a related student-led CCAD initiative, all students were asked to avoid their

By Rain Noe - Feb 06

Harvard Art Museums Opens Their Bauhaus Archives, Starting This Week

The Bauhaus Centennial celebration and exhibition will last for five months

Happy Birthday Bauhaus! It's hard to believe, but 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus' founding. To celebrate the Centennial, Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum is throwing open their extensive Bauhaus-related archives to present 200 pieces by over 70 artists and designers. Featuring works by major artists, including Anni and

By Rain Noe - Jan 29

Cool Charts Depicting the Evolution of the Alphabet, and the Writing Systems of the World

Matt Baker's charts would make perfect gifts for typographic designers

Learning new things requires both a broad overview of the subject-to-be-studied, and intensive drilling-down in specific areas. Educator and designer Matt Baker found a deficiency in the first area, where more visual aids would be helpful. "I'm what you'd call a visual learner," Baker writes. "I have found that

By Rain Noe - Jan 10

Apply for Free Design Education: Cranbrook Launches Full-Tuition Fellowship Program

You've only got until February 1st to apply, so get moving

Cash-strapped creatives who already have a Bachelors: Wouldn't it be fantastic to pursue a graduate design education without having to stress out about the tuition? Well, good news, as today the Cranbrook Academy of Art announced they've launched a new fellowship program with full tuition coverage. Their Director's Fellowship Program

By Aart van Bezooijen - Jan 06

Dutch Design Week Highlights: G18 – Graduation Show in 10 Projects

G18, stands for the 18th edition of the graduation show, one of the main presentations during the yearly Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. The 208 projects from 185 graduates – and over 11 miles of power cable to get everything wired – demonstrate the scale of this year's presentation by

By Keshia Naurana Badalge - Dec 20, 2018

Dubai Global Grad Show 2018 Trend: Human-Centered Designs for the Elderly

At the world's largest grad show, students design for an aging population

In the Dubai Design District, groups of students in school uniform roll around in Thomas Heatherwick's chairs. Buggies transport visitors from one exhibition to another. In the plaza, pop up installations draw visitors in with their cooling mist spray and shade. The coffee shops are crowded with young designers, chatting

By Core Jr - Dec 10, 2018

Beyond Industrial Design: Apply to SVA's MFA in Products of Design

One month to application deadline, January 15!

The deadline for applying to SVA's MFA in Products of Design program is just one month away on January 15th, so if you're interested in grad school, you'll want to give this a hard look. Chaired by Core77's Allan Chochinov, the program sits at "the sweet spot between design thinking

By Core77 Design Awards - Dec 03, 2018

I'm a Student. Should I Submit My Work to Design Awards?

Here are a few reasons why you might want to consider it.

As a student, it can be difficult to convince yourself to invest money in something related to your professional career such as an awards program, let alone investing in a turkey sandwich for lunch. Though it may seem difficult to envision what applying to something like an awards program gets

By Rain Noe - Nov 12, 2018

Forthcoming Documentary Detailing the Formation of the New Bauhaus in America

László Moholy-Nagy's influential school, now known as the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago, is finally having their story told

Next year will be the Centennial anniversary of the Bauhaus' founding. And 2019 will also be the year that "The New Bauhaus," an upcoming documentary covering the Bauhaus' spread to America, will debut. László Moholy-Nagy was a Bauhaus professor from 1923 to 1928, after which he started his own design

By Rain Noe - Nov 08, 2018

U.S. Manufacturers Lack Skilled Labor. So Here's a CNC-Training Scholarship

CNCMachines.net is offering $2,000 towards your education

The days of large-scale American manufacturing, with factories employing thousands of workers, are over. But what's truly sad is that the manufacturing jobs that are available here often can't find properly trained workers. According to Deloitte's "The Skills Gap in U.S. Manufacturing" report, produced in conjunction with the Manufacturing

By Rain Noe - Oct 11, 2018

Should Be an ID Student Assignment: Design and Build an Egg-Opening Device

Once upon a time, a standard assignment for first-year industrial design students was to design and build something out of cardboard that would protect an egg inside from being dropped off of a roof. ID professors: Surely an update is needed--how about asking students to design something that can cleanly

By Rain Noe - Sep 21, 2018

A Look at Design School Dorms, Part 2: SCAD's Ultra-Modern Hive Complex

More like a boutique hotel than a college dorm!

If you're a first-year student at RISD, you've got a variety of traditional-style dorm options. But the bulk of first-year students at the Savannah College of Art and Design are sited at the Hive, a co-ed, ultra-modern complex of four-person suites that feature a fit-and-finish more in line with a

By Core Jr - Sep 20, 2018

Wanted Design Student Winners: A Closer Look at the Team!

