7 Rules Of Great Type Design (That Any Creative Can Use)
After decades in the business, House Industries has learned a thing or two about creativity. House Industries–a Delaware-based design firm and type foundry–might not be a household name, but you’ve...
View ArticleFacebook Taps OMA To Rethink Tech’s Biggest Urban Design Problems
The firm is planning a “mixed-use village” in Melo Park that emphasizes community and openness. Today, Facebook announced preliminary plans for an expansion of its Menlo Park campus. The master plan,...
View ArticleThe Frank Lloyd Wright Project History Conveniently Forgot
Wright is framed as a progressive architect, but newly unearthed correspondence reveals racist rhetoric. If Frank Lloyd Wright wrote his own history, the expert in personal myth-making would likely...
View ArticleThis Year’s Must-See Architecture Is A Mountain Of Paper Tubes
Studio Gang’s dizzying Hive is composed of over 2,500 metallic cardboard tubes. Every summer the National Building Museum, in Washington D.C., transforms its towering 75-foot-tall atrium into an...
View Article6 Radical Buildings Built From The Humble Brick
A brick just wants to be contemporary. Design moves cyclically, and what’s old is often new again. Brick–one of the world’s oldest building materials–is having a moment. It never really faded away from...
View ArticleThis Snøhetta-Designed Restaurant May Be The Most Hygge Place Ever
The space formerly occupied by Noma, the restaurant that brought Nordic cuisine to the world, is now a monument to Scandinavian coziness. In 2015, Danish chef René Redzepi announced that he was closing...
View ArticleThis 21st-Century Lite-Brite Teaches People How To Code
The DIY programming kit lets you create digital artwork, animations, and games. Last September, Kano–the DIY computer company–announced it was getting into the gadget game with kits for building your...
View ArticleRedesigning New York’s Most Notorious Jail
Meet the “Justice Hub.” The Rikers Island Correctional Facility, a complex of 10 jails and about 10,000 detainees located northeast of LaGuardia Airport, is a longstanding political flashpoint in New...
View ArticleThis Office-In-A-Box Is A Cubicle You’ll Actually Want To Use
When your workday is done, Francesc Rifé’s workstation swings shut to become a simple console. Cubicles are universally panned as a symbol of cloistered office culture and soul-sucking corporate...
View ArticleThe Bizarre Beauty Of Silicon Valley’s Salt Ponds
Prismatic aerial imagery, #nofilter. Before tech became the San Francisco Bay Area’s biggest export, salt was the primary industry. Eighty percent of the Bay’s natural wetlands were turned into salt...
View ArticleTwo Photographers Shoot Two Radically Different Portraits Of...
Modern Detroit is a tale of two cities. Is Detroit a mausoleum to a failed American Dream, or is it the site of the next great economy? Is it suffering from plummeting real estate values, or...
View ArticleCould Driverless Cars Turn Manhattan Into A Lush Pedestrian Paradise?
Autonomous vehicles promise to transform life for drivers. They may also transform life for walkers, cyclists, and subway riders. Autonomous vehicles are the future. This we know. In fact, self-driving...
View ArticleThis California Ghost City Is A Monument To Bad Planning
One of California’s largest cities is also its emptiest. California City, California, isn’t exactly a ghost town, but it comes pretty damn close. At just over 200 square miles–nearly as big as...
View ArticleAirports Have Gotten Insanely Complicated
Watch the construction of the Zaha Hadid-designed Beijing Airport, expected to be the world’s largest, and think about how much you don’t want to be late for a flight in there. Having to accommodate...
View ArticleIkea Just Totally Ditched The Ikea Look
Exotic birds! Velvet! Gold! Leather! Groovy patterns! Ikea’s latest doesn’t look like Ikea at all. Ikea has a reputation for slick, Scandinavian minimalism, but this autumn the Swedish furniture and...
View ArticleBiased AI Is A Threat To Civil Liberties. The ACLU Has A Plan To Fix It
At the top of the agenda? The way AI is reshaping criminal justice, equity, and surveillance. Sexist, racist, and discriminatory artificial intelligence has a new opponent: the ACLU.Read Full Story
View ArticleEveryone Loves Jim Henson, But Few Understand The Scope Of His Creative Genius
A new exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image unpacks the Muppets inventor’s 30-year career. Your first introduction to Jim Henson could have been Labyrinth, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street, or the...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Drawing Is Even Worse Than You Think
Trump has literally no idea what NYC looks like, according to this 2005 sketch of the city’s skyline–now up for auction. One of New York City’s most distinctive features is its skyline so you’d think...
View ArticleThis Airbnb For Great Architecture Is Curated By Two Architects
Plan your next trip around a modern dream home. Most of us can only dream of owning a home designed by a famous architect, but a new website called Plans Matter wants to make living in them more...
View ArticlePentagram Visualizes The Devil
In a new book demystifying predictive analytics, Pentagram presents a number of case studies–including one on hell. When Pentagram partner Eddie Opara began collaborating with the predictive analytics...
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