These days “smart” LED bulbs are all the rage. But for those who’d like lighting that can change color without having to use an app or WiFi, here’s a solution made of cardboard and paper: …
Swiss Application for Robot Dogs: Delivering Mail and Meals
RIVR, the Swiss company that makes a nimble, wheeled robot dog, has now advanced to commercial trials. When we looked in on them earlier this year, they’d configured the ‘bot to carry a crate under …
Space-Saving Design Tricks in a Tiny Parisian Apartment
Paris-based architecture firm Beth X Episteme, a/k/a Marie Fleur Same & Bertrand Harold Emgoue, were tasked with making a tiny Parisian flat livable. The space has just a kitchen, a bathroom and a single room. …
A Pneumatically-Height-Adjustable Candleholder
Brooklyn-based Dan McMahon is an industrial designer with a sense of humor. “I designed a very serious object to be taken seriously,” he writes of his Rise + Shine design. The object in question is …
Kinkfab’s Sexy Air Conditioning Vents
Proof that you can make anything sexy, given the budget: Sydney, Australia-based fabrication studio Kinkfab makes these custom AC vents out of CNC-milled, anodized aluminum. In addition to their aesthetic appeal, they’ve been designed specifically …
Strange Furniture Design History: A Sex Scandal, and a Sweet Update to Arne Jacobsen’s No. 7 Chair
Inspired by the Eameses The Eameses LCM (Lounge Chair Metal), unveiled in 1946 at the MoMA, was breathtaking and cutting-edge at the time. Image: Eames Office The world’s first plywood chair with metal legs, the …
Industrial Design Student Work: Finding a Use for Bark in Furniture
This project was done by Denise Merlette, as her diploma project in Industrial Design at ECAL. Merlette seeks to turn what is considered by most furniture designers to be a useless part of the tree, …
Designers Weigh In on the 2025 Audi TT Concept
There is a great conversation happening about the new Audi TT concept on the Core77 Boards — add your TTwo cents on the latest version of the perennial designer touchstone… A couple of enlightening quotes …
The Return of an Industrial, Minimalist 20th-Century Lamp
This Model 262 lamp was designed by Italian lighting designer Gino Sarfatti in 1971. Made of an aluminum reflector and a single bulb, it was strikingly modern, minimalist, and industrial; the spun aluminum wasn’t polished, …
Industrial Designer Develops Unusual Wooden Connectors for Flatpack Furniture
Although flatpack furniture is typically made of wood, the connectors are almost always metal. Bucking the trend, German cabinetmaker Michael Mahle has been developing wooden connectors since his time as an Industrial Design student at …