By Eric Ludlum - May 03

Connect with Designers at the All New Coroflot

The Internet's original design portfolio and job site gets a makeover.

A ground-up rebuild of the Coroflot identity and UI gets back to the origins of the design community while setting a path for upcoming changes. Come check it out and connect with a world of designers and design jobs.

By Eric Ludlum - Apr 03

Take Coroflot's 2018 Design Salary Survey 

It is easy, quick and you'll get a copy of the results.

Built by designers, for designers, Core77's design job and portfolio site, Coroflot, focuses on sustaining a strong community of talented creative-types. We invite you to take a peek and add your info to this year's Design Salary Guide.

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 06

A New Designer Communication Platform at Coroflot

We've built a messaging tool dedicated to connecting and recruiting designers.

Core77's sister-site Coroflot is a go-to destination for design employment, hosting thousands of designers' portfolios, hundreds of design jobs and a giant guide to design salaries. Now all these pieces are getting tied closer together, connected via a brand new messaging platform.

By Eric Ludlum - Sep 27, 2017

Announcing the 2017 Coroflot Design Salary Guide

A compact digest of insight into the state of the design profession and creative recruiting in 2017.

For over 15 years Core77 and Coroflot – the design recruiting site – have polled working designers across the professional spectrum about their careers. The result is two-fold; first, an ever growing "real-time" design salary guide at Coroflot.com, where

By Eric Ludlum - Apr 26, 2017

Live from Portland – Coroflot's Sketch Jam

Tune in right now as the last four sketchers battle it out!

Watch it live in this very post, or catch it at Coroflot's Facebook page. It's getting hot!

By Eric Ludlum - Apr 20, 2017

Sketch Jam – Final Day to Apply to Our Live Sketching Showdown

Throw your hat in the ring today, get to Portland next week, walk away with glory and, possibly, a 27" Cintiq.

Are you a wet-behind-the-ears student looking for an angle into the big leagues of product design? Are you a grizzled design veteran desperate for a last shot at glory? Can you sketch like a fiend? Ideate in your sleep? Are you only truly at peace while bathing in the heat

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 23, 2017

American-Made Aprons for the Workshop and Kitchen

Core77's Hand-Eye Supply is Making Its Industry Discount Available to Everyone This Week

At Hand-Eye Supply we offer a standing discount of 40% off our American-Made Aprons to all service industry people (proof in the form of ID required, just FYI) – but for one week only we are offering this discount to everyone.

By Eric Ludlum - Feb 23, 2017

Pre-Order These Trusco Toolboxes Now

Core77's Hand-Eye Supply is Lowering the Price by Importing Them Direct From Japan.

With the help of our city – Thank you, Mitsu & PDC – Core77's established a direct connection with the Trusco manufacturing company.

By Eric Ludlum - Feb 17, 2017

Do You Know This Rabbit?

Dick Bruna, creator, author, illustrator of Miffy, has died.

You probably do know Miffy since 89 million picture books of her have been sold since her birth in 1955. Click through for some features on her creator.

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 23, 2016

ElektroLeder: The New Fashion of our Imminent E-Future

We hop on a recent Short-Pants Electric Motorcycle Leather launch of the Johammer J1

When the Johammer J1 electric motorcycle first blazed a hot trail across the blogosphere we missed an opportunity to hop on here at Core77, which is a real shame because there is obviously a lot of fun to be had with it. Recent news has blessedly afforded us a second

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 18, 2016

Faster Fridays: A Patina-Perfect Land Rover to Whip the End of Your Week

It's rough coolness is belied by an exceptional sensitivity to detail and form

There isn't much to say about this vehicle that the pictures don't already convey—it is a rare thing. This well-pedigreed mongrel, possessing a classic and familiar shape yet visibly strange disposition, bears testament to the many hands and hours required to forge such a beast. But these few pics are

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 14, 2016

Watch As This Newly Fabricated Meta-Material Collapses Then Re-Forms

Announced by Harvard researchers last week, it is internally actuated and could revolutionize emergency shelters

The material is resilient and strong, able to be compressed flat and then opened back up with no lasting impact to its structure, a versatility that is enabled by thin-walled units arrayed in a continuous matrix, permitting it to dramatically alter shape and volume, and to be tuned to specific

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 10, 2016

Are These Two Designs Illegally Similar? The UK's Supreme Court Says No

Trunki Loses to Kiddee in Children's Riding Suitcase Judgement

The creator of Trunki, Rob Law, as quoted by the BBC in their story on the verdict, says he was "bewildered by this judgment, not just for ourselves but for the huge wave of uncertainty it brings to designers in Britain”.

