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A Windshield Wiper for Motorcycle Helmet Visors
A motorcyclist riding through rainy weather might coat their visor with a water repellent spray. However, they then have to travel fast enough for wind resistance to blow their visor clear. At slower...
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Celebrating NOOKA: "Designing Time" Book
The work of long-time Core77-fave NOOKA—founded by Matthew Waldman—is the subject of a newly-released book, Designing Time, a lavish and time-travel-y chronicle of the brand's evolution and its efforts...
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Industrial Design Case Study: Nike's Accessible Backpack
We don't get many softgoods case studies, and here's a great one: Nike's Elite EasyOn backpack, originally designed for Paralympians.When Richard Ramsay was a basketball-obsessed teenager, he remembers...
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A Compact Rearview Mirror for Bikes Hidden in the Handle
This little Corky gizmo was designed for cyclists with drop bars. It's so named because you install it by "corking up" the end of the bar, and now you've got a handy rearview mirror (polycarbonate, not...
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Steelcase and Logitech's Ocular View Videoconferencing Solution
Videochats have become indispensable for businesses, but they're no substitute for a face-to-face meeting. The lack of accurate eye contact is jarring, and it's a lot harder to read visual cues when...
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Furniture Design History: Willy Guhl's Loop Chair
"If we succeed in finding solutions that correspond to each material, it will result in completely different design methods and formal characters."Those words were written by Willy Guhl, one of...
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Competition: Design a Tiny Home for a Young Couple
Got an idea for a tiny home? Kingspan, an Irish company that specializes in insulation products, is sponsoring a design competition for a home no larger than 269 square feet.The MICROHOME Kingspan...
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Industrial Design Case Study: A Backpack for Carrying Odd-Shaped Items
Here's something all of us could've used at ID school: This Sherman Backpack, by industrial designer Fernando A. Robert (a/k/a StudioFAR) was designed to carry odd-shaped objects. Our drawing boards,...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (11-12-24 to 11-15-24)
Here's what we looked at this week:Luxury screwdriver, anyone? Arrowmax's designey hand tools.The Brabus Big Boy 1200, a luxury motorhome, is vanlife for the 1%.The Bikerguard: a windshield wiper for...
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Material Science + Fear-Based Marketing: A Stab-Proof Jacket
Material science combines with fear-based marketing in this Armor-Tex jacket. The Chinese-made garment is said to be stab-proof, and needed because "violent crimes are lurking in the hidden alleys of...
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LG Develops a Stretchable Display
This month LG showed off a prototype of their stretchable display, which can be expanded up to 50%, stretching from 12" to 18". The micro-LED display has a 100ppI resolution and displays RGB.The...
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Nike's 3D-Printed Air Max 1000s
This past weekend at ComplexCon in Las Vegas, Nike unveiled their 3D-printed Air Max 1000. The kicks were created in collaboration with Zellerfeld, a German manufacturer of 3D-printed...
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Industrial Design Student Work: Therapeutic Eyewear
This Sooze project is by Maoxin Yuan, done while studying Industrial Design at Australia's UNSW Sydney. Yuan tackled a degenerative eye disease:"Keratoconus is a progressive eye disease that leads to...
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Transportation Designer Turns Xmas Card Concept Sketch into Real Electric...
Alan Derosier is a French transportation designer. (We looked at his excellent work here.) Derosier has a quirky habit of sending out family Christmas cards with fanciful concept renderings on them,...
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Adidas' Superfinger Superstar Sneaker Accessories
Well folks, our society has "advanced" to the point where you can now buy accessories for your sneakers. These Superfinger Superstar kicks are a collaboration between Adidas Originals and Italian...
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Industrial Design Student Work: Community Gravestones for Potter's Fields
This Community Gravestones project is by Cameron Brentlinger, an Industrial Design student at Pratt Institute. Brentlinger put an incredible amount of thought and research into the work, which seeks to...
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Another Retrofittable Electric-Powered Wheelbarrow Wheel
I've drooled over Makita's battery-powered wheelbarrows, which would make yardwork and homesteading far easier. But they run about $5,000, and they're Japanese-market only.Another Japanese company,...
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Peak Design's Tech Pouch: An Organizing Bag with Better UX
Rooting around in a bag for small objects gets irritating fast. This handsome Tech Pouch, by Peak Design, solves that UX problem: The sides are designed to open like a clamshell, allowing you to...
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Subversive Design: A Clip Designed to Let You Sneak an Apple Watch Into...
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) bans the wearing of Apple Watches during competition. The thinking is that you could be coached from afar, providing an unfair advantage. But Florida-based...
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A Modernist Coffee Grinder Designed with Obsessive Attention to UX
As a (lapsed) industrial designer, this object is fascinating to me, in the same way certain EDC objects are. This Geimori GU Series coffee grinder, by a Chinese startup called Wirsh, has been designed...
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