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Core77Industrial Designer Figures Out How to Make Ikea's Iconic Blue Bag Fold Compactly Ikea's iconic FRAKTA bag is gigantic, able to hold 19 gallons (71 liters). Austrian industrial designer Lisa Klingersberger , who specializes in folding textiles, wondered: Could she get the large bag to break down more
Core77Real Object or AI? Spotted on European Amazon, this thing : My first thought was What the heck is it? Apparently it's whatever you want it to be: A remote control caddy, a pencil cup, a jewelry organizer, a key tray. The manufacturer is li
Core77An Unusual Rolling Stool for the Chinese Market Chinese and Western aesthetic tastes diverge wildly, with stuff for sale over there that would never fly over here. Still, it's interesting to peek over the fence and see what they're doing. This odd-to-us piece of furni
Core77Studio Gorm Designs a Better Doorstop Using a wedge as a door stopper seems like a perfect solution, and it's probably been around for centuries, in one material or another. Because the object is ubiquitous, it's easy to ignore. But industrial designers John
Core77Which Folding Bicycle Design has the Best UX? In addition to the well-known Brompton, there's been a bunch of innovation happening in the folding bicycle space. These have varying degrees of folding difficulty. Architect Il Hoon Roh's Mikalon design asks a lot of th
Core77Fantastic UX Details in This Saute Pan Lid Some great little UX details here: The lid for this saute pan can be stood up, thanks to the innovative handle. Note that the angle of the rim will catch any condensation dripping down the inside of the lid, so it doesn'
Core77Meet Fusion Forward Juror Nick Lieven, Autodesk Industry Strategy Manager Nick Lieven has spent his career on both sides of the product development process: first as a Product Manager in the small domestic appliance industry, now as Autodesk's Industry Strategy Manager for Consumer Products. T
Core77Masae Nagao's Kinetic Paper Pets PÉPET is a paper pet, created by Japanese designer Masae Nagao. "If you stroke it, it moves flexibly on your palm like a little pet," she writes. Each PÉPET is made up of over 400 circles of varying sizes. When circles o
Core77Blue Star Crafts' Retro Mini Pochade Box Curious object: This Retro Mini Pochade Box is a handcrafted miniature watercolor sketching kit. It was created by Mexico-based architect Federico Alvarado and designer Daniela Ramón, who collectively go by Blue Star Cra
Core77Chois: 3D-Printed Modular Furniture Components, You Supply the Dowels Chois is a series of 3D-printed components by Japanese designer Nobutsuna Honami, a/k/a Inahono Furniture . The idea is that you use the components to join standard-sized dowels, creating your own three-legged furniture
Core77In Denmark, 3D-Printed Student Housing Copenhagen-based SAGA Space Architects and Danish architecture studio MS+ recently completed Europe's largest 3D-printed housing project. Called Skovsporet , it's an entire village of 36 ground-floor apartments broken up
Core77Genesis' New Luxury Electric SUV has No B-Pillar, No Start Button, Radiant Floor Heating Genesis, Hyundai's luxury spin-off, has just unveiled their new GV90 Neolun flagship. And it's a doozy. The luxury three-row electric SUV, which has a 311-mile (500km) range, has a feature no competitor has: What used to
Core77A New Immersive Gaming Speaker Set-Up: OXS's Thunder Pro Max System Speakers have gone through multiple form factors and arrangements in the past hundred years. In the 1920s, we had radio cabinets with a single speaker. In the 1950s, Hi-Fi cabinets, with left and right speakers. In the 1
Core77Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-24-26 to 8-28-26) Here's what we looked at this week: Two experimental mobile drawer designs , by architect Keiji Ashizawa. MIT & Sumitomo develop a better UI design for excavators. An industrial designer's deconstructed tape measures hel
Core77The Twinshaver: A Low-Tech, Fast, Safe, Ergonomic Head-Shaving Invention It's common for men who are going bald to shave their heads, leaning into the look. But shaving one's head can be a hassle. To contain the mess it ought be done in the shower, but if using an electric razor, that means w
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