Jot by Adonit, Precision in Your Hand. Posted by core jr | 16 Dec 2011 | Comments (5) With the barrage of stylus options on the market and new ones cropping up every day, it can sometimes feel like wading through a sea of similarity when choosing the right tool for your needs.
The Jot by Adonit is the most recent capacitative touch stylus to enter the fray, but with one incredibly important difference: the inclusion of a patented "precision disk. " This clear plastic disk sits on a ballpoint tip, giving touchscreen users the feeling of writing with a classic rollerball pen. Where the precision disk lacks in elegance of form it makes up in performance—reviews across the board mention that the Jot is the most precise stylus on the market.
The Jot comes in rainbow-colored aluminum options with the Jot+ including a rubber grip upgrade and magnetic cling to attach to your tablet without a bulky pen clip. Grand Central Apple Store. This Friday Apple opens its new retail space in New York City's Grand Central Terminal and it is huge.
This morning Core77 got a sneak peek of the place, and while we initially thought it would only occupy the area above the stairs on the East Balcony, we were wrong. The 23,000-square-foot space wraps around the north end of the Main Concourse, going all the way to the escalators for those of you familiar with the terminal, and extends into rooms on the south end. I'd wondered how Apple was going to deal with the lighting issues in the cavern-like Main Concourse, where the terminal's lighting is many stories above the floor; what they've done is outfit the tables with slender LED bars which, whether by design or coincidence, resemble smaller versions of the overhead lighting.
Move Over FiveFingers: Biodegradable Footwear by 01M OneMoment. Posted by Ray | 8 Dec 2011 | Comments (11) First things first: I've always been a bit put off by Vibram FiveFingers, the form-fitting, toe-splitting footwear that's intended to approximate bare feet.
And by "a bit put off," I mean that I find them borderline criminal. That said, I'm intrigued by a new offering from a Spanish company called 01M OneMoment, who recently launched their flagship product, a slip-on shoe that is intended to challenge Vibram's monopoly—or pentaphalangy, if you will—on the quasi-barefoot market. It's essentially an ultralightweight latex sock that is distinct from other footwear—five-fingered or otherwise—not only in terms of its appearance but also for its conceptual and technical approach. 01M OneMoment was originally inspired by native Amazonians, "who painted their feet soles with natural latex, obtained on the Hevea trees," as a natural "shoe" that eventually wears off and degrades into the environment.
Tyndall Table by Thomas Fougere. Ultimate Gift Guide 2011 Featured Item: Tweakers Portable Speakers. Posted by core jr | 9 Dec 2011 | Comments (0) 2011 has been a hard year.
Global Revolution! Natural disasters! Bankruptcy! What's next? Space-Saving Furniture Then & Now Video. Reverse Sunglasses to See Light of Day (with Your Help on Kickstarter) Posted by Ray | 9 Dec 2011 | Comments (5) Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is an affliction characterized by perennial depression, typically during the winter in the Northern Hemisphere, when daylight is limited.
(The Wikipedia article is particularly illuminating, so to speak: "Although experts were initially skeptical, this condition is now recognized as a common disorder, with its prevalence in the U.S. ranging from 1.4 percent in Florida to 9.7 percent in New Hampshire. ") Industrial design magazine + resource / blog. Posted by erika rae | 17 Apr 2014 | Comments (0) All photos by Catalina Kulczar-Marin Like with any other conference aimed at sparking innovation and creativity, you're going to leave the event with too much information to process. (Moan and groan about buzzwords all you want, but at the end of the day "inspired" is the only way to describe it.) Which, of course, were my feelings concerning PSFK 2014, a one-day conference titled "Connecting the Unexpected.
" On April 11, the staff of PSFK hosted an auditorium full of marketers, designers, entrepreneurs and other creative types at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Brooklyn Night Bazaar to Pop Up in 40,000 sf Williamsburg Space, December 15-17. Posted by core jr | 9 Dec 2011 | Comments (0) The Brooklyn Night Bazaar is a temporary gathering of local artists, designers, musicians and chefs who are coming together in for three nights at a pop-up space in Williamsburg.
