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Ma Yansong's Verdant Cloud Corridor Skyscrapers Aim To Connect L.A. Denizens...
To architect Ma Yansong, principal of MAD, one of the great challenges with rapid urbanization is humanizing the city. "The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se,...
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How Do You Combat Sprawl In L.A.? Recycle The City
While the underpinnings of thoughtful urban design and digital files seem completely unrelated, architect Barbara Bestor sees a clear parallel between the two. The goal, she says, is to pack...
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The 2015 Innovation By Design Awards Winners: Health
Healthcare was once ruled by doctors and an opaque subject for patients. Now, information is making the industry more transparent for everyone involved. The innovations lauded below arm people with...
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The 2015 Innovation By Design Awards Winners: City Solutions
More than half of the world's population lives in cities and that number will jump to 66 percent by 2050. Now, more than ever, it's imperative to think about more efficient, more livable urban design....
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The 2015 Innovation By Design Awards Winners: Smart Home
Sure, the connected home offers security, convenience, and peace of mind, but it also represents a way to make our living spaces more responsive to our individual needs and provides moments of delight....
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Peep These Side Chairs That Cleverly Transform Into A Bench
Thanks to the wonders of modular design, you can create furniture that morphs with your specific needs. (Case in point: this customizable cat tower.) For his graduate project, German designer Peter...
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A Storage-Smart Wall Rack For Stowing Skateboards
If you abide by the philosophy of a place for everything and everything in its place when it comes to keeping your home tidy, then turn your eye to the Wall Ride by Italian designers Zanocchi &...
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Intel And Chromat Engineer A Breathable, Shape-Shifting Sports Bra
Becca McCharen, CEO of the fashion label Chromat, thinks the solution for uncomfortable, ill-fitting apparel lies in making your clothes respond to your body just as easily as a webpage adapts to a...
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Cult Product Design Company Punkt Scales Up Ambitions With A Phone Launch And...
You won't be able to swipe left or right on the forthcoming MP 01 phone, nor will you be able to use the latest fleet of mobile apps, read the news, or snap photos. But you will be able to make calls,...
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CUJO Is More Than A Web Security Avatar—It's Part Of The Next Wave Of Emotive...
In some ways, using a guard dog as a nom de guerre for a connected security device makes perfect sense. A canine sentry keeps a watchful eye and will howl and snarl if a burglar enters your home,...
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Clever Kash Teaches Saving To The Virtual-Payment Generation
Thanks to Square, Venmo, PayPal, and Google Wallet, "cold, hard cash" is slowly becoming obsolete. That's changed how purchases are made, and it's also starting to affect how children squirrel away...
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Khoi Vinh Oversees A Rebrand Of Todoist That Makes The Organizational App...
If you're one of the 5 million people who use the digital productivity tool Todoist, today you'll notice a few changes to the UI and a slick new logo. The company's rebranding strives to make the...
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How A Young Designer Broke Into The Furniture Business
Getting a foot in the door is often the biggest challenge when starting a profession. For Rémi Bouhaniche, an emerging French designer, his big break came this year when he debuted a new armchair for...
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Customizable Modular Lamps From E-Tailer Hem Turn You Into a Mix Master
It's been said time and again that one role of designers is to create parameters, particularly in the realm of customizable products. It's a balancing act between giving non-experts the freedom and...
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How Pantone Became The Definitive Language Of Color
A few minutes into the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy opens her eyes and surveys the Technicolor world around her. Dorothy follows the Yellow Brick Road, she arrives at the Emerald City, and she clicks her Ruby...
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10 Audaciously Modern Japanese Houses
There's a surfeit of unorthodox, wildly creative Japanese houses out there, and 400 of them are packed into Jutaku: Japanese Houses, a new tome from Phaidon.Writer Naomi Pollock wondered, "why do...
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Meet The Photographer Who Immortalized Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture
Fresh out of school, Pedro Guerrero (1917–2012) landed the role of Frank Lloyd Wright's photographer and played a pivotal role in presenting the architect's work to the public. During the 1950s and...
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Take This Nomadic Office Anywhere
Picture working at the beach on a Monday, in the forest on a Tuesday, and in the desert on a Wednesday. Sounds like a (pipe) dream come true, right? While today's mobile office normally just consists...
View ArticleA Genius No-Handed Umbrella For Texting
Texting and navigating a smartphone one-handed is doable, but it's definitely slower. This is no more apparent than during rainy weather when we're tethered to our umbrellas in an attempt to stay dry....
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A Radical Way To Rethink Resource Efficiency Starts With...Cacti?
Kale might get the nod as the ultimate supergreen, but architect Ali Chen, who works at BIG's New York outpost, thinks it's high time for the Nopal cactus to wear the crown. Known informally as the...
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