Here’s a great piece of design, executed in a hurry. Unfortunately the designer never names himself, so we have no idea who he is or how to link back to him. The anonymous designer was …
Designing Healthcare Access with Empathy and Innovation
The WE app, a 2025 Honoree in the Core77 Design Awards, represents a thoughtful exploration of how design can mediate between vulnerable users and complex systems. Developed by QIMU Design, with designers Shuting Jiang and …
An Interactive Public Bench with User-Adjustable Seating
This ADP Bench (Adults Don’t Play) is by Copenhagen-based architecture/design firm Spacon. Designed for public spaces, it provides user-adjustable seating for people of various heights. Alternatively, the seats can also be used as table-height surfaces. …
A Low-Tech, Height-Adjustable Wall Lamp Made with a Minimum of Materials
This almost seems like something Ikea would’ve designed in the ’90s, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. The Suspended Wall Lamp, by Danish design studio Moebe, is a low-tech height-adjustable lamp made …
The Design Sketches Behind Matthias Pleissnig’s Crazy Furniture Pieces
We’ve covered Matthias Pleissnig’s work before, plenty of times–for good reason. The Rhode-Island-based designer creates positively stunning furniture out of steam-bent domestic hardwoods. He breaks his furniture into just three categories: “Small”… …”Medium”… …and “Large.” …
Powered Boxcutter Makes Short Work of Cardboard
Here’s a gamechanging tool for stock workers: The BoxBlayde, a powered boxcutter that slices through even dual-layered cardboard with little effort. It takes a regular utility knife blade, and the 40W motor oscillates it at …
Pecadora’s Simple but Elegant Bent Plywood MT Chair
This MT Chair is by Spain-based industrial designers Rafa Peris and David Guilmain, collectively known as Pecadora. It’s made from just two sheets of plywood; there is no hardware. It can support 200kg (440 lbs) …
Industrial Design Case Study: A Nurse Call System for Hospitals
If you’re designing something as important as the call system used in hospitals by nurses, you’ve got to do heavy end-user research, and make the complicated simple. That’s the approach industrial design consultancy Thrive took …
Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-8-25 to 9-12-25)
Here’s what we looked at this week: Porsche develops wireless charging for EVs. Drive over a pad, the car lowers itself. These language-translating earbuds can be shared, and use bone conduction for noisy environments. Students …
The RUX 40L: Compact, Collapsible Waterproof Storage
Most outdoor gear container systems, whether bins, bags or hybrids, are rather tall; they appear to be sized using pickup truck bed walls as a height guide. RUX, the outdoor gear brand started by industrial …