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A Brilliant UX Detail on These Shinwa "Pick Up" Rulers
Steel rulers are a mainstay in many a workshop. From a design standpoint, you'd think there isn't much to them: Add a satin finish so they don't glare under shop lights, and make the numbers easy to...
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Tool & Technique Tips for Quickly Removing Carpet Staples
When removing old carpet, it's really a three-phase job. The first phase is pulling up the carpet, which is pretty easy. Around the perimeter of the room are tack strips. These have vertically...
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Rethinking the Form Factor of the USB Flash Drive
This Planck SSD (Solid State Drive), by mobile accessories startup Planck, rethinks the form of the USB flash drive. The change is a tiny one with a major impact: Moving the plug from the short end to...
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The World's First Piece of Furniture Made from Fossil-Free Steel
Plastic is made from fossil fuels. Steel isn't, but we must burn an awful lot of fossil fuels in order to produce it. Iron ore must be pulled out of the ground, typically using gas-powered machinery;...
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Architects Ask: What to Do With These Decommissioned Marble Fireplace Mantles?
A lot of architecture think-tank stuff loses me, but this one I can both follow and get behind. Amor Immeuble is a Paris-based quartet of architects interested in material research and experimentation....
View ArticleAn Eye-Catching Installation: Lasers as Unspooling Thread
Todd Moyer Designs practices "experiential design," combining art and technology to create installations. Their "Illoominated II" piece, below, caught my eye. It was inspired by textile looms, and...
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Low-Tech Candelabra: Industrial Designer Sebastian Bergne's Simple Candloop
British industrial designer Sebastian Bergne designed this Candloop way back in 1999. Made of stainless steel wire and aluminum for the candle holders, it's a simple way to turn a wine bottle into a...
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Blending Science, Nature, and Business - It Sets the Tone
The Core77 Design Awards Sustainability category features any designed product, service, or system tackling issues around sustainability in a thoughtful, research-backed manner through strategies...
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Tile-Based Lamps, Yea or Nay?
These UU Tiles are by Unknown Untitled, a Paris-based industrial design firm. They're essentially tile-based lamps."UU Tiles…began as a research initiative and evolved into a full tile collection...
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Industrial Design Student Work: Technical Clothing Made from Natural Materials
This excellent Avants project is by Industrial Design student Juliette Masson. Done as her diploma project at ECAL, the project expores the use of more environmentally-friendly materials for technical...
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Aluminum Tariffs to Raise Price of Beer
An unfortunate knock-on effect of Trump's tariffs on aluminum imports will hit the packaging sector. While Coca-Cola is currently available in aluminum cans, the company revealed in an earnings call...
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3D Printing on a Bed That Can Tilt and Move Yields Unique Objects
Take a look at this object, which is obviously 3D-printed. Ask yourself: How did they do it?In this case, "they" is Dutch designer Stijn van Aardenne, whose Maze Lamp caught our eye last year.More...
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Industrial Design Case Study: iFixit's Sleek Soldering Iron System
iFixit, the company dedicated to teaching people how to repair their own products, has plenty of engineering expertise. What they don't have is industrial design chops. When they wanted to create their...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (2-10-25 to 2-14-25)
Here's what we looked at this week:FOLD is an origami-based recyclable cardboard alternative to EPS foam packaging. Apple research yields "expressive and functional" non-anthropomorphic robot, inspired...
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Maker Pipe: Single-Tool Connectors Make it Easy to Build Things Out of Conduit
EMT (Electrical Metallic Tubing) conduit is affordable, reasonably sturdy and readily available. A company called Maker Pipe makes it easy for you to build stuff using EMT. Their eponymous product is a...
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An Interactive Classic Videogame Art Piece that References the Stock Market
Breakfast is a Brooklyn-based kinetic art studio. They've created this Billion Dollar Arcade Series, a collection of interactive art pieces that recall the earliest videogames: Pong, Breakout and Space...
View ArticleA Heavy-Duty Disappearing Swing Mount for Fixed Tools
This Tool Swing was invented by Rich Meyer, a Nebraska-based fabricator. It's a way to store fixed tools like vises, bench grinders, chop saws, planers, tubing notchers and benders beneath your...
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Crowdfunding Smash: These Desktop Laser Welding Machines
A Chinese company called XPhotonics has developed these Xlaserlab X1 machines. They're desktop laser welders that can also cut, clean, and remove rust.They come in two flavors. The base-level $1,7000...
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Design is Deeply Rooted in Care
The Core77 Design Awards Visual Communication category features all visual and graphic design, branding and identity projects for print, digital or physical environments. Examples include logos and...
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Brompton's Hide-Away Bike Toolkit
When Brompton wanted to develop an onboard toolkit for their folding bicycles, they turned to British industrial design firm Goodwin Hartshorn. "We took advantage of the bike's foldability to create a...
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