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A Slick Watch Showcases The Cold Beauty Of Steel
Not everyone fawns over smartwatches. If you're one of those who think watch design should do one thing—and do it elegantly—cast a glance at the TID No. 2 timepiece from Form Us With Love."We wanted to...
View ArticleIndia's Great Kings Immortalized In A Deck of Cards
History buffs rejoice: the Kings of India deck by Bhavesh and Reena Mistry of the Montreal-based studio Apartment 4 lends a didactic angle to playing cards.The husband-and-wife team hand-illustrated...
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Muji's Latest Kitchen Gadgets Are An Exercise In Radical Simplicity
The Japanese retailer Muji, which has earned a cult following for its unfussy brand of household products and clothing, has released three new countertop kitchen gadgets that are a master class in...
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Inhale Your Next Vaccine, Through Magic Mushrooms
Sure they're tasty on pizza, but mushrooms also have incredible potential as a design material. Royal College of Art student Celine Park sees fungi as the future of vaccine delivery.A boon for patients...
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An Austrian Company Invents a Touch Screen for the Visually Impaired
Saunter down any city street and the impact of mobile technology is apparent: lots of folks have their nose in their iPads, phones, and tablets. While the wealth of information that's available at our...
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A Kids' Shop Done Up Like A Gigantic Bead Maze
Branding a company isn't child's play, but sometimes the idea morphs into just that. Remember bead mazes? The Monterrey, Mexico–based design studio Anagrama had a little fun with the concept for the...
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Students Turn Robots Into Typographers
Robots are only as smart as their programmer, a fact that media and interaction design students at the Swiss arts university ECAL highlight in a clever video featuring Thymio robots spelling out...
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Iconic Big Type Postcards Make Small-Town America Alluring
Summer's in full swing and there's still time to squeeze in a trip or two. How about Butte, Montana? Or Newark, Ohio? At first glance, they don't seem like obvious vacation destinations, but after...
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From Harvard Innovation Lab, A Startup To Help Take Tiny Houses Mainstream
Tiny houses occupy a curious position in our cultural consciousness. They're a cottage industry, but are also a full-fledged lifestyle movement with devotees and fans spanning the entire globe. But...
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An Artist's Series Exposes The Sneaky Classism Of Architectural Renderings
Cities leverage privately owned public spaces to make urban areas more livable. It's a tradeoff between giving developers access to money-making property and providing citizens with parks the local...
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David Adjaye Designs an Elegant Children's Cancer Center in Rwanda
While design can't cure disease, it does have the ability to soothe, to comfort, and to create joy—powerful sentiments that can make treatment less miserable. Architect David Adjaye's new project, the...
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Tokyo's 1960s National Stadium Immortalized In Clever Furniture
Just as Japan "lost" one National Stadium this week, its previous arena has returned—this time in the form of handsome stools, chairs, and benches reincarnated from the cobalt-blue seats originally...
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Lush Spa In Vietnam Is Like A Modern-Age Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Blurring the divide between indoors and out is a common architectural trick—even a cliché—but a new spa at a tony Vietnam resort shows why the ol' trick sticks. If the (likely mythical) Hanging Gardens...
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Watch This Table Expand And Contract Like An Accordion
Like sleight of hand, transformable furniture has the power to instantly enthrall. There's something captivating about stationary objects suddenly coming to life."Mutability in a piece of furniture...
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What Killed the 1960s Struggle For Utopia?
The tangible innovations of today often grow from the radically conceptual ideas from the past, a notion that the Walker Art Center explores in its forthcoming exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle...
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Hyperrealistic Paper Sculptures Capture the Memory of Buildings
The only constant in cities in change—for the better or worse. That irks Philadelphia-based artist Drew Leshko. He meticulously recreates buildings he sees around him as a response to the morphing...
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400 Years of American Houses, Visualized
From post-Medieval English to McMansions, domestic architecture in the United States is as diverse as its denizens. A new poster from Pop Chart Lab makes identifying them easier and offers a glimpse of...
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Design Deconstructed: Why Philippe Apeloig's 1987 Musee d'Orsay Poster Is A...
Experts see the world differently than those with an untrained eye; they pick up on details, techniques, and historic references that might otherwise go unnoticed. The Design Deconstructed series taps...
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DIY This Floor Lamp Using 3-D Printed Parts
Why settle for generic box-store products when you can construct your own designs? The folks at the Polish firm UAU Project think that more people can tap into their inner maker, and hope the SMF.01...
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Healing Injuries Could Be Better Thanks To This 3-D Printed Cast
When Scott Summit tore a ligament in his arm he knew there was a better way to heal than spending six months trapped in a fiberglass cast from his biceps to his knuckles. The senior director of...
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