Graff Faucets: Your Eye-catching Faucet At Home

When purchasing our home faucet, we basically look at its design and next to its function. The Graff Faucet will surely catch your attention the moment you see it in stores near you. Each of the Graff faucet has cool designs. Try to look at the pictures and get amazed with how each faucet looks like.

GRAFF’s “Stealth” Bathroom Faucet inspired by Northrop Grumman’s B-2 Stealth Bomber

Stealth Faucetry – Aerodynamically inspired bathroom fittings

- It’s not every day that you see bathroom fittings inspired by stealth aircraft.

On your left are a series of bathroom faucets from award-winning manufacturer, GRAFF’s “Stealth Collection”. This ultra modern faucet is capable of 1.5-2.2 gallon/per minute water-saving flowrates and comes available in polished chrome or Steelnox satin nickel finishes.

On your right are a series of Stealth aircrafts in operation. Northrop Grumman’s B2 Spirit (aka “The Stealth Bomber”)is capable of reaching altitudes up to 50,000 feet while completely disappearing off the radar. The B2 Bomber changed the face of aeronautical design when it became the world’s most technically advanced bomber ever made.

Both are modern technological marvels in their industry.

From: Graff

Giant Robotic Dust Ball

A giant dust ball that cleans dust balls? The idea is too weird and too good. I’m sold. The motor inside doubles as the dust bin and drives the unit by rotating on 2 axes to generate enough force to move. When full, it automatically returns to its starting point and glows. Again, LOVE IT but there’s a reason why most floor cleaning robots are short and squat.

Designer: Dave Hakkens

While You’re Waiting at a Stop Light

Here’s an idea that’s almost there. The Droplet Traffic Light works like your standard fare but the opposite, inactive side displays the latest news blurbs and weather conditions. Okay WAIT A MINUTE. I need my thinking caps on because this must be designed for traffic systems that move in circular paradigms. Wouldn’t work in the States where traffic takes turns with cross-traffic. Novel idea though and love that it’s solar powered.

Designer: Psychic Factory

Core77's Hand-Eye Curiosity Club presents Zach Lieberman, New York, December 9th

Core77's Hand-Eye Curiosity Club is coming to New York next week with special guest Zach Lieberman presenting new work, and works in progress at the Dunderdon store on December 9th.

Zach Lieberman is a Brooklyn-based interactive artist, hacker and researcher. His installations and performance use custom hardware and open source software to create new playful modes of expression — and always with an element of surprise! Drawing is central theme running through his work, his projects use various means to capture interaction with the body, eyes or voice, and it's this intersection of gesture, physical interaction and computation that he's most passionate about.

Many Core readers will be familiar with Zach's work on the EyeWriterproject, a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system originally made for legendary LA graffiti writer Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE who was diagnosed with ALS in 2003. And the iQ Font for Toyota, Zach collaborated with typographers Pierre & Damiena and pro racer Stef van Campenhoudt to make a typeface from tracking the movements of a car.

Zach is the co-founder of openframeworks, a c++ library for creative coding, he's one of the developers behind rhonda, a 3D drawing tool, and it's musical sister project sonic wire sculptor. His work has been exhibited around the world including Ars Electronica, Futuresonic, CeBIT, and the Offf Festival, and he's a professor at Parsons teaching classes in animation and audiovisual expression in code.

Join us next Thursday to watch Zach perform and demo new works including a sneak peak at version 2.0 of EyeWriter, soon to be released. Special thanks to our good friends Dunderdon for hosting the event and our drinks sponsor Sixpoint!

Core77's Hand-Eye Curiosity Club

Thursday, December 9th, 7 - 10pm

Presentation: 7:30

Dunderdon

25 Howard St

New York NY, 10013

RSVP: curiosityclub.eventbrite.com

More work from Zach Lieberman

The EyeWriter

A low-cost eye-tracking apparatus and custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

eyewriter.org

iQ Font

Collaborating with typographers Pierre & Damien (plmd.me) and pro race pilot Stef van Campenhoudt, the car movements were tracked using a custom software written by Zach and outputted into data to create a font.

nl.toyota.be/cars/new_cars/iq/iq_font.aspx

Messa di Voce

Messa di Voce (Ital., "placing the voice") is an audiovisual performance in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by two abstract vocalists are radically augmented in real-time by custom interactive visualization software.

tmema.org/messa/messa.html

NightLights

Zach is part of the YesYesNo interactive collective who worked on this installation projecting peoples movements 5 stories high on the Auckland Ferry Building. There were 3 different types of movement captured: body interaction on the two stages, hand interaction above a light table, and phone interaction with the tracking of waving phones.

yesyesno.com/night-lights

View more of Zach's work on his site:

thesystemis.com

It's Small-Time: Wooden Bottle Opener

Sure, anyone can hammer a bent nail into a chunk of wood and pry open bottles with it. But the reason this Wooden Bottle Opener is available at the MOMA store is because it takes an artist like Brendan Ravenhill to not only make sure the handle's made from beautiful walnut wood, but also add magnets to catch the cap AND attach it to your refrigerator! Nowthat's design.

Check out more great gift ideas in Core77's Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide 2010.

New Balance is Seeking a Designer in Lawrence, MA

Designer II

New Balance

Lawrence, MA

As the Designer II, you will be responsible for designing projects from start to finish for your category. You will work closely with the product development and marketing teams while developing concepts for uppers and sole units and providing recommendations on material selection. You will generate multiple design concepts demonstrating creative use of line, form and surface, on-trend color combinations, innovative materials, and new technologies. In this role you will develop technical packages for your design concepts that clearly define the parameters for prototyping - this includes specifying colors, materials and new product technologies. You will create control drawings for sole unit designs, technology or other molded pieces logo details and speedlace or hardware parts. In this role you will travel to retailers and tradeshows to evaluate and analyze market trends, and you will also travel for prototype development purposes.

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IDSA & Teague announce Design of the Decade award winners

It can't be easy to condense ten years' worth of design into a single series of awards, but that's what the IDSA and Teague have collaborated to do. The duo have just announced their Design of the Decade award winners, honoring ID'ers across a variety of categories stretching from 2001 to today.

Above is the Gold winner in the Consumer category, Target's ClearRx medicine bottle from 2005, designed to make it easier for the elderly to identify and access their pills. And while the expected categories of "[Best] Solution to a Consumer Problem" and "Most Profitable Solution to a Business Problem" feature prominently in the DoD Awards, there's plenty of weightier categories like "[Best] Solution to a Developing World Social Problem," "Best Sustainable Design Solution" and "Most Responsible Design Solution." Check 'em all out here.

Core77's Powers of Ten Video Response Challenge - Deadline: January 10th, 2011

There's some great stuff coming in for Core77's Powers of Ten video response challenge. One of the most interesting entries so far is Brian Morton's concept for "Income Levels by Powers of 10" which breaks down people and organizations grouped by their yearly income level in ascending factors of 10.

The Community Challenge platform is collaborative and we encourage you to share your ideas early—story boards, sketches, rough comps—even if you're not submitting we're sure you have some good feedback, so please comment on the work of others and help evolve everyone's ideas right up until the deadline.

If you've been distracted by end of year deadlines, shopping and holiday parties don't sweat, there's still time to get your submission in—not to mention a really good chance at scoring yourself one of the prizes packs from Herman Miller and Eames Office.

Enter Now!