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A Desk for Industrial Designers Who Sketch?
Canadian inventor Mitch Krahn suffers from a herniated disc. He finds that leaning far back in his chair helps to alleviate the pain, but finds it difficult to work from that position. He thus...
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A Pininfarina-Designed Tractor
With its deep portfolio, global tractor manufacturer New Holland produces a wide variety of specialty models for different agricultural businesses. A subset of French vineyards, however, presents a...
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Swippitt: A System that Fully Charges Your Phone in Two Seconds
This is a strange invention that demonstrates outside-of-the-box thinking. A startup called Swippitt has developed this Instant Power System, a way to fully charge your smartphone in just two seconds....
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Shaping new ideas using holistic design and sustainability
The Core77 Design Awards Home & Living category features consumer products or services designed to enhance comfort, convenience, security, and sustainability in residential spaces. Products and...
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An Antelope-Inspired Chair that Warns of Extinction
This eye-catching Nyala Chair is by Jomo Tariku, an Ethiopian industrial designer based in Virginia."Inspired by the shy and elusive mountain antelope from the Bale Mountains of East Africa, the...
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Design for How People Actually Behave: The Stupid Car Tray
This Stupid Car Tray is something that will never make it into the MoMA, but which will probably make a lot of peoples' lives easier. And some good design thought has been put into it.It's a simple...
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Similar Functions, Different Forms: Umbilical Cord Scissors vs. PEX Cutters
These are umbilical cord scissors:These are PEX cutters:Both are made to cut through tubing, but their forms are obviously quite different.The outer edges of the umbilical cord scissors are rounded, to...
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A Laptop Stand Made from a Single Sheet of Recycled Paper
This g.stand, by Seoul-based industrial design firm grape lab, is made from a single sheet of recycled paper. It weighs just 45g (1.5oz), but is sturdy enough to hold "even the heaviest laptops," the...
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Industrial Design Firm on How to Design Military-Grade Products
In this age of EDC, objects claiming to be mil-spec are prized. But that label is easy to slap onto an object; what does it take to actually design a military-grade product? SGW Designworks, an...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (1-6-25 to 1-10-25)
Here's what we looked at this week:The Travel Heavy, an aluminum 12" LP carrier for traveling DJs, is an upgrade from milk crates. Nifty tool: A tiny universal workholding device for watchmakers.Now...
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Forever Object: Studio Neat's Minimalist Mark Two Pen
Sketchers and writers, look around your desk: Could you never buy another pen? If your cup is filled with G2 rollerballs or disposable ballpoints, the answer is no. But some of us have "forever" pens...
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The Innovative Design Features of Dremel's New Drill
For decades, power tools have fallen into two categories: Those designed for tradespeople, and wimpier versions for consumers. As with the "pink it and shrink it" approach to making products supposedly...
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AI-Designed Footwear is Here
For better or worse, AI-designed footwear is here, and I suppose it was only a matter of time. Entrepreneur Ben Weiss, backed by Reebok co-founder Joe Foster, has set up a company called Syntilay that...
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Industrial Design Case Study: An Experimental Furniture Design Incorporating...
This experimental Modern Weave 3.0 chair is by KEM Studio, an industrial design and architecture firm based in Kansas City, Missouri. The idea was to produce a non-molded outdoor chair with a modicum...
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Gimmicky Furniture Design Strikes Again: Multi-Position Chair Lands...
Two years ago we spotted this gimmicky-looking MagicH chair, an "ultra adaptive support home office chair" by Chinese manufacturer Newtral.People went bonkers for it on Kickstarter; it landed $1.8...
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Combo Furniture: LG Adds a Projector and Speakers to a Floor Lamp
Angelo Lelii's classic Polifemo lamp, from 1956, was a torchiere that featured a secondary adjustable mood light.The feature was a flight of fancy on Lelii's part. Now, 68 years later, technology has...
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Driving Meaningful Change
The Core77 Design Awards Design for Social Impact category features projects designed to directly benefit social, humanitarian, community, or environmental needs. Examples of social impact work include...
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Outside-the-Box Thinking: An Adaptive Spatula
At first blush this might seem silly, but I say the thinking behind it is good. Inventor Charles Harris reckoned that a spatula would be more useful if the angle between blade and handle could be...
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Unusual Architectural Product: A Door Within a Door
Construction Specialties, Inc. designs and manufactures specialty architectural products, particularly healthcare facilities. They make this unusual door, which has a second door within it:So what's...
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An Elaborate Climbing-Desk Filing System from the 1930s
In 1930s Czechoslovakia, the Central Social Institution (CSI) of Prague developed a massive archive of social welfare data. They used cutting-edge (for the time) punch cards to record personal and...
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