They're building on the momentum they picked up with their inaugural event at Dekalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn just a few months ago in October. Billed as a hub for creative culture that is conspicuously well-timed for the holidays, 149 Kent Avenue will serve as the venue for over 100 local merchants and food vendors, boasting an interior and bespoke furniture by Julien de Smedt architects, art installations and projections by NBNY, live performances by James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), the Hold Steady, Titus Andronicus and more. Scott Wilson is Back at it Again...Kickstart the LunaTik Touch Pen.
Posted by core jr | 12 Dec 2011 | Comments (5) You love to sketch.
Pen on paper, stylus on tablet, it doesn't matter. But what does matter, is that Scott Wilson understands that insatiable need to draw. Scott Wilson, the man behind the wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for the TikTok/LunaTik watchband for the iPod nano, just launched a great followup to the TikTok: a dual function rollerball pen and digital stylus aptly named the LunaTik Touch Pen. Ultralight Minimal Backpack by Outlier x Hyperlite Mountain Gear. Posted by Ray | 12 Dec 2011 | Comments (5) Brooklyn-based performance apparel mainstay Outlier is pleased to present their first foray into bags: the minimally-titled "Minimal Backpack" is a medium-sized roll-top style that is made from an exotic-sounding tech fabric called "nonwoven Dyneema.
" Like many Outlier products, this adventure started with the material. In one of their many fabric hunts, the guys stumbled across something so different it was almost alien. Dutch Design Week 2011: "Schizo Vase" & Other Products by OOOMS. Posted by Ray | 13 Dec 2011 | Comments (0) Dutch design boutique OOOMS first turned up on our radar last year for a few of their rectilinear furniture designs; they resurfaced a couple months ago, at Dutch Design Week, where they were exhibiting some of their clever housewares.
The "Schizo Vase" is now available in white Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) as well as the original dark cork. Flotspotting: Minimalist Lamps Galore. Posted by Ray | 13 Dec 2011 | Comments (0) Household lighting is a singular challenge for industrial and interior designers alike, insofar as it (selectively) illuminates and ultimately defines a space.
Lamps are typically subject to everyday use, yet they also present an opportunity for an individual to express him or herself through design. Meanwhile, the challenge of minimalism as a design principle is that there is only so much that a designer can take away in the interest of paring an object down to its essence; at a certain point, he or she ends up reapplying signature touches. However, it seems that designers may eventually exhaust the possibilities of expressive flourishes within the minimalist approach, as several of these Flotspotted designs might be considered to be variations on themes within a broader aesthetic.
Big Idea, Little Printer: Exclusive Q&A with Matt Webb, Principal & CEO of Berg. Posted by Ray | 2 Dec 2011 | Comments (16) The Interwebosphere has been abuzz with news about the very device that may spell—or rather, print—its unmaking: earlier this week, London-based design consultancy Berg unveiled their latest innovation, the Little Printer. The desktop device is roughly the size of a cube of Post-It notes, configured to produce a receipt-sized analogue for a newspaper featuring personalized content culled from the otherwise never-ending newsfeeds that all but define the Information Age. Little Printer lives in your front room and scours the Web on your behalf, assembling the content you care about into designed deliveries a couple of times a day. Photojojo's Brilliant Rubber Band Camera Lens. If Photojojo's iPhone Lens Dial is too bulky for you, they've also got a brilliantly compact solution for adding a macro lens: The Macro Cell Lens Band, where the glass is embedded in a rubber band.
You can store it on your wrist and "install" it when the photographic situation warrants it. As you can see below, it appears to offer a crazy amount of magnification. Unfortunately, while it rings in at a manageable 15 bucks, you can probably forget about putting one under the tree this year—it's currently sold out. This is Too Good Not to Post. Deck the Halls NYC: One-Stop (Pop-Up) Market for Local Handcrafted Goods.
