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A Luxury…Pencil Sharpener
Caran d'Ache, the Swiss company known for their premium pencils, has been around since 1915. They designed their first pencil sharpener in 1933. The all-metal machine is still in production:Pinching...
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The Beautiful Dune Suspension Lamp, by Mayice
This striking Dune suspension lamp is by Mayice, a Madrid-based product design and architecture firm.The housing is a single piece of hand-blown borosilicate glass. Suspended within is a cylinder of...
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Stay Tuned to Your Ancestral Heritage
The Core77 Design Awards Medical & Healthcare category features equipment, devices, consumables, and technologies used for diagnosing, monitoring, treating, or preventing health issues. Products...
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Beretta's Elaborate Luxury Shotgun, Dedicated to Marco Polo
Italian firearms manufacturer Beretta has unveiled a shotgun designed to honor Marco Polo.The unusual one-off, meant to celebrate Polo's legacy as the explorer who connected Europe and Asia, took some...
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A Unique Spill-Proof Bowl Design
Within the Jewish faith, there is a practice called netilas yedayim shachris, which means "morning handwashing." The idea is that as one sleeps, spiritual impurities settle upon the body; thus the...
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A Dramatic Design for Dispensing Cigarettes (or Pencils)
In the early- to mid-20th century, when smoking was popular, there was a type of cigarette dispenser that you'd leave on the table if you were hosting a party. It elevated the act of offering...
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Festool Designs Spirit Level with Nifty Storage Feature
Due to its size, a spirit level can get beat up inside of a tool bag. Festool has come up with a nifty way of keeping theirs safe: Their design slides right into the handle of the Systainers that all...
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Industrial Design Case Study: Mighty Studios Tackles Solar Roof Shingles
GAF Energy developed a novel way to make solar power more accessible. But when they ran into a technical and aesthetic problem they couldn't solve, they turned to industrial design firm Mighty Studios...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (1-21-25 to 1-24-25)
Here's what we looked at this week:L.A. fires claim Gregory Ain's Park Planned Homes, one of America's first Modernist neighborhoods.Telo Trucks' micro EV pickup truck will offer solar charging...
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Manufacturing Gamechanger: Adaptive Molds Rather than Permanent Tooling
Tooling a mold to produce large parts is expensive. Companies making composite architectural panels, fiberglass boat hulls, automotive panels, etc. have to sell tens of thousands of units to recoup the...
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A Nifty, Terrifying Folding Axe Design
Knife designer Joe Caswell designed this Provoke First Responder knife, designed for EMTs working in close quarters.Caswell has extended his mastery of mechanisms to a new product in the line, the...
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Smart Design for a Garage Door Track That Offers a Better Seal
There's an automotive design feature that came out in the '90s, called "window indexing" or "automatic window drop." It was applied to German cars with frameless doors; I remember seeing it in a BMW....
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Rethinking the UX of the Kitchen Garbage Can
An inventor named Jason reportedly witnessed his mother and wife struggling to remove full garbage bags from a garbage can. He subsequently developed this Pulli Bin, which features a front that...
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LMD: A New, Less Wasteful Metal 3D Printing Technique
Metal 3D printing is currently dominated by powder-based techniques like SLM (Selective Laser Melting). These processes yield incredibly precise parts, but the build times are slow. Furthermore,...
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Pushing boundaries of human connection with technology
The Core77 Design AwardsSpeculative Design category features future-oriented projects, whether physically or digitally produced, designed for the purpose of cultural commentary, intervention, or...
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A Trailer with an Inflatable 6-Person Sleeping Dome
A company called Max Space is developing an inflatable space station, as a way to fit the entire thing within a single rocket launch.Here on Earth, Luxembourg-based architecture firm 2001 TBSI...
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An Electric Motorcycle That Can be Turned Into a Snowmobile
This Combat All-Terrain Dirt E-bike is by Avvenire, a Canadian manufacturer of light EVs. It takes the all-terrain part seriously—it comes with a Snow Kit that lets you convert the bike into a...
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FlyFrames: Eyewear with No Arms (Temples)
A company called FlyFrames makes sunglasses with no arms, or temples, as they're formally called. To seat the glasses on your face, they've gone back into the past to the pince-nez design, which...
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Better UX Design for a Helmet with a Protective Facemask
I was watching a video of Toyota's manufacturing plants in Japan, and I saw a worker wearing this green thing:It's a protective facemask, and it flips all the way back, 180 degrees. As someone who...
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A Wristwatch with a Mechanical Snake that Circumnavigates the Dial
If you're looking for the perfect gift for that herpetologist or ophiophile in your life, particularly if they're always running late, here you go. This is the Snake Watch, by a brand called...
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