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 09, 2016

Nendo Resurrects Metabolist Architecture in Total Adorbs Fashion: For Pets!

Don't Deny Your Beloved Their Own Little System for Living

Japanese design studio Nendo, whose work we love, has just dropped a whole little design eco-system for the pet-set. The house/bed reminds us of a miniature base unit from Metabolist Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower, which, we noted last year, is both a piece of architectural history AND a ruin

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 08, 2016

BMW's New Concept Car Features Morphing Skin, Beast Mode. Sorry, Boost Mode.

Or is it Bao Bao Mode?

Reading through their press release I drifted into a little dystopian Boston Dynamics/BMW co-lab fantasy of M-series Robo-Cheetahs slashing through traffic in 2116. Fortunately BMW has a much more urbane vision for the future of transportation, and takes some cues from the lithe forms of big cats. It is

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 07, 2016

View-Master Viewer DLX: Virtual Reality that Doesn't Click

An Icon slowly dissolves in a world of interaction it originally defined.

With hotly anticipated entries like the virtual reality Oculus Rift headset dropping for us consumers at the end of this month, and Microsoft's Hololens augmented reality hardware available to developers around the same time, this spring makes for as clear of a starting line as we've seen in the race

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 03, 2016

Roll out a Rietveld Beach Buggy this Summer (If You Start Making it Now)

Did you know the plans are available? Did you know he even made a beach buggy?

Dear Reader, are you perhaps … looking to freshen up the scenario for your design history reenactment group? … a sun-loving DIYer caught in-doors, seeking to evade a persistent winter? … a creative-type in a gestational holding pattern while awaiting a Spring delivery? If you are then read

By Eric Ludlum - Apr 22, 2015

2015 Core77 NYC Design Map/App – Submit Your Event Now

We are printing and distributing it across the city for a second year and putting it online in a mobile-friendly app.

Calling all New York-bound design enterprises – it is time to get your events listed! We are very proud to be cooperating with both NYCxDesign and Metropolis magazine on promoting New York's design events and exhibitions this May. We will again be printing a tidy run of 20,000 maps!

By Eric Ludlum - Dec 13, 2013

Tonight! - at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Ore. - Join Core77 and Hand-Eye Supply

Dear designers, design aficionados and assorted creative types of the greater Portland, Oregon area, Tonight's the Night for design and celebration. We strongly encourage you to drop by the design event of the season for some: - Complimentary Social Lubrication (DJ Music & Cocktails!) - Free perusal of the Bridge City Tool...

By Eric Ludlum - Dec 04, 2013

An Invitation to the Core77 & Hand-Eye Supply Holiday Party at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon

Dear Designers, Craftspeople, Curious/ Creative Types of Portland, Ore., The Portland bureau of Core77 & Hand-Eye Supply invite you to the design event of the season: HOLIDAY SHINDIG at the Museum Of Contemporary Craft on Friday, December 13, 2013 -- 6:00pm till 9:00pm - Complimentary Social Lubrication: * Dj Music * Cocktails...

By Eric Ludlum - Oct 31, 2013

Hand-Eye Supply Pre-Holiday Blowout Sale

Marshall Hanwell Hi-Fi Speaker - Originally $800 - Now $595 with Free Ground Shipping in the USA - Cheaper than Amazon! Critter & Guitari Kaleidoloop - Originally $300 - Now $145 with Free Ground Shipping in the USA - Unbeatable on the Internets! AKMD Origami - Set of Three Bowls - Originally...

By Eric Ludlum - Sep 26, 2013

Our Annual Back-to-the-Workshop Deal - 5 Days Only - American-Made Combo of Apron + Safety Glasses for $19

Core77's Hand-Eye Supply store puts this deal together once a year so come grab the workshop necessities while saving the big bucks. This pair of items typically goes for $40 but is over half off until the end of the month—that's in 5 days!Hand-Eye Supply Black Denim Apron + Oberon Safety Glasses...

