The AmbientOne is designed to be an environmentally conscious alternative to incandescent based table lamps. Its uses sixteen outwardly facing high brightness LEDs to create an omnidirectional output that is capable of filling living and work spaces with warm, inviting light.

Help Matt launch his product design studio by realizing a first edition production run of his beautifully crafted "digital ceramics."

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The iThrone was developed by two recent Art Center grads. Ceramic is not only a beautiful aesthetic choice for a throne, it also has natural acoustic properties that enable the dock to act as a speaker without any electronic components.

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Horto domi, uses Arduino Ethernet to control the temperature of an enclosed, raised-bed garden so that no matter how cold it gets outside, you can grow anything you want all year round.

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Award-winning coat hook and storage unit for keys, sunglasses or change -- best of all, it wont stretch your sweater! Help Chicago-based Materious make this Cubby a reality!

Bicycle Film Festival founder/director Brendt Barbur wants to take his passion for those first two things to the next level with a star-studded team of documentarians.

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Can you imagine having access to a laser-cutter or 3D printer as an elementary school student? Sparklab hopes to provide a bona fide hands-on education that is conspicuously absent from today's by-the-book curriculum with their mobile shop class.

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Sure, it's just an acoustic iPhone stand by a couple of guys who managed to get their hands on a CNC machine, but that doesn't make it any less beautiful or functional.

Read our exclusive profile of Colin & Bob here: http://bit.ly/GDjROu

Full Windsor offers polypropylene origami with a purpose. The removable Quickfix fender is literally a snap to attach, while the semi-permanent Foldnfix is easier to (cable) tie than the company's namesake knot.

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Help this Brooklyn-based furniture and textile duo get into this May's ICFF and be on the lookout for a Core77 studio visit coming soon.

A soapdish made of soap, "designed with a special groove," such that "each new bar is ready to receive the previous little sliver." The old bar completes the new one and the lifecycle continues

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Help IIT Design Build students launch a small exhibition center on the site of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House. The center will safely house furniture and other artifacts from the house, which is prone to flooding.

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"X" marks the spot with this simple building toy by New York-based artist Patrick Martinez. The plastic connectors are the perfect foundation, so to speak, for aspiring artists and architects.

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Carson Leh's beautifully brogued bicycle saddles hearken back to the signature details of oxfords and derbys. His inaugural collection of saddles features wingtip-worthy patterns and faux-quilting for a specific contingent of style-conscious cyclists.

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Jeremy Dooley and Robbie De Villiers want to create a city-wide visual identity based on a European city model. "We want Chattanooga to be the poster child for municipal branding in America... Chattanooga can spark the typographic revolution!"

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Since its 2008 debut, the MacBook Air has firmly established itself not only among Apple's offerings but as an industry-leading notebook with its killer combination of performance and portability.

Still, the novelty of its size never ceases to amaze...

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Well that was quick: the Defender bike light reached its funding goal in less than 48 hours... though perhaps we shouldn't be surprised: its got a winning combo of form and function (not to mention its Core-approved things-that-look-like-other-things design).

The "Zooka" raises the (speaker) bar for portable speakers: developed by Portland, OR-based design studio NEW, the silicone accessory offers the perfect balance of hassle-free audio.

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Retract your cables without detracting from their utility: The Hub (and Mini Hub) is among the more thoughtfully-designed cord management systems we've seen.

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Ikea-hack for the music lover in your life. Rekordit turns the expedit into a showcase for vinyl cover art.
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Designer David Markus has ironed out the issues with tabletop psychedelic chemical suspension with an interactive, lava lamp 2.0. (Backlight not included.)

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Remember the old "it's heavy so it feels valuable" argument for the iPhone 4? Casey Hopkins' superlative iPhone dock is precision-machined and perfectly calibrated for your docking needs.

You love to sketch. Pen on paper, stylus on tablet, it doesn't matter. Scott Wilson is back at it again with a stylus that seamlessly goes from paper to tablet.

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For all you creative types who dig creative typefaces: L.A.'s Int'l Printing Museum needs your help to rescue a collection of ~100 fonts of antique Ludlow Typecasting matrices. Five bucks will get you a letterpress thank-you note; drop another $45 for your very own slug.

"Dark Sky" is a new kind of weather app that promises military-grade accuracy in mobile meteorology, providing accurate weather data for the immediate one-hour timeframe. It ain't a weather machine, but it's a step in the right direction.

'Tis the season... to bring a digital image to life as a custom, reusable laser-cut woodblock at the click of a button.. The result is something like a cross between a rubber stamp and a silkscreen, elevating pixels to a unique work of art that's perfect for holiday tidings.

We've seen a lot skateboard furniture crap over the years, but Skate Bench avoids the pile of poseurs and is worthy of your kickstarting dollars.

Can making things with electronics without prior knowledge of a programming language be possible. Designers at Teague would like to think so.

Steve Daniels, founder of A Better World By Design, wants to publish this magazine about innovation in emerging markets. From the favelas of Rio to the alleys of Delhi, learn about design in every corner of the globe!

Would you Kickstart a pet? Join 200+ backers (including rapper Jermaine Dupri) who hope marine biologist / entrepreneur Alex Andon can make their dream of raising jellyfish-- on their desktops, no less-- come true.

The ubiquitous U-Lock may have met its match in the TiGr, a titanium lock which fits around your wheels+frame+bikerack as well as it fits along your top tube. The innovative design raises the bar both for form and for function, setting new standards for street cred and security.

"Tembo Trunks"—a clever new take on unpowered portable speakers—are perhaps the first earbud accessories to be Kickstarted, and the Norrie brothers are documenting the process from injection mold to package design.

Dwayne Vance knows a thing or two about what makes a car a desirable fantasy. When he's not consulting big entertainment, auto, or toy companies, he has the time to curate volumes of awesome hot rod drawings. Check out this second volume of awesomeness!

Big ideas need big pencils....errr.. styluses.

Ever wanted to create your own inflatable characters? BLIMPUS, a new project by our very own Coretoon artist, Lunchbreath and illustrator/designer Mike Serafin, is a blank inflatable vinyl canvas with two feet to "stand" on. Help this project get a leg up, and claim yours now!

Say yes to future rock stars.
Say yes to future blues heroes.
Say yes to kids playing instruments
Say yes to The Loog Guitar.

Gary Hustwit's design film trilogy culminates in the third and final installment, Urbanized, which takes a look at the design of cities. If this is anything like his first two films, Helvetica, and Objectified, we can be sure that it will be great. Support this project!

What's more fun than recreating or designing your favorite sneakers out of play-doh? Well it looks like Delroy Dennisur's Stance might be the answer. Free your inner footware designer and support this project.

Don Lehman wanted a more readily accessible stylus so his sketching and ideation could go uninterrupted when fumbling for the right drawing tool. Don Lehman has the product dev skills to solve this problem. Give Don the final boost needed to bring this great idea to life.

New York City restaurants open, go out of business, and reopen in new incarnations every week. This one is designed to. (Well not go out of business we hope) Bon appetit!

What does a successful product firm do when they're not creating award winning products for industry clients? Why launch a record breaking, blogosphere engrossing, iPod accessorizing project that's hard to beat, of course. Great work MINIMAL!