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Core77 Turns 30 — Pioneering Internet-Native Magazine & Community Wants Your Opinion of the Past Three Decades of Design
This summer marks the 30th anniversary of Core77, the influential design platform that has been a vital voice and gathering place for the global design community since 1995. Founded by Eric Ludlum and Stuart Constantine while they were graduate students at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Core77 was among the first publications to bring design content online. From the beginning, it established itself as an essential hub where designers of all disciplines could share work, debate ideas, find jobs, and build community.
Launched during the dial-up era as a graduate thesis project, Core77 helped pioneer digital design publishing at a time when few design voices existed online. Over the decades, it has published thousands of essays, interviews, competitions, and portfolios—chronicling the field's evolution from product and industrial design into UX, service, social, and speculative design. In addition to its editorial content, the platform is home to the long-running Core77 Design Awards, a design job board, and forums that have launched careers, collaborations, and debates that still echo today.
Core77's editorial voice has been shaped and sustained by two key figures. Allan Chochinov, the site's first Editor-in-Chief and now Chair of the MFA Products of Design program at SVA, was central in defining Core77 as both a platform for the design community and a resource for design education. He continues to guide the publication as a partner in the business alongside Eric and Stuart. Rain Noe, Core77's Senior Editor, has authored more than 15,000 articles, making him one of the most tireless writers in online media. His work has set the tone for Core77 while also influencing the way design is written about on the web.
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Core77 is inviting designers and fans to help choose the very best—and worst—designs of the past three decades for a virtual time capsule. Every participant will receive a Core77 sticker set, plus a shot at scoring a limited-edition 30th Anniversary T-shirt.
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In an era of fleeting platforms and shifting trends, Core77 remains proudly independent, interdisciplinary, and deeply engaged. Thirty years on, it continues to offer the design world not just visibility, but voice.
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I’ve been reading this site almost weekly for about 26 of the last 30 years. As an Architect, I find it very stimulating to keep an eye on adjacent disciplines, and Core 77 has been incredibly solid through the last quarter century for ID.
Thanks it is great to hear from long time readers like you!
Echo Tom!
Core77 has been set as my browser's home page for as long as I can remember, probably as long as Tom, too!
Congrats on the anniversary, and big up to Rain for your dedication, insight and great sense of humour! 😄
Thanks for your kind words, and we also are big fans of Rain's work!
Congrats guys! You beat us at Archinect by 2 years. I've been a fan since the beginning. 30 looks good on you!
Thanks Paul - we'll see you in two years!
been a hanging out here since '95 and I appreciate everything you do! ☺️
It's been great having you on board this whole time. Thanks for all your contributions!
Thanks for the dedication to this website. I was witness to it back when it was just ideas, sketched out on several chalkboards at Pratt. I've been a reader ever since. Love the content and intent of it being a vast hub of design. Who knew it would grow to be what it is today- that takes vision.
Thanks for sticking around all these years!