Category : Industrial Design

Inventor of Gorilla Glue Introduces Unusual Design for Reading Glasses

My problem with reading glasses: I never seem to have mine when I need them. Marc Singer, the woodworker who invented Gorilla Glue, experienced this enough times that he created a pair designed to be on-hand (or on-wrist) at all times. Using a mechan...

A Signage Design Win: No-Contact Menus Becoming a Thing

Better customer experience, less waste: It looks like no-contact menus are going to become a thing. We first saw it pop up in Italy as a result of the pandemic, but Denver-based large format printing company SpeedPro was quietly developing "smart sig...

Goldman Sachs Has Their Own Design Firm, and They've Released Their Own Font

Who knew Goldman Sachs had an in-house design firm? Goldman Sachs Design, as it's called, has even created their own font, Goldman Sans. While the font is available to the public, their licensing terms have stirred up a bit of controversy:If you're w...

What Major Brands Have Their Own Fonts?

Goldman Sachs isn't alone in creating their own font. To avoid having to pay licensing fees, brand after brand has designed or commissioned their own. For example:AppleDesigned in 2015, Apple's new-ish San Francisco font is on the physical keyboards...

Where Are the Black Designers? This Digital Conference Will Address Lack of Diversity in Design&

"Where Are the Black Designers?" is an upcoming digital conference taking place this Saturday, June 27th designers will not want to miss. Displayed clearly in its name, the goal of this event is to start a conversation highlighting systemic racism an...

Slack Headquarters is Filled With User Interactions Inspired by the Outdoors and Hiking Community

Slack Headquarters took home the Winner Built Environment Award in the 2020 Core77 Design Awards competition.When forming the concept behind the design for Slack's new headquarters in San Francisco, architecture studio O+A focused in on an activity c...

Where are the Designers of Color? Design Museum Showcases Their Stories

"You can't be what you can't see," said Marian Wright Edelman, President & Founder of the Children's Defense Fund and a longtime advocate for disadvantaged Americans. It's difficult, for example, for the design industry to be diverse when that di...

Virtually Tour 34 End-of-Year Shows by Design Students

Right now we’re all dealing with a lot of challenges, and at Core77 we’re trying to remedy just one of them: This year many year-end portfolio shows were abruptly canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, leaving students and faculty without a means...

Punkt: "Boredom is a Positive that Inspires Creativity"

At least once a day, I need to take a break and do nothing for a few moments. I usually go onto the back porch and stare across the back pasture. Grass, animals grazing, trees blowing in the wind, that kind of thing. It would make for a very boring m...

Black Designers on Race and Design, Part 3: "At Design School, Did You Ever Raise the Subject of Diversity?"

If you've watched Part 2 of this series, you've hopefully noticed that when you're black in America, a seemingly simple question can elicit a multifaceted answer filled with information that might surprise a non-person-of-color. Here in Part 3, the j...

What is the Point of These Architect-Designed, Anti-COVID Sealed Cubicles?

These architect-designed anti-COVID sealed cubicles won a 2020 DNA Paris Design Award and are making the rounds. Call me crazy, but I don't see the point. "Qworkntine is an air tight pod system, that can provide safety and protection within the...

"Lost in the Collapse of Figure and Ground"

It would hard to imagine a more urgent time to have a book debut into the world whose subject was "scale and complex systems." Neither the Covid-19 pandemic nor the racial justice reckoning was the raison d'être for Jamer Hunt's outstanding and neces...

Black Designers on Race and Design, Part 2: "Do You Feel There is Diversity in Design?"

Here in Part 2 of this roundtable discussion on race and design, designers Spencer Nugent, Jasmine Kent and Kevin Bethune start with the question "Do you feel there is diversity in the design field?" and reveal what their academic experiences were l...

Black Industrial Designers Talk About Race and Design, Part 1

Over the weekend, ID professor Hector Silva livestreamed a Zoom meeting with black industrial designers to discuss design and race. On the call was Kevin Bethune, Founder and CCO of think tank dreams • design + life; Jasmine Kent, Run Apparel Designe...

How COVID-19 Will Influence Car Design

"COVID-19 will very much influence the way we design our cars in future," Karim Habib, Kia's new design chief, told Car Magazine. Specifically, it might halt what was previously a foregone inclusion: "For the last few years we have been talking about...