3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (140+ words) Core77 Oilstainlab's Automotive-Inspired Maniac Chair Out of the corner of your eye, this might appear to be a midcentury chair. But look closer, and you see a material no 1950s Scandinavian designer got to play around with: Carbon fiber. The piece is…...

4+ day, 37+ min ago   (229+ words) Out here in the country, people commonly haul heavy things around on trailers: Tractors, skid steers, back hoes. Safely securing these items to the trailer is a must. This is typically done with chains that are drawn tight using this…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (276+ words) When asked to describe what excites her most about the design field, she says "That the distance between 'I have an idea' and 'I made the thing' keeps collapsing. Generative and agentic tools are absorbing the tedious middle of the…...

5+ day, 41+ min ago   (119+ words) Core77 This Flip public seating concept is by London-based industrial design firm Of My Imagination. The idea is to provide more comfort for waiting areas when they're not full. To that end, individual seats can be flipped out of the way,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (145+ words) Core77 Which Folding Bicycle Design has the Best UX? In addition to the well-known Brompton, there's been a bunch of innovation happening in the folding bicycle space. These have varying degrees of folding difficulty. Architect Il Hoon Roh's Mikalon design asks…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (182+ words) Using a wedge as a door stopper seems like a perfect solution, and it's probably been around for centuries, in one material or another. Because the object is ubiquitous, it's easy to ignore. But industrial designers John and Wonhee Arndt,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (166+ words) Some great little UX details here: The lid for this saute pan can be stood up, thanks to the innovative handle. Note that the angle of the rim will catch any condensation dripping down the inside of the lid, so…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (130+ words) Copenhagen-based SAGA Space Architects and Danish architecture studio MS+ recently completed Europe's largest 3D-printed housing project. Called Skovsporet, it's an entire village of 36 ground-floor apartments broken up into six clusters. It was built as student housing to serve nearby VIA…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (136+ words) A good designer, we were taught at ID school, pays careful attention to the transitions where two surfaces intersect. So it's fitting that this DTILE system was invented by a trio of industrial designers: Arnout Visser, Erik Jan Kwakkel and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (80+ words) Core77 The Portable Rope Stool, Borne from a Swedish-Japanese Design Collaboration Last year Oshinsha, a Japanese retailer that sells and promotes work by Japanese craftspeople, set up an interesting initiative: The Tottori–Gothenburg Craft Exchange Project, linking Swedish creatives from Gothenburg…...