Tap Water (And Elbow Grease) Shaped This Metal Bench
Over time our eyes become pretty good judges of tactile qualities, assessing if a surface will feel hard, soft, coarse, or smooth at a glance. The Lilo bench by Connor Holland, however, embodies a bit...
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To Block Out The Cacophony of NYC, This Music Venue Rests On A Bed Of Springs
Aside from a kaleidoscopic mural and a slim ribbon of windows, National Sawdust, a new performance venue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, looks almost like any other industrial conversion on the outside. But...
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If Mies Built A Life-Size Sand Castle, It Would Probably Look Like This
Sand is an inherently playful material—just ask any kids building castles at the beach. To create pavilions for a Dubai Design Week exhibition themed "Games: The Element of Play in Culture," local firm...
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Here's A Novel Idea: A Pint-Size Lending Library As A Placemaking Intervention
It's no secret that a thriving downtown is good for a city. To coax residents to its historic core, the town of Newmarket, a growing suburb north of Toronto, got creative and used architecture to get...
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The French City Of Grenoble Wants You To Kill Time With A Short Story
The public plazas in Grenoble, a city in southeastern France, might appear to be a prototypical European panorama of outdoor cafes, people milling about, and picturesque historic architecture. But the...
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Will A Better-Designed Electric Bike Change Commuting Habits? Biomega Thinks So
It's an extreme scenario, but the recent 50-lane carpocalypse in China is a cautionary tale of what happens when there are too many vehicles on the road. And the costs don't stop at wasted time and...
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Magnets Make This Flexible Table Lamp Defy Gravity
It's no wonder that Normann Copenhagen dubbed one of its newest lamps the Acrobat—the light source can balances in myriad ways on its base. Prop it up on one end, cantilever it to the side, angle the...
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This Solid-Wood Bench Conforms To Your Body Like Memory Foam
There is an all but certain truth that accompanies upholstered seating. While comfortable, it's far from durable. In fact, I'd wager that there's at least one cushion on most couches that gets flipped...
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A Genius Window Hack Ushers More Daylight Into Dim Apartments
If your apartment is in a dense urban environment, chances are natural light and air are in short supply. Designer Aldana Ferrer Garcia recognized that one way to greatly enhance a small space without...
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A Slick Cabin Design For The Wilderness-Obsessed
There's an undeniable appeal to a cabin set in the back country. Cities are about constraints, whereas the wilderness is about unfettered freedom. The developers of Summit Powder Mountain, a planned...
View ArticleThis Robot Bartender Mines Your Facebook Data To Mix Personality-Based Shooters
What someone orders at a bar says a lot about who they are. Don Draper had his old fashioneds. James Bond had his vodka martinis. Carrie Bradshaw had her cosmos. Buy a few Four Lokos or Jägerbombs and...
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Muji Unveils A Trio Of Tiny Prefab Houses (Cue Envy)
For Tokyo Design Week, Japanese mega retailer Muji invited celebrated designers Konstantin Grcic, Jasper Morrison, and Naoto Fukasawa to envision cozy escapes from the city hustle.Holding true to...
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Photographer Ben Thomas Makes The World Look Like A Wes Anderson Set
For the most part, a natural landscape will always make a pretty picture. Cities, on the other hand, are filled with grit, haphazard construction, and chaos, often requiring a trained eye to make those...
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Turn Your Photos Into Coloring Books (And Unleash Your Inner Monet) With This...
For adults, coloring books have been touted, somewhat controversially, as potent stress relievers. Publishers have released some genius print options that appeal to grown-ups—like this one of NYC...
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This Marine Biologist Photographs Rare, Otherworldly Oceanic Creatures
While scientists, explorers, and Google Earth have mapped much of the terrestrial world, the expanses of the sea remain a great mystery. Marine biologist Alexander Semenov, head of the dive team at...
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These Shots Of Seasonal Fruits And Veggies Are Gorgeous Enough To Make You Go...
Food writers and chefs have long extolled the virtues of eating seasonally and locally. (Just ask Mark Bittman, who recently joined the vegan boxed meal startup Purple Carrot.) Artists Henry Hargreaves...
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The Boom, Bust, And Rebirth Of New York's Tech Scene
"Before the 1980s, New York was the physical, social, and economic center for technology," says Stephen Edidin, curator of Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York, an exhibition at the New York...
View ArticleThis Fuseproject-Designed Laptop Charger Is Barely Bigger Than A Roll Of...
There's a silent battle happening in cafes, offices, and even your own home. It's about who lays claim to the valuable power outlets. As we carry more electronics with us and the ball and chain of a...
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Pratt's "Coded Couture" Goes Beyond Wearables And 3-D Printing In High-Tech...
Innovation within the fashion world has yielded some wildly inventive things: generative textile prints, statuesque kicks, and wearables that give you superpowers. But what interests Ginger Gregg...
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The Coolest Pop-Up Shop We've Ever Seen
For design-centric brands, a retail space is more than a place to stock inventory—it's a physical statement about the philosophy they embody. Take minimalist Scandinavian clothing retailer COS, which...
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