Ikea has teamed up with Gustaf Westman, a Swedish architect who defected to industrial design, on an unusual line of tableware. This has yielded the holiday-themed VINTERFINT serving plate, designed specifically to serve the company’s …
Meta Unveils New Ray-Ban Display Glasses, with Wrist-Based Gesture Control
Google and Apple have smartphones. Meta doesn’t, and they’re hoping to wrest that smartphone out of your hand with their new display glasses. The newly unveiled Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses feature a high-res, in-lens color …
A Stick Vacuum that Automatically Empties Itself
The stick vacuums popularized by Dyson and others are convenient and lightweight. But by design they don’t have large dust containers, so must frequently be emptied. Some users find the emptying act, where you open …
Industrial Designer Wins 2025 Ig Nobel Prize
This month Boston University hosted the 35th annual Ig Nobel Prizes, which highlight scientific research done on decidedly unserious subjects. There is no design category, but this year we got something close: An Engineering Design …
This Brazilian Invention Straightens Scrap Rebar for Reuse
We now use more concrete than ever in our built environment, and that concrete is held together with rebar. When structures outlive their usefulness and are demolished, the rebar can be extracted and recycled. However, …
Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-15-25 to 9-19-25)
Here’s what we looked at this week: This simple but elegant bent plywood MT Chair is by industrial designers Rafa Peris and David Guilmain, a/k/a Pecadora. The BoxBlayde, a powered boxcutter, makes short work of …
A Handsome Take on Ticket Rails: Biglow Woodcraft’s Gravity Bars
Hey, so that ticket rail we looked at yesterday? While I still think it’s a perfect object, I’ve just stumbled across a rather elegant, different take on it. Brent Biglow, an architecture school dropout turned …
Industrial Design Case Study: A Parent-Invented Device for Tube Feeding and IV Infusions
The FreeArm is a portable, bendable device that serves as a helping hand for tube feeding and IV infusions. It was invented by Will and Misti Staley for their son Freeman, who was born with …
D/Partment’s Steel Coat Hangers, Metal Bags and Concrete Trays
D/Partment is a Berlin-based brand that designs “a holistic system of objects for living.” What does that mean? For one thing, it means coat hangers made out of 2mm stainless steel: The description reads “Laser …
Form Follows Function: Ticket Rails
I first learned about ticket rails as a teenager working in restaurants. I consider them the perfect object: Functional, minimal, and elegant in their simplicity. If you don’t know what they are, they’re used to …