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Form Follows Function: Gokin Tent Pegs
Hailing from Japan, these cast aluminum Gokin Pegs have had their forms tweaked to improve the UX.The shafts are fluted, allowing them to slide into hard ground easier.The heads are tetrapod-shaped....
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Fantastic Industrial Design Student Work: Turning Undesirable Lumber Into...
This fantastic Kouéno project is by Lucas Hosteing, done as his Product Design Masters diploma project at ECAL."During my cabinetmaking studies in 2016, I discovered slabwood, which is the name given...
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A Nifty Folding Camping Table
This diminutive Odoru Table Circle is designed for camping. It folds flat and is easy to assemble, relying on tensegrity.The material is (obviously) OSB, and the legs are (surprisingly) stainless...
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Clever Design for a Kiln Shed Features Siding That Turns Into Shelving
Lucia Ocejo is a London-based potter who makes custom tableware for high-end restaurants.Last year she upgraded to a new gas kiln, building a small open-air shed to house it.As you can see, the shed is...
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Street Furniture That Emulates the Stoop, by JDS Architects
Street furniture used to simply exist wherever you found it: Stairs, curbs, railings. Copenhagen-based JDS Architects took note and designed, essentially, a series of free-standing stoops."Looking at...
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Incredible and Experimental Ceramics Work by Curt Hammerly
This eye-catching Voronoi Mug is by Curt Hammerly, a Colorado-based ceramicist.Hammerly starts with 3D modeling software, then produces his own molds, which I'm guessing are done with a 3D printer....
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Producing Crazy Textures by 3D Printing Clay With Custom Rotating Nozzles
Polish artist Piotr Wasniowski is a bit of a mad scientist. An expert in 3D printed clay, Wasniowski's tool of choice is a "Gaia Multitool Polish clay 3D printer with cheap de-airing clay extruder with...
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Modular Canine Helmets for Active-Duty Dogs
There's at least 45 countries around the world that supplement their military, Search-and-Rescue, and/or police forces with canines.I know this because Dark Systems, "the world leader in K9 helmets,"...
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A Designey Take on Foosball
This interactive, outdoor Harbour Cup art piece was commissioned by the Hong Kong Science Museum.Created by artist collective LAAB, it's a sort of designey take on foosball:"Harbour Cup is similar to...
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Blown Glass Side Tables by Sabine Marcelis
These beautiful Lokum side tables are by Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis. At first they look like solid chunks of glass, but they are of course blown.The Lokum series is in production by Italian...
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The Aluminum Rounded Edges Chair
This simpe, attractive Rounded Edges Chair is by Montreal-based industrial designer David Raymond. It's made of three 1/4"-thick aluminum pieces that are riveted together.It's funny what a difference...
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A Modernist Disco Ball: Flasher, by Studio Élémentaires
This Flasher light fixture is a sort of Modernist disco ball:It was designed by Studio Élémentaires, a/k/a French lighting designers Apolline Couverchel and Gauthier Haziza. The duo's background is in...
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Retail Design: Re-thinking How Jewelry is Displayed, to Encourage Casual...
Light Mark is an emerging Chinese jewelry brand. They hired Tokyo/Shanghai-based Kooo Architects to design their new store in Suzhou, and gave them a specific brief: "As their product lineup not only...
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Industrial Design Case Study: A Hybrid Flying Car
Here's a project ID firms dream of landing, no pun intended: Help flesh out a flying car concept that can be used to pitch investors. Detroit-based Sundberg-Ferar was hired by startup LuftCar to do...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (6-10-24 to 6-14-24)
Here's what we looked at this week:This creative take on tambour cabinets is by Jef and Jess Behnke, a/k/a Two Moose Design. Australian industrial design yields the vabsRider, a comfortable,...
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An Inflatable, Collapsible Bike Helmet
A London-based startup called Ventete has unveiled their aH-1, an inflatable, collapsible bike helmet.Details are scarce, but the company says it can be inflated with an attendant electric pump in 30...
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Kinetic Lighting: Studio Drift's Shylight
This stunning Shylight installation was created by Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, a/k/a Studio Drift."Certain types of flowers close at night, for self-defence and to conserve their...
View ArticleA Surprising Cabinet Mechanism: FurnSpin, by Hettich
This unique FurnSpin system is by Hettich, a German furniture hardware manufacturer. They've found a rather elaborate way of getting rid of cabinet doors:"An elegant spin from closed furniture front to...
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Japanese Anti-Dog-Pee Fencing for Businesses
Western visitors to the Kansai region of Japan might wonder what these are:Called Inuyarai, it's a form of protective fencing made of bamboo, originally designed to prevent stray dogs from urinating on...
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The 2024 Core77 Design Awards Winners In The Emerging Technologies Category
The winning Professional entry is Elroy Air Chaparral, an autonomous vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that can deliver 300 lbs of cargo across a 300 mile range by Elroy Air, and the...
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