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Street Furniture Material Selection vs. Graffiti
Some years ago in New York, the Times Square Alliance commissioned several designers to create street furniture for the site. Industrial designer Joe Doucet's JDXP contributed a series called The...
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Fixmotion's Self-Stabilizing Outdoor Tables
It's fitting that this invention comes from France, a country with a lot of outdoor cafes and a lot of cobblestones. Fixmotion's outdoor tables feature a self-stabilizing leg design:Best of all, you...
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Cool Production Method: This Rotational-3D-Printed Lamp
This Maze Lamp is by Dutch designer Stijn van Aardenne. The fabrication process is quite novel:"No two Maze Lamps are alike," van Aardenne writes. "They all start with a unique seamless pattern that is...
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The Axon Connector: 3D Print It Yourself to Make This Coat Rack
This Axon Connector is by Berlin-based 1x1 Systems, a company that empowers local production of furniture. It's a 3D-printed connector that allows the user to quickly knock together a coat rack out of...
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Nice, Functional Design Details in Grovemade's Handsome Standing Desk
These days, most desks and standing desks are just a slab with legs. For some reason that's become the modern style, even though we now have more peripherals and desk-borne gadgets than ever. In...
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The Corvette's Controversial Split Rear Window Returns
In the early 1960s, GM auto designer Bill Mitchell made a controversial choice. For his redesign of the 1963 Corvette, he created a split rear window. The "spine" that ran between the two glass panels...
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Tiny, Low-Res Gaming Console Lands $100K-Plus on Kickstarter
Today you can play stunningly immersive HD games on your smartphone. But the popularity of this object here reveals a hankering for a simpler, more tactile gaming experience.The Thumby Color, by...
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Reusable Ice Packs vs. Ice vs. a Cooler with a Drawer
I've learned that living in a rural area, in the summertime, means bringing a cooler to the supermarket. Some supermarkets here have machines that provide free ice by the exit. You don't want to buy...
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Industrial Design Case Study: A Robotic Massage System
Robotics company Aescape targets the lifestyle and wellness market. To develop their eponymous automated massage system, they turned to industrial design and engineering consultancy Whipsaw. As the...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-19-24 to 8-23-24)
Here's what we looked at this week:Adam Savage raves over the utilitarian beauty in this antique custom linesman's tool bag.By Yamazaki Home, a clever design for an easy-to-store spray bottle.ID firm...
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Loop Gear's Multifunctional Flashlight with a Strong Sci-Fi Aesthetic
This SK-05 Pro, by Chinese "flasholic" brand Loop Gear, is a multifunctional flashlight with a striking sci-fi aesthetic. The compact design features a 1300-lumen spotlight, a 2550-lumen floodlight,...
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Scandinavian Ergonomic Gaming Furniture: Fractal Design's Refine Chair
From a product standpoint, we're living in strange times. It took decades for brands like General Motors and Herman Miller to develop the refined products they design and build today. But in a matter...
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Logitech's Beautiful Yeti GX Microphone
Microphones targeting the gaming market can have…challenging aesthetics. They often look like they were designed using the contents of random parts bins.In contrast, Logitech's Yeti GX microphone looks...
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SeaSucker's Portable Kitchen System for Car Campers
Here's an interesting solution for car campers: This accessories collection by SeaSucker, which allows you to set up a portable kitchen using your vehicle as the structure. Vacuum mounts, which you...
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Rethinking the Ergonomics of the Watch Band
It takes a lot of guts to rethink a form as well-established as the watch band. But Canadian company ErgonBand reckons that plenty of activities, from cycling to running to typing, place our watch...
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A Basketball Court with an LED-Display Floor
A German company called ASB GlassFloor makes, well, guess. They got their start making glass floors specifically for squash courts; now they've expanded into making glass floors with millions of LEDs...
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PlugVan: Modular, Hot-Swappable Van Interiors for Camping and Work
In 2017, three friends in Germany attended a large camping trade fair, and came up with an outside-of-the-box-van idea:"Why do so many people buy camping vehicles (99.5% diesel!) and then only use them...
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Lightweight, Beautiful 3D-Printed Camper Van Interiors
Industrial designer Max Cuppens is the CEO and co-founder of Materialogic, which makes camper van interiors with large-format 3D-printed components. This means their pieces are not only lightweight,...
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Sortimo's Classic, Minimalist, Metal Small Parts Storage Cases
In 1960, 25-year-old Herbert Dischinger started a wholesale business, selling fasteners in Augsburg, Germany. After 13 years, he'd observed that his tradesmen customers carried his products...
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Rethinking the UI Design of a (Musical) Keyboard
The user interface for a piano, or synthesizer, are the keys. Players control the power of the note by the force with which they strike the key.Digital musical instrument manufacturer Roli dates this...
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