By Rain Noe - Oct 11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Core77 Design Awards - Jan 16

How Is Design Transforming Education?

The Core77 Design Awards Design Education Initiative category hopes to showcase the best education programs utilizing design thinking

In conjunction with our 2018 Core77 Design Awards, we've decided to explain a few of the categories in detail that may be difficult to grasp at first glance so you can decide whether or not the project you want to submit fits the mold! In our first article of the

By Core Jr - Dec 14, 2017

More Than Industrial Design: 1 Month Left to Apply to SVA's MFA in Products of Design

Check out this multi-disciplinary design program in NYC

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 is a "two-year, immersive program at the sweet

By Rain Noe - Nov 09, 2017

Why You Should Donate Leftover Materials to Public School Art Departments, and How the New Tax Plan May Affect You

Years ago, I was stunned to learn that NYC schoolteachers, facing budget cuts, were purchasing art supplies for students out of their own already meager salaries. I myself would never have become involved with industrial design if my own public school education didn't involve art classes. Upon learning of

By Rain Noe - Oct 25, 2017

Memphis College of Art Announces They're Calling it Quits

Thankfully, the Walmart heirs are funding another art/design school in the region

The Memphis College of Art, whose location sites them near the intersection of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, has been providing degrees in art and design since 1936. On the undergraduate level they offer BFAs in Animation, Art Education, Graphic Design, Illustration, Illustration/Comics, Painting/Drawing and Photography; BFAs in Fine Arts with

By Core Jr - Sep 27, 2017

SVA Products of Design Announces Topics for 2017 "Open House Design Challenge"

Enter to win airfare to visit Products of Design in NYC

For the second year in row, the MFA in Products of Design program at SVA is launching 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 10th.

By Core Jr - Sep 22, 2017

8 Student Design Concepts Aiming to Enhance Quality of Life

A closer look at the winning 2017 Model One Awards projects

Model Solutions' annual Model One Awards (MOAs) recognize industrial design students who challenge themselves and develop products that enhance quality of life, improve safety, disrupt current technologies and utilize new design concepts in exciting ways. Through the MOAs, students from design schools across the country are given the opportunity

By Shannon Rogers - Sep 14, 2017

Hand Tool School #45: My New Semester Focuses on Getting Back to Basics, with Minimal Tools

Here's how I'd start all over again if I had no tools and no shop

I've just released a new course at The Hand Tool School called Orientation. Its the result of running the school for more than 7 years and learning how new woodworkers absorb information and what questions they have right out of the gate that hold them back. This semester assumes nothing,

By Joel Moskowitz - Sep 06, 2017

Tools & Craft #63: A New Approach to Teaching

Traditionally, professional joiners and cabinet makers weren't trained the same way we train adults in woodworking nowadays. First of all, joiners and cabinetmakers began their training at much younger ages. Training consisted of a combination of observation and practice and lasted several years. ("Practice," of course, sounds a lot less

By Core Jr - Aug 25, 2017

Design Students Explore Their Creative Side in an "Ear Art" Course at Georgia Tech

Students created custom fit pieces using 3D ear scan technology

If our eyes are the windows to the soul, are the ears opaque and impassive? Or is it possible those flexible pieces of cartilage could also take an active role in communicating our thoughts and feelings? Can they also express opinions? PHUB OFF! by Hollie Chan explores "phubbing", the social

By Core Jr - Jul 10, 2017

TRIAGE: Design Interventions From SVA Products of Design

This year's work explores design and politics

As part of NYCxDesign, the students of the MFA in Products of Design at the School of Visual Arts presented TRIAGE, an interactive exhibition that reframed contemporary political urgencies through the lens of design. The work debuted at WantedDesign Manhattan, and welcomed visitors from all over the world. TRIAGE consisted