Category : Industrial Design

The 2020 Core77 Design Awards Personal Accessory Honorees

The 2020 Core77 Design Awards Personal Accessory category honors consumer products intended for personal use in daily life. Examples include handheld products, luggage, desktop toys, jewelry, handbags, apparel, water bottles, etc.This year's Core77 D...

The 2020 Core77 Design Awards Tools & Work Honorees

The 2020 Core77 Design Awards Tools & Work category honors products or services designed for individual use with the intention of improving efficiency and productivity. Examples include: hardware tools, photography and audio equipment, productivi...

The 2020 Core77 Design Awards Sports & Recreation Honorees

The 2020 Core77 Design Awards Sports & Recreation category honors consumer products or services created to encourage play, movement, or learning. Examples include toys, games, athletic equipment, athletic wear and accessories, outdoor gear and eq...

Swoon Editions Gets Caught Stealing Designer's Work, Must Now Pay Up

Freelance designers know the ritual of chasing down late checks. But imagine you submit a series of designs to a client, you do the follow-up work to get the designs production-ready, then they refuse to return your calls. Did the project get cancele...

Translating an Apology to a Designer For Stealing Their Work

After furniture company Swoon Editions got caught stealing designer Simone Brewster's work, and profiting off of it, Swoon Co-founder Debbie Williamson issued an apology. I can't imagine anyone actually falls for this kind of language, but thought I'...

Here's a Variety of Responses to "7 Questions for an Industrial Designer"

A variety of industrial designers have been asked to post YouTube videos answering the same seven questions. Those questions are:1. How did you get into industrial design?2. How do you explain your job to those who don't know what ID is?3. What inspi...

Husband-and-Wife Team Create Awesome, Affordable, Capable Off-Road Wheelchair

Zack Nelson of the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel is the DIY electronics repair guy, but he's also got inventing chops. And now, manufacturing chops. Together with his wife, Cambry, Nelson designed and built an off-road wheelchair/bicycle hybrid...

Industrial Designer Creates Concept for Copic Marker with RGB Slider, Design Blogs Don't Understand It's a Joke

"I'm learning KeyShot 3D," industrial designer Burkay Gursoy wrote in an Instagram post, "and I like trying interesting things while learning." Thus he rendered up a fanciful design for a Copic marker with RGB sliders: Gursoy meant it as a joke, writ...

As COVID Cases Rise in Texas, Female-Led Company Fights Back with Zipper-Mouthed Face Mask Design

While Texas has been slammed with COVID-19 infections, three Houston-area women are trying to combat the spread by encouraging people to wear masks. Jewelry designer Madison Herington, nutritionist Sarah Cordill and medical researcher Haley Manley te...

Tattoo Artists Across the Country Offering Free Cover-Ups of Racist Tattoos

There are the die-hard racists that are unreachable. Then there are ignorant racists that have the capacity for change, who can realize they've made a terrible error and want to transform themselves into better people. These are often individuals int...

Innovative Theater Combines Old Techniques With New to Design a Social Distancing Auditorium

Amidst the pandemic, Philadelphia's Wilma Theater has been trying to figure out how they'll stay afloat; how do you put on a play for 300 people in the age of social distancing?After brainstorming with dozens of creatives and administrators, they've...

"Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide," by John Cleese, Coming Out in September

Years ago at Autodesk University, I was surprised to see one of the speakers was...John Cleese! What was a comedy writer/performer doing at a CAD conference? Image credit: Roopinder Tara, The CAD Insider On stage, Cleese revealed that he had spent ye...

Experienced Industrial Designer's Tips on How Not to Get Ripped Off

After reading the story of how Swoon Foundations ripped off designer Simone Brewster, a reader chimed in with some helpful information for other designers, particularly younger or newer ones.Top: Simone Brewster's design. Bottom: Uncredited productio...

Honda Designers Have Been Hiding Easter Eggs in the Center Consoles of Civics

Back in 2015, an administrator on the CivicX enthusiast forum discovered an easter egg in the center console of his 2016 Civic:The rubber mat lining the bottom of the center console features debossed art depicting historical Honda vehicles. A subsequ...

The 2020 Core77 Design Awards Strategy & Research Honorees

The 2020 Core77 Design Awards Strategy & Research category honors projects or products that predominantly utilize design research and strategy. Examples include: brand strategies, product and project strategies, research methodologies such as sur...