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Sketchnotes of IIT Institute of Design Strategy Conference 2013, by Stefani Bachetti
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Make Digital UX History at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California
wants a Jr. Interaction Designerin Palo Alto, California You know how to translate complex business needs into well-organized, persuasive, and delightful web experiences, and Hewlett-Packard is about to re-invent the industry. Are you ready to drive that change? Read More | View Original Article
Fabrican't Hardly Wait: Manel Torres' Long Road to Commercializing Spray-On Fabric
Fabrican is a sprayable fabric that actually contains fibers, and after curing it can be washed and re-worn. It first created an internet stir in 2006, but for reasons only the internet gods know, Fabrican is now resurfacing on social media and often being mistakenly presented as new. Read More | View Original Article
Ryan Frayne's Windcatcher Magnifies Human Breath, Enabling Super-Fast Inflation
As we saw with NEMO Equipment's gear, clever design can enable air to play a significant structural role with camping gear. In NEMO's case, that air is provided by a pump. Read More | View Original Article
NY Design Week 2013: Compelling Geometries from Brooklyn's PELLE Designs
Although this year marks their first ICFF, PELLE Designs actually dates back to 2008 or so, when co-founder Jean Pelle developed the first Bubble Chandelier. She met her future business partner (and husband) Oliver about ten years ago at the Yale School of Architecture, and each went on to work for major firms before setting out on their own. The "Quadrat" series of tables takes its name from the German word for "square"; Oliver left his native Germany to study architecture in the States Read More | View Original Article
Ford's Foot-Activated Liftgates
It's been over a year since Ford has incorporated foot-activated tailgates into their cars, and we're hoping by now some of you have direct experience with them. (The bulk of Core77 editorial staff is a bike-riding, subway-catching, sneaker-treading lot.) Ford designers' simple observation that many people approach their trunk with both hands full, and their incorporation of a feature that pops the trunk open by waving your foot under the bumper, is a welcome one. But for those of you actually living with one of these cars, how is it in practice? Read More | View Original Article
You and Starbucks Will Change the Way People Look at Coffee
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The Unusual Personal Transportation Designs of Shane Chen
Shane Chen is a Washington-based inventor obsessed with moving the human body. His company, Inventist, has been developing strange-looking personal transportation devices for nearly a decade. We took a brief look at his Solowheel a few years ago, and it finally went on sale just last year. Check it out: Read More | View Original Article
Trendlet: Trippy Trompe l'Oeil Objects and Installations
This week we spotted objects and installations poised for a big reveal. At first look, their structure was familiar, elements not particularly out of place. But with a quick visual adjustment or test of expectations, something altogether different—a trompe l'oeil—appears. Read More | View Original Article
NY Design Week 2013: What's Big, Pink and Mobile? UHURU's #Chairtruck
Earlier this week, I was casually minding my own business on a pleasant bike-commute from Core HQ to my humble Brooklyn abode when lo and behold, I spotted what looked like a giant hot pink chair strapped to a flatbed truck. Once I got over my initial astonishment and confirmed that this was not a mirage in my design-week-addled mind, I instinctively did that thing we do nowadays where one whips out his or her smartphone to document anything that seems remotely interesting. Case in point, here's an inane video of the truck eluding me on Flushing Ave: Read More | View Original Article