Posted by Ray | 15 Dec 2011 | Comments (0) The Old School, a converted space at the intersection of Prince and Mott in the Nolita neighborhood of downtown Manhattan, is currently hosting a holiday pop-up market featuring nearly forty local(-ish) craftspeople and merchants who deal in all variety of vintage, local, one-of-a-kind or otherwise hard-to-come-by clothing, jewelry and objects. As buzzy as it may sound, Deck the Halls NYC is "artisanal" done right, a decidedly anticommercial marketplace for everything from Brooklyn-made bags (from half a dozen different labels, no less) to ginger syrup and everything in between. Case in point, BKLYN Dry Goods' immaculately-curated room is chock-full of awesome objects for the tasteful urban adventurer, including rare vintage gear, limited-edition timepieces, and all variety of bags...
Not to mention longtime Core favs Outlier, for those of you who want to check out the Minimal backpack in person. You Can Can with Marcel Wanders-inspired Design. Cory Grosser Is Two Turtle/Turtles Short of Kickstarting His Minimalist Toy. Flotspotting: Mia Schmallenbach's Nesting Knives. QuaDror, a New Structural Joint to Build On. QuaDror / Home. QuaDror. Type Be Positive: Kickstart the Ludlow Project. Posted by Ray | 1 Nov 2011 | Comments (0) It's easy to say that letterpress printing leaves an impression, but perhaps the most remarkable thing about the process, which dates back to Gutenberg's original invention in 1440, is that much of the equipment in use today dates back to the first half of the 20th Century.
Los Angeles's International Printing Museum is home to the largest collection of printing equipment in America, "emphasizing the history of letterpress printing and typecasting from Gutenberg to Vandercook. " They've turned to Kickstarter in an effort "to rescue a collection of approximately 100 full fonts of antique Ludlow Typecasting matrices, [and] catalog & organize the fonts into our working collection & digitize Ludlow Type Specimen books with notes on available fonts for letterpress projects. " The Ludlow Project - Saving Hot Metal Typecasting History by International Printing Museum. Ping: the connected lamp. Romantic Lamp That Splits in Two Glows Brighter When Both Are Switched On.
Alcove. Jumpseat Auditorium Seating. Coat Check Chair. Tea-Time. Easy to clean, BPA Free, Toxin Free, Stainless Steel, ECO, Reusable Water bottle. Jawbone JAMBOX. Products-Pro-e777-a.pdf (application/pdf Object) Hi-Fi, Stereo, Speakerphone & more. LaundryPod. Never-Saw-Pro-e423-d.pdf (application/pdf Object) Looking for a home/manufacturer - kengoldmandesign.
Products. Mo: Flexible Bike Share and Urban Mobility System. Posted by LinYee Yuan | 26 Oct 2011 | Comments (0) What if you were rewarded for biking to work each day? What if your city had a fleet of bikes and cars integrated with its public transportation system. Introducing mo, a new concept in urban mobility. The team at LUNAR Europe teamed up with the University of Wuppertal and Green City e.V. to concept a full urban mobility system for Munich, Germany that could be scaled for cities around the world. The mo system, at it's heart, is a fully integrated share model which connects existing public transportation options with rental vehicles: bicycle and cargo bikes, electric bikes and cars. 80% of all distances travelled in Germany are shorter than 20 km. The video below outlines their approach and explains the concept in the most easily understood way by showing "real" users interacting with mo.
We're excited to see where the mo system might go! Home. Nice to See: A Speaker Design that Actually Looks Like a Speaker. I'm loving the ballsy design of Yamaha's PDX-11 portable speaker/dock, which just seems to say "Here I am, and this is what I do. " Nice to See, Part 2: Speakers that Look Like Old Speakers (Because They Are) As a nice counterpoint to the Yamaha portable speaker we showed you yesterday, Los-Angeles-based electrician and artist Devin Ward takes old tube-amp radios, refurbishes them, and wires in a minijack connection so you can plug in your iDevice.
The nostalgia might come at a cost—he freely admits that on some of the models he's got, the radio receiver may provide slightly audible interference over your newfangled AAC files—but if you were born before 1984 you can probably live with it. Nice to See, Part 3: A Speaker That's Been in Hiding.