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How To Turn Scrap Materials And Overlooked Items Into Design Gold
Humans are wasteful creatures. The sightly good news is that designers are sourcing materials that often end up in the garbage (or ocean) to fabricate creative objects. A new group show at the Aram...
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Michael Graves's Famous PoMo Kettle Turns 30—With A Dragon
The great humanist architect Michael Graves died this year, but before he passed away he revisited one of his most recognizable designs: the 9093 "whistling bird" kettle.The polished stainless-steel...
View ArticleThis Tower Gobbles Up Air Pollution, Turns It Into Jewelry
Smog is downright nasty. In some cities, it's an occasional nuisance. In others—ahem, Beijing—it's a severe public health hazard. Many a designer has grappled with ways to abate air pollution—like the...
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Voting Needs A Serious Overhaul And L.A. Might Have The Solution
If abysmal election participation is any indication, voter experience in the United States desperately demands an overhaul. In 2014, turnout hovered around just 36 percent. Federal and local...
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Aerial Photographs Reveal The Gorgeous Geometry Of L.A. And NYC
When he was a teenager, photographer Jeffrey Milstein swept out hangars at the Santa Monica airport in exchange for the chance to fly a Cessna 150 around Los Angeles. Today, he rents helicopters to...
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Think You're An Ace Arguer? Test Your Chops In This Political Card Game
Politics are all about antics, from blowhard rhetoric to orchestrated photo ops and theatrical debates. The Contender—a new game from the Oakland branding and design studio Guts & Glory, John...
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This Device Helps Farmers By Turning iPads Into Sperm Analyzers
Reproduction is big business. The tech industry is tackling ways to streamline this fact of life, creating fertility-tracking apps, wearable monitors, and ovulation detectors, among others. And it's...
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Hypnotizing Doodles Show The Beautiful Side Of Coding
If you love Google's homepage more for its whimsical doodles than its search box, head to Codedoodl.es, a platform for experimental, generative, code-driven art.The site's interface is refreshingly...
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Rimowa Reprises An Aviation Classic, The Junkers F13
Flying and suitcases go hand in hand, so it makes sense that the German luxury luggage brand Rimowa has added an airplane to its arsenal of goods. But instead of designing a sleek contemporary craft...
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The New Museum's Sonic Installation Makes You The Musician
Most of the time, we consume music. But what if a song wasn't a linear event with a beginning and end? What if it's a three-dimensional landscape you're meant to dive into, explore, and shape with your...
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Design Deconstructed: Sam Hecht On The Unassuming Beauty Of A Soccer Goal
There's unassuming greatness in a soccer goal according to Sam Hecht, a co-founder of Industrial Facility, the London-based design studio behind hundreds of Muji's products, office systems for Herman...
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This Tube Gives The Hearing Impaired An Alternative Way To Experience Music
Feeling the rhythm takes a very literal meaning in Dimitri Hadjichristou's graduate project, Vi, a tabletop device that turns music into a visual and tactile event for hearing-impaired children.When he...
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Revisiting The Architectural Landmarks Of Past World's Fairs
We owe a handful of some of the most iconic works of architecture to World's Fairs, like the Eiffel Tower, the Space Needle, and Habitat '67. Today the structures might be a photo-op for design-savvy...
View ArticlePingbell Is A Smart Bike Bell Designed For The Chronically Forgetful
In some cities, bike racks are as crowded as suburban parking garages. While you can remotely set off a car's horn to easily find its location, it's a little more challenging to I.D. a bike in a sea of...
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Messy Apartment? Hide Clutter In This Stealthy Table
The battle to tame unruly clutter just got a little easier thanks to the Turning Table from the ultra-sleek Scandinavian brand Menu. The handsome wood piece—available in black-stained ash or white...
View ArticleVisualized: Every Haunting Nuclear Bomb Detonation Since 1945
Modern warfare forever changed after the United States dropped nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The world's superpowers have subsequently engaged in arms races to see who has the most...
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Build Your Living Room In The Time It Takes To Order A Pizza
Anyone who's shopped at Ikea can sympathize with the frustrations arising from furniture assembly. Greycork—a startup based in Providence, Rhode Island—has a solution: a complete living room set that...
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Spy The Unsung Psychedelic Pop-Art Landscapes Of Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was once derided as the "worst artist in America," but time has proven him to be synonymous with 1960s Pop Art and cemented him in the annals of art history. After all, good art...
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Behold: A Crazy, Dizzying, Life-Size Kaleidoscope
Japanese artist KAZ Shirane is captivated by the psychological effects of color and light. His latest work, dubbed Light Origami, is an environment that uses reflections to stimulate the mind.Shirane...
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Does Your Dog Really Need This Excessive, Techy Collar?
File the Buddy—a souped-up dog collar—under egregiously excessive design. Chances are your dog doesn't need an activity monitor, GPS tracker, temperature and light sensors, and OLED display around its...
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