Tag: Inspiration

A few months ago Oki Sato, founder of Nendo, started a comic strip (of sorts, on Instagram; you need to cli). While some of it is product-design-related content… …some are just funny product observations… …while others are just weirdly relatable stories about objects: Plenty more to see here.

Through her work across four continents, Montana Cherney has learned how design can support meaningful and lasting change. Not just through the solutions it creates, but through the capabilities it builds in others. As Innovation Coach at the International Baccalaureate, and through her work advancing innovation in education, healthcare, financial services, government, and public services, she's learned that the most lasting impact often comes from what happens after the designer leaves the room. "What excites me most is building teams' capabilities in design and innovation, both mindset and skillset, and celebrating the moments when those capabilities become visible, shared, and passed on," Montana says. Her work has ranged from digitally-enabled financial savings products for smallholder farmers to brand and service delivery st

As we saw here, if your cat damages your sofa, you can perform a kintsugi-style repair with embroidery. However, if you'd prefer to avoid the problem altogether, you could draw your cat away from the sofa with a scratching post. To prevent living room eyesores, cat furniture company Mau offers this Kona Scratcher, a bent plywood sidetable that conceals a scratching surface:

German company Schweisstisch24 sells this D28 Tool Trolley, which targets their industrial welding clients. The beefy trolley, designed to hold clamps, squares and tools, has a load capacity of 240kg (529 lbs).Because the company knows a thing or two about welding, they've come up with a production trick to cut the manufacturing time of these trolleys. Before welding the tubular pegs to the steel plate, they first run those parts through a laser cutter:

We're excited to help the Autodesk Fusion announce the third annual Autodesk Fusion Prize as part of the 2026 Core77 Design Awards. This award recognizes the most outstanding project that utilized Autodesk Fusion product development software from all entries in this year's awards program – student and professional, across all 20 categories. This recognition not only highlights the winner's exceptional work but also underscores their ability to leverage advanced, modern design tools to create impactful solutions.What is Autodesk Fusion?If you're not familiar with

This Trivet Necklace is by Ronan Bouroullec. It's made of cast iron, but possesses a form that would have been unimaginable in cast iron's heyday, containing twenty spheres around its perimeter; the object's name is perhaps a wink at pearl necklaces.

A startup called Pines Footwear aims to produce a new type of sneaker: One that provides a "foot-healthy," minimalist kick that can deliver on-court performance without the excessive foam that can lead to injuries. "Basketball shoes in the 90s were these big honking foam blocks," says company co-founder Ryan McDermott. If tripped up, the "high stack height…turned into a lever that would just twist your ankle over."Working with two industry veterans, designer Michael DiTullo and developer Drew Linth, the company came up with a "zero drop" design that keeps your heel at the same height off of the fl

In recent years, as movie and TV video quality has improved, the audio quality has gotten worse. Surveys show that people increasingly watch their programming with the subtitles on, citing muddled audio quality. One cause is that modern sound is often mixed for cinema-quality audio systems, rather than the tiny speakers of a flatscreen TV; another is a trend for directors to de-prioritize the importance of dialogue—very fitting, in today's world of partisanship.

A clever inventor named Ulpan Dimas invented this CourtSense Tennis Rebounder.Unlike the ball-volleying robots now on the market, Dimas' low-tech invention requires no electricity and no tennis court:Dimas sells the CourtSense for $295

Recently I had to take my dog in for surgery. Over nearly 20 years of owning multiple dogs, this isn't new. But this is the first time design actually played a helpful role for my pet's post-op care.At every other veterinary practice I've been to—over a half-dozen, from Manhattan to the rural countryside—they hand you med vials with the dosage instructions printed on them. The font on the labels is tiny (requiring reading glasses, for me) and it's impossible to read a full sentence without rotating the vial.This time, however, this new vet handed me this simple chart: