The Core77 team spends time combing through the news so you don’t have to. Here’s a weekly roundup of our favorite finds from the World Wide Web:
“Don’t Buy Into the Authenticity Scam”
An interesting read—A retrospective on cultivating Industrial Design at Google.
2017 Winning entries for the Mars City Design Competition.
Global Grad Show at Dubai Design Week shows student work from dozens of design schools around the world.
A short history of the Ercol 206 Easy Chair: Ercol Originals typified mid-century British manufacturing—made from Buckinghamshire beech and elm, they integrated craftsmanship with the values of industrial production.
An exhibit at Georgia Tech showing 45 sets of 3D printed dinnerware. You’ll have to go to the campus in Atlanta to see them all—the web site just shows a selected few.
An interview with Audi Head Designer Marc Lichte at the new Audi Designcenter in Ingolstadt.http://www.core77.com/posts/70623/Is-a-Cat-a-Liquid-Plus-45-Sets-of-3D-Printed-Dinnerware-and-an-Inside-Look-at-Bringing-Industrial-Design-to-Google