Tag: Design

Entering a design awards program is the keystone that completes the arc of any project. Beyond offering incredible promotional returns to your team and client if you win, simply entering your work connects you to the design community by putting you and your work in front of a jury of your peers. Documenting your process and its results engenders a sense of accomplishment and pride for all parties involved. You've done the work, now it's time to recognize it.Powerful imagery prefaced with a brief explanation of why the project is significant is a winning combination. C77D

Receiving an honor in the Core77 Design Awards takes a little more than just an exceptional design project- it requires turning that exceptional project into an entry that will grab the jury's attention. With Early Bird pricing coming to a close on January 31st, there is still plenty of time to submit your best work in a way that thoroughly impresses the jury and helps you stand out from your competition.We've created the following guide to help you nail every step of the submission process so your entry is presented in the best light pos

Here's what we looked at this week:A Turkish twist on sofa design, by industrial designer Gokce Nafak.Coleman's space-saving collapsible cooler. The Wall-Lift: A contractor-invented device that allows one person to raise an entire wall.

Will there ever be a spiritual successor to Braun's iconic AB 1 desktop clock, designed by Dietrich Lubs? A pessimist would say "Probably not." Lubs' design is hard to beat for simplicity and legibility. Its use of form and color demonstrates a level of restraint impossible to exercise these days, where novelty and blinky-blinky features are employed in order to draw attention. Product design's remit is no longer to solve the user's problem. Instead its mission is to draw attention to itself by cutting through the signal noise of an overcrowded product landscape.So I had high hopes when I saw that Balmuda, a Japanese product brand obsessed with good UX (the brand made its bones with a toaster that pro

This is Yamaha's XMAX scooter, made in Indonesia. In that market, the 250cc variant is a premium model. The target market is middle-class riders stepping up from cheaper 160cc commuter scooters. Motorcycle designer Radite Octavanka freelances in Indonesia. His firm, Raxe97, creates custom

Tools 2 was a Danish exhibition asking designers what they could produce using an industrial press. For her contribution, Danish designer Alvilde Holm started off with experimentation…

This handsome Clavex table is by Maximum, the French company that turns industrial and municipal waste into useful, saleable pieces of furniture. It's made from no less than four waste products, some of them quite surprising: Retired scaffolding, glass panels from decommissioned offices, wine corks and industrial paint overspray.A table with a pastRegularly, [scaffolding supplier] Altrad-Plettac retires a portion of its scaffolding inventory. Worn by long years of rental use, these pieces are no longer fit to hoist a worker high into the sky, yet—closer to the ground—they retain all their structural integrity.

When commercial fisherman haul their catch onboard, they dump them into these fish boxes. These are put on-ice, offloaded at shore, and transported directly to fish markets and auctions. The boxes are then transported to a processing facility. The fish are removed, to be processed and re-packaged, and the boxes are discarded or recycled. The boxes are made out of Expanded Polystyrene Foam (EPS), a/k/a Styrofoam, and are de facto single-use; they're never re-used due to fear of contamination. EPS is technically recyclable, and in Europe, where standards are stringent, these often are. However, in the rest of the world, not so much.

When asked to name the one thing that most excites her in the current world of design, Julia de Bono speaks in terms of intelligences, plural. "Human intuition, machine learning, material behavior, cultural memory and, of course, the ultimate intelligence: nature," she says. "Design now happens in the dialogue of many forms of intelligence." As CEO of Designworks, BMW Group's global creative consultancy, Julia has led the design of visionary concept vehicles including the BMW Vision Next 100, Mille Miglia Concept, and 3.0 CSL Hommage. Formerly head of BMW's Concept Car Team and Global Design Strategy, she now drives cross-industry innovation—advancing AI-augmented creativity, circular product ecosyste

Traditionally, churches seated worshippers in pews. Today that has changed to chairs. Why the furniture switch? Because churches used to only be for worship, and they were reliably packed on Sundays. Today church attendance is down, and they've adapted by turning into flexible-use spaces. It's not easy to move pews out of the way or rearrange them for meetings. But individual stacking chairs make the task much easier, and can be stored in small spaces.So in 2009 British furniture designer Simon Pengelly was commissioned to design a chair for Chorus, a contract furniture manufacturer. The brief was to design a sturdy, comfortable, lightweight, stackable chair for use in churches. The chair also needed to be offered in a linked version, for customers that still desired pew-like configurations.