Core77 Design Awards

Three projects that redefine usability from the design world's newest competition

Starting with a reinvented trophy—designed as a mold for casting multiples to share with collaborators—the Core77 Design Awards is setting out to be a contest like no other. The competition presents some of the industry’s most thoughtful concepts that often change the way we interact with the landscape around us. Below are three paradigm-shifting projects that enhance life by redefining space and usage. Alcove Felix …

Rubber Tracks

Record your next hit at Converse's top-of-the-line studio in Brooklyn

With Chucks on the feet of countless lead singers, Converse’s roots in rock ‘n’ roll go almost as far back as the genre itself, a tradition the brand is keeping alive with this week’s opening of Rubber Tracks, a world-class recording studio open to musicians of all genres at no cost. The community-driven space, located in one of Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s last remaining industrial pockets, is …

Hyphae

Biomimetic lamps created from leaf-based algorithms

Design studio Nervous System‘s new Hyphae lamps uses a complex 3D computing process to mimic the naturally beautiful and unique structure of plant leaves. Each lamp is grown through a controlled process based on the Auxin Flux Canalization theory, positing that vein formation occurs from the growth hormone auxin which flows “where it has flowed before and cells with high levels of auxin differentiate into …