Core77's editors spend time combing through the news so you don't have to. Here's a weekly roundup of our favorite stories from the World Wide Web.
This week brought the sad news that architect and designer Zaha Hadid had died suddenly at the age of 65. The first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Prize, she was fiercely creative, unapologetic for her success and quick to challenge the sexism of her field. In other words, a hero.
—Rebecca Veit, columnist, Designing Women
Many startups lean heavily on their ability to satisfy a niche crowd. Juicero, a high-tech juicer startup selling the "Keurig for cold-pressed juice" with a $700 price tag, is certainly a product that appeals at this point only to a highly limited audience of rich Silicon Valley health nuts. Despite its seemingly unrealistic premise at a glance, can a company like this position itself for wild success? This article from the New York Times digs into the delicate orchestra of start-ups, the sometimes adverse effect of localized cultural trends on a company's growth and the inordinate amounts of financing and R&D needed to maintain it.
—Allison Fonder, community manager
An illuminating piece on an uncompromising creative force, on the occasion of a retrospective at Lincoln Center (this week only!) John Patterson sums up why you should go: "Taken as a whole, his work is like a monolithic artifact that film-makers must still deal with today. He revolutionized violence in movies, but also revolutionized shooting and editing, running five or six cameras, all at different frame-rates, to capture his lavishly kinetic spectacles, and editing the results together explosively, sometimes in cuts less than a quarter of a second in length. Only John Woo has managed it since."
—Eric Ludlum, editorial director
Why (and how) is NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab mapping mushrooms from space? Ask them.
—Kat Bauman, contributing writer
Maeda's 2016 report highlights the ways in which design is becoming integral to tech firms and business. He also makes a series of predictions about the changing role of design over the next five years, stating that "the general word 'design' will come to mean less as we will start to qualify the specific kind of design that we mean–eg. classical design vs design thinking vs computational design."
—Alexandra Alexa, editorial assistant
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