Meet the designers behind the winning entry "IMPRINT"

In June we told you about the WantedDesign's Design School Workshop results from this past year's NYCxDesign, and now we're introducing you to the members of the winning team! LINDA XINTell us a bit about yourself. As a second-generation Chinese-American, born in a small town in Idaho, I was constantly

By Core Jr - Sep 20, 2018

Anvil Studios, Milwaukee Tool & Western Washington University ID Students Envision the Future of Construction Sites

If you were to imagine the construction site of the future, your vision would likely be filled with robots operating other robots, with almost no humans in sight. However, what if designers instead imagined a construction site where robots and high-tech interconnected tool systems worked together support the efforts of

By Core Jr - Sep 19, 2018

SVA Products of Design Announces Topics for 2018 "Open House Design Challenge"

Enter to win airfare to visit Products of Design in NYC

For its third annual, the MFA in Products of Design program at SVA has announced their Open House Design Challenge—a quick-'n-dirty design competition open to people interested in learning about the program and attending their Open House and info session in New York City on November 14th. Comments Products

By Rain Noe - Sep 14, 2018

A Look at Design School Dorms, Part 1: RISD First-Year Housing

By now you crazy college kids have had time to settle in to your Fall Semester '18, and your dorm room is starting to feel like home. But the curious among you must wonder: How does your dorm room stack up against the dorms from other design schools? In this

By Emily Engle - Aug 31, 2018

15 Pieces of Advice for Young Designers

Justin Coble, Director of Innovation at Newell, shares golden nuggets of advice for young designers and humbling reminders for seasoned professionals

Core77 discussion board Moderator and Director of Innovation at Newell, Justin Coble (aka PackageID) recently posted 15 thoughtful pieces of advice for young designers. While the list is directed towards designers about to start their careers, there are some golden nuggets and humbling reminders in here for designers at all

By Emily Engle - Jun 22, 2018

Central Saint Martins MA Materials Future Grad Projects Explore the Future of Food, Tech & Waste Management

Lovely and occasionally dystopian materials inspiration

Following their intimate exhibition on the ground level of Ventura Futures during Milan Design Week, Central Saint Martins' 2018 MA Materials Future graduate products are now publicly on display at their Degree Show until June 24. Many of the projects on display at Ventura Futures weren't completed yet, so it's

By Core Jr - Jun 11, 2018

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 Rain Noe - May 31, 2018

School Offers Remote "Pay Later" Industrial Design Entrepreneurship Education

The Prota Institute says you pay tuition only after landing a job

Too Good to be True? School Offers "Pay Later" Industrial Design Entrepreneurship Education The Prota Institute says you pay tuition only after landing a job A VC-backed organization called Prota Institute bills themselves as "the world's first remote-learning vocational school that teaches students within active startups and charges tuition as

By Emily Engle - May 14, 2018

3 Ways Design Professors Are Using Kickstarter to Teach Entrepreneurship

School's out, but many design students are still at work on the crowdfunding campaigns they started in these courses

From design books to one-off products to the occasional full product ecosystem, we constantly find ourselves featuring independent designers that have reached success based on surpassing their Kickstarter or Indiegogo funding goals. In addition to the classic "independent-designer-turned-crowdfunding-success" model, we've also noticed that the platform has made its way to

By Emily Engle - Apr 04, 2018

A Closer Look at MoMA Wholesale's Ongoing Product Design Collaboration with SVA PoD

To celebrate the work of participating SVA PoD students, be sure to check out the window displays they designed for MoMA Design Store starting tomorrow night

The MoMA Design Store has been a retail destination for design lovers for years, but many people don't realize that MoMA Store has their own wholesale product brand developed in-house to accompany many of the classic design items they have available. Ambi Chopsticks and HoldersAround five or so years

By Core Jr - Mar 30, 2018

This Year's WantedDesign Workshop Will Explore the "Future Heirloom"

The annual New York Design Week event brings students together from around the world to investigate how we will preserve our fondest memories in the future

This upcoming New York Design Week, WantedDesign will mark its fifth year hosting their Design Schools Workshop. The workshop brings together students from seven different design programs to create objects over an intensive six day period. Each year involves experimenting with different materials to come up with a novel product,

By Core Jr - Feb 21, 2018

SVA and MoMA Wholesale are Giving Designers a Chance to Learn Traditional Japanese Crafts in Japan

Not affiliated with SVA? Not a problem, you're still eligible.

Made in Yame is a new SVA Destinations program that will take product designers to Japan to study traditional Japanese crafts and design contemporary products using those traditional tools and techniques. Product prototypes will then be shown to MoMA Wholesale with an opportunity to have them licensed and distributed globally.

By Core Jr - Feb 05, 2018

Sponsored Post: If You're a Product Designer Who Wants to Have Social Impact, You Belong Here 

An MFA in Social Design from DSI at the School of Visual Arts can help you transform your career

Last week, the head of BlackRock, one of the biggest investment companies in the world, sent a letter to the CEOs of each of the companies in which his own $6 trillion company invests: "Consider the social implications of your business," he said. From now on, BlackRock will be evaluating