Last Weekend to Finish Entry Before Core77 Design Awards Final Deadline Thursday, April 6th

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Core77 Weekly Roundup (3-27-23 to 3-31-23)

Architects Amelia Tapia and Juan Ruiz designed Iwi, a collapsible cabin that serves as a space-saving extra room on demand.Image: JAG Studio Image: JAG Studio Image: JAG Studio Image: JAG Studio Japanese stationery company Lihit Lab makes this handy, tiny portable bag or headphones hook. It folds flat and attaches to any horizontal surface using...

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Unusual Industrial Design Student Work: Heat-Insulating Porcelain Drinkware

This unusual ISO16 series of drinkware was done by Thorben Heuer, during his time as an Industrial Design student at Germany's HAWK (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst, i.e. "University of Applied Sciences and Arts").The vessels are intended for hot beverages. Heuer selected glazed porcelain as the material, and designed in heat-sink-like...

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Unusual Storage Furniture: The Leather, Cork and Plywood Bond Stool

This Bond Stool, by Portugese furniture designer Ricardo Sá, is an unusual piece of storage furniture: It's intended to be made of plywood, cork and leather. As it stands it's just a series of renderings/Blenderings; Sá has a full-time design gig at a luxury furniture company, but as many designers do these days, he posts self-initiated projects on...

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Minimal Thermostat Design Visually Disappears When You're Not Using It

No one likes looking at a thermostat, so if you're designing one, what do you do? Berlin-based industrial design consultancy Pong designed this ultra-minimal tado° thermostat to visually disappear when not in use."All tado° products are characteristically smooth and unobtrusive, allowing them to blend into any home," writes Pong. "Bright colouring and...

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Linkable Desks that Fold and Nest for Storage

These Syncline Folding Desks, created for flexible workspaces and schools, are by Australia-based Sylex Ergonomics.They're up on lockable casters, and a locking dial beneath the worksurface allows the tabletops to tilt. With the tabletops tilted, they can be nested for storage.I wondered what that perforated black panel is for; the company explains...

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Low-Tech Medication Tracker Hijacks Bubble Wrap Pleasure Center Part of Brain

This amusing Pill Popper was designed by Klugonyx, a product design and development firm in Salt Lake City. Tasked by the client with developing a simple, inexpensive medication tracker, the designers devised resettable blisters that hijack the part of the brain that produces "the delightful feeling of playing with bubble wrap."Additionally, as per...

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A Bicycle that Shrinks/Expands via a Sliding Mechanism

This unusual Pop-Cycle shrinks for storage and expands for use not by folding, but by sliding the rear portion of the bicycle forward along its rail-like crossbar.Designed and produced by South Korean bike manufacturer Bokyong, the goal was to create an easy-to-transport bike that can quickly compress or deploy. It shrinks down to 39" long and 31" tall,...

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A Precisely Adjustable Film/Photography Light with an Industrial Aesthetic

Industrial design consultancy Minoko designed this Kelvin Epos 300, a hi-tech film/photography light with a stark industrial aesthetic. Created for LED technology company Rift Labs, the aluminum-bodied light is manufactured in Norway (where both companies are based) and offers "mind-blowing light accuracy and control" that the operator can dial in...

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Experimental Furniture Design: The Canti Chair

Industrial designers Mirko Ihrig and Casey Lewis are based in Berlin and Milan, respectively. But that hasn't stopped the two designers, who met while working at fuseproject, from starting up their own design firm called Lotto. One of their projects, Canti, is an experimental chair design that caught my eye:Image: Louis De Belle & Stefania Zanetti...

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