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Prada 24 Hours Museum, Paris

Prada 24 Hours Museum, Paris

A little Dan Flavin, a little Studio 54, a little sculptural assemblage and lots of pink neon. That’s more or less the flavour of the 24h Museum, an ephemeral,culturally kooky conceit that will already be halfway over by the time you read this A... 

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Design Fancy: Trace Hurns

Design Fancy: Trace Hurns

Trained as an architect, Trace Hurns spent most of his career doing graphic design and branding throughout the greater Chicago area. He was known for his often misguided optimism and for his love of baseball and food. Trained as an architect, Trace... 

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Steve Jobs: The man who changed everything

Steve Jobs: The man who changed everything

Steve Jobs, who has died aged 56, was at the heart of a revolution that turned the creative industries upside down. After Apple, our world was never the same again When I first started at Creative Review, in the mid-90s, we used to hammer out our stories... 

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The making of FF Tundra

The making of FF Tundra

by Ludwig Übele A line of text is like a silhouette on the horizon. by Ludwig Übele A line of text is like a silhouette on the horizon. Closer inspection reveals the detail, the trees, bushes, rocks; details that, though only vaguely perceivable... 

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Core77 Design Award 2011: The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Runner-Up for Interiors / Exhibition

Core77 Design Award 2011: The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Runner-Up for Interiors / Exhibition

Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com James... 

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Beautiful Ball Terminals

Beautiful Ball Terminals

Reaching seven million readers every month, House Beautiful is known as the publication of American home design and decoration. Since being founded in 1896, House Beautiful remains the oldest continuously published shelter magazine in the United States.... 

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1000 Words of Advice: Starting a New Design Program

1000 Words of Advice: Starting a New Design Program

Back in 2004, I wrote an article called 1000 Words of Advice for Design Students . Flattered that several departments were using the document in their curricula, I followed it up with 1000 Words of Advice for Design Teachers , in 2006 (not used very... 

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All kinds of type

All kinds of type

The last five months have been pretty intense. Creating a 166-page magazine from scratch is an enormous project and, looking back, I’m happy that I was naïve enough to think it could be done. Along with Carolyn Wood and Working Format we think we’ve... 

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Garamond or Garamont?

Garamond or Garamont?

This engraved portrait was included by Léonard Gaultier in about 1580 in his ‘Portraits of illustrious men who have flourished in France since the year 1500 until the present’. It is the only image we have of the maker of printing types whose name... 

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Congrats to Steve Portigal, Nathan Shedroff + Chris Noessel, New Rosenfeld Media Authors

Congrats to Steve Portigal, Nathan Shedroff + Chris Noessel, New Rosenfeld Media Authors

User experience book publisher Rosenfeld Media has announced two new books-in-development that ought to be interesting to many Core77 readers. The Art and Craft of User Research Interviewing , by Core77 columnist Steve Portigal , will help designers... 

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