It's been a wild and wonderful year for design and here at Core77 and we're feeling #blessed to be wrapping it up with you. Over the next week we'll be taking a look at some of our favorite ideas, stories, projects and moments from the past year. But forget about us...let's kick off the year in review with your favorite posts of 2015

1. Why are Electric Pencil Sharpeners Made in the '80s Better than New Ones?

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We showed you ours, you showed us yours. A bit of #productporn for pencil lovers.

2. Beats Headphone Teardown Reveals Weights to Give Impression of Quality ...and then the plot thickens when discovered that the Teardown Used Beats Knockoffs

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Dear reader, once again you prove that we can count on you to be the smartest designer in the room. A wide-ranging conversation about production considerations, engineering and knock-off products. 

3. Japanese Bathrooms are Designed Really Differently from Western Ones

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We fell in love with this little girl—and all this Japanese bathroom awesomeness. Watch it again because #Japan

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4. The Ultimate Wood Joint Visual Reference Guide

A one-stop shop guide for all your mortise and tenon needs. Whether you're building chairs, frames and tables, cabinets, tabletops, boxes or drawers by hand or by machine, bookmark this little guide for future reference. BONUS: Seven physical books to add to your reference library IRL.

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5. The Motherlode of Mechanisms for Your Design

Over 1,700 ways to make things move, slide and transform by mechanical engineer Nguyen Duc Thang. We love the above video showing how they turn things with undercuts, like doorknobs.

6. The Kanna Finish

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We take a look at the Japanese craft of Kanna and the tools created to get glass-smooth surfaces in wood without sandpaper or varnish.

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7. How Much Weight Soldiers Carry 

All told, a soldier might carry anywhere from 70 to over 100 pounds of gear. Bonus: incredible POV footage of a massive paratrooper drop!

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8. Watch Japanese Craftsmen Dry Fit Huge, Insanely Complicated Wood Joints

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Not enough wood joint inspiration in our reference guide? We could watch these master builders fit these wood beams all day. Pure artistry!

9. News You Can Use: Carbon3D Unveils Layerless 3D Printing Technology

The new technology prints "25 to 100 times faster" than standard 3D printing called CLIP for Continuous Liquid Interface Production. The video demos look more like the machine is "growing" a part than printing one.

10. Apple Watch CAD Drawings

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11. Bike Storage for Small Spaces

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We look forward to Jeri Dansky's weekly organization tips but this follow-up piece on how to store your trusty steed indoors expands on options beyond the original story on wall-storage.

12. PHOTO GALLERY: Highlights from ICFF

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In case you missed it, our editors picked highlights from over 700 exhibitors at this year's ICFF. See the latest innovations in LED lighting, reclaimed materials and expanded definitions of craft.

13. PHOTO GALLERY: Tour 4 Design School Workshops

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Core77 marks its 20 year anniversary by going back to where it all began—design school. As part of the Core77 Tech-tacular, our editorial series exploring the myriad ways that new technologies are shaping the future of design, we survey Pratt, School of Visual Arts Products of Design, NYU's ITP and Parsons The New School for Design to understand the foundation being laid for the products of the future.

14. PHOTO GALLERY: Highlights from DMY Berlin

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The 13th edition of this design festival spanned two floors of the historic Kraftwerk Berlin with hundreds of objects, furniture and conceptual design works. Highlights include student work from VOMO, wearable devices and emerging talent from Berlin's nascent tech scene.

15. PHOTO GALLERY: 48 Things Designers Can Learn at Burning Man

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Get into it! It's almost a new year and that means letting go and maybe even getting weird. Follow designer Anki Delfmann as she makes friends and shares lessons learned from a week at Black Rock City in Nevada's barren desert.

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More from Core77's 2015 Year in Review

• The Coming Age of Automobility and What It Means for Designers

• 10 Clever, Innovative or Bizarre Design Processes from 2015

Material News You Can Use

• 10 Brilliant and Beautiful Objects from Our 'Designing Women' Series

• 12 Projects to Inspire Future Living

• Design Entrepreneurs Were Killing it in 2015

• The Year in Furniture Designs, Part 1: The Beautiful, the Innovative and the Unusual

• The Year in Furniture Designs, Part 2: Design/Build Techniques and Learning from the Past and Present

• 15 Tools and Tool-Based Projects We Loved in 2015

• 8 New Types of Digital Fabrication Machines

• 17 Random and Amazing Phenomena We Saw This Year

• The Best Product Design GIFs of 2015