Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-2-25 to 9-5-25)

Here’s what we looked at this week:

Pizza cutters, from underdesigned to overdesigned.

Dutch engineers move massive historic Swedish church three miles away.

Elegant solution to a tricky problem: A scale for wild birds.

Motorsports mayhem: The Rockford Speedway Figure 8 Trailer Race.

Industrial designer Michael Mahle develops unusual wooden connectors for flatpack furniture.

Industrial designer Thomas Bentzen’s Sketch Toolbox.

The return of an industrial, minimalist 20th-century lamp: Astep revives the Model 262, by Gino Sarfatti.

Industrial Design student work: Barko, by Denise Merlette of ECAL, finds a use for bark in furniture.

Strange furniture design history: A sex scandal, and a sweet update to Arne Jacobsen’s No. 7 chair.

Kinkfab’s sexy air conditioning vents.

Rise + Shine, by industrial designer Dan McMahon, is a pneumatically-height-adjustable candleholder. It’s a modern-day update to an actual series of objects that existed in the 19th century.

RIVR’s Swiss application for robot dogs: Delivering mail and meals.

Space-saving design tricks in a tiny Parisian apartment, by architecture firm Beth X Episteme.

Industrial designer César Moncaut’s Pop-Up Lamp is a low-tech take on color-changing lighting.

Industrial design case study: Sprout Studios designs the Viken Raven, a magic handheld x-ray machine for law enforcement.