Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-24-26 to 8-28-26)

Here's what we looked at this week:

Two experimental mobile drawer designs, by architect Keiji Ashizawa.

MIT & Sumitomo develop a better UI design for excavators.

An industrial designer's deconstructed tape measures help keep Ukraine free.

Textile artist Ali Hill creates architectural renderings with a sewing machine.

The Fairphone Gen. 6+, a user-repairable smartphone, finally comes to the 'States.

The portable Rope Stool, borne from a Swedish-Japanese design collaboration.

The summertime temperature differences of a black car vs. a white car. What's the air conditioning cost differential?

Bangkok Project Studio's "non-architecture" town-hall pavilion. The crazy-looking roof is actually form follows function.

Industrial design trio invents DTILE, a tile system for three-dimensional space.

The Berninox 316, by Swiss product designer Julein Bernard, is a permanent stainless steel toothbrush with replaceable bristle heads.

Unique architectural features: This disappearing balcony and coronally-rotating window, by architect Thomas Randall-Page.

An historic industrial design beef: Raymond Loewy vs. Virgil Exner.

How Wi-Fi can track your movements, everywhere, even if you're not carrying a device. No face-rec needed--the world's Wi-Fi routers are an accidental surveillance system.

The Twinshaver: A low-tech, fast, safe, ergonomic head-shaving invention.