By Eric Ludlum - Sep 06, 2013

A Tour of Core77's Hand-Eye Supply Pop-Up in Los Angeles

Moving through the space. Core77's retail enterprise, Hand-Eye Supply, is deep into the third week of a month long stay at Space 15 Twenty in Los Angeles and things are heating up! More on that in a following post though, for right now we'd like to give you, dear Internet friend, a behind...

By Eric Ludlum - Jul 19, 2013

Announcing The Pop-up Institute for Craft and Ingenuity - Mark Your Calendars and Join Core77 and Hand-Eye Supply in Los Angeles This August!

Core77 and Hand-Eye Supply are launching a "Pop-up Shop and Educational Happening" in Los Angeles on August 16th, kicking off a whole month of pop-up shopping, learning, making and hanging-out. We are throwing this multi-faceted extravaganza of design, D.I.Y. and craft in collaboration with Space 15 Twenty, a unique retail...

By Eric Ludlum - Jul 17, 2013

Core77 Hand-Eye Limited Edition

By Eric Ludlum - Jun 25, 2013

Too Much to Resist: Design and Bikes at the Portland Art Museum

The Cyclepedia Exhibition Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue Portland, OR 97209 Through September 8, 2013Austrian collector Michael Embacher's attic might be creaking a bit in relief right now, having been recently dispossessed of about half of its contents. Embacher, who had amassed over 200 rare and unique bicycles in that very...

By Eric Ludlum - May 21, 2013

One, Two, Three

Hello Design Fans - Here is a wide image to kick off our new jumbo-tron Core77 format. Math is important, make it work for you, stay in school. Check, check. Keep your head down. Just a taste for now. - Edit: For those of you who are interested, the...

By Eric Ludlum - May 07, 2013

Award Winning Chairs from Oregon Head to NYC

Last fall Core77 got the chance to participate in the jurying of a chair design competition sponsored by Wilsonart and held at the University of Oregon's Product Design Department. It was a semester long assignment for the students and challenged them to use Wilsonart's laminates to produce a NW...

By Eric Ludlum - Apr 26, 2013

New Work from Studio Gorm

Studio Gorm—you may know them from their kitchen or their work with the Univ. of Oregon Product Design Department—showed these elegant pieces at the Salone Satellite in Milan and they are now online for worldwide cyber perusal. Check out the chair, coat hook, carpet—a favorite, looks lush, table

By Eric Ludlum - Apr 26, 2013

Handmade Balls from Around the World in *The Art of Sport + Play* Exhibition

To borrow a sports metaphor, this intimate exhibition of author and motivational speaker Kevin Carroll's personal travel memorabilia, punches above its weight offering a surprising amount of inspiration for both designer and layperson. The Art of Sport + Play focuses on Kevin's collection of hand-crafted balls from across the world....

By Eric Ludlum - Mar 01, 2013

Core77 Design Awards on Fab This Weekend Only!

The Core77 Design Awards' mandate is to push the boundaries and reach of the design professions so it is a natural that we are teaming up this Weekend with Internet phenomenon Fab to put the word out to their broad, design-savvy audience. Check it out here!

By Eric Ludlum - Feb 26, 2013

Core77's Hand-Eye Supply Presents The American Image Safety Spectacle

You won't want to keep these in the shop - wear them out on the town - keep chic while maintaining splash protection from nocturnal hazards such as face-flung drinks of jilted lovers. Entertain neophytes with impromptu lessons in plastic molding, showing off the frames' inverted bridge mold cavity -...

By Eric Ludlum - Feb 14, 2013

Studio Space of Louis Comfort Tiffany

This image passed through our inbox today, it's from a new book on the "Great Houses of New York" Sorry for the small size but a quick google search turns up nothing larger! A few more details about what surely must have been one of the great studio...

By Eric Ludlum - Jan 28, 2013

Does OXO Have an Ergo Grip Fly Swatter in the Works? Because They Just Delivered a Smackdown!

An urbane, reasoned one, but nonetheless...If you aren't up on NYC design drama, last week, in what one would hope is a publicity stunt and not a self-serious act of protest, Quirky, an invention-development company, put up a billboard and gathered a crowd to draw attention to the similarities between...