A collection of illustrations

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects

In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the museum’s website can see hundreds of thousands of objects, many images of which are available for download. And it’s not alone—other institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Art, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, among others, make pieces in their collections accessible to all.

The thing is, digital images don’t always give...

Industrial Design Student Work: A Two-Way Chair

This minimalist, bent plywood Tilt chair is by Manuela Hirschfeld, an Industrial Design student at Germany's Hochschule Pforzheim.

I'd link to more of Hirschfeld's projects, but she maintains no online presence. I find this is increasingly the case with the current generation of ID students; I'm not sure why.

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"Large amount of public input" delays White House ballroom vote

The NCPC is not expected to vote today on the contentious White House East Wing Modernization proposal, due to "the large amount of public input on the project".

In a statement released this morning, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) announced that the expected vote on the ballroom today may not happen.

"Commission is not expected to vote on the project"

The NCPC, which approves building projects of historic significance in Washington DC, cited the thousands of public comments as the reason for the delay.

"At this time, the commission is not expected to vote on the project, but instead will vote at a...

Core77 Design Awards 2026: Vineet Thuvara on Multidisciplinary Innovation

Vineet Thuvara's career traces a path through some of technology's most influential products. He began his design career as a co-founder of an industrial design agency in New Delhi before moving into lead roles in a variety of product organizations at Microsoft's Surface, Xbox, and Server divisions. From there he went on to directing product design and management in Amazon's Echo and Alexa device portfolio, and his current role is Chief Product Officer at Fluke Corporation, a global leader in test and measurement devices, software, and services.

At Fluke, Vineet leads the business units and drives growth, new...

Two Engineers Improve the UX of the Paint Tray

At the end of a painting job, we've all done this, which takes forever:

Engineers John Archard and Charles Cooper became frustrated with that task. They then invented the SmartTray, which has an odd protuberance on one side:

This allows you to mount the tray right onto the can, and go do something else while it drains.

Additionally, when you start the job, you can also set the can up to drain into the tray, and start rolling right away.

Archard and Cooper patented the design through...

Scale the Dramatic Verticality of Grundtvigs Kirke in David Altrath’s Dreamy Photos

The construction of Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen took nearly two decades, beginning in fall of 1921 and finally reaching completion in 1940. Designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, it transforms the humble brick into a masterpiece of Expressionist architecture. Its pointed interior arches and vaulted ceiling, stepped crenellations, and hulking exterior nod to medieval Gothic and Romanesque styles while also exhibiting a profoundly modern sensibility.

David Altrath, a Hamburg-based photographer whose work emphasizes urban and architectural elements, captures Grundtvigs’ details in an atmospheric cumulative portrait. Bathed in mellow, golden light, the church’s pale yellow bricks appear to glow, complemented by minimal interior...

Gambosa lamp by Mathias Hahn for Marset

Dezeen Showroom: the typical components of a table lamp – shade, stem and base – are given a sculptural interpretation in this light by designer Mathias Hahn for Spanish brand Marset.

Made of steel and opal polycarbonate, the Gambosa table lamp renders the shade as a broad dome, the stem as a capsule-shaped element that appears to balance on a rounded end, and the base as a slim disc.

The bold, geometric composition comes together without immediately visible connections, making the whole piece look as if stacked in a delicate balance.

The cable design provides a finishing...

A Combination Kitchen Sink / Dishwasher

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China must be an interesting place to be an industrial designer.

In America and Europe, we've had a middle class for roughly 100 and 200 years, respectively. And we have a pretty fixed idea of what appliances should look like, and how they should work, because we've had them for all of our lives. But China's middle class is fairly new. This gives their designers leeway to experiment with new forms and typologies, because to Chinese consumers, virtually everything is "new." If you come up with a concept that might seem wacky to Westerners, the Chinese consumer will still...

TT Turns Font & Specimen

TT Turns is the symbiosis of geometric and humanist styles. The idea behind the TT Turns font family was to create a new, universal typeface that could be used with equal effectiveness in virtually any field. The main design feature is overhanging (turned behind a glyph's edge) terminals in rounded letters like 'a', 'c', 'e', 'g', 's' and other, which give the font a friendly and unformal mood. TT Turns includes 19 styles (9 uprights, 9 italics and 1 variable), covers most of Latin and Cyrillic languages and support more than 30 OpenType features. Font specimen develops the design features...