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Core77Core77 Weekly Roundup (10-26-26 to 10-30-26) Here's what we looked at this week: A good idea for a lamp for Ferrari fanatics-- based on a 1970s East German design . Improvised tools: A creative "juggad" leak detector.

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Core77Unidome's Transparent Igloos Earlier we looked at the work of Dream Domes , a UK-based event structure company. They've worked out a way to erect large event tents with no central support.

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Core77Industrial Design Student Work: A Hard Drive that Visually Indicates How Full It Is This morphing hard drive enclosure is by Antonin Odin , done as an Industrial Design student at France's ENSCI .

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Core77An Italian Folding Bicycle Design that Fits Into a Suitcase This T&C Pocket Bici is a folding bicycle made by Tresoldi & Casiraghi, an Italian metalworking firm, in 1963.

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Core77La Bagnole: A Funky French Utility EV This La Bagnole is an adorable electric runabout by French EV brand Kilow . Designed by transportation designer Léo Choisel, La Bagnole is part buggy, part pickup truck, designed for both…

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Core77An Electric Screwdriver That Identifies Which Bit You Need We think of the task of undoing a fastener as simple: You insert the bit into the fastener head, then turn.

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Core77Industrial Designer Moritz Schmid's Patio Chair for Embru Swiss furniture brand Embru is teasing this Patio Chair , by Swiss industrial designer Moritz Schmid . The form somehow manages to make a shopping-cart-like grid look both attractive and desirable.

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Core77A Cardboard-Inspired Wooden Stacking Box This Stacking Open Box is by industrial designer Yusho Nishioka . Inspired by cardboard boxes, the "flaps" serve as handles. A 45-degree bevel on the top and bottom of the boxes allows them to nest.

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Core77This Sideways-Telescoping Camper Triples Its Footprint In 2010, French inventor Eric Beau developed a towable caravan that could telescope sideways to expand its footprint.

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Core77A Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculpture of Ducks in Flight This "Flock of Ducks" motorized sculpture is by German artist Felix Scharstein . "Three spirals are interlocked and rotate synchronously," Scharstein writes.

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Core77Claire Lavabre's Industrial-Minimalist Lamp for Hay This Posto lamp, by French industrial designer and photographer Claire Lavabre , has an industrial-minimalist aesthetic: For her first design with HAY, Lavabre asked a simple question: what is a…

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Core77Wowhaus' Dichroic Glass "Inspire" Sculpture " Inspire " is a public sculpture by Wowhaus , a California-based art and design studio. Commissioned by the San Ramon Public Library, the stainless steel structure mimics a book, with the…

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Core77A Good Idea for a Lamp for Ferrari Fanatics This vintage desk lamp is by VEB Zweckleuchtenbau, a state-owned East German lamp manufacturer of the 1970s. It's a pretty basic Communist-era design, with no mistaking where the switch is.

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