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Brilliant Design for a Trailer That Unloads the Material For You
What do you envision when you hear "landscape architecture?" Undoubtedly you picture the finished product, some carefully-curated and -manicured arrangement of plantings surrounding a house. Few...
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The IQ Vise Can Hold Anything in Any Position
Within the world of tool design, workholding doesn't get much love; it just isn't sexy. But without proper workholding, tasks are made more difficult.Minneapolis-based company Work IQ Tools gets that....
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Sigma's Minimalist, Ultra Lightweight Unibody Camera
Japanese manufacturer Sigma's new mirrorless BF camera is freaking unibody. It is machined out of a single block of aluminum, and the milling process reportedly takes seven hours.Why? Does this make...
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Tech Furniture: A Stool that Provides Haptic Feedback for Musicians
Good product designs solve a user problem, occasionally a problem the user didn't realize they had. Other product designs emerge when companies try to apply some technology they've mastered to a new...
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Unusual Barbecue Object from Japan: A Mesh Frying Pan
Here's an unusual barbecue cooking implement that fittingly comes from Asia. This mesh frying pan, by Japan's Noridomi Iron Works, was designed to allow you to cook rice and noodles over an open flame....
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ColorPipes: Lightweight Inflatable Lighting, Now with Programmable Colors
Pipe Lighting is the German manufacturer that revolutionized set lighting with their lightweight inflatable solutions. Now they've come up with another neat trick: Filling out their kit with RGBWW,...
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A Brief History of the Briefcase, and a Comeback Version
Briefcases are form follows function.The briefcase came into existence in the 19th century, following the explosion of the mass production of paper in standard sizes. As commerce and legal affairs...
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Always Be Testing
The Core77 Design Awards Commercial & Industrial category features equipment, machinery, and systems used in business operations across various industries. Operational equipment and systems...
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Industrial Design Student Work: Turning Discarded Carpet Into Comfortable...
This Stool Story project is by Weil, an Industrial Design student at ECAL. Weil sought to repurpose cast-off material as functional furniture.The material used in this project is discarded carpet from...
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A Bent Plywood Children's Bicycle
While living in Japan, I witnessed an interesting trick for teaching children to ride a bicycle: Remove the pedals. As the child Fred-Flintstones his way around the street on the bike, their body...
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Why Van Racking Company Sortimo Made an Automatic Door
Here's an example of a company going above and beyond to solve their clients' problems. Sortimo is a German manufacturer of mobile tool storage solutions; van racks and corresponding carry cases are...
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Announcing the 2025 Autodesk Fusion Prize
The Autodesk Fusion team is excited to announce the second annual Autodesk Fusion Prize as part of the 2025 Core77 Design Awards. This award recognizes the most outstanding project that utilized...
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A Stool with a Surprising Seat
This surprising Bubble Stool is by Studio Ololoo, a Ningbo, China-based design firm. At first glance it appears to be aluminum, and it might take you a second to spot the unusual seat:The stool is in...
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Humanscale's Minimalist, Height-Adjustable Offset-Leg Cantilevered Side Table
We've seen offset-leg cantilevered side tables before, but Humanscale's Float Micro offers a trick that many don't: Height adjustability.The leg presumably contains a spring or hydraulic piston, as the...
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Industrial Design Firm Explains: "How to Develop a Product"
Brooklyn-based Spitfire Industry is a consultancy founded by industrial designer Isis Shiffer. The firm has worked across every category an ID firm might be called on for: Product, lighting, medical,...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (2-24-25 to 2-28-25)
Here's what we looked at this week:Fellow Products channels Dieter Rams' design approach. 1X shows off NEO Gamma, their domestic servant robot. This is surely the beginning of the end.Phaidon's...
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Specialty Tools: A Snow Saw for Safety and Shelter
An avalanche can literally go from 0-60 within seconds. The impact of the onrushing snow is enough to break bones and cause internal injuries. hould you survive those but be buried, you'll run out of...
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Chery's Wild Living-Room-on-Wheels Vehicle Concept
Chinese auto manufacturer Chery is teasing this concept vehicle, which is either called the Fulwin Jinyun SMPV or the Journeo; the messaging is unclear, as there's been no official press release from...
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New "Nonlinear: Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction" Book
Industrial designer and innovation leader Kevin Bethune, the founder and Chief Creative Office of design think-tank dreams • design + life, has written a new book. His first, "Reimagining Design:...
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Modern-Day Autoprogettazione: The Delta Lamp
Enzo Mari introduced his Autoprogettazione movement back in 1974, encouraging DIY furniture making. Today, five decades later, German company 1x1 Systems continues the movement with a digital twist,...
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