Category : Industrial Design

Veteran Industrial Designer's Take on What an Apple Car Might Look Like

Now that Apple has reportedly restarted their initiative to produce a car, the internet's awash in speculative renderings. The ones I've seen resemble BMW's i8, a variety of Tesla models or what looks like concept art for Pixar.No one, however, has i...

Japanese Rail Company Asks Panasonic to Invent a Tool to Retrieve Wireless Earbuds Dropped from Platforms

Unintended consequences of technology: As wireless earbuds have (supposedly) made lives better for thousands of consumers, they've also created a headache for railway workers in Japan. The country's JR East rail company reports that "There were about...

Legendary Maker Store Hand-Eye Supply is Shipping Merchandise One Last Day — Today.

Take yourself, or that special maker/designer in your life, on a trip back to a more innocent time, one where craft skills were exalted and esoteric vintage goods were only a click away in Core77's Hand-Eye Supply.Today, and only today, you can reliv...

These Communities' Houses& Feature Huge Driveways and Garages to Park Private Airplanes In

Imagine finishing up your morning coffee, going into your garage, starting up your airplane, driving it down your street and straight onto a runway. That's the reality for people who live in Cameron Airpark Estates in California and Stellar Airpark E...

New Logo for Fiat-Chrysler-Peugeot Merger Must Combine 14 Brands' Logos Into One. It's Underwhelming

Even before the pandemic was in full swing, Fiat Chrysler had decided to merge with Peugeot parent PSA. The deal will bring the Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroen, Dodge, DS, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram and Vauxhall brands all...

A New Form Factor for the Dishwasher, Designed for Chinese Cooking Practices

Different cultural preferences: In Europe and America, dishwashers are large boxes that we integrate into base cabinetry. In Japan, they're smaller boxes that sit atop the counter. A new type of dishwasher, designed by a Chinese company to cater to C...

By Designing a System Rather Than a Product, Solgaard Kills it on Kickstarter With the HomeBase Ecosystem

Gear developer Solgaard recently launched an ambitious campaign on Kickstarter. Rather than designing a singular product that would solve a simple user need--in this case, wireless charging--the company looked at other needs that same user might have...

The "Butterfly Patch" Method for Fixing Small or Large Holes in Drywall and Sheetrock

On the one hand, I get irritated when someone takes 15 minutes of YouTube time to share 30 seconds worth of information; on the other hand, I'm grateful they took the time to share the information in the first place. It's not like they charged me for...

Design Opportunity: Anti-Package-Theft Porch Lockers

As more Americans move to online shopping, the concurrent rise of porch piracy has yielded depressing statistics:- 36% of online shoppers have had a delivered package stolen- 1.7 million packages are stolen or go missing every day- 74% of packages ar...

Andrey Avgust's Beautiful Subway Car Redesign

Andrey Avgust is the talented industrial designer behind those stunning U.S. currency redesigns. Another conceptual project he's executed directly involves his native country of Belarus: A redesign of Nyamiga Station in Minsk, the capital.The entire...

Holiday Gifts for a Workshop Workhorse

Happiness is a Warm Arc Welder — Deep within layers of safety gear and sturdy clothing the heart of our Workshop Workhorse yearns for the singe of soldered metals and the redolent crunch of wood shavings underfoot.View the full content here

Amazon Co-Opts Crowdfunding Model to Launch "Smart" Sticky Note Printer

Crowdfunding platforms were originally intended to let broke creators attract funding. As they've grown, the model has been hijacked by already-established businesses and even rich corporations simply seeking to minimize their risk through pre-orders...

How Blind People Use Twitter on an iPhone

For years Apple has had a Braille Screen Input mode, which allows the user to type messages in 6-dot, 8-dot or contracted Braille. But I'd never witnessed it in use until now. The design of it is quite clever; the screen can be faced away from the us...

Apple Announces $549 Airpods Max Over-the-Ear Headphones with Active Noise Cancellation

Today Apple unveiled the Airpods Max, their $549 over-the-ear wireless headphones with active noise cancellation. From a design standpoint, there are plenty of visual cues that this is an Apple product: The earcups are anodized aluminum;parts of the...

Collapsible, Reusable Water Bottle Gets 500% Funded on Kickstarter

Design entrepreneurs, take note: The value of the U.S. reusable water bottle market is forecast to be $1.23 billion this year, according to Statista, and will hit $1.48 billion in five years. And while reusable bottles cost as little as five dollars,...